Week TWO. Digital Humanities

Two eminent British experts of "Humanities Computing" will lecture on the basics of this newly emerging field and conduct workshops where students learn new skills and techniques of information technology required for "digitizing" the humanities. The four days of lectures and labs will be concluded by public lectures entitled "The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII): Building a Center of Excellence in Digital Humanities", and "Digital Humanities: UK Perspective and Key Initiatives." These lectures will give Korean scholars a valuable overview of recent technological initiatives in the humanities in Europe. The guest lecturers this year are Ann Gow and  Stephen Woodruff, founding members and principal academic staff of HATII (Glasgow University), a leading research institute of Humanities Computing in the UK.

. Weekly Program

. Lectures

DAY 1

[Morning Lectures]
Introduction to Digital Humanities with examples of web multimedia use in the arts & humanities and in major media sites. Draw distinctions between the different aims of the two kinds of sites above and the objectives of the users of the sites, and draw students on the changing expectations and aspirations of students, and others, as the web changes.
An introduction to HTML: What it is, where it came from, original aims, basics of syntax.

[Afternoon Workshop/Labs]
Afternoon Session on this and subsequent days, we will put into practice the theory learned in the lectures.
Students will build their own "personal" web pages (irrespective of whether they already have their own pages) as an exercise that shall be added to throughout the workshops. They will practice various different techniques and technologies and it is important they are embedded in a continuously evolving whole. At the end of the workshops, students will have web pages that they can refer to to remind them of how to do things, of what designs work and do not work. On the final afternoon, students will present their own work to the group.

DAY 2

Advanced Authoring Concepts for the Web. Looking in particular at CSS Scripting & other technologies.
An Introduction to Project Management using basic project management tools to plan your work and that of others on the team.

DAY 3

Analogue and Digital: Media on the web. A look at the theories and processes of creating digital objects, in particular focusing on humanities objects such as 2D images.

DAY 4

Considering design within a digitial humanities project and the theory we can learn from other disciplines. We will look at various examples to illustrate the main concepts.
Evaluation of digital humanities projects. Looking at evaluation tools, techniques and methods to capture the user experience.

DAY 5 : Public Lectures

" The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute: Building a Center of Excellence in Digital Humanities."

This lecture will chart the evolution of HATII over the past ten years and share the experience that has led to its establishment as a leading center for Digital Humanities in the UK and the world. Reference will be given to particular projects developed in HATII as well as an examination of the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum.

" Digital Humanities: UK Perspective and Key Initiatives "

An overview of the major initiatives in the UK in Digital Humanities and how they relate to European and international organizations. This lecture will explore the changes of the recent past and the expectations of the future for Digital Humanities.