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Social scientists are increasingly interested in the systematic use of text. This talk describes a method which combines qualitative content analysis with network analysis.

How have digital technologies changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities?

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.

Sonification is a complementary, but lesser known, technique to visualization.

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

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.

S. Blair Hedges is Professor in Biology and Director of the Center for Biodiversity at Temple University. Also a scholar of printed illustrations, he has pioneered new digital and forensic methodologies for studying early woodcut and copperplate prints, i

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

The decade following the turn of the millennium may have seen an epochal shift in the nature of the discussion of religion in public life in the UK.

This paper previews the types of techniques being used by Australian archaeologists and collaborators in a range of study areas.

While music libraries around the world are digitizing millions of musical scores, there are currently very few efforts underway at extracting the musical content from these page images and making the music notation available for large-scale search and ana

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?

Ada Lovelace’s notes on music and computation inspired the musical content of the Ada Lovelace Symposium held at the University of Oxford in December, on the 200th anniversary of her birth.

This talk describes current research on digital wildfires. The research examines how provocative content spreads on social media and the impacts that it has.

Digital research is an increasing priority in the humanities, and yet scholars frequently lack the necessary technical skills and support networks to realise their ideas.

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.

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.

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

This workshop will explore the ins and outs of running a hackathon with digital data or content.

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.

Come along to this hands-on session to find out about the new REF Open Access requirements and how to deposit publications and data into ORA.

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.

The Semantic Web can be thought of as an extension of the World Wide Web in which sufficient meaning is captured and encoded such that computers can automatically match, retrieve, and link resources across the internet that are related to each other.

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

Event Speaker: Samuel Conway and the Zegami team