[SDH/SEMI Members] [DHSI, new 2009 course, scholarships] SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars

[Ray Siemens]

DHSI 2009

8-12 June, U Victoria

http://www.dhsi.org/ 

 

 

 

A quick note, as we move forward with our preparations for the 2009 Digital
Humanities Summer Institute, to mention that we're pleased to be able to
confirm a new course offering for 2009, SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for
Humanities Scholars.

 

Loretta Auvil and Boris Capitanu will be joining us from NCSA/UIUC to offer
the course, and have generously agreed that a good number of spots in the
course will be available by tuition scholarship.

 

If you're interested in a tuition scholarship spot in this course - either
as a new enrollee, or as one of the 100 or so already enrolled in the 2009
DHSI - please ensure that you have an account at http://www.dhsi.org/ and,
then, drop a note to institute at uvic.ca.  Regular registration is available
directly via the DHSI website, http://www.dhsi.org/.

 

Tuition fellowship spots are available on a first-come first-served basis;
transfer of those already enrolled in other DHSI courses can be facilitated.

 

All best,

 

Ray

 

 


[From http://www.dhsi.org/courses] 


[6] SEASR in Action: Data Analytics for Humanities Scholars


Loretta Auvil and Boris Capitanu 

This course focuses on introducing participants to The Software Environment
for the Advancement of Scholarly Research, SEASR, providing humanities,
arts, and social science communities a transformational cyberinfrastructure
technology. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about SEASR
through a comprehensive set of presentations and hands-on exercises meant to
outline the key aspects of the technology and how it can be applied to solve
real-world research problems. SEASR eases scholars' access to digital
research materials and enhances scholars' use of them through analytics that
can uncover hidden information and connections. SEASR fosters collaboration,
too, through empowering scholars to share data and research in virtual work
environments. SEASR technology is also designed to enable digital humanities
developers to design, build, and share software applications that support
research and collaboration. Developers can tailor applications both in whole
and part to fit scholars' research needs---from changing the visualization
landscapes that provide them with views of analytical results, to inserting
new analytics that support their linguistic analysis for different time
periods or languages, to readjusting entire steps in the work process so
that researchers can validate results and alter their queries. The course
will incorporate a variety of learning activities ranging from presentations
to structured application sessions to designing specialized analyses. Topics
will include: Overview of SEASR infrastructure (components, flows,
applications), Introduction to text mining tools, and Using and creating
Zotero flows. Bring a laptop for hands-on exercises (with admin privileges
or install the following Java 1.5+ and Firefox 3.x with these plugins:
Zotero 1.0.x and SEASR Analytics for Zotero). See http://seasr.org/.

 

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R.G. Siemens, English, University of Victoria, PO Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1. Ph.(250)721-7272  Fax.(250)721-6498
siemens at uvic.ca http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/

 

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