The Summer Seminar will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers, scholars and librarians in the humanities. The seminar will cover the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts, typical problems and how to solve them, and how software fits or can be adapted to common methods of textual study. For the 1996 Seminar, there will be a maximum of sixty places. There will be plenary sessions throughout and six parallel tracks devoted to specific areas of humanities computing.
Participants attend all plenary sessions and select one parallel track for more detailed study.
Throughout the Seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available, as well as a small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing to supplement printed seminar materials, which include an extensive bibliography. Special lectures will describe current research in the field. The Seminar is intended for faculty, students, librarians, technical advisers, and academic administrators with direct responsibilities for humanities computing support. It assumes basic computing experience but not necessarily with its application to academic research and teaching in the humanities.