New Media and Advanced Methods for Historical Research
Leiden, the Netherlands, 17-29 June 1996
A series of self-contained, 2.5-day courses at introductory,
intermediate and advanced levels. The Leiden Summer School is
organized for postgraduate and advanced graduate students in
history, professional historians and archivists. The Summer
School is organized by the Netherlands Historical Data Archive
(NHDA), the Postgraduate Programme for Historical Information
Science (Leiden University), Department for Social and Economic
History (Leiden University)
Leiden Summer School Outline of Courses:
o June 17-22: Introduction to New Media and Advanced Methods for
Historical Research (Doorn and others)
This introductory course offers a broad overview of modern
information technology for historians, including lectures,
demonstrations and hands-on practicals on: the Internet,
historical CD-ROMs, optical reading of historical documents,
multimedia applications, historical data archiving, and other
electronic information resources for historians.
o June 17-22: Scanning and Optical Character Recognition of
Historical Documents (van Horik/Sesink)
In this course students will learn to apply scanners for the
automatic conversion of historical sources. Attention is paid to
image enhancements techniques and formatting of OCR-output. This
course is repeated in the second week.
o June 17-22: Advanced Statistics for Historical Analysis with
SPSS-PC (Doorn)
The SPSS-PC package is used to explain aspects of log-linear
models, multiple regression and time series analysis, using
historical data.
o June 17-22: Historical Databases (Leenarts/De Nijs)
This course explores the potential and limitations of databases
for the structuring and representation of historical sources,
using dBASE (for Windows).
o June 17-21: Quantitative Approaches to the Colonial History of
South-East Asia (Lindblad)
This course is about how to apply computer assisted methods to
major problems in the economic and social history of colonial
South-East Asia (in particular Indonesia), including foreign
trade, colonial drain, and coolie labour.
o June 24-29: Text Analysis I: TACT (Doorn/Leenarts)
The TACT system is used in this course for computer assisted
textual analysis. Attention is paid to the structuring of
historical textual documents using a mark-up language.
o June 24-29: Text Analysis II: Hypertext, SGML, HTML, TEI
(Leenarts/Nauta/Van Kersen)
This course pays attention to the importance of the Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for electronic historical
texts.
The Text Encoding Initiative as an SGML-implementation is
explained. It is shown how hypertexts for the World Wide Web can
be structured with HTML.
o June 24-29: Multimedia for Historical Presentations (Luijting)
In this course students learn how multimedia can be used to
present historical information. The Toolbook authoring system in
connection with Visual Basic will be used to prepare a
presentation.
o June 24-29: The History of European Economic Integration:
Computer Assisted Research and Electronic Information Resources
(Griffiths)
In this course computers are used for finding and manipulating
data on the history of European integration, broadly described
(EEC, EFTA, OECD, GATT).
o June 24-29: Preparing a Historical Dissertation with WP 6.1 for
Windows (in Dutch; Doorn)
This course is specifically meant for Dutch post-graduates
(AIO/OIO's) who are preparing their dissertation. Many aspects of
the lay-out and production of your own book are dealt with.
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Peter Doorn (NHDA/Leiden University)
Prof. Richard Griffiths (Leiden University)
Drs. Rene van Horik (NHDA)
Drs. Janneke van Kersen (NHDA)
Drs. Ellen Leenarts (Leiden University)
Dr. Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University)
Drs. Marc Luijting (Leiden University)
Drs. Gerhard Nauta (Leiden University)
Drs. Thimo de Nijs (Leiden University)
Drs. Laurents Sesink (NHDA)
Drs. Heiko Tjalsma (NHDA)
More information considering registration, accomodation, social
and
cultural events and costs see:
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nhda/education/sum_school.htm
or contact:
Leiden Summer School
c/o NHDA
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Fax: +31 71 5272615
Phone: + 31 71 5277040 / 5272742
E-mail: ESF2@stpc.wi.leidenuniv.nl