Workshops 2015

The Summer School offers a range of workshops on important areas of Digital Humanities and Language Resources. All workshops run in parallel through the 11 days. Each workshop consists of a total of 16 sessions or 32 teaching hours.

The term "workshop" instead of "course / seminar" is used here to take into account that the approach of the Digital Humanities to knowledge creation is collaborative and project oriented and that the practical application of methods and skills plays a huge role. This does not mean that theory is excluded from these courses. On the contrary, the application of computational methods to artefacts and the meaningful use of digital technology pose many new and theoretical questions which need to be discussed.

Workshops will be structured in two equal blocks of 16 teaching hours each. Participants can either take the two blocks of one workshop or two blocks from different workshops. Participants who wish to take the first block of a workshop in the first week and the second block of another workshop in the second week, need to demonstrate in their application that they have already some knowledge in the topics which are treated in the first block of the latter workshop.

Please consult the Workshop Overview.

It will not be possible to register for one block only.

The number of participants in each workshop is limited to 10.

Participants are requested to bring along their own materials and projects so that what is being taught can be directly applied and tested.

For each workshop there will be a Moodle where material for preparation will be made available and which will be used as teaching environment during the Summer School.

The following workshops will be offered:

1. Alex Bia (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering
2. Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany) / Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen, Germany) / Thorsten Trippel (University of Tübingen, Germany) : Methods and Tools for the Corpus Annotation of Historical and Contemporary Written Texts - this workshop is fully booked. No more applications can be accepted.
3. Peter Fankhauser (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany) / Hannah Kermes (Saarland University, Germany) / Elke Teich (Saarland University, Germany): Comparing Corpora - this workshop is fully booked. No more applications can be accepted.
4. Laszlo Hunyadi (Debreceni Egyetem / University of Debrecen, Hungary) / Timm Lehmberg (University of Hamburg, Germany) / Hanna Hedeland (University of Hamburg, Germany) / Uwe Reichel (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, University of Munich, Germany) / : Spoken Language and Multimodal Corpora - this workshop had to be reduced to one week (2nd week).
5. Matt Munson / Thibault Clérice (Humboldt Chair, University of Leipzig, Germany): Python
6. Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA): Basic Statistics and Visualization with R - this workshop is fully booked. No more applications can be accepted.
7. Maciej Eder (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny, Kraków, Poland) / Jeremi Ochab (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie, Poland): Stylometry
8. Monica Berti / Simona Stoyanova / Giuseppe Celano (Humboldt Chair, University of Leipzig, Germany) / Jochen Tiepmar (Institute for Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany): Open Greek and Latin - this workshop had to be cancelled
9. Johanna Green (University of Glasgow, Scotland) / Kathryn Simpson (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland): Digital Editions and Editorial Theory: Historical Texts and Documents
10. Matthias Lang / Dieta Svoboda (University of Tübingen, Germany): Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
11. Rafael C. Alvarado (University of Virginia, USA): Building Thematic Research Collections with Drupal
12. Lynne Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada) / Jason Boyd (Ryerson University, Canada): Project Planning and Management

Workshops which will not have at least 5 participants by the 31st of May will have to be cancelled.