Digital Text Workshop at the University of Illinois

[Patricia Hswe]

Colleagues,

DEADLINE EXTENDED:  Sign up now for the Slavic Digital Text Workshop
at the University of Illinois!

Are you a humanities or social sciences scholar?  If so, do you know about
Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), or
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

If not, you may be missing innovative ways to pursue your scholarship!  TEI
and GIS applications are just two methods that can help you produce
enriched readings and analyses of texts and data.

To this end, the Summer Research Lab on Russia, East Europe and Eurasia
( http://www.reec.uiuc. edu/srl/srl.html ) at the Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, invites scholars to the 2005 Slavic Digital Text Workshop:
Strategies for Humanists & Social Scientists, to be held July 5-8.

Geared toward beginners, the workshop will have hands-on sessions
addressing:

- methods for creating digital texts (highlighting the application of
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, for texts in Cyrillic)
- encoding humanities and social science texts using XML and TEI
- using GIS to visualize data through mapping

In addition, Slavic scholars will give presentations on their work and show
the depth of analysis that is possible when humanists and social scientists
apply technology to their research.  Lastly, other invited specialists will
describe and discuss these approaches in general terms, and also provide
additional software demonstrations.

Interested?  Act soon!  The deadline for FREE housing grants is now MAY
13.  For details on registration, visit the workshop website at
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/slw-dtw/Program05.htm .

If you have questions, please contact Patricia Hswe, Slavic Digital
Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow (phswe at uiuc.edu), off-list.

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