• Date: 23rd–27th August 2021
• Location: Online and decentralized: for more information on the schedule, see the announcement text (below) and the poster.
• Invited are students, but also historians of any qualification level, from BA to professorship, archivists, and all other interested parties.

The summer school is intended to digitally trace the research process of historians along its duration: From the selection and preparation of the source to the automated transcription and analysis of the text. The free tools Transkribus and nopaque will be used. The summer school days always consist of three blocks: In the morning, the topic of the day is introduced and content is conveyed. Participants can try out their skills in the first, prepared exercises. In the afternoon, work is done and applied: The participants are welcome to try out what they have learned in the morning on material they have brought with them as well as on material provided by the FGHO and the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel. The third block presents ongoing projects. Here, the challenges, advantages and disadvantages, and potentials of digital work with sources can be reflected upon and discussed using concrete case studies.

• Day 1 (Monday, 23rd August)
  Moderation: Gerald Schwedler
  • 9:00–12:30: Introduction to the summer school
    ‘What do Digital Humanities and Digital History mean for historical scholarship today? What motivates us to do summer school?’ (Gerald Schwedler/Angela Huang)
    Introductions Speakers/Participants
    ‘Digital History: How history works (or at least should work) after the digital turn’ (Silke Schwandt/Tobias Hodel)
  • 14:00–16:30: Background and preparation
    ‘READ-COOP-SCE and Transkribus: background, projects and products’ (Andy Stauder)
    ‘eLearning in the digital learning lab at Kiel University Library’ (Andreas Christ/Swantje Piotrowski)
    Installing tools and creating profiles: Transkribus (Johanna Walcher), Nopaque (Silke Schwandt)
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentations
    ‘Read!Hanse.Sources.’ by FGHO (Angela Huang/Ole Meiners)
    ‘TEI Student Projects at CAU Kiel’ (Swantje Piotrowski)
• Day 2 (Tuesday, 24th August)
  Moderation: Angela Huang
  • 9:00–12:30: Introduction to working with Transkribus
    Transkribus Basics (Johanna Walcher/Günter Hackl, READ-COOP-SCE)
  • 14:00–16:30: Application (READ-COOP-SCE)
    Transkribus Basics: Exercises for beginners and advanced users
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentation
    ‘Use cases from large scale projects in archives, tips & tools for practice: material types, layouts and training strategies’ (Dirk Alvermann, Greifswald)
  • from 18:00: virtual aperitif via Wonder.me
• Day 3 (Wednesday, 25th August) 
  Moderation: Gerald Schwedler
  • 9:00–12:30: Transkribus II
    ‘Transkribus in-depth: expert client, transkribus lite, and HTR’ (Sebastian Colutto, READ-COOP-SCE)
  • 14:00–16:30: Application (READ-COOP-SCE)
    Practice on own material (if necessary, practice materials will be provided)
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentation
    ‘Topic Modelling’ (Ina Serif/Tobias Hodel, Basel/Bern).
• Day 4 (Thursday, 26th August) 
  Moderation: Angela Huang
  • 9:00–12:30: Introduction to digital text analysis
    ‘Making texts transparent: automatic text processing with the platform nopaque’ (Silke Schwandt)
  • 14:00–16:30: Application (Tobias Hodel, Silke Schwandt; Angela Huang: recesses)
    Exercises on prepared material (FGHO)
  • 17:00–18:00: Project presentation
    ‘Swiss Federal Archives: Federal Council Minutes 1848–1903 – a Digital History Project’ (Tobias Hodel).
    ‘Text Mining Tools in Digital History’ (Laura Niewöhner, Bielefeld).
• Day 5 (Friday, 27th August)
  Moderation: Angela Huang / Gerald Schwedler
  • 9:00-10:30: Open forum
    Presentation of own projects/discussion round on planned projects
  • 10:30–11:30: Supervised training
    Apply what you have learned to your own examples
  • 12:00–13:00: Certificate of participation ‘T&T driver's license’, feedback round and goodbye

• Organizers: Angela Huang / Gerald Schwedler
• Participants:
  • Kiel University: Swantje Piotrowski
  • Kiel University Library: Andreas Christ
  • FGHO: Ole Meiners
  • Transkribus: READ-COOP-SCE, Dirk Alvermann
• Text analysis: Tobias Hodel, Ina Serif, Silke Schwandt, Laura Niewöhner
• Support: Vivien Popken (FGHO), Philip Scheinert, Anika Gerdts (Kiel University)