SLAIS Digital Libraries for the Humanities Summer School 2001

Making Your Digital Library Work for Humanities Research and Teaching

6-10 August, 10am - 1pm, 2pm-5pm.

SLAIS, Henry Morley Building, UCL
All sessions will be held in Room HM8 except where indicated

Some references for computing in the humanities.

Programme

Monday 6 August

Morning	Introductions Overview of humanities electronic resources, Practical: examination of some humanities web sites
Afternoon	Sources of electronic texts, OCR, transcription, metadata: Dublin Core Practical: electronic text preparation Preliminary discussion of individual projects

Tuesday 7 August

Morning	Markup systems, document analysis Example of COCOA markup Practical: document analysis exercise; COCOA encoding
Afternoon	Introduction to TEI and XML Example of XML (view with IE5 only) Practical: markup exercise using XML

Wednesday 8 August

Morning	Principles of text manipulation: Practical: using Concordance
Afternoon (in HM4)	Literary and linguistic applications; authorship studies Case studies and discussion

Thursday 9 August

Morning	Digital imaging and image databases: Practical: comparison of some image sites
Afternoon (in HM4)	Hypertext publishing Project work

Friday 10 August

Morning	Designing and managing digital projects; institutional roles Practical: completion of projects
Afternoon	Presentation of projects Course conclusion

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