Dr. Jon Bath, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, University of Saskatchewan
Max Participants: 12
This course will introduce the use of relational databases for the analysis of humanities data. We will begin by examining why a database might be an appropriate tool for your project and then move on to how to model, or structure, your data in a database. Finally we will learn how to query, or ask questions, of your data set. Throughout this process we will be using MySQL, a free, open-source relational database tool, and learning the basics of Structured Query Language (SQL). No previous experience with databases or programming is required, and you should feel free to bring your own data in whatever form it currently is.