Hi Michiel, thank you very much for your offer. Yes, I'd be very interested in seeing what you've been working on in the areas you listed. These are all topics we're planning to introduce at the workshop as well. Over the next two weeks I am putting together a list of potential case studies and datasets relevant to humanities research, so your note comes at exactly the right time. You can reach me at arno.bosse@gmail.com.

A quick update on this event.. with the addition of Jon McLoone we now have four experienced instructors for our workshop on 'Analysing Humanities Research Data with the WL'. The final course description is available on the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School site. We've opted to divide the five-day workshop as follows: 1) WL fundamentals, 2) Texts, Graphs & Networks, 3) Image Processing, Sound Analysis & Machine Learning, 4) Semantic import, geographic visualization & geo-computing. 5) Saving & sharing applications and data in the cloud.

If you review the schedule, you'll see that during the middle of the week (Tue/Wed/Thu) each of the special topics (e.g. image processing) are bookended on each end with sessions introducing the relevant WL functions and programming patterns and and an opportunity for assisted, hands-on practice exercises. As a result, if you or someone you know is looking for an extended, beginner/intermediate level introduction to the WL, I think it'll be worth taking a careful look at the workshop, even if your professional or research interests are in areas far removed from the humanities. It is, after all, being taught by three physicists! ;^)

More seriously, I hope to return to this point in a future post, once the research case studies and examples for the individual topics have been concretized—there's more potential for overlap between the (digital) humanities and other research areas than people may initially think. One of the things that most attracted me to the WL is its potential serve as a bridge between disciplines.

I should add that although we've been fortunate enough to receive funding to invite one or two presenters, we probably can't afford to do it if you're based far away across the Atlantic or in Asia. Mind you, do contact us all the same, and we'll try to make a case to the powers that be! But ideally, you'd be based in the UK or e.g. continental Europe.