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WORKSHOP: INVITATION TO REGISTER AND APPLY FOR BURSARIES



Digital Musicology: Applied computational and informatics methods for enhancing musicology



<http://www.dhoxss.net/digital-musicology>



Dates: 3–7 July 2017



Registration now open: <http://www.dhoxss.net/register> 

   until 18 June 

Discounted registration ends 30 April

   

** Deadline for Bursary applications: 31 March **



A wealth of music and music-related information is now available

digitally, offering tantalizing possibilities for digital

musicologies. These resources include large collections of audio and

scores, bibliographic and biographic data, and performance ephemera --

not to mention the ‘hidden’ existence of these in other digital

content. With such large and wide ranging opportunities come new

challenges in methods, principally in adapting technological solutions

to assist musicologists in identifying, studying, and disseminating

scholarly insights from amongst this ‘data deluge’.



This workshop provides an introduction to computational and

informatics methods that can be, and have been, successfully applied

to musicology. Many of these techniques have their foundations in

computer science, library and information science, mathematics and

most recently Music Information Retrieval (MIR); sessions are

delivered by expert practitioners from these fields and presented in

the context of their collaborations with musicologists, and by

musicologists relating their experiences of these multidisciplinary

investigations.



The workshop comprises a series of lectures and hands-on sessions,

supplemented with reports from musicology research

exemplars. Theoretical lectures are paired with practical sessions in

which attendees are guided through their own exploration of the topics

and tools covered. Laptops will be loaned to attendees with the

appropriate specialised software installed and preconfigured.



Participants also attend morning lectures and masterclasses with 

participants from other workshops, these sessions cover topics including

using face and pattern recognition on photo archives, computer vision and 

machine learning for image collections, researching and teaching the 

legislative history of formal negotiations, creative computing and 

experimental humanities (Ada Lovelace), and Wikipedia’s sister projects

as platforms for Digital Humanities.



There will also be optional evening events (some at additional cost), 

including a guided tour of Oxford, an evening drinks and poster session 

at the Weston Library, the TORCH lecture, and an evening at Exeter 

College. Participants are invited to submit posters for the welcome 

reception at the Weston Library by Wednesday 19th April. 



Please note that numbers for this workshop are limited, and we cannot

guarantee that places will still be available towards the end of the

registration period.



Summer School site: <http://dhoxss.net>

Contact: <[log in to unmask]>



BURSARIES



The Summer School organisers offer a small number of bursaries for 

attendance to students and early-career researchers. One of these is

available specifically for participants in the Digital Musicology

workshop. 



The deadline for applications is NOON on Friday 31st March.



Applicants for the bursaries can come from any institution and must 

be either :

  

  * a doctoral, MPhil, masters’ or undergraduate student in full-time 

    or part-time education, or



  * an early-career researcher in a higher or further education institution 

    not more than 3 years past receipt of their PhD (i.e. passed the viva

    examination in April 2014 or later)



In addition they must:



  * Not have already registered for DHOxSS 2017



  * Not have received a bursary to attend DHOxSS in previous years



Applicants will be asked to provide:



  * Full name, e-mail address and affiliation



  * Career stage



  * Preferred workshop strand



To assist the selection process, applicants will also be asked for two 

short supporting statements (at most 250 words each):



  * A short statement of your intended use of digital techniques in your

    area of research and the benefits you expect from attending DHOxSS 

    2017.



  * A statement on how you would share what you have learned at the summer

    school within your institution or the wider Digital Humanities community 

    eg a blog, workshop, presentation, report, social media posts or 

    podcast/video. If you are intending to use social media, please specify 

    the tools you would use. The Oxford e-Research Centre and DHOxSS will

    assist with dissemination to the wider community if you do not have

    networks/links already in place.



Preference will be given by the judging panel to applicants who demonstrate 

the most benefit from attending and the most effective dissemination methods. 



Unsuccessful applicants will be given the opportunity to register for the 

conference at a reduced rate.



Applicants will be notified of the judging panel’s decision by Thursday 13th

April 2017.



To apply, please visit <http://www.dhoxss.net/bursaries>