Digital Humanities Symposium: Metadata, Markup and Digital Managment

Date: Thursday 14th and Friday 15th January 2010
Venue: Brookfield Health Science Complex/UCC Library, University College Cork

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Presenters: Mr Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager (DHO) and Dr K Faith Lawrence, Digital Humanities Specialist (DHO)

The DHO, in conjunction with University College Cork, is pleased to offer a series of digital humanities events led by experts from the Digital Humanities Observatory. The first day will comprise a symposium on digital project management followed by a session on tools and techniques, while the second day will be devoted to workshops on metadata, markup, and the TEI. For full details and how to register for these free symposia and workshops, see below.

You must be registered and logged into dho.ie to download the workshop materials.

Contents

• Digital Humanities Symposium - Digital Project Management, Tools and Techniques
  • Agenda
• Digital Humanities Workshop - Introduction to Markup and TEI Clinic
  • Agenda
• Speaker Biographies

Digital Humanities Symposium - Digital Project Management, Tools and Techniques

Morning Venue: Brookfield Health Science Complex (BHSC) Rm. 224
Afternoon Venue: Boole Library Research Skills Study Room
Date: Thursday 14th Jan 2010
Times: 9:00 - 17:00

The symposium will present themes, methods and trends in digital humanities, highlight current research projects and consider some of the tools and techniques used by digital humanities researchers.

While attendance is free and open to the public, the afternoon session has limited places and registration is required for both morning and afternoon sessions.

The morning session will look at the question of digital project management and provide and overview of some of the important questions and issues facing researchers. This meeting will combine discussion and lectures all kicked off with the DHO project slam (see below for how to participate).

The afternoon session will provide the opportunity for delegates to learn about some of the tools and techniques for digital project management and communication. Working in a more focused environment,  the afternoon gathering will combine lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises to allow attendees to get a feel from some of the options available.

To register for the one or both of the two morning sessions please click here.

To register for the Thursday afternoon session please click here (places are limited and allocated on a first come, first serve basis).

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Agenda:

*Please contact s.yearl@ucc.ie if you wish to give a presentation (5 min). Updates on previously presented projects are very welcome

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Digital Humanities Workshops - Introduction to Markup and TEI

Morning Venue: Brookfield Health Science Complex (BHSC) Rm. G06
Afternoon Venue: Boole Library Research Skills Study Room
Date: Friday 15th January 2010
Times: 9:15 - 17:00

This day is comprised of two complementary workshops. While attendance is free and open to the public, the afternoon session has limited places and registration for both morning and afternoon events is required.

The morning session will provide an introduction to document markup and metadata. Aimed at anyone unfamiliar with metadata and markup systems, this session will cover the whys and wherefores of metadata/markup and offer a glimpse into the vast world of possibilities that the use of such standards offers.

The afternoon sessions offer the opportunity of a hands-on introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) encoding standard. TEI is a staple of digital humanities and this session will lead attendees through the first steps in marking up a TEI compliant document and provide the grounding for further study in this area. Experience in TEI is not required for this event.

To register for the one or both of the two morning sessions please click here.

To register for the Friday afternoon session please click here (places are limited and allocated on a first come, first serve basis).

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Agenda:

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Speaker Biographies

Kevin Hawkins, Metadata Manager, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy

Kevin Hawkins is the Visiting Metadata Manager for the DHO, on leave from his position as Electronic Publishing Librarian at the University of Michigan. He serves on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Council and co-convenes the TEI SIG on Libraries, and he brings to the DHO experience with metadata and document processing workflows. Kevin has BAs in Russian and linguistics from the University of Maryland and an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois.

Dr K Faith Lawrence, Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy

Faith Lawrence is a digital humanities specialist with the Digital Humanities Observatory. She did her first degree in ancient history with a special interest in comparative mythology. Progressing sideways she completed a masters in archaeological science (computing) before finding herself in a computer science department researching online communities, narrative and the semantic web. Her doctorate looked at emergent semantic and web 2.0 technologies through the case study of online fiction archives and author communities. Her most recent projects include Electronic Visualisation of C19 French literary-scientific texts: Flaubert's Tentation de saint Antoine.

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