With thanks to Liz McCarthy for organising it, any locals and visitors to
Oxford are welcome to come for a drink after the hackday. We'll be at The
Varsity Club (9 High Street, Oxford, OX1 4DB) from 6:30pm on Monday, March
9.
You can (optionally) sign up at
http://attending.io/events/drinking-about-museums-oxford or contact Liz on
twitter at @mccarthy_liz
Cheers, Mia
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On 4 February 2015 at 12:24, Mia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Forwarded from another list, in case any of you might be interested... The
> original didn't directly list the link but it's
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/early-english-books-hackfest-tickets-15350671271
> at the Bodleian Libraries, Monday, March 9, 2015 from 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM
> (GMT). If anyone makes it up to Oxford maybe we could have a
> #drinkingaboutmuseums after the event reception?
>
> Cheers, Mia
>
>
> From Iain Emsley <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Apologies for cross posting but thought that this might be of interest to
> these lists.
>
> The Bodleian Libraries are hosting a hackday to celebrate the release of
> 25,000 texts from the Early English Books Online project into the public
> domain. The event encourages students, researchers from all disciplines,
> and members of the public with an interest in the intersection between
> technology, history and literature to work together to develop a project
> using the texts and the data they may generate.
>
> The EEBO-TCP corpus covers the period from 1473 to 1700 and is now
> estimated to comprise more than two million pages and nearly a billion
> words. It represents a history of the printed word in England from the
> birth of the printing press to the reign of William and Mary, and it
> contains texts of incomparable significance for research across all
> academic disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy,
> linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics and science.
>
> We're looking for all kinds of people to participate; those with an
> interest in data visualisation, geospatial analysis, corpus linguistics,
> written and spoken word, web applications and programming, data/text
> mining, art, film and more are welcome. You don't have be an expert to
> join, but you do need to be enthusiastic and prepared to help develop a
> project.
>
> The hackathon will take place during the day (10am-5pm), with a reception
> to follow at 5pm. Prizes will be given to the best of the day's projects.
>
> More information about the project is available from the EEBO-TCP website
> <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/>.
> Have questions about Early English Books Hackfest? Contact Bodleian
> Libraries
> <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/early-english-books-hackfest-tickets-15350671271#lightbox_contact>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Iain
>
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