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2018 Keynotes
Opening keynote: Dr Victoria Van Hyning, Junior Research Fellow and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Pembroke College Oxford.
Closing keynote: Dr Glenn Roe, ARC DECRA Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Australian National University.
The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2018 took place at Keble College from Monday 2 July to Friday 6 July.
The Summer School offers training to anyone with an interest in the Digital Humanities, including academics at all career stages, students, project managers, and people who work in IT, libraries, and cultural heritage.
Participants follow one of our parallel workshop strands throughout the week, supplementing their training with expert guest lectures.
Information on DHOxSS 2019.
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Workshop Strands
Broaden your understanding of the range of work the Digital Humanities encompasses and learn about the tools and techniques available for scholarly purposes.
This workshop combines practical sessions with case-studies introducing the use of the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), with a focus on the representation and publishing of primary sources.
Through a series of case studies, and introductory sessions with tools, this workshop will demonstrate the use of data science methods in humanities scholarship and equip participants to apply these methods in their own work.
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An introduction to computational and informatics methods that can be, and have been, successfully applied to musicology. Technological solutions to identify, study and disseminate scholarly insights from amongst a data deluge.
This workshop offers a very basic introduction to Python programming, corpus linguistics and Natural Language Processing, covering the process of cleaning texts and adding automatic linguistic annotation to them, aswell as the basics of semantic analysis and topic modelling.
FULLY BOOKED
Introducing tools, methods, and concepts for managing, organizing, cleaning, and processing data in digital humanities projects. Covers topics including information organization, data modelling, data quality and cleaning, and workflows.
Introducing the concepts and technologies behind Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Learn to publish research so that it is available in these forms for reuse by other humanities scholars, and how to access and manipulate Linked Data resources provided by others.
This workshop will consider the opportunities of collaborative research methods in the context of digital humanities. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of how to approach crowdsourced research to prioritize data quality without sacrificing ethical collaborative research practices.
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