Digital Humanities Summer Institute

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The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) is an annual digital humanities training program held in June at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. DHSI now attracts over 600 participants for two weeks of courses, forum discussions, paper sessions, and unconferences.

Its directorial group consists of Ray Siemens (Director; University of Victoria), Constance Crompton (Associate Director; UBC Okanagan), James O'Sullivan (Associate Director; University College Cork), Laura Estill (Assistant Director-at-Large; Texas A&M University), Diane Jakacki (Assistant Director-at-Large; Bucknell University), and Jason Boyd (Assistant Director-at-Large; Ryerson University).

DHSI also has an International Advisory Board.

In both the past and present, major overarching themes of DHSI have included collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and the creation and cultivation of a larger Digital Humanities community beyond the structure of the typical academic environment. It has been especially noted that DHSI encourages opportunities for digital humanists at all stages of their careers, levels of expertise in the field, and roles in the contribution to the Digital Humanities to engage and network with each other.

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History

DHSI started in 2001 at Vancouver Island University. The inaugural DHSI event included lead speakers Susan Hockey (University College London), Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Willard McCarty (King's College London), and John Unsworth (University of Virginia), and there were some 35 participants in attendance. In 2004, DHSI moved to the University of Victoria, where it currently resides. It is estimated that, as of 2012, there were approximately 1,800 alumni of the institute, with a large portion returning over a period of multiple years to take further courses.

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Courses

DHSI includes courses and presentations on various areas of research, including: digitization, text analysis, databases, electronic literature, digital documentary editing, text encoding & TEI, digital publishing, programming, web development, sound, digital pedagogy, games, physical computing, text mapping, 3-D modelling, RDF, visual design, stylometry, professionalization, topic modelling, data mining, and XSLT.

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Conference & Colloquium

DHSI's course offerings run parallel to the DHSI Conference & Colloquium, formerly known as the DHSI Colloquium. Founded in 2009 by Diane Jakacki and Cara Leitch, the event invited graduate-only submissions until 2011. In 2013, James O'Sullivan and Mary Galvin succeeded Jakacki as chairs of the Colloquium. Galvin stepped down from her position after DHSI 2016, and was replaced by Lindsey Seatter.

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Training Network

DHSI is associated with an international training networking offering training in the digital humanities. International institutes include DH@Oxford (University of Oxford) and Culture & Technology (Leipzig University).

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References

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