About
Annotations (lat. annotatio) provide additional or supplemental information to an actual item. Annotating adds a second layer of information to a given object and is nowadays considered an important cultural skill. For centuries, annotations have played a vital role in the humanities and cultural sciences, especially with regard to textual criticism and the critical assessment of visual objects like paintings or architecture. During the last decades, the digital turn in science and society has produced new forms of annotations. From computer science (code annotations), linguistic studies (language annotation or annotation of speech) to areas like the social media (tagging) - annotations are abundant.
In 2018, the yearly "International Summer School" (ISS) of the MA programme „Digital Methods in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences“ jointly conducted by the Johannes Gutenberg-University and the University of Applied Sciences Mainz will put a special focus on annotations. The main aim of the summer school is to build up expertise on foundational concepts, methods and tools for annotating research objects from a broad range of disciplines.
The schedule comprises introductory lessons on instruments for web based collaboration and annotation (like structuring and writing text with Markdown, Git and GitLab), as well as classes on annotating texts and images with markup languages or transcribing and annotating historical sources with online tools. Annotating music will also play an important part just as will be the modelling of annotation concepts for time and space in respect to cultural artefacts. Finally, more recent methods like graphbased annotations, visualization tools for annotations and historical network research on the basis of annotated research corpora will complete the picture.
[ Schedule and participation ]
Schedule
Tuesday, 09.10.18, 15:00–18:00
| 15:00–17:00 | Guided tour through the Gutenberg Museum Mainz Meeting point: In front of the museum |
| 18:00 | Get-Together in a traditional wine tavern |
Wednesday, 10.10.18, 09:30–17:30
| 09:30–12:00 | Torsten Schrade, Jörg Hambuch Basic methods and tools (Markdown, Git, GitLab) |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00–15:30 | Max Grüntgens, Dominik Kasper, Thomas Kollatz Annotating text and images |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–17:30 | Sarah Pittroff, Marjam Trautmann Methods and tools for visualizing annotations |
Thursday, 11.10.18, 10:00–17:30
| 10:00–13:00 | Michael McGuire, Torsten Schrade The Moravian Lives project |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15:30 | Frederic von Vlahovits Methods and tools for annotating music |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–17:30 | Kai-Christian Bruhn Methods and tools for annotating space and time |
Friday, 12.10.2018, 10:00–15:00
| 10:00–13:00 | Andreas Kuczera, Marjam Trautmann Graphbased annotations and historical network analysis |
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15:00 | Torsten Schrade Wrap-Up |
Note: For students enrolled in the MA programme "Digital Methods in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences" the summer school starts one day earlier on Monday, 08.10.2018 at 10:00 (also in the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz).
Place
Venue
The summer school will take place in the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 2, 55131 Mainz.
By car: Take the exit Mainz-Hechtsheim (Ost) from the A60, make a right turn into the Geschwister-Scholl-Straße and another right turn at the first crossing into the Emy-Roeder-Straße. After approximately 50m make a left turn into the parking area of the Academy.
With public transport: From Mainz main station take the tram lines no 50, 52 or 53 (towards Hechtsheim) or take the busses number 660 (towards Alzey) or 9 (towards Hechtsheim).
Food & Drink
For lunch there are some convenient facilities nearby. The REWE-Supermarket is just next to the Academy. The shops and restaurants at the Berliner Straße also provide good food.
Accomodation
We can recommend one of the following hotels for accomodation: The Hotel am Hechenberg (close to the Academy), the Intercity Hotel Mainz (close to the main station) or the Youth Hostel Mainz (reasonable prices).
Participation
Organisational notes
The summer school addresses an international audience and is open to all students and/or researchers with a BA degree in the humanities, cultural sciences, computer science or information science. For a successfull participation credits according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) will be awarded. Lessons will be held in German and/or English, depending on the amount of foreign speaking participants to a class.
The total amount of participants is limited to 40 persons. From this amount, 25 seats are booked for the students of the first semester of the MA programme "Digital Methods in the Humanities and Cultural Sciences" until the start of the semester. 15 seats are open for external application. We will maintain a waiting list to ensure a fair allocation if any of the seats is not taken by the start of the semester.
Costs
There is no fee for the summer school. Participants must cover their travel and accomodation expenses by themselves.
Application
Please apply via email (motivation letter and short CV) until 07. September 2018 to: ISS_mz@uni-mainz.de