The Centre of Excellence in the Humanities to the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, has the pleasure to invite, for a fourth time, experts in the fields of Digital Humanities and Information Technologies to an Advanced Summer School in Digital Humanities.

The event will take place in September 2017 in a nice mountain retreat near Sofia, Bulgaria (tbc). The summer school relies on the cooperation of world-leading instructors from academic institutions in the UK and USA and will include the following modules:
- Training in Linked Spatial Data, Geo-annotation, Visualisation and Information system (Geography and Topography) – with Valeria Vitale (King’s College London), Gabriel Bodard (School of Advanced Studies, University of London);
- Training in Python for data extraction, enriching and cataloguing – with Simona Stoyanova (King’s College London) and Gabriel Bodard (School of Advanced Studies, University of London);
- Training in EpiDoc and TEI markup, use of vocabularies, and web delivery (including external URI use, XSLT customization, and entity normalization) – with Simona Stoyanova (King’s College London) and Gabriel Bodard (School of Advanced Studies, University of London);
- Presentations in Big Data and Information Extraction – Dimitar Birov (University of Sofia) and Eduardo Miranda (Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh).

A round table on the current trends and the future developments of Digital Humanities in South-East Europe.

The event will take place between 7th and 11th September. The participation fee is 50 euros.

If you are interested in the Summer School, please send a Curriculum Vitae and a Motivation Letter stating your main areas of interest and expertise, the projects on which you are currently working, as well as which module(s) are relevant for your work and why you would like to attend them.

The applications should be sent to dhsummerschool@uni-sofia.bg no later than 1 June 2017.

Assoc. Prof. Dimitar Birov, PhD
/Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Sofia/
Assist Prof. Dimitar Iliev, PhD
/Faculty of Classical and Modern Languages, University of Sofia /
Assist Prof. Maria Baramova, PhD
/Faculty of History, University of Sofia/
Grigor Boykov, PhD
/Faculty of History, University of Sofia/
Dobromir Dobrev
/Centre of Excellence in the Humanities, University of Sofia/