Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Jul 07 2017 41 ep. 48 mins 632

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The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School is the University of Oxford's annual training event for the Digital Humanities. Each delegate follows a week-long workshop and supplements this with additional parallel lectures, which have been filmed as part of this series.

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2017 Closing Keynote: What Happens When the Internet of Things Meets the Humanities?

Jul 07 2017 52 mins

Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow and AHRC Theme Leader Fellow for Digital Transformations, gives the closing keynote for the 2017 DHOXSS. We think of digital humanities as being chiefly concerned with abstract data, tagging and quantitative techniques, but it also has roots in a long tradition of using a variety of technological aids to examine the physical characteristics of

Wikimedia: Wikipedia's sister projects as platforms for Digital Humanities

Jul 07 2017 61 mins

Martin Poulter, Oxford's Wikimedian in Reseidence, gives a masterclass in using Wikimedia for digital research. The Wikimedia family of projects includes some projects that are less well-known than the flagship Wikipedia, but highly relevant to the Humanities. Wikidata has facts and figures about tens of millions of items, Wikimedia Commons has tens of millions of freely reusable i

Working with very large corpora: Building your worksets in the HathiTrust

Jul 07 2017 77 mins

Kevin Page, Iain Emsley and David Weigl talk about using The HathiTrust Digital Library to conduct research in this interstice workshop. Within the Andrew W. Mellon funded ‘Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis (WCSA)’ project, the University of Oxford e-Research Centre have developed new tools and approaches to facilitate study of the HathiTrust Digital Library. This worksho

Ada Lovelace: Creative computing and an experimental humanities

Jul 07 2017 63 mins

Pip Willcox and David De Roure give a presentation on Ada Lovelace, one of the early pioneers in computing. In the 200 years since Ada Lovelace’s birth, she has been celebrated, neglected, and taken up as a symbol for any number of causes and ideas. A symposium to mark the 200th anniversary of her birth narrated many of these, including accounts of her generative relationship wit

Big Data and the Humanities: How digital research, computational techniques and big data contribute to knowledge

Jul 05 2017 55 mins

Professor Ralph Schroeder, Senior Research Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute and Laird Barrett, Senior Digital Product Manager for the Taylor and Francis Group, give a talk for DHOXSS 2017. Digital research, computational techniques and big data are often considered in the context of the sciences and social sciences. In fact, many of the most exciting projects are in the hu

The Quill Project: Modelling and Visualizing the Creation of the American Constitution

Jul 05 2017 48 mins

Dr Nicholas Cole and Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman discuss the Quill Project, a software platform developed to aid research and teaching of the history of Parliamentary-style negotiations, and particularuarly the creation of the Constitution of the United States. They will discuss the research problems that the platform was created to address, and the process of building the tools for both

Seeing is Believing: Computer vision and machine learning for image collections

Jul 05 2017 51 mins

Giles Bergel gives a talk on using new technologies to understand the history of books and printing. The first point of access for image collections has traditionally been the catalogue. Recent advances in computer vision and machine learning have opened up new ways of describing, searching and researching the visual record. This talk will outline the state of the art in the field,

15cBOOKTRADE: The visualization of the circulation of books over time and space and image-searching tool: how we got there

Jul 04 2017 60 mins

Cristina Dondi and Matilde Malaspina of the 15C BOOKTRADE project, give a talk for the 2017 DHOXSS. Cristina will present 15cV, a powerful tool for the visualization of the movement of fifteenth-century printed books, from the time and place where they were printed to where they are today, via the many places and people who distributed, purchased, owned, and annotated them during t

Encoding and Encoded Texts

Jul 04 2017 58 mins

Panel chaired by Pip Wilcox, with Barbara McGillivray, Megan Senseney and Nicholas Cole.

2017 Opening Keynote: Jack of all Trades, Master of One: the Promise of Intermethodological Collaboration

Jul 04 2017 43 mins

Dr Diane Jakacki, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Faculty Teaching Associate in Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University , gives the opening keynote to the 2017 Digital Humanities at Oxford Seminar School. As humanists we are trained to think across methods while we focus on a particular theoretical or praticable approach to our research. As digital humanists we undertake that