DHOxSS 2011

Introduction

The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School is a five day course introducing a range of digital research components to researchers, project managers, research assistants, or students working on any kind of project concerned with the creation or management of digital data for the humanities.

The summer school is a collaboration for Digital Humanities at Oxford between Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), Oxford e-Research Centre (OERC), e-Research South, the Bodleian Library, and Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster, under the direction of James Cummings at OUCS.

The summer school took place from 25th-29th July 2011, and was based at Wolfson College, Oxford. Residential accommodation is not included in the registration fee.

Please contact us by email on courses@oucs.ox.ac.uk if you have any questions about the summer school.

The programme will consist of:

Two parallel streams of morning practical sessions using the well-equipped It teaching facilities at OUCS
Two parallel streams of afternoon workshops at Wolfson College concentrating on techniques and best practice
Guest lectures from Digital Humanities experts about their research projects

Topics include:

Best practice for digital linguistic corpora
Building queryable document-based websites
Creating community collections and digital outreach
Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI
Digital genetic editions in TEI
Digital Images for the Humanities
Digital library technologies and best practice
Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability.
Introduction to copyright and open licensing
Introduction to document/project modelling
Introduction to XML databases
Managing Digital Humanities Projects
Practical RDF modelling and conversion
Publishing XML files using XSLT
RDF querying and visualization
TEI for linking text and facsimiles
Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora
Google Visualization API
Working with audio files

Programme

The schedule comprises:

Time	Monday 25 July	Tuesday 26 July	Wednesday 27 July	Thursday 28 July	Friday 29 July
09:00 - 09:30	Registration	Registration	Registration	Registration	Registration
09:30 - 12:30	Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI (Part 1) or Working with audio files	Creating digital texts in XML using the TEI (Part 2) or RDF querying and visualization (Part 1)	Publishing XML files using XSLT (Part 1) or RDF querying and visualization (Part 2)	Publishing XML files using XSLT (Part 2) or Digital Images: sourcing, adapting, and safe keeping	An introduction to XML databases or Visualizing data sets for the web (with Google's Visualization API)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:30 - 15:30	Modelling with RDF or “...and now what?” Some approaches to project modelling.	Best practice for language corpora or Managing Digital Humanities Projects	TEI for linking text and facsimiles or Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora	Digital genetic editions in TEI or The A,B,C of crowdsourcing a community collection	Impact as a Process: Considering the reach of resources from the start or Digital library technologies and best practice
15:30 - 16:00	Tea Break	Tea Break	Tea Break	Tea Break	Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00	Practical RDF modelling and conversion or Introduction to copyright and open licensing	Best practice for language corpora (Continued) or Getting funding: quality, impact, sustainability.	TEI for linking text and facsimiles (Continued) or Tools for analyzing linguistic corpora (Continued)	Digital genetic editions in TEI (Continued) or Building queryable document-based websites	Impact as a Process: Considering the reach of resources from the start (Continued) or Digital library technologies and best practice (Continued)
17:00 - 18:00	Providing documents on the web: experience from legislation.gov.uk Jeni Tennison	"The Uneasy Pursuit of the Future of the Book" and "Building and Maintaining a Team Approach in a Rapidly- Advancing Area of R.&D." Ray and Lynne Siemens	Linking transcriptions to spoken audio John Coleman and Sergio Grau Puerto	Visualization in Flatland Min Chen	Towards Web-Scale Analysis of Musical Structure David De Roure
Evening	Suggested Evening Events: Pubs The Comedy of Errors, Oxford Shakespeare Company, Wadham College	Drinks Reception	Suggested Evening Events: Pubs Antony and Cleopatra, Creation Theatre, Saïd Business School Consonanze Stravaganti - Vivaldi's Musical Heritage, Charivari Agréable , Early Music by Candlelight, Exeter College Chapel As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe On Tour, Bodleian Library	Drinks Reception	Suggested Evening Events: Pubs The Importance of Being Earnest, Oxford Shakespeare Company, Wadham College Antony and Cleopatra, Creation Theatre, Saïd Business School Parisian Pleasures, Charivari Agréable, Early Music by Candlelight, Exeter College Chapel As You Like It, Shakespeare's Globe On Tour, Bodleian Library Bill Spectre's Oxford Ghost Trail

Workshop Participants and teachers

Participants should be generally computer literate (web, email, word-processors) for this course. They should be enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by digital technologies and keen to learn more, be prepared to get their hands dirty at the keyboard and should not be afraid of a little technical jargon.

The course will be taught by research support staff from OUCS, OeRC and the Bodleian Library including

Christine Madsen, Bodleian Library
Lou Burnard, Adonis, France
Neil Jefferies, Bodleian Library
Alexander Dutton, CLAROS developer, OUCS
David Baker, IT Learning Programme, OUCS
David Robey, Digital Humanities Consultant, OeRC
James Cummings, InfoDev (Research Support and Data Solutions), OUCS
Joe Wicentowski, Historian, Department of State, USA
John Pybus, OeRC
Martin Wynne, Oxford Text Archive, OUCS and OeRC
Rowan Wilson, Open Source Advisory Service
Ruth Kirkham, OeRC
Sebastian Rahtz, Head of Information and Support Group, OUCS
Stephen Eyre, IT Learning Programme, OUCS

with the assistance of many other experts from across Oxford.

Guest lecturers for the plenary sessions at the end of the day will be:

David De Roure, Professor of e-Science at OeRC, with Kevin Page
Jeni Tennison, UK eGov guru
John Coleman, Director of the Phonetics Laboratory, with Sergio Grau
Min Chen, Professor of Visualization at OeRC
Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria, with Lynne Siemens

Booking / Registration

Unfortunately booking and registration for the summer school has closed for this year.

Accommodation

Bed and breakfast accommodation is available at Wolfson College in comfortable en-suite rooms, and can be booked directly with the college through the Events and Conference Manager (email events@wolfson.ox.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)1865 274083). Please quote 'DHSS' as the event.

There is still some bedroom availability at Wolfson College for the early dates of the Summer School (Sunday through Tuesday nights), but the latter dates are sold out. A Waiting List is being held by Wolfson Conference Office, in case vacancies arise.

Although Wolfson College is the recommended accommodation, there are other hotels, guest-houses and B&Bs. The Daily Info, Oxford site may be of help in finding them.

Evening Events

Included in the programme will be some optional evening events. We will have drinks receptions on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, but other events are taking place in Oxford at the same time, and we've made some recommendations. These are simply events happening in Oxford during the time of the workshop that we think you might enjoy and are provided as suggestions for your consideration. We are not responsible for any of the events and cannot book you on those events.

Workshop Materials

Workshop Materials, including wherever possible the slides of the talks and exercises will be made available for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution License.