William Pannapacker, an associate professor of English at Hope College, recently contributed his thoughts about attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
For the past seven years, the Institute has brought together Humanities faculty from a wide range of universities to learn about new developments for using technology in instruction and scholarship. The workshops range from sessions on how Wikipedia is changing the nature of scholarly authority to a tour of a virtual 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition developed by UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Invited presentations from the Institute are available in video form from the Institute’s blog site; some topics include textual analysis, projects modeling changes in French language and dialect, the virtual Columbian Exposition, and practices for markup of primary sources in XML.