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The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual digital humanities training program held in June at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. DHSI now attracts over 600 participants [1] for a week of courses, forum discussions, paper sessions, and unconferences.

History

DHSI started in 2001 at Vancouver Island University (then Malaspina C-U). The inaugural DHSI included lead speakers Susan Hockey (University College London), Nancy Ide (Vassar C), Willard McCarty (Kings College London), and John Unsworth (U Virginia). Susan Schreibman (U Maryland), Ray Siemens (U Victoria), and staff from the Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation were instructors. [2]

Topics

DHSI includes courses and presentations on various areas of research, including:

  • digitization
  • text analysis
  • databases
  • electronic literature
  • digital documentary editing
  • text encoding & TEI
  • digital publishing
  • programming
  • web development
  • sound
  • digital pedagogy
  • games
  • physical computing
  • text mapping
  • 3-D modelling
  • RDF
  • visual design
  • stylometry
  • professionalization
  • topic modelling
  • data mining
  • XSLT

References

  1. ^ Templeton, Erin (2010-06-10). "DHSI 2014: On Building". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  2. ^ http://dhsi.org/archive.php
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