Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, hosted its inaugural Summer Institute (DHBSI) from August 17th - 21st. Instructors came from a variety of campus partner organizations, such as the D-Lab and the Library.
DHBSI's sixty students comprised undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff from departments and units such as Linguistics, Education, Art History, Music, Geography, History, the Library, and the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies. Students completed intensive training in one of four courses: Computational Text Analysis, Data Workflows and Network Analysis, Geospatial Analysis, and Database Development Using Drupal. During project development time, students worked on endeavors such as parsing a 19th century US agricultural census, metrical analysis of medieval German, planning data structures for a network of Vietnamese intellectuals, and reconceptualizing a large database of linguistic annotations. A variety of speakers joined DHBSI to present on topics ranging from natural language processing to critical interventions in the digital humanities.
Research IT staff members Quinn Dombrowski and Camille Villa contributed to instruction as lead instructor for "Database Development Using Drupal" and TA for "Data Workflows and Network Analysis", respectively.
Read DH at Berkeley's recap of the event to learn more.