This year we are offering a choice of one-day workshops on a variety of exciting topics. All participants in the Summer School are entitled to choose a one-day workshop to attend on Wednesday in addition to the four-day workshop which runs over the rest of the week. For those not attending the full Summer School it is possible to register for one of these workshops at a cost of €75.

Visualising Space, Time and Events: Using Virtual Worlds  for Humanities Research

Facilitated by: Dr Hugh Denard (King's College London) and Drew Baker (King's College London) 

Venue: Council Room, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street

This workshop strand is designed to introduce humanities scholars to the value and possibilities of using virtual worlds as research and presentation tools. It will provide an introduction to spatial modelling and cover topics such as: providing intellectual transparency, capturing objects and capturing human performance.

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Finding the Concepts In the Chaos - Building Relationships With Data Models

Facilitated by Dr K Faith Lawrence (Digital Humanities Observatory)

Venue: Weingreen Museum, 5th Floor, Trinity College Dublin

This workshop will introduce attendees to the basics of data modelling. Whether modelling for a relational database, an ontology or a taxonomy, the way that we see and structure data has far-reaching consequences as to how we understand it. This course is about ways of thinking about data and how it relates to both the world and the data around it. As part of this contextualising of meaning we will look at some of the methods of data modelling which can help avoid some of the pitfalls in dealing with data.

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Using Digital Resources for Irish Research and Teaching

Facilitated by Dr Susan Schreibman (Digital Humanities Observatory)

Venue:  IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Trinity College Dublin

The Irish studies community now finds itself in the enviable position of having available a wide variety of digital resources. But it is not always easy or clear just how to integrate them  into one's teaching practice or research. This one day workshop will introduce participants to a variety of primary and secondary resources available online. It will also cover a number of freely available tools to transform, indeed, deform this data to discover new patterns, new themes, and new insights. Part of the day will specifically deal with integrating digital resources and tools into teaching practice.  

Geospatial Methods for Humanities Research

Facilitated by Dr Ian Gregory (Lancaster University) and Dr Charles Travis (Trinity College Dublin)

Venue: Member's Room, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street

This workshop will provide scholars with an opportunity to gain rapid familiarity with adding a geospatial dimension to their research. It is geared towards attendees with little or no experience in working with geospatial data, using geospatial visualisation for analysis or adding georeferencing to existing data. At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be familiar with the tools and methods available to augment existing datasets; manipulate and present geospatial data; and conduct analysis of data from a geospatial perspective.

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Planning Digital Scholarly Resources: A Primer

Facilitated by: Dr Laura Mandell (Miami University of Ohio) and Dana Wheeles (University of Virginia)

Venue: Classics Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Trinity College Dublin

This workshop will explore digital project standards in the humanities for peer-reviewing electronic editions or digital archives, such as those from the MLA and AHA. It will examine the means to meet those standards, compliant sample sites and finally how to estimate the kinds of resources (expertise and time) that one needs in order to create a digital scholarly edition. In addition to guidance in planning a digital resource or edition and in articulating to granting agencies that the edition will use best practices, we will also demonstrate the nuts and bolts of how to submit sites for peer-review to NINES. This workshop will appeal to any digital scholar whether publisher or consumer of online digital scholarly resources.

Please note that the programme may be altered due to lack of numbers registering for a particular workshop strand or non-availabilty of a speaker or facilitator. In the event of changes to the programme you will be notified via the email you provide at time of registration. Should the workshop strand you register for not be offered, you will be offered an alternative strand or a refund of the registration fee.