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Engaging in digital scholarship often includes building new technical skills and experimenting with various digital methodologies. There are a number of local opportunities to begin building your digital skills through consultations, workshops, and community building events. In addition, DH scholars, librarians, and technologists have created a number of self-paced online resources to support the development of digital skills within the community.
This page provides you with some starting points to build your digital skill toolbox, for further information or to suggest a workshop or event at SFU, please contact Rebecca Dowson, , at rda26@sfu.ca.
Workshops and events
See Events + Workshops: Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) for information on training opportunities surrounding the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab.
SFU Research Computing Group offers technical training in software programs, including software development languages such as Python, Julia and Chapel. RCG also provides access to material in various knowledge domains such as BioInformatics, Digital Humanities and GIS, as well as content in support of visualization, cloud and container technologies, AI & machine learning and data management.
Digital Humanities Summer Institute “provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation in different disciplines, via a community-based approach. During a week of intensive coursework, seminars, and lectures, participants share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in using advanced technologies.”
Vancouver Public Library Inspiration Lab “is a digital media lab at VPL’s central library downtown: a free place that combines traditional, digital and new media in a custom-built space dedicated to digital creativity, collaboration and storytelling. It features high-performance computers, analog-to-digital conversion, sound studios, video editing and self-publishing software.” The Inspiration Lab also offers introductory workshops on topics such as: audio and video recording and editing, digitization, and self-publishing an ebook.
Resources
Programming Historian “offers novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.” Includes lessons on APIs, data management, data manipulation, distant reading, linked open data, mapping, network analysis, Omeka, web scraping, and programming in Python.
DevDH.org was “built to respond to the growing demand for digital humanities training in that area but also as an online repository of training materials, lectures, exemplars, and links that offer best practices to beginner, intermediate, and advanced digital humanists.”