CDS serves as a focal point and a center of expertise at Brown for digital humanities and digital library methods and tools. An important dimension of our work, complementing our project development and research efforts, is the dissemination of this knowledge through a variety of events and programs. CDS staff offer annual workshops, short courses, and seminars on a variety of topics in digital methods, issues, and tools. CDS also organizes conferences, symposia, lecture series, and colloquia, both independently and in collaboration with other groups.

Upcoming Events

• Text Encoding with TEI, February 12-14, 2010: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A two-day introductory workshop on text encoding taught by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman.
• Encoding Contextual Information, April 8-10, 2010: Brown University. A three-day advanced workshop on encoding contextual information with TEI, taught by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman.
• Women in the Archives: England/New England, April 24, 2010: Brown University. A one-day colloquium on the use of archival materials in the study of women’s writing.

Past Events

Conferences

Conferences, symposia, and other events at Brown in which CDS staff and projects have played a role:

• Code4Lib, 2009: a conference on programming in and for libraries.
• Women in the Archives: an ongoing conference series on gender and digital archives
• Digital Arts and Culture, 2001: a conference on cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and the practices of contemporary digital arts and culture
• From Today, 2000: a conference on electronically mediated documentary work
• Technology Platforms for 21st-Century Literature, 1999: a conference and workshop for writers, publishers, and technologists to shape the authoring, publishing, and reading tools of the next century
• TEI 10, 1997: Text Encoding Initiative tenth anniversary conference

Workshops and Seminars

Materials from past events:

• Women Writers Project TEI workshops
• Women Writers Project seminars on scholarly text encoding

New Programs

We welcome opportunities to work with faculty and other centers at Brown, and with other institutions, to develop new courses and other forms of outreach and collaborative inquiry on topics in digital humanities, digital publication, and related areas.

We welcome proposals for jointly sponsored events, particularly on the following topics:

• Digital scholarship methods and tools
• Digital repositories
• Scholarly text encoding
• Digital scholarly editing
• Discipline-specific approaches to digital technology

To find out more, or to discuss a proposal, please contact the CDS staff.