Digital Scholarship at Oxford

Symposium in Computer Vision and the Humanities Visual Geometry Group, Digital Scholarship at Oxford, Maison Francaise

There are still some spaces available to join the Symposium in Computer Vision and the Humanities next week, at the MFO! For programme and registration see digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/sympos...

Did Lord Macartney see a Spouting Whale or Dragon-Carp in 1793? Digitising and Unlocking Early Modern Chinese Court Drama Free event. Registration required. Please follow the registration link below to attend.

This week’s digital scholarship lunchtime lecture features the TEXTCOURT project, which uses digital methods to explore early modern Chinese court drama. Register to join online or in-person on Wednesday 12th November -

There are still spaces available for this session next week - sign up now to come along!

Beyond breaking news: in conversation with Michael Christopher Brown Organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford & The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Then, we head over to @mfoxford.bsky.social for a discussion of the collaboration between @michaelchristbrown.bsky.social and @mosababutoha.bsky.social, The Difference Between Bullets and Stones, hosted by @mitalilive.bsky.social

More & Registration: www.mfo.ac.uk/event/beyond...

Critical Digital Humanities

In our first critical #digitalhumanities discussion, we join @goran-gaber.bsky.social for a conversation about his recent paper, Mind the gap: On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age.

Register: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critic...

#archive #criticaltheory

Just a nudge to our double-excursion into thinking about digital humanities today:

Critical Digital Humanities

Join us at our first Critical Digital Humanities discussion, where we will explore @goran-gaber.bsky.social's recent paper Mind the gap: On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age.

More & registration: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/critic...

#digitalhumanities

Press the Shutter, Type the Prompt: Photography, truth & AI — Photo Oxford Maison Française d’Oxford Tuesday, 4 November

Michael Christopher Brown, Haley Morris-Cafiero, & Stéphanie Hubert, in a panel chaired by Sam McGuire.

The subject: Photography and truth in times of AI.

Join us at @mfoxford.bsky.social at 3pm today, 4 November.

Registration: photooxford.org/events/photo...

#photography #AI #truth

Press the Shutter, Type the Prompt: Photography, truth & AI — Photo Oxford Maison Française d’Oxford Tuesday, 4 November

What is photography when images can be created in a moment? What is 'truth?' What is 'real?'

At a historic moment in photography, join our conversation on photography and truth in times of AI. 3pm, 4 November, Maison Française d'Oxford (@mfoxford.bsky.social).

photooxford.org/events/photo...

Bodleian Student Editions

The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 11th November – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...

Join our next Bodleian Bytes session, where Catherine Conisbee will talk about the digital methods used to explore crowdsourced collections. Online, on 5th November, organised by the Centre for Digital Scholarship @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - sign up at digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...

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Great to see my research project @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social @batecollection.bsky.social featured alongside brilliant work by colleagues and students!
@oxhumanities.bsky.social @discoxford.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

Co-Creating Accessible Digital Futures Digital Scholarship at Oxford

An exciting new event announcement - on 26th November we're holding an interactive session where participants will learn about digital collections and accessibility - to find out more and register please see: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/co-cre...

Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches

Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:

digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...

Foxes wearing colourful patterned robes sit on a green mat, with two smaller foxes wearing plain robes sit in the centre of the mat, facing each other. Image Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Japan. d. 20/1-2: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/31e509ac-1836-453f-8a32-159f81747426/

Our new term card has arrived - and you can check out the digital version here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/disc-events (image from Kowatagitsune, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Japan. d. 20/1-2)

Bodleian Student Editions Would you like to contribute to the discovery of new research materials in the Bodleian’s manuscript collections? And to learn something about editing early modern letters and approaches to digital…

The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 23rd October – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...

Digital Scholarship coffee morning - 21st October

Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning will be on Tues 21st October: Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social will talk about games & historical emotional states, Gothic literature & horror games, & French Revolutionary paranoia in games. Find out more: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...

Events from the Digital Scholarship Community @Oxford Supported by the Strategic Research Fund

We've got lots of exciting events coming up over the next term - take a look at our events listing page to find out what's going on!

Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age Modern archival scholarship and practice are strikingly absent from contemporary historical theory. Given the archive’s enduring importance for history and its long-thematized political aspects, th...

📖 New article: Goran Gaber (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow and DiSc Fellow has a new article titled Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age:

Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration

On 25th Sept, the Humanities & Data Science Turing special interest group will discuss their work and showcase new pathways for collaboration. Find out more about this hybrid event, hosted by the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...

AI in Libraries - Horizon Scanning Bodleian Libraries

The Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries invites library professionals to take part in a survey on AI Applications in Libraries. Participation takes 10–15 minutes and responses are anonymised:

Call for Papers – Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference – Jesus College Since the turn of the millennium digital and computational methodologies have become increasingly prolific at the cutting edge of language and humanities research. Utilising digital techniques from…

Call for papers - the Emerging Digital Methodologies conference invites researchers to submit proposals for talks on digital methods in the humanities and related fields. CFP is open until 12th August!

Connected Life | Home The interdisciplinary conference supported by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).

Our colleagues at the @oii.ox.ac.uk are holding an exciting conference next week - Connected Life. Find out more and register to attend here! connectedlife.oii.ox.ac.uk

One week left to apply for the #DHOxSS2025 poster competition! Share your #digitalhumanities research with other Summer School participants this year.

Apply here by 9 June: tinyurl.com/mtnakcyt

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Apologies but we've had to cancel this session today!

Digital Scholarship coffee morning - 3rd June Digital Scholarship at Oxford

Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning will be on Tuesday 3rd June - Jack Orchard - @jarona7.bsky.social - will talk about games and historical emotional states, Gothic literature and horror games, and French Revolutionary paranoia in games. Find out more here:

Our amazing keynote speakers:
Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge)
Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute)
More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb

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Bringing Digital Image Collections Together This free event is open to University of Oxford staff and students only. Registration is required.

Do you use images in your digital scholarship research? Join us on the 21st may to learn about analysing, annotating and collating images from different websites using IIIF technology. Open to Oxford University staff + students - find out more:

Poster for the workshop "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", to be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford on May 16.

Poster for the workshop "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", to be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford on May 16.

Join us on May 16 at @mfoxford.bsky.social for "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", a workshop on digital corpora, prosopography, TEI, 3D & more in Byzantine research. Organized by @sealygirl.bsky.social, @surmaison.bsky.social, Olivier Delouis & Claudia Sode.

A blue slide on a screen, the slide says "Digital approaches to Cold War maps: Dr Martin Davis, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. There is an image of a map on the slide

At our last Digital Scholarship coffee morning we heard from Martin Davis, Digital Maps Curator at the Bodleian. Next week, on the 20th May, join us for a talk about AI-Assisted Data Analysis and Curatorial Planning for Museums! Find out more: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...