Digital Text Workshop for Humanists & Social Scientists

[Patricia Hswe]

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!
XML, TEI, and GIS are just three approaches that can be used to 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:
„X methods for creating digital texts (highlighting the application of
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, for texts in Cyrillic)
„X encoding humanities and social science texts using XML and TEI
„X 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.

Interested?  Act soon!  The deadline for free housing grants is April 15¡X
though later applications will be accepted.  For details on registration,
visit the workshop website (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/slw-
dtw/Program05.htm).

If you have any questions, please contact Patricia Hswe, UIUC¡¦s Slavic
Digital Humanities Fellow (phswe at uiuc.edu), off-list.

--Patricia Hswe
CLIR Postdoctoral Slavic Digital Humanities Fellow
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
225 Main Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL  61801
217-265-6289
phswe at uiuc.edu

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