| Encaenia - Now and Then |
Archive footage of Oxford University's Encaenia ceremony |
Peter Robinson |
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| Wartime Oxford - June 1943 and 1944 |
Archive film of Oxford from June 1943 and June 1944 |
Peter Robinson |
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| High Street - Now and Then |
Archive film footage of High Street, Oxford from 1937 and 1944. |
Peter Robinson |
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| Rules and Regulations |
Archival film uncovers the quirky dos and don'ts that governed student life in the golden age of the 1920s and 30s. |
Peter Robinson |
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| Cycling Through Time |
Archive footage of cycling through the busy streets of Oxford and Cowley in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s. |
Peter Robinson |
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| St Giles' Fair |
The changing faces of St Giles' Fair. In this episode we look at St Giles' Fair which is held for two days in September in the heart of the city. |
Peter Robinson, Charlie Beesley |
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| Recruiting March of the Oxfordshire Women's Land Army 1918 |
This film was made in April 1918 as a recruitment tool by the government's Women's War department. |
Peter Robinson |
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| Oxford 1918 - Then and Now |
In this episode we compare and contrast locations in and around Oxford from 1918, and the present day. |
Peter Robinson |
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| Oxford - Work, Rest and Play |
In this episode we look at social history scenes from various archive films showing Oxford at work, rest and play. |
Peter Robinson |
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| Oxford at War in 1944 |
In this 2nd episode, we collate rare colour Oxfordshire footage shot in 1944 by US airforce officers. Film clips concentrate on the social life in Oxford city centre, Wallingford, Dorchester, Abingdon and surrounding villages. |
Peter Robinson |
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| May Morning, Oxford 1993 |
Thousands gather on the High Street on May Morning, Oxford 1993. |
Charles Beesley |
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| Steve Sheard, tutorial fellow at Trinity College, and Dept of Engineering |
Steve Sheard chats with Steve, talking technology for 5 minutes about tutorial, lecture, project and laboratory teaching. "We use a concept design for a gearbox of a small buggy, 3D printed. They can produce this only once they have modelled it". |
Steve Sheard, Steve Burholt |
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| Janet Smart, Reader in Operations Management, Said Business School |
Janet Smart chats with Steve, talking technology for 5 minutes about using videos. 'The beauty of the video is that you see the dynamics, you see things moving - you can never capture that in prose.' |
Janet Smart, Steve Burholt |
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| Exploring the next generation digital learning environments |
Chuck Severance, University of Michigan, looks at Learning Management Systems and what comes next. |
D Charles Severance |
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| Moving from War to Peace |
The 3rd Keynote of the War Time 2016 conference held 9-11 November 2016 |
Margaret MacMillan |
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| Time-frames of the Great War |
The 2nd Keynote of the War Time 2016 conference held 9-11 November 2016 |
John Horne |
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| The long and the short of it: time and strategic planning in the First World War |
Keynote lecture given at the War Time 2016 conference |
Hew Strachan |
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| SPQR and Computer Archaeology: the early years |
Gary Lock and Paul Reilly talk about how Sebastian helped British CAA school of practitioners be more international. |
Gary Lock, Paul Reilly |
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| Linked Open Data |
Dr. Leif Isaksen and Alex Dutton talk about Sebastian's inspiring leadership in the Linked Open Data movement in cultural heritage. |
Alex Dutton, Leif Isaksen |
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| Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School |
Pip Wilcox from the Bodleian Libraries talks about Sebastian's long standing contribution to teaching at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS). |
Pip Willcox |
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| Digital Humanities |
Dave De Roure talks about Sebastian's contributions to the digital humanities community in Oxford and the wider world. |
Dave De Roure |
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| What Sebastian Taught Us |
Joe Talbot talks about Sebastian's many achievements, his work and shares some personal reflections and video footage of the man. |
Joe Talbot |
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| Linked Cultural Heritage |
Donna Kurtz talks about working with Sebastian over a number of years on various Linked Cultural Heritage projects. |
Donna Kurtz |
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| The Open Source Advisory Service - OSS Watch |
Rowan Wilson gives a talk about working with Sebastian on setting up the national service - OSS Watch, the Open Source Software advisory service. |
Rowan Wilson |
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| The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names |
Robert Parker, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, Oxford, talks about Sebastian's work with Oxford Classics in developing the lexicon of greek names. |
Robert Parker |
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| TeX Live - Don Knuth remembers SPQR |
Anne Trefethen reads a special statement from founder Donald Knuth on Sebastian's contribution to TeX Live. |
Anne Trefethen |
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| TeX and LaTeX software |
Phillip Taylor talks about Sebastian's contribution to the TeX and LaTeX software community. |
Phillip Taylor |
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| Memories of Sebastian |
Leonor Barroca, Sebastian's long-term partner, gives some words on Sebastian's and her life together. |
Leonor Barroca |
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| Humanities Computing at Southampton, and The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome |
Wendy Hall and Les Carr share their memories of work at Southampton University. Nicholas Stanley-Price and Amanda Thursfield, (The Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome) share their experiences with working with Sebastian Rahtz. |
Wendy Hall, Les Carr, Nicholas Stanley-Price, Amanda Thursfield |
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| Sebastian's contributions to the Text Encoding Initiative |
Lou Burnard, James Cummings and Hugh Cayless discuss Sebastian's contribution to the Text Encoding Initiative live via satellite. |
Lou Burnard, James Cummings, Hugh Cayless |
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| Welcome |
Donna Kurtz (Professor of Classical Art and Senior Research Fellow of Oxford e-Research Centre) and Anne Trefethen (CIO) introduce the day along with providing some personal insights in working with Sebastian. |
Donna Kurtz, Anne Trefethen |
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| Mancunian Crusaders? |
Exploring the chasm which existed between the crusading rhetoric of clergymen and the ways in which soldiers in the Manchester Regiment rationalised their involvement in the First World War. |
Dan Smith |
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| A Wordly War: Battle Experiences through the Eyes of African Cultures |
Examining the First World War through the lives of African soldiers and labourers. |
Josephine Niala |
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| Remembering before the End: Death and the Great War' |
Examining the many inventive and moving ways in which people began to mourn and commemorate their loved ones while WW1 was still ongoing and before official acts of public memory were established. |
Alice Kelly |
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| Grouches, Reflections and Wish lists, The Diary of an Academic Medic |
Philippa Matthews (Honorary Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Medicine) gives the eighth and final talk in the conference. |
Philippa Matthews |
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| Data Publication; Discover, Explore, Visualise |
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran ( Research Lecturer, Oxford e-Research Centre) gives the seventh talk in the conference. |
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran |
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| Interactive Visualisation: For teaching, research and dissemination |
Scott Hale (Data Scientist, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) gives the sixth talk in the conference. |
Scott Hale |
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| Why do Academics need Journalists to design their Visualisations? |
Alan Smith (Data Visualisation Editor, Financial Times) gives the fifth talk in the conference. |
Alan Smith |
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| Visualising 150 Years of Correspondence between the US and Germany |
Felix Krawatzek (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford) gives the fourth talk in the conference. |
Félix Krawatzek |
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| Visual Journalism |
John Walton (Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC News) gives the third talk in the conference. |
John Walton |
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| Data Visualisation |
Mark Hahnel (Founder of figshare), gives the second presentation in the conference. |
Mark Hahnel |
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| Data Visualisation, a publisher's point of view |
Richard O’Beirne (Digital Strategy Group, OUP) gives the first talk in the conference. |
Richard O’Beirne |
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| Women in Engineering |
A short promotional film featuring women who have been inspired to work in the engineering. |
priyanka dhopade, sina ober-blobaum, Eleanor Stride, ana castro-castellon, elizabeth watson |
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| Testimonies on Nazi Forced Labour and the Holocaust |
Building Digital Environments for Research and Education |
Cord Pagenstecher |
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| Researching Holocaust survivors in Greece through the Visual History Archive |
Issues and debates in the research use of testimony |
Kateřina Králová |
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| Forced alignment using FAVE and DARLA |
Powerful language technology tools and methods to support oral history research |
Josef Fruehwald |
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| Using forced alignment and HTML5 media syntax to share speech archive data |
Powerful language technology tools and methods to support oral history research |
John Coleman |
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| Building an open sound archive |
The case of the Grammo-foni (Gra.fo) project |
Silvia Calamai |
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| Oral Histories of Hidden Children in Denmark during the Holocaust |
Narratives, Identity and Trauma |
Sofie Lene Bak |
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| Language Technologies: INTER-VIEWS |
A Search and Annotation Tool for Oral History |
Henk van den Heuvel |
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| Language Technologies: ELAN |
A short introduction to the ELAN annotation and processing suite of tools |
Sebastian Drude |
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| Increasing the Impact of Oral History Data with Human Language Technologies |
How CLARIN is already helping researchers |
Arjan van Hessen |
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| CLARIN Data, Services and Tools |
What language technologies are available that might help process, analyse and explore oral history collections? |
Dieter van Uytvanck |
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| Oral History Collections |
How to exploit the multidisciplinary potential of Oral History narratives |
Stef Scagliola |
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| Oral History as Research Data |
Interviews, collections, archives, data and history - a view from the UK Data Archive. |
Louise Corti |
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| From Search to Exploration |
Barriers and opportunities in using oral history archives as data resources |
Jakub Mlynář |
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| Ben Holmes on Open Code |
Ben Holmes, a web developer for the Oxford IT Services, talks about the relevance of Open Code for the University’s WebLearn platform, the Mobile Oxford App, and his own involvement in GitHub. |
Ben Holmes |
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| Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics on Public Engagement |
Julian Savulsecu and Dominic Wilkinson discuss the efforts of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics to encourage and support debate on practical ethics through its open events and online materials. |
Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson |
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| Ian Goldin on the Oxford Martin School |
Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development and Director of the Oxford Martin School, discusses the efforts of researchers at the Oxford Martin School to address the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. |
Ian Goldin |
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| Free Speech Debate on Global Free Expression |
Dr Dorian Singh and Sebastian Huempfer discuss Free Speech Debate, a project founded on the belief that making content freely available for non-commercial purposes is an integral part of promoting a global debate on free expression. |
Dorian Singh, Sebastian Huemfer |
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| Victoria McGuinness on TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities) |
Victoria McGuinness, the Business Manager for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), talks about the Centre’s role as a home for major research programmes at Oxford and its efforts to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research. |
Victoria McGuinness |
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| Luciano Floridi on The Ethics of Open Data |
Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute, discusses the ethical questions raised by the emergence of Open Data and Big Data. |
Luciano Floridi |
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| Ben Goldacre on Open Data |
Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, shares his views on Open Data and discusses his involvement in projects created in the spirit of openness. |
Ben Goldacre |
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| Antoine Jerusalem on Open Research Data |
Antoine Jerusalem, Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Science, talks about the importance of Open Data for his work on the computational modeling of materials and his involvement in the Human Connectome Project. |
Antoine Jerusalem |
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| Open Data in the Humanities |
Jacob Dahl, Associate Professor of Assyriology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, talks about his research with cuneiform tablets and his hopes for the future of Open Data in the Humanities. |
Jacob Dahl |
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| Open Research |
Researchers and Academics at Oxford share their experiences with sharing their data openly and the projects, collaborations and opportunities Open Data makes possible. |
Maja Zaloznik, Antoine Jerusalem |
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| Open Data: The Golden Age of Discovery |
This documentary follows the experiences of a number of academics and researchers at Oxford as they discuss the implications of Open Data for their research, for academia and for humanity. |
Chris Lintott, Ben Goldacre |
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| Emma Goodwin on 'Crowdscribing' |
Emma Goodwin is the Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Collaborative Skills Project, ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC). |
Emma Goodwin |
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| Simon Benjamin on Open Science |
Simon Benjamin, Associate Professor at the Materials Department, gives an in-depth talk on the importance of Open Science for researchers, students and the general public. |
Simon Benjamin |
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| Aruna Bhaugeerutty on Open Museum Collections |
Aruna Bhaugeerutty, Manager of Digital Collections at the Ashmolean Museum, talks about the Museum’s efforts to open up its collections to a wider audience via interactive online platforms. |
Aruna Bhaugeerutty |
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| Open Educational Resources (OER) |
Find out about the Open Education Resources and Initiatives at the University of Oxford! |
Sean Faughnan, Marion Manton |
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| Podcasting |
Watch leading academic talk about their experiences with the University’s Podcasting Initiative and Open Spires! |
Ian Goldin, Julian Savulescu |
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| What is Openness? |
‘Openness’ is a far-reaching concept--find out what it is about and why it is becoming increasingly important to academics, researchers, students and the general public! |
Marianne Talbot, Simon Benjamin |
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| Crowdsourcing- The Oxford Community Collection Model |
The Oxford Community Collection Model brings together online crowdsourcing with personal, face-to-face interaction. It has been used successfully in a range of ways from collating Anglo-Saxon teaching resources to memories of WW1. |
Ylva Berglund Prytz |
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| Widening Access to the British Library's Collections and Services |
Dr Aquiles Alencar-Brayner walks through some of the extraordinary projects led at the British Library which aim to engage and encourage interaction with the general public. |
Aquiles Alencar-Brayner |
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| Exploring the Learning Benefits of Lecture Capture |
Jill Fresen and Debra Garretson discuss the Lecture Capture project led at Oxford and the how the software can be used to offer students various benefits. |
Jill Fresen, Debra Garretson |
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| Tracking Your Impact |
Dr Kathryn Eccles discusses her knowledge exchange work with TORCH and comments on the various ways you can monitor the impact of your projects. |
Kathryn Eccles |
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| IWM's 'Computer Club': Engaging staff with Digital Technologies |
Simon Delafond and Jesse Alter explore the exciting staff initiative ('Computer Club') led at the Imperial War Museums which encourages colleagues to use digital technologies to support and enhance their work. |
Simon Delafond, Jesse Alter |
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| Livestreaming Events to Reach Global Audiences |
Peter Robinson and Josh Carr explore the benefits of using Livestream to reach out to large audiences. |
Peter Robinson, Joshua Carr |
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| Bringing WW1 History into the Present with Twitter |
Mechthild Herzog discusses how Twitter can be harnessed to engage large audiences with WW1 history in a range of creative ways. |
Mechthild Herzog |
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| Facebook Pages that Work |
Liz McCarthy discusses a range of strategies for maximising the reach and effectiveness of your Facebook page. |
Elizabeth McCarthy |
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| Using Social Media to Extend the Reach of your Projects |
Professor David Pyle discusses his public engagement work for the Department of Earth Sciences with specific reference to the London Volcano and Volcano top trumps project. |
David Pyle |
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| Varsity Trip: The Oxford and Cambridge Ski Trip |
In 1949, filmmakers Guy L. Coté and Hugh Wyn Griffith directed the film ‘Sestrieres’ for the Oxford Ski Club, about their trip to the Italian ski resort, Sestriere. We compare this with film of a recent trip, highlighting obvious changes in student life! |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| A Yank Abroad: Visiting (and re-visiting) the Oxfordshire countryside |
Rare 16 mm film footage from the mid-1930s of american tourists touring the Oxfordshire countryside by bike, and also footage shot by US airforce crew in 1944 visting Wallingford and Aylesbury. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| Mesopotamia: An Oxford Archaeological Expedition |
Film of the joint expedition to Kish, Mesopotamia, by Oxford University with the Field Museum of Natural History, of Chicago, Illinois, from 1920-29. The 16mm footage reveals the immense scale of the archaeological dig involving hundreds of people. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online |
Find out about “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing since 2007. The RunCoCo service at the University of Oxford University shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. |
Patrick Penzo, Alun Edwards, Ylva Berglund Prytz, Stuart Lee, Stephen Bull |
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| What is a Roadshow? |
Find out about roadshows - face-to-face engagement – part of “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing, e.g. Europeana 1914-1918. RunCoCo shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. |
Patrick Penzo, Alun Edwards, Ylva Bergland Prytz |
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| Oxford At War: Footage from Mount Farm Airbase |
World War Two arrives in Oxford in this episode, using never before seen Oxford footage from a US Flight Surgeon for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Unit at Mount Farm Airbase, Dorchester. Includes colour and monochrome film from 1944. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| A Day on the River: The Oxford Steamers |
Salter’s Steamers have operated since 1858, and we revisit them in the 1940s as an American U.S.A.F Unit make use of a break from their war service to enjoy a leisurely day on the Thames to Wallingford. Includes rare colour 16mm film from autumn 1944. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| Oxford: Then and Now |
We compare and contrast locations in and around the city from the 1940s, and the present day. How have the places and people changed? How present is the Second World War in 1940s Oxford? After 70 years how different is Oxford? |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| Attic to Archive - Welcome to the Dreaming Spools Project |
In this episode we take you on a trip through time as we introduce a selection of the archive film footage that the Dreaming Spools project has discovered. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
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| New Perspectives 1: Georgians and Others |
Short presentation as part of the Oxford 'British Poetry of the First World War' Spring School |
Stuart Lee |
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| How to digitise objects well |
Short and snappy guidelines to creating a good picture for online viewing. |
Patrick Penzo |
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| How to set up your camera for digitisation |
Short and snappy guidelines to setting up for digitisation of objects. |
Patrick Penzo |
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| How to track items at a Roadshow (Digitisation) |
Part 4 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Patrick Penzo, Adelina Tomova |
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| How to track items at a Roadshow (Digitisation desk to Digitisation) |
Part 3 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Adelina Tomova, Patrick Penzo |
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| How to track items at a Roadshow (Interview to Digitisation desk) |
Part 2 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Frances Dunkley, Alun Edwards, Adelina Tomova, Rebecca Henderson |
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| How to track items at a Roadshow (Interview stage) |
Part 1 of the "How To" series explaining how to keep track of objects and their stories. |
Alun Edwards, Frances Dunkley, Rebecca Henderson |
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| Ambition for Leadership |
An inspirational talk on leadership given by Professor Dame Carol Black to young female science students as part of the 3rd Annual OxFest Symposium 2014 - "WHY SO SLOW? Closing the gender gap in STEM". |
Carol Black |
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| If I knew then what I know now. Being resourceful and strategic in traversing the science career landscape |
An inspirational careers talk given to young female science students as part of the 3rd Annual OxFest Symposium 2014 - "WHY SO SLOW? Closing the gender gap in STEM". |
Elizabeth Pollitzer |
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