Workshops

The Summer School offers a range of workshops on important areas of Digital Humanities in the broadest sense. All workshops run in parallel through the 11 days. Each workshop consists of a total of 18 sessions or 36 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 18 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.

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

Please consult the Workshop Overview.

The following workshops will be offered:

1. Alex Bia (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain): XML-TEI document encoding, structuring, rendering and transformation (2 weeks)
2. Carol Chiodo (Yale University, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): Hands on Humanities Data Workshop - Creation, Discovery and Analysis (2 weeks)
3. Christoph Draxler (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany): Introduction to programming for the Web (1 week)
4. Axel Herold / Henriette Ast (Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin, Germany): From Print and Manuscript to Electronic Version: Text Digitization and Annotation (1 week)
5. Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA): Text processing for linguists and literary scholars with R (1 week)
6. Laszlo Hunyadi / István Szekrényes (University of Debrecen, Hungary): Spoken Language and Multimodal Corpora (2 weeks)
7. Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences / Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks)
8. Peter Bell (Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities, Germany) / Leonardo Impett (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland): The Iconic Turn. Image Driven Digital Art History (2 weeks)
9. David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE): Humanities Data and Mapping Environments (2 weeks)
10. Christoph Draxler (Universität München, Germany): Working with SQL and graph databases (1 week)
11. Monica Berti (Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities, University of Leipzig, Deutschland) / Jochen Tiepmar (ScaDS, University of Leipzig / University of Dresden, Germany): Text Mining with Canonical Text Services - Using a Text Reference System for Citation Analysis, Text Alignment and more (1 week)
12. Pawel Kamocki (IDS Mannheim & Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany / Université Paris Descartes, France) / Thorsten Trippel (Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany): Data Management and legal and ethical issues (2 weeks)

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 University.

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