Vanderbilt to Host NEH-Supported Institute on Digital Humanities

Jun 2, 2014 · 1 min read
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Scholars from across the United States and abroad will be at Vanderbilt University June 9-20 to improve their skills in building projects in the digital humanities. The XQuery Summer Institute: Advancing XML-Based Scholarship from Representation to Discovery will be led by Clifford B. Anderson, director for scholarly communications at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt.

During the two-week session, twelve participants will learn how to build projects in the digital humanities using the programming language XQuery and an open source XML database called eXist. The institute is among the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities supported by the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“Our goal is to help digital humanists take the next step in their work,” Anderson said. “We want them to reach the full scholarly potential of encoding documents in machine readable format by teaching them how to query and analyze those texts computationally.” Read more …

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Clifford B. Anderson
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Clifford B. Anderson
Director of the Divinity Library
My research interests include the study of algorithms as cultural artifacts, computational thinking in the humanities, large-scale textual analysis of narrative data, and the religious dimensions of intellectual property.
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