Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School 2021 digital event

Monday 12th July to Thursday 15th July, 2021

Book your place now

We look forward to welcoming you to our 10th anniversary.

In 2020, we held our first ever virtual DHOXSS, and our largest ever event. In 2021 we will again be holding the Digital Humanities at Oxford event online, giving you the opportunity to engage with experts in the Digital Humanities on a wide range of topics alongside students and researchers at every stage of their career path.

The event will take place on Zoom from 12-15 July, with morning lectures and optional afternoon interactive workshop sessions over the first three days. On Thursday 15 July we have a special programme of 10^th Anniversary keynotes from experts in Digital Humanities

Registration

Registration is open now. You will be able to attend all of the morning talks and one afternoon session – these are small group sessions so places will be limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis. Below you can find the featured topics of this year's summer school, and a list of available interactive workshop sessions. For more information, please see the Digital Humanities events website.

Registration price is £50 to attend all morning talks and lectures, or £75 to attend all morning talks and lectures plus one afternoon workshop session of your choice (availability permitting). Tickets are available now.

Introductory talk

Introduction to Digital Humanities

Professor David de Roure & Dr. Megan Gooch

A thorough overview of the theory and practice of Digital Humanities. Drawing on expertise from across the University of Oxford and our national and international collaborators, and on the University's library collections, it will appeal to anyone new to the field, or curious to broaden their understanding of the range of work the Digital Humanities encompass.

A computer screen showing computer code representing the Text Encoding Initiative standard.

Expert lecture & workshop

Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative

Huw Jones (University of Cambridge)

A practical grounding in what the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) can do to represent both the physical and the textual features of sources, how it can inform the analysis of texts, and how it can form part of a publication pathway.

A closeup of the keys of an antique typewriter.

Expert lecture & workshop

From Text to Tech

Dr Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Dr Kaspar Beelen and Dr Federico Nanni (Alan Turing Institute)

Python programming for powerful text processing in the Humanities, from cleaning texts to extracting meaning from them, as well as the basics of automated semantic analysis with machine learning.

Students at the Digital Humanities Summer school study linked data.

Expert lecture & workshop

Linked Data for Digital Humanities

Dr Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (Australian National University)

Publishing, querying, and linking on the Semantic Web. Looking at the opportunities of collaborative research methods, understanding how to approach crowdsourced research to prioritize data quality without sacrificing ethical collaborative research practices.

A handwritten manuscript, laid out for reading or digitisation.

Expert lecture & workshop

When Archives Become Digital

Dr Andrew Cusworth (University of Oxford)

Working with digitised and digital archives in order to frame a range of major theoretical, ethical, and political issues surrounding the cultures of digital archives.

A stone arch in an Islamic architectural style is being transformed into a digital image.

Expert lecture & workshop

Digital Cultural Heritage

Dr Lia Costiner (University of Oxford)

Methods for capturing, analysing, and digitally displaying cultural heritage, including the digital capture of objects and the creation of 3D models, the creation of augmented reality smartphone applications and virtual reality environments.

A hand holds a pen against a computer screen with analytics data.

Expert lecture & workshop

Humanities Data

Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford)

Introducing a variety of approaches to humanities data: modelling, structuring, and working with data, plus longer-term curation and preservation. Data types include textual, tabular, image-based and time-based media, to equip researchers to select solutions that will work for them.

Computer screen illustrating the principle of data analysis.

Expert lecture

Applied Data Analysis

Dr Matteo Romanello (EPFL) and Dr Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam)

Data science methods to analyse humanities data, an introduction to data analysis techniques of practical use to humanities scholars and GLAM professionals. Looking at reading, cleaning, describing, modelling and visualizing text and network data, following a tidy approach.

A group of people silhouetted together around a tree against a full, golden moon.

Expert lecture & workshop

Crowdsourced Research in the Humanities

Dr Sam Blickhan (The Zooniverse)

Exploring the opportunities of collaborative research methods in the context of digital humanities. How to approach crowdsourced research to prioritize data quality without sacrificing ethical collaborative research practices.

Expert lecture

Digital Musicology

Dr Kevin Page (University of Oxford)

An introduction to computational and informatics methods that have been, successfully applied to musicology. using techniques that have their foundations in computer science, library and information science, mathematics and most recently Music Information Retrieval (MIR).

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2021

The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School 2021 digital event

Monday 12th July to Thursday 15th July, 2021

Book your place now

We look forward to welcoming you to our 10th anniversary.

Registration

Activity Strands

Introduction to Digital Humanities

Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative

From Text to Tech

Linked Data for Digital Humanities

When Archives Become Digital

Digital Cultural Heritage

Humanities Data

Applied Data Analysis

Crowdsourced Research in the Humanities

Digital Musicology