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Networking⁴: Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Howard Hotson, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.
Between 1500 and 1800, the development of increasingly affordable, reliable, and accessible postal systems allowed scholars to scatter correspondence across and beyond Europe. This epistolary exchange knit together the self-styled 'republic of letters', an international, knowledge-based civil society central to that era's intellectual breakthroughs and formative for many of modern Europe's values and institutions. Despite its importance, the republic of letters remains poorly integrated into early modern European intellectual history, and this primarily for one simple reason: its core practice of creating communities by dispersing archives of manuscripts has posed insuperable difficulties to subsequent generations of historians attempting to reconstruct the very documents which established this community. The ongoing revolution in digital communication provides, for the first time, an adequate medium for reassembling the material dispersed by the earlier revolution in postal communication; but before this potential can be realized we need, not merely to adapt the technology to the task, but also to adapt our working methods and scholarly cultures to the technology. More specifically, we need (1) to create an interdisciplinary network of archivists, librarians, IT systems developers, experts in communication and design, educationalists, and scholars from many different fields (2) to design the networking infrastructure and scholarly practices needed (3) to support an international scholarly community devoted (4) to piecing back together the scattered documentation of the international republic of letters. In other words, we need a network to design a network to support a network reconstructing networks: Networking⁴.
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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Howard Hotson
Keywords
digital humanities
Correspondence
letters
early modern
europe
Department: Humanities Division
Date Added: 10/08/2015
Duration: 00:42:00

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Mapping Digital Pathways to Enhance Visitor Experience

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Jessica Suess, University of Oxford Museums and Anjanesh Babu, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, give a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.
Museums and cultural venues are increasingly focussed on enhancing the experience of their onsite visitors by providing mobile optimised digital resources direct to the visitor's smartphone or tablet. Apps, mobile sites and games are now common place within the museum, providing additional interpretation through text, audio and video content, or an immersive experience using sophisticated augmented and virtual reality platforms.
As well as offering an opportunity to push content to and engage with visitors, mobile offers museums a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of their audiences: beacons and Wi-Fi triangulation allow visitors pathways through gallery spaces to be tracked in increasing detail, and what visitors choose to access on their device in certain physical spaces can provide significant insight into how they are engaging with the collections around them.
In this short lecture we will talk about some of the datasets now available to illuminate how visitors experience museums, and what this may mean for the future.
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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Jessica Suess
Anjanesh Babu
Keywords
digital humanities
Cultural Heritage
museums
Visitor Experiences
mobile
games
Department: Humanities Division
Date Added: 10/08/2015
Duration: 00:29:21

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Digital Image Corruption - Where It Comes From and How to Detect It

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Chris Powell, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2015 DHOXSS.
Digital images (photographs) present a significant resource for the Digital Humanities practitioner; individual collections can number in the hundreds of thousands, and can use a variety of encoding methods. These resources can be the result of decades of work and at the very least would be extremely expensive to replace in the event of a disaster. The lecture firstly looks at the methods commonly employed to safeguard an image archive, for example multiple copies across different media types, mirroring. This is followed by an examination of each of these, and identifies issues with each, be they procedural or physical. Next the effects of the issues on image corruption are explored, together with examples of the resultant image corruption on different image encoding methods. Following the observation that most images in an archive are not viewed on a regular basis,methods of detecting corrupted images in an archive are presented, including a visual TIFF image scanner developed at the Ashmolean. Finally, some recommendations are made which will help to ensure the accurate preservation of a digital image archive.
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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Chris Powell
Keywords
digital humanities
Digital Images
corruption
museums
Cultural Heritage
Department: Humanities Division
Date Added: 10/08/2015
Duration: 01:04:21

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Digital Transformations

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Panel discussion for th DHOXSS 2015.
David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford (Chair), Lucie Burgess, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Tim Crawford, Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow, and Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
We are transforming our individual and collective lives through digital technology, in the ways we communicate and create our knowledge and understanding of the world and the human record of it. How is research in the Humanities leading this potential and responding to its limits? Is current practice in teaching, training, learning, research, storing, curating, and delivering knowledge fit to support, communicate, and encourage citizen participation in these developments? How do they affect our infrastructure requirements, now and into the future?

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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David De Roure
Lucie Burgess
Tim Crawford
Jane Winters
Andrew Prescott
Keywords
digital humanities
Digital Transformations
AHRC
Humanities Research
Department: Humanities Division
Date Added: 10/08/2015
Duration: 00:56:27

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, gives the opening keynote talk for the 2015 DHOXSS.
We are all digital researchers now. Our methods of working, the sources that we choose to use, the ways in which we interact with those sources, and the ways in which we communicate our research findings have all been profoundly affected by the digital. Whether we are interested in epigraphic and papyrological texts or in the history of the web, in Anglo-Saxon charters or in eighteenth-century court records, in text or in moving image, digital tools and methods have the capacity to transform our understandings and offer new insights into old and as yet undreamt of questions. The development of the digital has also supported greater collaboration, openness and interdisciplinarity in humanities research, both by making this technologically possible and by altering the types and breadth of knowledge required to run a successful research project. Drawing on a range of projects and initiatives that encompass data both big and small, this presentation will highlight the possibilities afforded by the digital and the skills that we need to develop in order to shape the evolution of digital humanities research in the coming months and years.
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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
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Jane Winters
Keywords
digital humanities
big data
Digital Skills
collaboration
Department: Humanities Division
Date Added: 10/08/2015
Duration: 00:37:07

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Social Capital and the Connected Age

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Mansfield College
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The seventh in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Julia Hobsbawm -- Entrepreneur, lecturer, writer and broadcaster. Founder of the 'knowledge networking' business Editorial Intelligence.

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Mansfield College
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Julia Hobsbawm
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networking
Social Capital
Cass Business School
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 07/08/2015
Duration: 00:52:16

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Say Yes to Living! Exploration in Extreme Cold and Heat

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Mansfield College
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The sixth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Mikael Strandberg -- Explorer, lecturer, writer and filmmaker.

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Mansfield College
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Mikael Strandberg
Keywords
exploration
expedition
Patagonia
yemen
Siberia
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 07/08/2015
Duration: 00:33:50

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Eleanor Marx: A Life

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The fifth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Rachel Holmes - Writer and historian.

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Mansfield College
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Rachel Holmes
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Eleanor Marx
women
history
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 07/08/2015
Duration: 00:46:53

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John Milton Fellowship Annual Lecture - Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

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The fourth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Karen Armstrong -- Author and commentator.

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Mansfield College
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Karen Armstrong
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religion
violence
john milton
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 07/08/2015
Duration: 00:52:52

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Being a Composer

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Mansfield College
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The second in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Errollyn Wallen, MBE -- Singer, composer, and musician.

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Mansfield College
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Errollyn Wallen
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music
opera
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 07/08/2015
Duration: 01:01:11

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