University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Summer Research Laboratory

Slavic Digital Text Workshop:

Strategies for Humanists & Social Scientists

July 5–8, 2005

Rationale: This workshop is designed for faculty and librarians who seek to apply technology to research across the disciplines. To render all sessions of interest to specialists in different disciplines, some of the texts included will be used for different procedures. For example, in the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) sessions we plan to include a taste of social science encoding, but will focus largely on humanities texts. Then, a sample of these same humanities texts will be among those used for GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications--which typically pertain to social science texts.

Tuesday, July 5

Session 1 (GSLIS Learning Resources Lab/LRL)
CREATING SLAVIC DIGITAL TEXTS

* An Introduction to Methods, Including OCR • Andy Spencer, East European, Slavic & Turkic Bibliographer (U. Wisconsin-Madison) • 1:30-2:30 p.m.

* Hands-on Session • 3:00-4:00 p.m.

N.B: Special opportunity in association with GSLIS Electronic Publishing Research Group (Rm. 126 in GSLIS):

Topic Maps for Digital Humanities • John Walsh, Associate Director for Projects & Services, Digital Library Program (Indiana U.) • 4.15-5.15 p.m.

***** Cookout (directions to be provided) • 6:00 p.m. onwards *****

Wednesday, July 6

Session 2 (Heritage Room, ACES)
ADDING VALUE TO DIGITAL TEXTS: A GENERAL OVERVIEW

Introductions: Beth Sandore, AUL for Information Technology (UIUC) • 9:00-9:05 a.m.

* Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its Applications in Scholarship & Libraries • John Unsworth, Dean, Graduate School of Library & Information Science (UIUC) • 9:05-9:50 a.m.

* Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) • John Walsh (Indiana U.) • 10:15-11:00 a.m.

* Geographic Information Systems (GIS) • Eileen Llona, International Studies Computer Services Librarian (U. Washington) • 11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m.

~ LUNCH ON YOUR OWN ~

Session 3 (Room 509, ACES)
SLAVIC TEXT ENCODING IN THE HUMANITIES I

* An Introduction to Markup • David Birnbaum, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures (U. Pittsburgh) • 1:30-2:30 p.m.

* Review Session • Patricia Hswe, CLIR Slavic Digital Humanities Fellow (UIUC) • 2:30-3:00 p.m.

* Hands-on Session • 3:30-4:30 p.m.

***** Cocktails courtesy of Eastview Information Services • Heritage Room, ACES • 5:00 p.m. onwards *****

Thursday, July 7

Session 4 (Rm. 509, ACES)
SLAVIC TEXT ENCODING IN THE HUMANITIES II

* Slavic Scholarly Application I • David Birnbaum (U. Pittsburgh) with Anisava Miltenova (Head, Dept. of Old Bulgarian Literature, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) • 8:45-10:15 a.m.

* Hands-on Session • 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Session 5 (Heritage Room, ACES)
BROWN BAG PANEL DISCUSSION

* Faculty Perspectives and Technical Possibilities • Chair: Nuala Koetter, Head, Digital Services and Development Unit, University Library (UIUC) • Panelists: David Birnbaum (U. Pittsburgh), Eileen Llona (U. Washington), Anisava Miltenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), John Walsh (Indiana U.) • 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Session 6 (Rm. 509, ACES)
SLAVIC DIGITAL APPLICATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES I

* An Introduction to GIS Methods for Social Scientists (and Humanists) • Eileen Llona (U. Washington) • 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Incorporating non-map information such as census data into GIS systems; applying latitude and longitude coordinates to digital images to enable mapping; utilizing geographic components found in texts, especially historical works (identifying places associated with texts, putting them into the GIS, obtaining and assigning coordinates to the place names using tools like gazeteers, resolving issues surrounding historical place names); reviewing the effectiveness of map-based interfaces for information retrieval.

* Hands-on Session • 3:15-4:15 p.m.

***** Summer Research Lab Social Hour • 101 International Studies Building • 5:00-6:00 p.m. *****

Friday, July 8

Session 7 (Rm. 509, ACES)
SLAVIC DIGITAL APPLICATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II

* Slavic Scholarly Application II (with reference to the Central Eurasian Information Resource [CEIR], and the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection) • Eileen Llona, U. Washington • 9:00-10:00 a.m.

* Hands-on Session • 10:15-11:15 a.m.

Session 8 (Heritage Room, ACES)
BROWN BAG DEMONSTRATION

* Developing a Tool for Publishing TEI-encoded texts: the Use and Potential of TEI Publisher • Amit Kumar, Instructional Technology Developer, Graduate School of Library & Information Science (UIUC) • 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Session 9 (Rm. 509, ACES)
DELIVERING SLAVIC DIGITAL TEXTS

* The Basics of XSLT • Tom Habing, Research Programmer, Grainger Engineering Library (UIUC) • 1:00-2:00 p.m.

* XSLT Applications • David Birnbaum (U. Pittsburgh) • 2:15-3:15 p.m.

* Hands-on Session • 3:30-4:30 p.m.

We gratefully acknowledge support from:

The UIUC Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies; the UIUC Library Colloquium Committee; the UIUC Graduate School of Library & Information Science; the Information Resource Center, US Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria; and East View Information Services

Location: Except for Session 1 (on the first day), the workshop will be held at the ACES Library, Information, and Alumni Center (LIAC), home of the Funk ACES Library for Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (The location for Session 1 will be announced in mid-March.)

Registration: The workshop is limited to 20 participants. To ensure that space is available, participants should pre-register with Patricia Hswe (phswe@uiuc.edu), UIUC's Slavic Digital Humanities Fellow. The registration fee for this workshop is $20, unchanged from last year. Accepted forms of payment are cash or personal check (payable to the University of Illinois). Payment may be made on the first day, just before the first session, between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. in Room 103, International Studies Building (ISB), 910 S. Fifth Street. The ISB is where the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center is located. It is also across the street from Illini Tower, where several registrants will likely be staying.

***Please note:

(1) If participants intend to apply for a housing grant (awarded for a maximum of 10 days), or seek to use SRL housing ($42 a night at Illini Tower), they will be asked to register as associates of the Summer Research Laboratory and submit a research proposal with vita for a $35 fee. (See the application for more information). Application deadlines for housing grants are: for non-citizens, April 1; for U.S. citizens and permanent residents, May 13 .

(2) Participants who apply for a grant will also need to submit a policy-relevant research proposal (see http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/srl/SRL2005/proposal.html for more information)

(3) If no lab housing or library use is sought, it is not necessary to register for the Lab. The SRL provides information about other housing options.

(4) Refundable housing deposit required: Participants (grantees and non-grantees alike) who arrange to stay at Illini Tower will be asked to put down a housing deposit in the amount of $120:

If you arrive and leave as scheduled, the deposit will be refunded IN FULL.
BUT, if you depart early without having made prior arrangements through the Center, then you will be billed from the deposit for the remaining days.
In place of a deposit, you may call staff at the Center (217-333-1244) and give them a credit card number for them to hold and, if necessary, to bill should you leave early.