20+ hour workshop

Instructors:Dr. Constance Crompton, Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, University of OttawaMeghan Landry, ACENET Max Participants: 25 This four-day in-person workshop at St. Francis Xavier University will discuss in-depth the role of metadata standards, controlled vocabularies, and linked open data in digital archives projects. This workshop will be inspired by the theory and practice of […]

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, […]

Dates: May 12-16, 2025 This week-long workshop will introduce attendees to best practices in Research Data Management (RDM) using common tools to support research transparency and reproducibility. Robust implementation of RDM principles enables researchers to address bias and reproducibility, effectively share their research, and ensure long term access to their research inputs and outputs. From […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructor:  Patricia Enn In this course I will emphasize how play is an important tool for designing engaging and exciting digital archives. Often archives can place too much emphasis on order and structure, which is helpful for those familiar with the content and aware of what they are […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructor: Laura Mandell Location: TBA Description:  In this class, students will be introduced to the DigEd system that allows them to create digital editions beginning with a TEI document. A basic knowledge of TEI encoding is necessary: students will be given the TEI rules for using the DigEd […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructors: Diana Duarte Salinas Location: TBA Description: Data visualization is a powerful tool for uncovering patterns, telling compelling stories, and communicating complex ideas in ways that transcend traditional text-based formats. This workshop is designed for humanities scholars and professionals interested in exploring how data visualization can enrich their […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructor: Dr. KáLyn Coghill Location: TBA Description:  This course engages in a critical examination of the distinctive challenges encountered by Black women within the digital sphere, attributed to the convergence of misogyny and anti-Black racism, collectively referred to as misogynoir. Participants will investigate the historical context, manifestations, and […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructors: Chelsea Miya and Ryan Chartier Location: TBA Description: In this workshop, you will learn how to build lightweight static websites using the Jekyll static site generator. We will walk through the theory and practice of minimal computing, a “needs based” back to basics approach to web design […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructor: James Cummings and Diane Jakacki Location: TBA Description:  This workshop is an intensive introduction taught in a way that both those who are absolute beginners to digital markup and the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) or also those with a little bit of experience (but […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructors: Arun Jacob and Paula Sanchez Nuñez de Villavicencio Location: TBA Description: This workshop enables participants to examine the ways in which media archeology works as an effective research methodology for Digital Humanities (DH) scholarship, as its simultaneous focus on larger media infrastructures, such as globalized corporate entities […]

Dates: May 12th to May 15th, 2025 Instructors: Kim Martin and Kiera Obbard Location: TBA Description:  This course will introduce participants to a feminist praxis of making through a combination of theory and praxis. Over four days, participants will read and discuss a variety of texts related to feminist making, across topic areas including weaving, […]

Led by: Constance Crompton For those new to the field, this is an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. This workshop is designed for individuals who are contemplating embarking on a text-encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of […]