Thank to all the participants who made this an enjoyable summer school.
List of particpants with address, mail etc.
 

All information in a print-version       On-line REGISTRATION! Grants:  We have a maximum of 30 grants for participants from University of Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Groningen, Salzburg and University College and Queen Mary and Westfield in London. Grants are open to all applicants, but the above-mentioned institutions have prority. Application deadline is August 1. If number of applicants are less than 30, we may also give some support for travel money.  The grants will be given on a first come first served basis. If you get a grant, we will pay the cost for accomodation, breakfast, dinner meals, excursion and farewell party.     You may ask on summer99@uib.no if a grant is still available. There is a participation fee of NOK 250,- Other information: Preliminary Program Accommodation and travel Information about Bergen Street map of Bergen with summer school venues   Contact: Summer School 99 History department University of Bergen Sydnesplassen 7 N-5007 Bergen, Norway E-Mail: summer99@uib.no Fax: +47 55 58 86 00   Deadline for registration is  August 1!

Availalable Courses: The Interactive Web Teachers: Jan Oldervoll and Arne Solli During the last years the WWW (World Wide Web) has become a major channel for transfer of information, also in history. This is of course important for publishing books, essays, papers, sources and other kind of material. But this is a strictly one-way communication, you asking for specific pages and the server delivering them. But the web has other possibilities as well. The web can be used for delivering other kind of material like sound, it can be used for searching databases and it can be used for communication. This is possibilities that has not been used very much up to now, but will be increasingly important, when the focus will change from the form to content. The fact that the web will play an important role in teaching, on all level, will make this especially true.     The content for history has to be decided by historians. It is important to have historians who is able to decided what to present, how to do it and even do it themselves. The course is meant for historians, with some background in HTML and in standard databases like Access. The teaching will be organized as project work, where a group of students will create real services.    CANCELLED: Audio on the web Teachers: Frode Ulvund and Thomas Oldervoll With a standard multimedia computer and an Internet connection, anyone can stream audio and video over the Internet with satisfactory quality for most Internet connections. This course will teach how to put audio on the web and how audio on the web can be utilised to document and disseminate history. During the course, the students will either produce a ”hyperlecture”, ie. an audio presentation af a historical topic with syncronised visual information, or produce a short hypertext essay in oral history doing interviews and documenting them with audio on the web. Some skills in html is required.   Managing Large WWW-Projects Teachers: George Welling and Bente Opheim Modern web-site management tools make setting up a web-site seem simple, and indeed, setting up a site of a few web-pages does not take too much effort. But things are different for large scale projects on the Web. When sites require interactive elements, regular updating, automatic link-checking, and a consistent user-interface, it gets a bit more complicated.     A Web-site that is not just a one-man-show has all the aspects of planning and developing of any other information system. Some of the tools and tricks from system-development techniques can also be applied in planning, setting up and maintaining web-based projects.  To create a high quality website and to keep attracting trafic to it requires more than an average knowledge of HTML and Java: it requires a well defined style, complete with templates etc., it requires a transparent structure and clear documentation. It cannot succeed without careful planning, making the right decisions about tools and platforms. A clear image of the user is needed and a policy for promotion of the site. Quite often Web-sites also produce CD-ROMS of the site: what are the technical and organizational implications of such policies? Design is more than adding a few animated Gifs to a web-page: the design of a website must be functional and help the user to navigate through the website. Though design is a form of art and very difficult to regulate, there are some rules of thumb.      During this course we will have a look at all these aspects and more. We will use the example of the project  From Revolution to Reconstruction. We will analyze the strong points and short-comings of the interface and structure of the project and see if it can be a model for future projects.      In the practical sessions we will build a basic knowledge of HTML and learn to use an HTML-editor and make small websites. We will also add a new part to the project to see the restrictions that working within the straight-jacket of a pre-defined design has.    Manuscripts: Digitisation, Digital Representation and Edition Teachers: Manfred Thaller, Espen S. Ore, Tone Merete Bruvik This course tries to give a comprehensive introduction into all aspects of the handling of (large) collections on manuscripts on computer systems. As course project a model digital representation of a collection of late medieval / early modern charters will be prepared. These documents are in various languages: older forms of Norwegian, English, Latin and Dutch; transcriptions exist, however and students will have trained stuff accessible for consultation. The model project includes a theoretical introduction and hands on experience in all of the following fields.     1. Digitisation. During the course a high resolution camera will be available to students. The selection of digitisation parameters, color calibration, considerations of manuscript conservation, precautions for the longterm survival of digitised data and the project managment of digitisation campaigns will be covered thereticlly and, as far as applicable, exrecised.     2. Markup. The two most prevalent international encoding schemes for similar resources, the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines (TEI) as well as the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) as well as schemes developed in individual projects will be presented and discussed. These will be based on a practical introduction into XML, the presumable successor to HTML on the World Wide Web. Students will be expected to create marked up versions of the documents based on these schemes or such modifications therefore, as they see necessary for usage in their domain of study. (Examples for more detailed schemes coming from individual projects will be presented.)     3. WWW presentation. The group will go through all the necessary intermediate steps to present a WWW version of the marked up texts and digitised documents.     4. DBMS administration. Participants will also learn how to administer the marked up documents in tools from the data base management / document management world.