Workshops

The Summer University 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 Workshops 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) - this workshop is fully booked
2. Carol Chiodo (Princeton University, USA) / Lauren Tilton (University of Richmond, USA): Hands on Humanities Data Workshop - Creation, Discovery and Analysis (2 weeks)
3. Nils Reiter / Sarah Schulz (Universität Stuttgart, Germany): Reflected Text Analysis in the Digital Humanities (2nd week)
4. David Joseph Wrisley (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) / Randa El Khatib (University of Victoria, Canada): Humanities Data and Mapping Environments (2 weeks) - this workshop is fully booked
5. Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences / Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland) / Jeremi Ochab (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland): Stylometry (2 weeks) - this workshop is fully booked
6. Christoph Draxler (Universität München, Germany) / Thorsten Trippel (Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany): Asking questions to data in the humanities: right, correct, efficient (Introducing and comparing XQuery, SQL, SPARQL for data from the humanities) (2 weeks)
7. Peter Bell (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) / Leonardo Impett (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland): Computer Vision Intervention. How digital methods help to visually understand corpora of art and cultural heritage (1st week)
8. Nicola Carboni (Harvard Institut „Villa I Tatti", Firenze, Italy) / Leo Zorc (Universität Zürich / ETH Zürich, Switzerland): Integrating Human Science Data using CIDOC-CRM as Formal Ontology: a practical approach (2nd week)
9. Tommi A. Pirinen (Universität Hamburg, Germany): The humanities scholar's perspective on rule based machine translation (2 weeks)
10. Eun Seo Jo (Stanford University, USA): Word Vectors and Corpus Text Mining with Python (2 weeks) - this workshop is fully booked
11. Lynne Siemens (University of Victoria, Canada): Introduction to Project Management (2nd week)

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.

The following workshops had to be cancelled:

• Isabel Fuhrmann (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin, Germany) / Erhard Hinrichs / Yana Strakatova (Universität Tübingen, Germany): Collocations from a multilingual perspective: theory, tools, and applications (1st week)
• Laszlo Hunyadi / István Szekrényes (University of Debrecen, Hungary): Building and analysing multimodal corpora (2 weeks)
• Jochen Tiepmar (ScaDS, University of Leipzig / University of Dresden, Germany): Text Mining with Canonical Text Services (2nd week)
• Heike Neuroth / Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany): How Research Infrastructures empower eHumanities and eHeritage Research(ers) (1st week)