Emanuela Vai Head of Research - Senior Research Fellow | Hill Collection, Ashmolean Museum - Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Worcester College
26 May Digital Research with OUP Data Oxford University Press is offering members of the University the opportunity to work directly with the data that underpins some of its most popular digital content. Weston Library Lecture Theatre
24 Jan Social Media: The risks, the opportunities and what it means for you and me The impact of social media on society today is undeniable – sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram have millions and even billions of users. In this talk, Dr Jason R.C. Nurse considers the positive uses of social-media information, while Weston Library Lecture Theatre
5 Nov Data: Challenges in dealing with very large collections of speech John Coleman will talk about how human languages are extraordinarily large, complex and variable and how until recently, our ability to analyse or model these has been profoundly challenged by a problem of scale. IT Services, 13 Banbury Road
29 Oct Data: The Yin and Yang of data management Anyone who manages data will face individually reasonable requirements which nevertheless seem to conflict with each other. IT Services, Banbury Road
27 May Research Uncovered—Christine Borgman on Data, Scholarship, and Libraries Data, long understood as essential evidence for scholarship, are now viewed as products to be shared, reused, and curated. Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
14 Jan #SocialHumanities Datahack: Self-(Re)presentations on Social Media How do people represent themselves on social media, and how are they represented by others? Which qualities and virtues are emphasized (or ignored)? How polarised are these (re)presentations? The Oxford Launchpad (Saïd Business School)
