Digital Methods in Bibliography

The Bibliographical Society is pleased to offer a training day in digital methods for bibliographical study in association with the Institute of English Studies and Digital Humanities Research Hub of the University of London.
 
The workshop will provide an overview of current digital bibliographic methods and resources followed by a hands-on introduction to some key skills, where participants will learn how to process and clean book historical data and to construct a simple, lightweight  database based on the British Book Trade Index. They will also learn about record linking and querying, version control, visualisation, and good practice in data management.


The workshop is open to all, but first priority (4 guaranteed spaces) will be given to BibSoc members. It will take place in the Senate House MakerSpace.
 
Instructors
Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science in the University of Oxford. A book historian by training, he has interests in cheap print, particularly broadside ballads and chapbooks; book illustration; and the history of copyright.
 
Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the co-director of the Herman Melville Electronic Library. He has worked on several scholarly editions of American and British literature in the nineteenth century and published widely on digital humanities and book history.

Tickets

Refreshments will be provided, but lunch is not included.

Standard - £20

Student/unwaged - £10