Digital Humanities Skills Workshop Series
The DH Skills workshop series is a partnership between the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) and SFU Library’s Research Commons and is affiliated with the University of Victoria (ETCL, DHSI, and UVic Libraries) and the University of British Columbia (UBC Library and UBC Advanced Research Computing).
The workshops are free and open to to all, but registration is required. Links to register are included under each workshop description. Space is limited, so make sure to register soon to ensure a space.
Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI): What is it and why should I care? [Online]
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is the de facto standard for digitizing and enriching textual materials. An XML encoding language, the TEI offers a robust, multi-lingual vocabulary for describing, analyzing, preserving, and publishing “texts” across various genres: poems, drama, manuscripts, tombstones, posters, audio recordings, music videos, et cetera.
This workshop will serve as an introduction to the TEI as an encoding language, outlining how individuals can use the TEI in their own research projects. No prior experience with markup language, text encoding, or the digital humanities is needed. By the end of this workshop, participants will understand why it is that so many digital humanities resources—including Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and the Women Writers Project—use TEI to enrich their digital archives and what the scholarly and technical affordances are of using the TEI. This workshop will also provide participants tangible tools for taking up the TEI for their own purposes and outline how participants leverage the mechanisms of the TEI within their own work.
Technical requirements: Computer with access to the internet via an up-to-date browser.
Register for upcoming workshops
| Dates | Location |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 19, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:30pm | via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins) |
Using Palladio for Social Network Visualization [Online]
- Network basic concepts
- Introduction to Palladio
- Example: using the Chinese Headtax data to visualize historical migration patterns
- The caveats behind Palladio's ease of use
If you are curious about what exactly "network" is, you may read this blog post Demystifying Networks by Scott B. Weingart.
Technical requirements: Computer with access to the internet via an up-to-date browser.
Register for upcoming workshops
| Dates | Location |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm | via Zoom (link will be sent to participants 24 hours before the workshop/event begins) |
Past workshops
- Introduction to APIs and Web Scraping: Ethical Considerations [Spring 2020]
- Introduction to Content Management Systems: Creating Exhibits with Omeka [Spring 2020]
- Introduction to Twitter Bots with Tracery [Fall 2018 and Spring 2020]
- Using NVivo for Humanities Research [Fall 2018]
- Introduction to Spatial Data in the Humanities: The Spatial Elements of Textual Analysis [Summer 2018 and Fall 2018]
- Introduction to Spatial Data in the Humanities: Creating Story Maps [Summer 2018 and Fall 2018]
- Optimizing Your Digital Research Workflow with Zotero [Summer 2018]
- Beyond the Cloud: Using Voyant Tools to Analyze Texts [Summer 2018]
- Hacking the Scholarly Workflow [Spring 2018]
- Tools for Humanities Data Analysis [Spring 2018]
- Collecting, Organizing, and Describing Archival Research [Spring 2018]
- Open Publishing as Open Pedagogy: Creating a Course Journal using Open Journal Systems [Fall 2017]
- Getting Students to Read Critically through Online Annotations [Fall 2017]
- You Mean I Produce Data, Too? Managing Research Objects in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences [Fall 2017]
- Intro to Preparing Character Data in R (Summer 2017)
- Digital Pedagogy at Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada conference (Spring 2017)
- Digital Storytelling using Twine (Spring 2017)
- Intermediate Podcasting (Spring 2017)
- Spatial Humanities (Fall 2016)
- Tableau for Humanists (Fall 2016)
- Podcasting for Scholarly Communication (Fall 2016)