Dr. Richard Urban of the School of Library & Information Studies will be teach a week-long intensive course, “Publishing and Using Linked Open Data,” as part of the Digital Humanities Winter Institute, Jan. 7–11.

The institute is hosted by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. In addition to Dr. Urban’s course, its 2013 offerings include those in Project Development, Humanities Programming, Data Curation for Digital Humanists, Exploring Image Analysis, Teaching Through Multimedia, Large Scale Text Analysis with R, and Digital Editions.

Dr. Urban joined the SLIS faculty in the spring of 2012. His teaching and research interests are in metadata, knowledge representation, and human-computer interaction for cultural heritage collections.