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Event Speaker: Andrew Meadows

In 2014, the Danish Centre for Music Editing (DCM) published the first ever thematic-bibliographic catalogue of Carl Nielsen's (1865-1931) works.

The lead organisation in China is Peking University through its School of Arts.

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.

Speakers: Howard Hotson (Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford), Andrew Prescott (Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow), Dave De Roure (Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre) and Heather Viles (

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.

A briefing on open access publishing and Oxford's position including REF requirements for Open Access and ‘Act on Acceptance’; Green vs. Gold open access options; funder mandates and publisher policies; Oxford Research Archive (ORA) and Symplectic and the

Event Speaker: Gabriel Bodard (Kings College London)

Connected Life 2016: Collective Action and the Internet is a two day-long conference, held at the University of Oxford on 20th and 21st June 2016, dedicated to igniting multidisciplinary exchanges and showcasing exciting Internet research.

This event will bring early-career and more established historians together with archivists, policymakers and digital specialists to consider these and other questions about the relationship between politics, digital technologies and the writing of histor

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

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.

The TORCH Critical Visualization are hosting an event. Each of the network lunchtime sessions will feature two 10-minute talks, that won’t be necessarily related beyond the fact that they broach an aspect of visualisation.

Event Speaker: Igea Troiani, Pip Willcox, SégolèneTarte

Music Information Retrieval (MIR), as an interdisciplinary area of research, has developed rapidly in the last decades.

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.

The AHRC Network Digital Cultural Heritage India will hold a three-day event in the University of Oxford's e-Research Centre 16-18 September.

The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School offers training to anyone with an interest in the Digital Humanities, including academics at all career stages, students, project managers, and people who work in IT, libraries, and cultural heritage.

Join us for the first in our series of Digital Humanities Breakfasts. Come along and enjoy food and fascinating lightning talks from academics and researchers working in the Digital Humanities at Oxford.

Join us for another insightful Digital Humanities Breakfast. Come along and enjoy food and fascinating lightning talks from academics and researchers working in the Digital Humanities at Oxford.

The Digital Humanities Graduate Research Seminar aims to bring together graduate students working in the field of Digital Humanities (DH) across the university, as well as others that may be interested in the field.

The Digital Humanities Graduate Research Seminar aims to bring together graduate students working in the field of Digital Humanities (DH) across the university, as well as others that may be interested in the field.

The Digital Humanities Graduate Research Seminar brings together graduate students working in the field of Digital Humanities (DH) across the University, as well as others that may be interested in the field.

Join us for another fascinating insight into the people and projects working in the Digital Humanities at Oxford, hosted by the Humanities Training Team.

This session will explore some of the potential avenues for digital research projects, and offer guidance on how to undertake effective planning of such projects...

The Centre for Digital Scholarship invites you to attend a major series on Visual Analytics, led by Margaret Varga, chair of the NATO Exploratory Visual Analytics Research Task Group and visiting fellow at the University of Oxford’s Department of Oncology

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.

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.

Digital Humanities scholars might be interested in regular drop-in sessions held weekly at the Weston Library's Centre for Digital Scholarship.

The representation of the Industrial Revolution in the 2012 Olympic Games as a disruptive and traumatic event reflects the way in which we envisage the changes currently associated with digital and network technologies.

With funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Tudor Partbooks team are digitally reconstructing Sadler's manuscripts to return them to their former glory and a more legible state.

Join us at our open weekend to discover more about John Sadler and the process of digitally reconstructing his partbooks.

The Bodleian Libraries and the Folger Shakespeare Library will convene a conference on digital explorations of the early modern theatre archive, to be held 10-12 July 2017.

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

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).

Are you curious about Crowdsourcing? Would you like to know more about what Crowdsourcing is, how it works, and what it can do for academics and audiences?

This session aims to demystify the Digital Humanities and show how the methods employed in this field might be of use to graduate students working in History, Literature, Music or other cognate disciplines.

An interdisciplinary discussion with Dr Jacob Dahl (Oriental Studies), Professor Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute) and Dr Emma Cunliffe (Endangered Archaeology).

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.

A general introduction to the vast range of electronic resources which are available for all historical periods of British and W European history: bibliographical databases, biographical / reference research aids, ebooks and ejournals, web portals, and co

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

Natural languages are highly structured, but they are never perfectly regular. In language contact situations, learners face the challenge of learning inconsistent input.

Robin Dunbar (Professor of Evolutionary Psychology, University of Oxford), Lorna Hughes (Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow) and Max Saunders (Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, Kings College Lon

This is an accredited online course for researchers interested in mixed methods.

Encoding music can serve a wide range of purposes and dozens of music codes have been developed.

Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform (OAR) invite you to join them for an information session on a new publishing and research initiative for artistic and practice based researchers at Oxford university, to be launched later this year.

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.

A digital research project in the humanities can cover an endless array of possibilities: digitized or digitally-born collections, websites, apps, digital media outputs, repositories or digital research tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For more than two hundred years, meningococcal disease has been one of the most feared childhood infections, with epidemics occurring unpredictably.

This year’s SEAHA conference will be hosted at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford on June 20–21, 2016.

Multispectral/hyperspectral imaging is the process in which image data is captured at specific frequencies across the ultra violet (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy.

Event Speaker: Andrew Meadows (University of Oxford)

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.

'Spectral Landscapes is a mixed media event which will explore the concept of the "English Eerie": a form where use of the landscape in literature, film, art, music, and television creates a sense of unease and of Otherness to unnerving effect.

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.

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.

How can we take big data sets and make them easy to interpret, useful, and above all visual?

The Wellcome Trust will visit Oxford on 17 May 2016 to talk about research funding opportunities across the Humanities and Social Science funding schemes.

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.

This day-long course will provide an introduction to transforming your XML documents with the extensible stylesheet language: XSLT.

Representations of Big Data are still just too “flat” to exploit them in depth for historical research in the humanities or for the disclosure of cultural heritage.

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

Michael Docherty, Digital & Strategic Marketing Planning Director, Cancer Research UK will explore the work Cancer Research UK are doing to increase their fundraising impact through digital and how they're opening up their research for the digital world t

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.

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.

Event Speaker: Jeff Wallman

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Event Speaker: Emma Stanford, Judith Siefring

Event Speaker: Amy V Beeston, Liz Dobson

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

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.

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.

By exploring the cross-platform interoperability of new or relatively new digital projects in development, this talk will present a street view of theatre routes that London playgoers walked before and during the Shakespearean period.

Since the mid-1990s the web has become ever more important and indispensable for the communicative infrastructure of most societies, and in many people’s everyday lives.

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

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.

As Digital Humanities continues to grow and develop as a discipline, both in terms of its interdisciplinary work and the development of research questions specific to itself, there has emerged a number of controversies about its supposed nature.

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 talk looks at some of the techniques of digital reconstruction and restoration developed by the Tudor Partbooks team, and some of the difficulties we have encountered, both physical and ethical, in developing this complex process.

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

Researchers in the humanities and social sciences increasingly visualize their data and results for non-academic audiences like policymakers, civil society organizations, or journalists.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Creative Multilingualism, in collaboration with the Joint National Committee for Languages, welcomes you to the University of Pittsburgh for the international workshop, Artificial Intelligence in the World of Languages.

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

Aimed at professionals who have expertise and understanding of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) but who are not necessarily technical in their roles.

Venue: St. Luke’s Chapel (Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Oxford OX2 6GG)

Venue: St. Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

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.

Introduction to Writing Interactive Fiction. Stories that allow the reader to make choices are a powerful artform in their own right, creating a dialogue between reader and creator.

Would you like to set up your own crowdsourcing project? It's easy!

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 talk will examine the role of space and GIS in the Digital Humanities, including both potentials and pitfalls, and provide an introduction which should help you begin to understand how GIS could aid your own research.

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.

The Everyday Sexism project, founded by Laura Bates in 2012, documents the frequency and range of instances of sexism experienced by people in their daily lives, with stories and accounts submitted directly to the website.

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 event brings together researchers, students and industry leaders with a shared interest in immersive technologies.

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?

We welcome all those working with digital cultural heritage data to join us for a day of exploration and discussion about Linked Art on the 1st October 2019, hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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.

The Linked Music Hackathon brings together those with a shared passion for music and the data that describes it: students, coders, researchers from all disciplines, and members of the public; all with an interest in exploring, combining, playing, hacking,

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.

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.

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.

Event Speaker: Philip Fowler, Iain Emsley

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.

Event Speaker: Maja Založnik, Laura Fortunato, Martin Hadley

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.

The celebrations of Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday demonstrated a larger interest in the intersection of machinery, music, and culture, and pushed existing disciplinary boundaries. The symposium will build on this and we look forward to developing ideas an

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.

In a one-day workshop offering tricks and tips for measuring and analyzing impact via social media, participants will be taught some practical skills, as well as having the opportunity for discussion and debate.

The AHRC funded Unlocking Musicology project has applied novel methods and tools across a wealth of digital music and music-related data.

We are very grateful to Alfie Abdul-Rahman from the Oxford e-Research Centre for offering this workshop. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn how to visualize your data from an expert with many years’ experience in the field.

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.

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

Event Speaker: Samuel Conway and the Zegami team