Methods > --Text analysis

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 session will focus on mining a large corpus from Early English Books Online for historical information.

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.

Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data have the potential to support and complement traditional scholarship in Assyriology.

This event will present the latest developments in ways social scientists can use text and provides an excellent opportunity to explore the promises but also the limitations of this quickly expanding research field.

The Oxford English Corpus, and related datasets, offer the opportunity to explore current and recent trends in the English language, via a very large and growing corpus which is regularly updated with new texts.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published initially in 2004, is the work of roughly 10,000 scholars, runs to 60 volumes in print, and is made up of more than 62 million words.

These introductory briefings are for scholars in the humanities who want to know more about the opportunities to use advanced digital technologies for research.

Compared to visualization, approaching textual analysis through sonification is under-studied.

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.

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.

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.