Digital Humanities Summer Institute May 26-30, 2008

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities.

The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate student theorists, experimentalists, technologists, and administrators from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond to share ideas and methods, and to develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to activities that impact teaching, research, dissemination and preservation.

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Comments from previous participants:

• The participants were knowledgeable, the workshop teachers were great, and the atmosphere was nice.
• great instruction, practical application, helpful instructors, a lot of material
• very knowledgeable and helpful instructors, wonderful to work with
• the best part was teamwork – and shared knowledge, friendly presentations, speakers
• dynamic instruction, lots of information, good-sized class for individual attention
• great variety of participants’ backgrounds and institutions, high caliber of guest speakers with pertinent topics
• I'm already using the information I gained in my TEI workshop!
• The instructors were incredibly knowledgeable, appreciative and always willing to help. I loved the project-focus of the workshop; it really helped me realise what I want to do afterwards in a much better light. I feel a lot more confident about my encoding abilities now.
• The conference overall well-organized, with excellent speakers and discussion. I will attend next year. Thank you!
• I really enjoyed the public lectures, which linked the practical aspects of the workshops to broader theoretical concerns. I enjoyed the convivial atmosphere set by Ray and his team and embraced by the participants.
• The material covered and exercises were well organized and flexible enough to meet the challenge of variance in interest and experience represented within the class.
• A great chance to get feedback on ideas from a number of different people with varying levels of expertise and experience; a very supportive environment to try out ideas.

Now in its ninth year of operation, the institute takes place on the University of Victoria campus, and is generously hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Humanities, its Humanities Computing and Media Centre and its Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, and is sponsored by the University of Victoria and its Library, University of British Columbia Library, Simon Fraser University Library, Acadia University, the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Image, Text, Sound and Technology Program, and others.