DH Training and Learning Opportunities in Oxford

 

@jamescummings

 

http://slides.com/jamescummings/dh-training

  • ITLC offer hundreds of courses, online and in class
  • Lunchtime taster courses are often free
  • They cover not only software/programming (including DH topics like text encoding and visualization) but also more general courses on referencing, managing your online presence, etc.
  • http://courses.it.ox.ac.uk/

researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk

  1. A single point of contact for general advice, support and guidance on digital research: researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk
  2. Specialist advice in a number of areas including:
    • Digital Humanities
    • Research Data Management
    • Intellectual property
    • Interactive Visualisations and Agent-Based Modelling
    • Text Encoding and Digitisation
    • Data Modelling and Migration
    • Survey Design and Support
  3. Practical expertise for funded research projects i.e. delivering IT-related work packages
  4.  Web resources designed to support best practice, research, teaching and learning

researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk

researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk

Data Modelling and Migration Service

We can advise on how to:

  • organise your data and its relationships
  • design a database for the most flexible research questions
  • reap the benefits of online cloud-hosted databases
  • select open international standards for your data
  • choose appropriate metadata vocabularies
  • find possible tools for data conversion
  • avoid potential pitfalls in data structures
  • fix bugs in your existing data transformations
  • use Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud services

researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk

Data Modelling and Migration Service

We can help by:

  • discussing your data with you
  • creating and documenting a data model
  • reorganising the structure of your data
  • creating a database using a variety of software
  • migrating a database from a desktop to online
  • de-duplicating records in large datasets
  • cleaning data based on a set of defined rules
  • converting your data into different formats
  • working with your departmental IT Support

researchsupport@it.ox.ac.uk

support@arc.ox.ac.uk

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