Summer School: Digital Humanities
30 Jun 2025 - 4 Jul 2025
An intensive 5-day entry level hands-on course on making digital editions of analogue and born-digital texts. In this course, participants will acquire a set of basic computer skills such as xml mark-up language and handwritten text recognition to design a fully-fledged, TEI-compatible Digital Scholarly Edition and deploy keystroke logging technology to record and analyse born-digital texts.
Whether you're starting your journey in digital humanities or looking to expand your skillset, this course provides the perfect foundation to bring your projects to life.
Practical information:
30 Jun 2025 - 4 Jul 2025
32
hours
Stadscampus, University of Antwerp, Belgium
English
Target audience: Participants who have at least completed 2 full years of university education in a relevant field of study.
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Learning outcomes
- The main goal of the course is to furnish students with a set of tools in order for them to be able to edit analogue and born-digital documents (mostly literary and historical texts). Upon completion of the course, students will know the following on the basic to intermediary level:
- the basic syntactic rules of the descriptive meta-markup language XML;
- what the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is, and how its XML-based vocabulary is used to transcribe source material;
- what IIIF is and how it is used for making digital objects available online;
- how Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) works and how to use the Transkribus platform for the (automatic) transcription of source documents;
- how the Axolotl XML editor can be used for HTR postprocessing (i.e. to encode the revision process as recorded in the documents) and to collaborate in a digital editing project;
- how to use XPath to query and navigate through XML documents;
- how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into another data format, such as HTML;
- how to use HTML and CSS for creating web pages as part of a digital edition;
- how keystroke logging software can be deployed for editing digital writing processes;
- As an outcome, students get the chance to make their own mini-edition, hosted as a GitHub-page, either using their own material or using the material provided by our team.
- In addition to these transferrable skills, students acquire theoretical knowledge of modern editing methods as practised in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital (Genetic/Scholarly) Editing.