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Oxford Internet Institute Workshops

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Oxford Internet Institute Workshop: Information and Web Science Doctoral Workshop  

Wednesday 18 March 2009 10:30-21:00   
Application Deadline: 24 February 2009   
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=239   

Doctoral students in the areas of information science, library science, web science, Internet studies, or related disciplines who are working on topics related to the Internet and other networked technologies are invited to apply to attend this workshop, offered by the OII and Aberystwyth University Dept of Information Studies.   

Three sessions will address operationalizing research questions using an appropriate framework, addressing potential ethical issues in research, and practical considerations when working with data obtained from others. The workshop is free to accepted applicants (20 max.), including travel expenses (up to £60), meals, and optional accommodation in one of Oxford's colleges on the night of 18 March.  

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OII Workshop: Humanities on the Web: Is it working?  

Thursday 19 March 2009 10:00 - 16:00   
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/details.cfm?id=238   

The web now contains the results of many initiatives to digitize resources for the humanities but how successful are these initiatives and how much information has now been archived online?   

This workshop discusses these issues, centred on two recent JISC Digitisation Programme-funded projects: Measuring impacts of digitized collections online ('Digitized Resources: A Usage and Impact Study'), and extracting materials from the Internet Archive and making the resulting dataset accessible for analyses ('World Wide Web of Humanities').   

This one day event will present the results of both projects in the context of general panel discussions about the role of digitization in the practices of humanities researchers now and in the future.