Advanced Summer School in Digital Humanities, 7-11 September 2017, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Deadline:

June 01, 2017

Disciplines:

Digital Humanities , Information Technology, IT

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SUMMER SCHOOL IN ADVANCED TOOLS FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND IT

The Centre for Excellence in the Humanities to the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, has the pleasure to invite, for a fourth time, experts in the fields of Digital Humanities and Information Technologies to an Advanced Summer School in Digital Humanities.

The event will take place in September 2017 in a nice mountain retreat near Sofia, Bulgaria (tbc). The summer school relies on the cooperation of world-leading instructors from academic institutions in the UK and USA and will include the following modules:

  • Training in Linked Spatial Data, Geo-annotation, Visualisation and Information system (Geography and Topography) – with Valeria Vitale (School of Advanced Studies, University of London), Gabriel Bodard (School of Advanced Studies, University of London);
  • Training in Python for data extraction, enriching and cataloguing – with Simona Stoyanova (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) and Gabriel Bodard (School of Advanced Studies, University of London);
  • Training in EpiDoc and TEI markup, use of vocabularies, and web delivery (including external URI use, XSLT customization, and entity normalization) – with Simona Stoyanova (School of Advanced Studies, University of London) and Gabriel Bodard (School of Advanced Studies, University of London);
  • Presentations in Big Data and Information Extraction – Dimitar Birov (University of Sofia) and Eduardo Miranda (Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh).

A round table on the current trends and the future developments of Digital Humanities in South-East Europe.

The event will take place between 7th and 11th September. The participation fee is 50 euros.

If you are interested in the Summer School, please send a Curriculum Vitae and a Motivation Letter stating your main areas of interest and expertise, the projects on which you are currently working, as well as which module(s) are relevant for your work and why you would like to attend them.

The applications should be sent to dhsummerschool@uni-sofia.bg no later than 1 June 2017.

For more information please click "Further Official Information" below.



Eligible Countries
International
Host Country
Bulgaria
Publish Date
May 07, 2017

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