Find workshop details for the Michaelmas Term 2017 below, and a registration form further down:
Workshop One: Assessing Digital Scholarship
Instructors: Dr Jennifer Edmond and Siobhan Dunne
Date: 23rd October 2017
Time: 9:30-13:00
In this workshop, participants will be encouraged to examine their own scholarly practices and those of others, refining our responses to the fundamental question: “what is scholarship?” The modes by which the digital disrupts our ability to read certain scholarly objects will be explored in detail, as will the ways in which we can embrace some of the new audiences, values, forms, functions, environments, methods, modes of argumentation, outlets, and validation pathways the digital brings with it. The session will combine lecture and discussion with a hands-on exercise in evaluating diverse scholarly objects, testing our ability to judge their impact and value, and to promote such objects to our peers.
Participants are requested to bring a laptop to the workshop. Handouts for the workshop are available here.
Workshop Two: Working with Texts in the Digital Age: Digital Scholarly Editing and TEI
Instructors: Dr Michelle Doran and Dr Georgina Nugent Folan
Venue: Large Conference Room, O’Reilly Institute, Trinity College
Date: 13th November 2017
Time: 9:00-13:00
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the theories, practices and methods for encoding digital text in the Humanities. It provides an introduction to markup languages, XML, the infrastructure of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, and the encoding of common textual phenomena. Participants will have an opportunity to apply the basic elements of TEI-XML to encode a literary text using the oXygen XML Editor. The workshop combines lectures and discussion with practical hands-on exercises. No previous experience with digital text is assumed.
Participants are requested to bring a laptop with the latest version of oXygen XML Editor. You can download a free 30 day trial of oXygen here.
Workshop Three: Web Technologies
Instructor: Prof. Séamus Lawless
Date: 4th December 2017
Time: 9:00-13:00
The aim of this workshop will be to explore the Internet and the Worldwide Web and the foundation technologies that underlie both. The workshop will give an introduction to the history of the web, including the emergence of hypertext and web technologies such as HTML and XML. Participants will work with HTML and CSS and will learn introductory approaches to web site development. The workshop will be of interest to those who are curious about the impact of the web on all aspects of society, with a particular focus on the Humanities.
Workshop Four: Geographic Information Systems and Historical Mapping
Instructor: Dr Frank Ludlow
Date: 11th December 2017
Time: 9:00-13:00
This workshop will begin by briefly illustrating the power of mapping to reveal relationships between seemingly disparate phenomena through space (and time), as well as highlighting common pitfalls and poor practices in mapping, both historical and contemporary. It will also showcase a range of digital mapping platforms – including a selection from the proliferation of online platforms that host and visualize spatial data of various forms – before examining the use of two common competing desktop platforms, Google Earth and ESRI’s ArcGIS, and how the two can be made to speak to each other (or interoperate). The latter half of the workshop will be practical, with workshop participants engaging directly with ArcGIS software and being guided through fundamental approaches and techniques in historical GIS.
Details of the module assessment, including submission dates, are available here: Digital Scholarship and Skills Module Assessment.
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If you have any question, please contact Michelle Doran, Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities Project Officer, at doranm1@tcd.ie