Dates: June 9th to June 13th 2025 Part of IDARE Summer University 2025: “Handmade Digital”IDARE: INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ARTS, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Tiny Games: Handmade Playables Please note: in-person or virtual attendance is possible for this workshop. Instructor: Jeremy Andriano Video games can be tiny! In this course, you will be introduced to several digital authoring […]
Dates: June 9th to June 13th 2025 Part of IDARE Summer University 2025: “Handmade Digital”IDARE: INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ARTS, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Micro-Editions: Handmade Digital Editions Please note: in-person or virtual attendance is possible for this workshop. Instructor: Jason Boyd Online publishing makes feasible the publication of texts of varying lengths, from the very long to […]
Date: June 10 2025 Description: Have you ever tried to run someone else’s code and it just didn’t work? Have you ever been lost interpreting your colleague’s data? This hands-on session will provide researchers with tools and techniques to make their research process more transparent and reusable in remote computing environments. We’ll be using platforms like […]
Led by Apurva Ashok (Rebus Foundation) Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will explore practical, fun, and effective strategies for co-creating Open Educational Resources (OER) with students. We’ll discover how open educational practices and renewable assignments can transform classroom dynamics by engaging students as active knowledge creators rather than passive participants. Together, we’ll […]
Date: June 12 2025 Description: With the release of the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy all Canadian post-secondary institutions and research hospitals that administer Tri-Agency funding were required to develop and post institutional research data management (RDM) strategies by March 1, 2023. As institutions finalized their strategies, they began to consider what implementation would look like. […]
Date: June 16 2025 This practical workshop, delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, introduces the purpose and structure of a data dictionary to support clear, consistent, and reusable research data. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, the session emphasizes how data dictionaries enhance data documentation, sharing, and reuse. Participants will learn how […]
Date: June 19 2025 Description: This online workshop will support researchers with uploading data files of all types and examples of documentation and metadata for submission to an institutional collection (hosted in Borealis). Participants will learn more about direct integrations for dropbox, handling .zips, geospatial file support, creating documentation and metadata, linking to code and publications, […]
Date: June 19 2025 Description: This online workshop will demonstrate to researchers how-to search, filter by variables, topics, and themes, as well as exploring and analyzing data using these repository platforms. Highlights of collections including historical census data and geographic boundary data as well as open historical topographic maps and data for reuse. Participants will be […]
Date: June 19 2025 Description: Metadata is as metadata does. As researchers and institutions embrace digital research infrastructures (DRIs) and digital tools for conducting research, researchers need a better and deeper practical understanding of metadata in these new digital contexts. Usually defined as essentially being data about data, metadata provides additional information or context about an […]
Date: June 26 2025 This intermediate-level workshop is meant to extend basic knowledge of QGIS by exploring common plugins. Familiarity of the QGIS is therefore a prerequisite. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to use plugins to Familiarity with GIS is prerequisite for this workshop. This workshop is taught by a […]
Date: June 27th 2025 Location: UBC Digital Scholarship Lab, Koerner Library, 4th floor Recommended Reading Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Quinn Dombrowski, and Roopika Risam. “DSC #5: The DSC and the Impossible TEI Quandaries.” The Data-Sitters Club. June 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.25740/wq850xt2646. This session will offer an introduction to critical digital editing in TEI. In particular, this session will […]
Date: June 30 2025 This practical workshop, delivered by the delivered by the UBC Library Research Data Management team, introduces strategies for consistent and meaningful file naming to support better research organization, collaboration, and long-term data reuse. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and staff, this session helps participants avoid common pitfalls and adopt best practices in […]