[open-humanities] Fwd: Registration now open: Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School: 3rd-7th July 2017

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Subject:     Registration now open: Digital Humanities at Oxford 
Summer School: 3rd-7th July 2017
From:     OeRC Communications <comms at oerc.ox.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues

Registration for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 
is now open!

http://www.dhoxss.net/

Do you work in the humanities or support people who do? Are you 
interested in how digital techniques can help enhance your research?

"The lecturers were true experts, excellent speakers and 
delightfully enthusiastic about their subjects." DHOxSS 2016 
participant

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

Early bird prices are available until 30th April; registration 
will close at midnight on 18th June. Group discounts are 
available for groups of 10+, along with discounts for students.

Participants follow one of eight parallel workshop strands 
throughout the week, supplementing their training with expert 
guest lectures and masterclasses. Workshop spaces are limited and 
can get booked up, so early registration is advised to secure 
your first choice.

Workshop strands for 2017 are:

  - An introduction to Digital Humanities – Expert insights into 
our digital landscape
  - An introduction to the Guidelines of the Text Encoding 
Initiative – Markup for textual research
  - Data Science for the Humanities – Exploring Machine Learning
  - Digital Musicology – Applied computational and informatics 
methods for enhancing musicology
  - From Text to Tech – Corpus and computational linguistics for 
powerful text processing in the Humanities
  - Humanities Data: a Hands-on Approach – Making the most of 
messy data
  - Linked Data for Digital Humanities – Publishing, querying, 
and linking on the Semantic Web
  - Social Humanities: Citizens at Scale in the Digital World – 
Social media, citizen science, and social machines

Morning lecture/masterclass topics include using face and pattern 
recognition on photo archives, computer vision and machine 
learning for image collections, researching and teaching the 
legislative history of formal negotiations, creative computing 
and experimental humanities (Ada Lovelace), and Wikipedia’s 
sister projects as platforms for Digital Humanities.

There will also be optional evening events (some at additional 
cost), including a guided tour of Oxford, an evening drinks and 
poster session at the Weston Library, the TORCH lecture, and an 
evening at Exeter College. Participants are invited to submit 
posters for the welcome reception at the Weston Library by 
Wednesday 19th April.

We are pleased to offer a small number of bursaries for 
attendance to students and early-career researchers. The aim is 
for participants to attend the Summer School and then disseminate 
what they have learnt to others in the field. Bursary 
applications should be submitted by noon on Friday 31st March.

We look forward to seeing you there,

Directors of DHOxSS,
James Cummings
David De Roure
Pip Willcox

Oxford e-Research Centre
University of Oxford
7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG
Tel: +44(0)1865 610623
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk

-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT 
Services, University of Oxford

-- 
Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings at it.ox.ac.uk Academic IT 
Services, University of Oxford