IES-Bibiliographical Society Digital Skills Training

The Bibliographical Society and the Institute of English Studies is pleased to offer an in-person training day in digital methods for bibliographical study in association with the John Rylands Research Institute at the University of Manchester.

The workshop will provide an overview of current digital bibliographic methods and resources followed by a hands-on introduction to some key skills, where participants will learn how to process and clean bibliographical data; about record linking and querying, the uses of data visualisation and computer vision in bibliography; and good practice in data management.

The workshop is free to all. First priority (5 guaranteed spaces) will be given to Bibiographical Society members.Participants will need to bring a laptop, ideally for which they have an administrative access password that allows them to install software.

Instructors

Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science in the University of Oxford. He has interests in the computational analysis of book illustration and typography, the history of copyright, and chapbooks and broadside ballads.

Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the co-director of the Herman Melville Electronic Library. He has worked on several scholarly editions of American and British literature in the nineteenth century and published widely on digital humanities and book history.

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