CHANGE OF DATE
Please note this seminar has changed from its original date to Thursday 19 November 2015.
What: Digital representations of manuscript provenance: reconstructing the history of the Phillipps collection

Who: Toby Burrows

When: 13.00—14.00, Tuesday 24 November 2015 Thursday 19 November 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all; free; registration is essential

Seminar: The manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) was almost certainly the biggest private collection ever assembled, containing more than 40,000 items. After his death, the manuscripts were gradually dispersed through sales and auctions over more than a century. They are now scattered across numerous institutional and private collections around the world. Tracing the individual histories of the Phillipps manuscripts reveals much about the movement of European medieval and early modern manuscripts over the centuries, and about the ownership networks in which they circulated. It can also demonstrate the value of provenance studies for research into the history of manuscripts.

Speaker: Dr Toby Burrows holds a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (2014-2016) in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. He previously worked at the University of Western Australia Library managing the E-Research Support Unit, and as Principal Librarian responsible for the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections. He has been involved in several Australian digital infrastructure projects for the humanities, including the Australian Research Council’s Network for Early European Research and the HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) Virtual Laboratory. Other recent research projects have included “Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Australia”, with the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria.

This seminar is open to the public. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.

What: Discursive Networks about Youth in the late Soviet Union

Who: Félix Krawatzek

When: 13.00—14.00, Friday 27 November 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all; free; registration is essential 

Seminar: Social scientists are increasingly interested in the systematic use of text. This talk describes a method which combines qualitative content analysis with network analysis. The value of this mixed-method approach will be illustrated by a study of the changing meaning of “youth” during the perestroika period in Russia. This method allows us to trace the shifting paradigms of speaking about youth in the context of the Soviet Union’s breakdown. From the beginning of the reform period, reports about young people’s opposition to the existing political arrangements questioned the legitimacy of the Soviet order. I draw on a sample of articles from four national newspapers, the variation of which captures a vast array of the heterogeneous Soviet discourse during glasnost.

Speaker: Félix Krawatzek is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College. He finished his DPhil in Politics in 2015 which explores the meaning of “youth” and the political mobilization of young people in key moments of crisis in 20th-century Europe. Félix is interested in methods of text analysis and techniques to explore large corpora. His postdoctoral project studies how ideas about the future are mobilised as political arguments and he is also involved, with Professor Gwendolyn Sasse, in research on migrants using a digitized collection of migrant letters from the 19th and 20th century.

This seminar is open to the public. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.

What: Songs of Data: An introduction to sonification

Who: Iain Emsley

When: 13.00—14.00, Friday 20 November 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all; free; registration is essential

Seminar: Sonification is a complementary, but lesser known, technique to visualization. In this seminar, we will introduce the technique and discuss some applications, such as working with the texts of Shakespeare or social media data. We will discuss some of the principles in designing sonifications to explore data sets, some of the technologies used and the difficulties encountered.

Speaker: Iain Emsley is a research associate at the Oxford e-Research Centre, working with the Software Sustainability Institute and the Square Kilometre Array. Currently reading for a Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Oxford, he has organized and attended hack sessions. His research interests include sonification.

This seminar is open to the public. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.

The Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Bodleian iSkills programme present a introductory level training workshop on data and research curation, led by Sarah Barkla from the Digital Library. If you’re interested in more digital training sessions, there is more information about courses available to you on the Bodleian iSkills website.

What: ORA Workshop: Discovery and digital curation of scholarly output

Who: Members of the Open Access and Research Data Management teams of the Bodleian Libraries, supported by Research Services.  Led by Sarah Barkla, Institutional Repository Librarian.

When: 13.00—16.00, Wednesday 25 November, 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all members of the University of Oxford; free; registration is essential

If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery. Otherwise, please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map).

Seminar:

Come along to this hands-on session in the Centre for Digital Scholarship (Weston Library) to find out about the new REF Open Access requirements and how to deposit publications and data into ORA.  The session will cover:

• Open Access (OA) at the University of Oxford, including author identifiers and mechanisms for funder / publisher compliance, followed by an opportunity to explore the Open Access Oxford website
• resource discovery using the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) and content indexing, including Google and Google Scholar, with an opportunity to put this into practice
• Symplectic Elements – the university’s tool for REF compliance and the deposit mechanism for ORA, including time with the Symplectic Elements software
• Research Data Management support at the Bodleian, including data deposit requirements by funders and a chance to deposit a dataset

There will be plenty of time for questions and practical support for publication and data deposit.

Speakers:

Juliet Ralph, the Bodleian’s Open Access (OA) specialist, has been a librarian working at the Radcliffe Science Library for over 15 years.  Juliet has been in her current role since mid-2014, and prior to that was the Subject Librarian for Life Sciences and Medicine.

Dr F Eugenio Barrio-Madias is the university’s Research Information Officer.  Formerly a researcher in Astrophysics, Eugenio develops and maintains processes, workflows and systems for managing information on research conducted at Oxford to inform strategy and comply with funder requirements. Based at Research Services he also acts as system administrator of Symplectic Elements at Oxford.

Jason Partridge has worked for the Bodleian Libraries for the past 7 years, over three of which have been focused on Open Access. Currently balancing a split role within the University, Jason works for the Libraries as a Research Archive Assitant for the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) and as a Research Support Officer within UAS Research Services involved with Symplectic Elements at Oxford.

Sarah Barkla is the Research Archive Librarian and has day-to-day management of the ORA service.  Sarah has worked for the Bodleian for six years in both traditional and non-traditional library roles.

David Tomkins is the Digital Scholarship Support Officer at the Bodleian Digital Library (BDLSS); he is responsible for the management and development of the Oxford Research Archive for Data (ORA-Data).

This seminar is open to all members of the University of Oxford. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Contact: If you have any questions, please contact usered@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

What: Maker Fayre: Engaging audiences with Early English data

Who: Iain Emsley and Liz McCarthy

When: 13.30—17.00, Thursday 3 December 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all members of the University of Oxford; free; registration is essential

Seminar: This workshop will explore the ins and outs of running a hackathon with digital data or content. In the second part of the session, participants will engage in a mini-hackathon using Early English Books Online data, followed by a discussion of the experience.

The workshop first ran as a training session at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, on the Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies workshop strand, convened by Judith Siefring.

Speakers: Iain Emsley is a research associate at the Oxford e-Research Centre, working with the Software Sustainability Institute and the Square Kilometre Array. Currently reading for a Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Oxford, he has organized and attended hack sessions. His research interests include sonification.

Liz McCarthy is the Web & Digital Media Manager at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Her research interests include social media in the cultural sector, digital literacy, digital humanities, 17th-century bookbindings, and library history.

This seminar is open to all members of the University of Oxford. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.

What: Linked Data for Digital Scholarship: introducing the Semantic Web

Who: Kevin Page

When: 13.00—14.30, Wednesday 18 November 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all members of the University of Oxford; free; registration is essential

Seminar: The Semantic Web can be thought of as an extension of the World Wide Web in which sufficient meaning is captured and encoded such that computers can automatically match, retrieve, and link resources across the internet that are related to each other. In a scholarly context this offers significant opportunities for publishing, referencing, and re-using digital research output. In this session we introduce the principles and technologies behind this ‘Linked Data’, illustrated through examples from the humanities. 

This is an entry-level seminar and no previous knowledge is required.

This seminar first ran as a training session at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, on An Introduction to Digital Humanities workshop strand, convened by Pip Willcox.

Speaker: Dr Kevin Page is a researcher at the University of Oxford e­-Research Centre. His work on web architecture and the semantic annotation and distribution of data has, through participation in several UK, EU, and international projects, been applied across a wide variety of domains including sensor networks, music information retrieval, clinical healthcare, and remote collaboration for space exploration. He is principal investigator of the Early English Print in HathiTrust (ElEPHãT) and Semantic Linking of BBC Radio (SLoBR) projects, and leads Linked Data research within the AHRC Transforming Musicology project.

This seminar is open to all members of the University of Oxford. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.

What: Reborn Digital: text, transmission, and technology

Who: Judith Siefring and Pip Willcox

When: 13.00—14.00, Wednesday 11 November 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all members of the University of Oxford; free; registration is essential

Seminar: Text is at the heart of many fields of digital scholarship, and understanding the production of the text we work with at scale is essential to understanding and interpreting research findings. This workshop session provides an introduction to methods and technologies of remediating analogue text into digital forms. 

This seminar first ran as a training session at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, jointly across two of its workshop strands: An Introduction to Digital Humanities (convened by Pip Willcox) and Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (convened by Judith Siefring).

Speakers: Judith Siefring is a project manager and digital editor at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. She is currently managing a Mellon-funded project, Digital Manuscripts Toolkit, focusing on user-driven tools for digitized manuscripts. Her other particular interests within digital humanities include text encoding, digital citation and sustainability. In 2015, she convened the Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

Pip Willcox co-ordinates the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and co-directs the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, convening its introductory strand. With a background in editing and book history, she is an advocate for engaging new audiences for multidisciplinary scholarship and library collections through digital media. She conceived and ran the Sprint for Shakespeare public campaign and the Bodleian First Folio project. Previous projects she has worked on include Early English Print in the HathiTrust (ElEPHãT)—a linked semantic prototyping project, Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, the Stationers’ Register Online, and the Shakespeare Quartos Archive.

She is an associate member of SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines and of FAST: Fusing Semantic and Audio Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption.

This seminar is open to all members of the University of Oxford. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.

Images are taken from the Shakespeare Quartos Archive, http://quartos.org/ of Hamlet Q3 (1611) Bodleian Arch. G e.13. Images credit: Bodleian Libraries.

What: Introduction to Visualization in Digital Scholarship

Who: Alfie Abdul-Rahman

When: 13.00—14.00, Thursday 22 October 2015

Where: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library (map)

Access: open to all members of the University of Oxford; free; registration is essential

Seminar: In this session, we will consider how visualization can be used in digital scholarship projects. We will cover basic concepts of visualization as well as examine existing visualization techniques and applications.

This seminar first ran as a training session at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, on An Introduction to Digital Humanities workshop strand, convened by Pip Willcox.

Speaker: Alfie Abdul-Rahman completed her PhD in Computer Science at Swansea University, focusing on the physically-based rendering and algebraic manipulation of volume models. She is a Research Associate at the Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University. She has been involved with the Imagery Lenses for Visualizing Text Corpora and Commonplace Cultures: Mining Shared Passages in the 18th Century using Sequence Alignment and Visual Analytics, developing web-based visualization tools for humanities scholars, such as Poem Viewer and ViTA: Visualization for Text Alignment. Her research interests include visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. Before joining Oxford, she worked as a Research Engineer in HP Labs Bristol on document engineering, and then as a software developer in London, working on multi-format publishing.

This seminar is open to all members of the University of Oxford. It is free to attend, and reserving a place is essential.

Please meet near the Information Desk in Blackwell Hall, Weston Library (map). If you are already in the Library, you can find the Centre for Digital Scholarship on the first floor of the Weston Library, through the Mackerras Reading Room and around the gallery.