Workshops 2016

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 weeks)
2. Axel Herold / Susanne Haaf (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany): Compilation, Annotation and Analysis of Written Text Corpora. Introduction to Methods and Tools (1 week)
3. Peter Fankhauser (Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany) / Elke Teich / Hannah Kermes (Saarland University, Germany): Comparing Corpora (1 week)
4. Johanna Green (University of Glasgow, Scotland) / Kathryn Simpson (Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland): Digital Editions and Editorial Theory: Historical Texts and Documents (2 weeks)
5. Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tübingen) / Bryan Jurish /Alexander Geyken / Lothar Lemnitzer ( Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany): Searching Linguistic Patterns in Large Text Corpora for Digital Humanities Research (1 week)
6. Christoph Kuras / Gregor Wiedemann (University of Leipzig, Germany): Lexicometric text analysis using CLARIN-D Webservices and R (1 week)
7. Maciej Eder (Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny, Kraków, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks)
8. Laszlo Hunyadi / Istvan Szekrényes (Debreceni Egyetem / University of Debrecen, Hungary): Spoken Language and Multimodal Corpora (2 weeks)
9. Andreas Witt (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim & Heidelberg University): Digital Lexica, Terminological Databases and Encyclopaedias: Contents, Structures and Formats (2 weeks)
10. Valentina Fois (LA SCATOLA, London, Great Britain): Exploring art and technology within contemporary network culture. A close look at net art, digital art curation and its impact on the culture heritage sector (2 weeks)
11. David Wrisley (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) / Maxim Romanov (University of Leipzig, Germany): From Text to Map. Modeling Historical Humanities Data in Mapping Environments (2 weeks)
12. Lynne Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada): Introduction to Project Management (2 weeks)
13. Paweł Kamocki (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim, Germany) / Thorsten Trippel (University of Tübingen, Germany): Data management for the humanities: from data warehousing to legal and ethical implication (2 weeks)
14. Jennifer Edmonds (Trinity College, Dublin): Digital Research Infrastructures in the Humanities: How to Use, Build and Maintain Them (1 week)

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