Few dispute that digital technology is fundamentally changing the way in which we engage in the research process.

Indeed, it is becoming more and more evident that research is increasingly being mediated through digital technology. Many argue that this mediation is slowly beginning to change what it means to undertake research, affecting both the epistemologies and ontologies that underlie a research programme (sometimes conceptualised as 'close' versus 'distant' reading, see Moretti 2000). Of course, this development is variable depending on disciplines and research agenda, with some more reliant on digital technology than others, but it is rare to nd an academic today who had no access to digital technology as part of the research activity and there remains fewer means for the non-digital scholar to undertake research in the modern university (see JAH 2008). Not to mention the ubiquity of email, Google searches and bibliographic databases which become increasingly crucial as more of the worlds libraries are scanned and placed online. These, of course, also produce their own specic problems, such as huge quantities of articles, texts and data suddenly available at the researcher's ngertips, indeed, "It is now quite clear that historians will have to grapple with abundance, not scarcity. Several million books have been digitized...and nearly every day we are confronted with a new digital historical resource of almost unimaginable size" (JAH 2008). In this workshop we will look at how we might use the new digital tools of text aggregation, processing and information or data visualisation to provide the ways of looking at and thinking about Shakespeare. From making data patterns, to narrativising through algorithms and visualisation we aim to examine how these approaches and methods can assist in undertaking humanities research into textual materials.

Programme
11.30-12.00 Registration (4th oor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building) 12 noon: Introduction and Welcome (David Berry) 12.15-12.50: The Swansea VVV Project: Visualising Version Variation (Tom Cheesman) 13.00-13.45: Understanding through Visualisation (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 13.45-14.00: Coffee Break 14.00-14.30: Shakespeare in Arabic (Sameh Hanna, Salford) 14.30-15.00: Visualising Textual Corpora (Geng Zhao, Swansea University) 15.15-16.15: Computational Information Design (Stephan Thiel, Potsdam) 16.15: Reections on the workshop (Tom Cheesman, Robert S. Laramee) 16.45: Ends
Workshop Information Organised by Dr. David M. Berry and Dr. Tom Cheesman Funded by the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH)

Digital Shakespeare
Workshop and Talks 4th oor SmallTalk Room, Faraday Building

If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.

This is a pilot project on Shakespeare's global rewritings - translations, adaptations, versions, in all languages (including Englishes), from all times. We aim to develop innovative ways of exploring variation in translation, historically and cross-linguistically, using data visualisation tools. We are researchers at Swansea University (Wales) in Departments of Modern Languages, Political and Cultural Studies, Translation and Digital Communication, and Computer Science. The Principal Investigator is Dr Tom Cheesman, with Co-Investigators Dr David M. Berry, Professor Andy Rothwell, and Dr Robert S. Laramee, and Research Assistants Alison Ehrmann and Zhao Geng.

http://www.delightedbeauty.org

Image from: The tragedy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. As it hath beene diuerse times acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers, by his Maiesties seruants. Written by William Shakespeare

DIGITAL SHAKESPEARE Image processed

DIGITAL SHAKESPEARE Image processed

wenn Tugend die glnzendeste Schnheit ist, so ist euer Tochtermann mehr wei als schwarz

wenn es der Tugend nicht an Reiz und Schnheit fehlt, so ist Ihr Schwiegersohn vielmehr wei, als schwarz