Subject Areas > Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies

The Merton History of the Book meeting this term will be a talk by Benoit Seguin who has been collaborating with Lia Costiner on digital analysis of text and images.

This series of two workshops aims to connect digital projects with a view to framing a joint funding proposal for the infrastructure necessary to support digital scholarship in Oxford.

This seminar is aimed at those interested in the digital reconstruction of manuscripts, wanting to find out more about how it could help their research before committing to purchasing the necessary software.

Newspapers are a valuable resource for researching, not only news but also many other aspects of society. In this session we will introduce key historical and contemporary sources of news and how to make best use of them.

This seminar reports upon the work of the two 2016 recipients of the Oxford-Illinois Digital Libraries Placement Programme positions which have taken place over the summer in the Oxford e-Research Centre and the Bodleian Libraries.

Text is at the heart of many fields of digital scholarship, and understanding the production of the text we work with at scale is essential to understanding and interpreting research findings.

Tracing the individual histories of the Phillipps manuscripts reveals much about the movement of European medieval and early modern manuscripts over the centuries, and about the ownership networks in which they circulated.

In any study of history, the input of those who produce it is vital. In the case of correspondence – a personal source, not intended for publication – this input is particularly special.

Humanities and the Digital Age will explore the relationship between Humanities and the digital. It will consider digital’s at once disruptive and creative potential, and imagine future territory to be prospected.

This seminar introduces the principles and technologies behind Linked Data, ontologies, and the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and describes how these technologies are applied to early English print.

Howard Hotson (Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford) and Miranda Lewis (Digital Editor, Early Modern Letters Online) will discuss the Bodleian's invaluable card catalogue, the 'Index of Literary Correspondence', the library

This lecture will explore the use of IIIF in an international context, and will also describe the implementation of IIIF standards at the Bodleian Library.

For decades scholars have been using digital technologies to discover, locate, and view libraries' special collections.

HathiTrust offers millions of digitized titles; EEBO-TCP is a smaller well-defined collection of texts from 1473 to 1700.

Data, long understood as essential evidence for scholarship, are now viewed as products to be shared, reused, and curated.

Is crowdsourcing a viable tool for literary historians and critics to use in their research?

A digital object derives much of its meaning from attributes that are not intrinsic to the artefact itself.

This workshop brings together colleagues who have been responsible for giving AHRC applicants advice on the Technical Appendix with Oxford members of the Technical Reviewers panel.

Research Support, Academic IT Services and the Centre for Digital Scholarship offer a course introducing the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative for creating digital texts.

The annual Digital Humanities at Oxford (DHOxSS) summer school runs this year from 3rd-7th July at various central Oxford venues, including St. Anne’s College, the Oxford e-Research Centre and IT Services.

Join us to celebrate our work on digital manuscripts at the Bodleian at a day-long event showcasing Digital Bodleian, the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project in collaboration with the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, and the launch of our Mellon-funde

Event Speaker: James Cummings; Pip Willcox

A workshop will take place in Oxford 18-19 April as part of the CLARIN-PLUS project, which aims to reach out to new users to discover requirements for the use of language technologies in a variety of disciplines.

This session will introduce you to some of the challenges and opportunities in working with digital text and images, and will share lessons and best practices from the Bodleian’s digital projects.

Learn about new digital tools for humanities research and build your own virtual workspace for viewing books and manuscripts from libraries around the world in this short talk and workshop.

We are looking for enthusiastic undergraduates and postgraduates from any discipline to take part in workshops in textual editing culminating in the publication of a citable transcription.

We are looking for enthusiastic undergraduates and postgraduates from any discipline to take part in workshops in textual editing culminating in the publication of a citable transcription.

This introductory two-day workshop will help students and researchers get to grips with basic computational analysis methods.