Hi there, please circulate to ADHO members! Thank you,
erin
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Dear All,
Registration is now open for DHSI-East: Databases.
The course will run from 26-29 April at St Francis Xavier University in
Antigonish, Nova Scotia. For more details, visit
https://www2.mystfx.ca/digitalhumanities/dhsi-east
Direct link to registration:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dhsi-east-registration-139015518157
Our current plan is to have an in-person course with attendees from around
the region. We recognize that course delivery mechanisms may have to
change. If you plan to attend from beyond the region, please note that you
will be expected to follow proper quarantining procedures before attending
any in-person gathering. Social distancing, masks, and other precautions
will be taken on-site.
*Description*
Databases are the driving engine behind a large number of classic and
cutting-edge digital humanities applications. DH tasks -- such as wielding
enormous GIS maps, aggregating the social media of wikis and blogs,
building large archival repositories and even generating the semantic web
-- all depend on some form of database. This course will introduce the
inner workings of databases and demonstrate hands-on work with
participants' own data sets to learn more about concepts like data
normalization, relational table design, Structured Query Language (SQL),
and effective long-term data management. *Participants need no prior
experience with* *databases* *or programming.*
At the end of the course, you will be able to laugh at this joke:
An SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables.
It saunters over to them and asks, “May I join you?”
DHSI-East is part of the international DH Training Network
<https://dhsi.org/dh-training-network/>and takes its name from DHSI
<https://dhsi.org/>, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of
Victoria). DHSI-East 2021 is supported by funding from the Harrison McCain
Foundation Awards (Acadia University) and the Canada Research Chairs
program.
If you have any questions, please contact digitalhumanities(a)stfx.ca. Please
circulate to any of your colleagues who might be interested.
Sincerely,
Laura
On behalf of the DHSI-East Organizing Team
Richard Cunningham, Laura Estill, Meghan Landry, Margaret Vail, and Lydia
Vermeyden
Dr. Laura Estill
Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities
Associate Professor of English, St. Francis Xavier University
Director, StFX Digital Humanities Centre
<https://www2.mystfx.ca/digitalhumanities/users/digitalhumanities>
Editor, *Early Modern Digital Review <http://emdr.itercommunity.org/>*
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