Dr Martin Wynne, University of Oxford
The digital age brings the potential for fundamental transformations in the way that we do research in the humanities, but the revolution, although much-heralded, is somewhat slow in arriving for most of us. Perhaps we should try to learn about the problems, barriers and opportunities from the experiences of disciplines which have been in the vanguard of the adoption of digital methods. In particular, what do the transformations in research practice brought about by data-driven corpus linguistics teach us about the perils and the pleasures of the digital turn?
Martin Wynne is a digital research specialist at the University of Oxford, with a role that encompasses work in the Oxford e-Research Centre, IT Services, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. Martin is also Director for User Involvement for CLARIN, a European Research Infrastructure Consortium which is building a Europe-wide system for supporting the use of language resources and tools in research across the humanities and social sciences.
The CAS Digital Humanities Seminar Series presents research that combines arts and humanities disciplines with technology. The seminar series highlights the ways in which Arts can make use of IT to ask new questions, or to provide new methodologies for engaging with research questions. No knowledge of IT is needed to take part in the seminars, and all members of the Nottingham community with an interest in Arts research and IT are welcome to attend.
Tea and coffee will be served at the seminar.