Oxford Launch Event Podcasts

The University of Oxford recorded our launch event. You can see all of the videos on their podcasts site, or iTunesU users can subscribe here

 All of the videos

The Bodleian First Folio: A Story of Digital Engagement
This talk presents an overview of the 2012 campaign that took up the story of the Bodleian First Folio (a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio), the collaboration that made it possible, its outreach activity, and its future.

Crowdsourcing Community Collections: The Oxford Community Collection Model
In this presentation Kate Lindsay introduces the Oxford Community Collection Model, part of the Community Collections and Crowdsourcing Service based at the University of Oxford.

Digital Humanities Research Support and Training in Oxford
James surveys the kinds of support provided for digital humanities by the University of Oxford for those inside and outside the University.

Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Interdisciplinarity
Kathryn Eccles talks about her research around the virtual art collection Your Paintings, and talk about what interdisciplinary insights can be gleaned from crowdsourcing platforms such as Your Paintings Tagger.

Poetry Visualisation on the Web
Alfie presents an example of how existing web tools can be used to create a visualization application for poetry.

Launch of Crowd Map The Crusades
Pat presents Crowd Map The Crusades, a proof-of-concept transcription and mapping project, which is affiliated with the ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagment in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC) project and hosted at www.dhcrowdscribe.com.

Introduction to dhAHRC and Launch of Crowd Map The Crusades
Emma introduces the series and Crowd Map The Crusades, a proof-of-concept transcription and mapping project, which is affiliated with the ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagment in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC) and hosted at www.dhcrowdscribe.com.