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The UAntwerp DH Summer School 2025 edition is titled Computer-assisted genetic editing: from medieval manuscripts to born-digital documents. It offers an intensive 5-day entry level hands-on course on making digital editions of analogue and born-digital texts.
In this course, participants will acquire a set of basic computer skills such as xml mark-up language and handwritten text recognition to design a fully-fledged, TEI-compatible Digital Scholarly Edition and deploy keystroke logging technology to record and analyse born-digital texts.
The target audience includes undergraduate students (BA3), graduate (MA) and postgraduate (PhD, postdoc) students as well as professionals in the field of Humanities. MA students can earn 6 ECTS credits upon successful completion of the programme and submission of an extra assignment.
Target group
Bachelor (3rd year) and Master students, PhDs and postdocs, Professionals in the fields of textual scholarship, genetic criticism, library science, archiving practices.
Participants should have at least completed 2 full years of university education in a relevant field of study.
No prior knowledge of Digital Humanities is required to successfully complete the programme.
Campus
This summer school takes place at Stadscampus (Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp) of the University of Antwerp. This campus is located in the city centre.
Micro-credential and study credits (ECTS)
3 ECTS credits will be awarded upon successful completion of the programme. 6 ECTS credits can be earned by successfully completing an extra assignment (paper). The certificate of completion is also issued as a micro-credential.