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GSLIS participates in Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Stephen Downie
J. Stephen Downie, Professor, Executive Associate Dean, Associate Dean for Research, and Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center
Allen Renear
Allen Renear, Professor and Special Advisor for Strategic Initiatives

Several members of the GSLIS community gave presentations at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, which was held on July 20-24 at the University of Oxford. Attendees followed one of eight workshops throughout the week, and attended several additional lectures and a poster session. Presenters from GSLIS included: J. Stephen Downie, professor and associate dean for research; Nushrat Khan, master’s student; Allen Renear, professor and dean; Megan Senseney, senior project coordinator for research services; and Andrea K. Thomer, doctoral student.

Downie, Senseney, and Renear spoke in the workshops series, “An Introduction to Digital Humanities.” Senseney co-organized the workshop, “Humanities Data: Curation, Analysis, Access, and Reuse,” in which she, Downie, Thomer, and Renear presented. Downie led several sessions in the workshops, “Digital Musicology.” During a peer-review poster session, Khan presented her work exploring the use of DSpace to publish and share large-scale research data.

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