Acknowledging the explosive growth and development of digital scholarship over the last decade, this new seminar series convened by Maison Française d’Oxford and Digital Scholarship @Oxford will draw together international panels of scholars to discuss the challenges and opportunities of this expanding arena.
In this first series, New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora, we will reflect upon new avenues for the analysis and use of textual corpora, and the systems that make this work possible.
Institutions & Networks: The cultural infrastructures of digital scholarship
14:00, 24 May, Maison Française d’Oxford and Zoom
In this unique two-hour seminar hosted by Maison Française d’Oxford (MFO) and Digital Scholarship @ Oxford (DiSc), participants from leading research institutions in France and the UK will discuss the challenges and opportunities for national institutions engaged in digital research.
To be followed by cheese, wine (or non-alcoholic alternative), and informal discussion.
More information: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/institutions-networks-cultural-infrastructures-digital-scholarship
Strategic meeting
25 May, Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
Strategic meeting between colleagues from the University of Oxford, Huma-Num, and Bibilothèque Nationale de France. If you feel you would like to attend this meeting, please contact DiSc directly.
Greek and Latin Corpora
14:00, 25 May, Zoom
In this seminar, we aim to present the work of scholars who engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration between the study of classical literature and NLP.
Link information: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/greek-and-latin-corpora
From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
14:00, 31 May, Zoom
The third session of the seminar series will present cutting-edge research initiatives from both sides of the Channel dealing with different types of textual corpora from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
More information: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/renaissance-enlightenment
Building and Mining Corpora for Discourse Analysis
14:00, 1 June, Zoom
The fourth seminar will address the processes of working with copora of digital posts, the matter of reproducibility in this work and the use of its tools, and the dichotomy between the quantitative and qualititative analyses of these materials.
More information: https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/building-and-mining-corpora-social-media-discourse-analysis
Convenors
Goran Gaber (EHESS (LIER-FYT))
Andrew Cusworth (Digital Scholarship, Oxford)
Pascal Marty
Olivier Delouis
Tristan Alonge (MFO)
Grégoire Lacaze (MFO / Aix-Marseille Université, LERMA)
