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In this 2-hour forum seasoned bloggers from the University will explore the relationship between blogging and their formal academic work.

This session will introduce and explore basic concepts of corpus design and construction, and introduce techniques, functions and methods for corpus analysis.

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

How can crowdsourcing be used for outreach and public engagement? In this panel session you will be introduced to a number of crowdsourcing initiatives.

R is used by millions of researchers in the sciences and humanities around the world who benefit from the vast range of open source packages and tools for data analysis and visualisations.

Mathematica is a tool used by researchers around the world for calculus, text and data analysis as well as for easily creating interactive visualisations using “Manipulate”.

The Online Research Database Service (ORDS) is a new service for researchers based at the University of Oxford.

A wealth of corpora and other language resources are becoming more easily available to researchers thanks to the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

The Immersive Technologies Summer School introduces skills, required to create immersive experiences in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).

Using the Bodleian First Folio and the Great Writers Inspire project as central examples, Emma Smith identifies some of the ways curating your own digital academic profile can help with impact, public engagement, and career development.

Data management plans (DMPs) are becoming an increasingly important aspect of research - many funding bodies now require one as part of a grant application.

The CabiNET project is using new high-resolution 2D and 3D imagery to assist students in further study and revision of objects they first encounter as part of their course work.

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.

This two-hour course gives an introduction to XML (the extensible markup language), a popular markup language with vocabularies for encoding a wide variety of digital text and other data.

This two-hour course will give you an introduction to XPath and a practical exercise using it.

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.

This talk will present practical, open source and integrated solutions to designing and streamlining your statistical analysis workflow using R within the RStudio environment, on the fly publishing of reports using knitr, interactive web graphics with Shi

Anyone who manages data will face individually reasonable requirements which nevertheless seem to conflict with each other.

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

This presentation will discuss the challenges faced by researchers wishing to work with the archive(s) of UK web space.

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.

Would you like to brush up on your IT and information skills for research?

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 workshop will bring together colleagues with a range of subject and disciplinary interests both to understand the scope of the current knowledge of the music- and text-encoding landscapes and to articulate fields for potential development.

Creating an online presence can open up your research and teaching (or any interest!) to a global audience, and is now essential in promoting yourself professionally to the outside world.

What is Crowdsourcing, how does it work, and what can it do for academics and audiences?

Creating an online presence can open up your research and teaching (or any interest!) to a global audience and is now essential in promoting yourself professionally to the outside world.

2 hour workshops to introduce key software and online tools for your research, hone your searching and information skills and introduce you to subject specialists.

Social media is an increasingly important part of academic practice. In this session we will look at how the medium is being used to promote academic work and raise academic profile, network with colleagues, and to engage with the public online.

Wikipedia edit-a-thon: create or improve Wikipedia articles about women scientists and their achievements.

We will illustrate Wikipedia articles with images from various sources, with a focus on women in science.

This session looks into Wikipedia's quality scale and review processes, and at how we can get articles showcased.

Join us for the first ever transcribe-a-thon: we’ll use Wikisource to create an electronic edition of a historic book about women geniuses.