Announcing the 2009 DHO Summer School in conjunction with NINES and 18th Connect

http://dho.ie/ss2009

To register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TIhP7y31Wm_2fvjsIL5B3u...

Following the success of the 2008 DHO Summer School, the 2009 Summer School will be held from 13-17 July 2009 at Academy House in Dublin, Ireland. This year's event will be larger and it is being held in conjunction with NINES and 18thConnect, two prominent virtual communities in digital literary studies.

Registration for the Summer School is now open. Early-bird registration is available until May 15, 2009. Early-bird registration for the week-long summer school is € 375. After 15 May standard registration cost of €450 will apply. To register or for more information, go to: http://dho.ie/ss2009

If you are at an HSIS institution please contact your HSIS representative. A list of a list of representatives is available at http://www.dho.ie/committee

* Programme

Master Classes will be led by two of the leading textual scholars in the world:

Jerome McGann, founder of NINES and co-founder of SPECLAB, will be speaking on ' Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture.'

Hans Walter Gabler, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, London University, is presenting: 'From Conception to Design and Vice Versa: Ways to make your mark-up do what you want it to do at the interface.'

In addition, Paul Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University, Belfast will lecture on 'Humanities Digital Deluge: Serendipity, Scholarship, Sustainability.'

There are also four week-long workshop strands:

• Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative: Theory and Practice led by James Cummings (University of Oxford) and Dot Porter (DHO);
• Data Modelling and Databases for Humanities Research led by Aja Teehan (An Foras Feasa, NUI, Maynooth) and Don Gourley (DHO);
• Data Visualisation for the Humanities led by Paolo Battino (DHO),Shawn Day (DHO), and Faith Lawrence (DHO);
• Text Transformations with XSLT led by Laura Mandell (Miami University) and Kirstyn Leuner (Miami University).

For more details, consult the Summer School website at: http://dho.ie/ss2009

Please direct any questions to Shawn Day (s.day@dho.ie) regarding the
summer school.

We look forward to seeing you in Dublin.