Description This class provides students with hands on experience with games and their uses in the humanities classroom. The focus of our course is to learn how games are structured, how they function and how they can become an integral part of a humanities curriculum. Participants will learn to use Twine and incorporate game narratives […]
Description This course will focus on the processes and methods of digital humanities and how they intersect with librarianship practice. We will start by considering big picture questions: how have librarians approached “doing DH” and “supporting DH” in libraries, what has the practice of DH librarianship been, and what could the future of DH in […]
Description Ivan Illich wrote of the alphabet and the printing press that they are “almost ideally convivial” because “anybody can learn to use them, and for own purpose. They use cheap materials. People can take them or leave them as they wish. They are not easily controlled by third parties” (Illich, Tools for Conviviality, 1973). […]
Description This course introduces participants to AVAnnotate, an open-source digital humanities tool for creating annotated audiovisual exhibits. Through hands-on exercises with sample media, participants will learn how to set up projects, create annotations for accessibility and research, and explore case studies in teaching and scholarship. By the end of the week, participants will have built […]
Description The course will be an introduction to automatic text recognition technologies, focusing on the example of Kraken and eScriptorium but including an overview of other existing solutions. At the end of the course, participants will have a better understanding of machine learning through the example of automatic text recognition, will have first-hand experience using […]
Description Agile project management is about negotiating the completion of a project from beginning to end while remaining flexible. Being patient and delaying decisions until you have to make them, gathering as much information as you can in the meantime, and then taking action with the information you have, always keeping alternatives in mind in […]
Description Data sets with rich underlying temporal dynamics are ubiquitous across the Humanities. A non-exhaustive list includes oral history interviews, medieval chronicles, news streams, diaries, as well as biographies. Even songs, poems, and novels can be approached as temporal data. Time series analysis is a branch of modern data science aiming to investigate temporal dynamics; […]
Description Ce cours propose un aperçu des méthodes numériques appliquées aux études littéraires. Il s’adresse aux débutant·e·s intéressé·e·s par le potentiel du numérique dans leurs recherches et souhaitant découvrir une diversité de techniques. Nous explorerons des exemples novateurs de recherches en études littéraires, en abordant les méthodes et la gestion des données qui les rendent […]
This 6-hour workshop will teach participants how to create and host static websites using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. Static websites have many benefits, including low cost, faster rendering, easier backup and preservation, and far fewer security issues in comparison to popular dynamic platforms. Learners will be guided through writing formatted content with Markdown, configuring GitHub […]
Date: 25 June 2026 @ 11:00 – 13:00, Pacific Daylight Time Instructor: Abi Muthukumar We will introduce Voyant, a free suite of visual tools for text analysis. Participants will get hands on experience applying common tools within Voyant to a corpus. No prior experience with text analysis is required. This workshop is part of the Digital Humanities workshop […]
Learn how to create your own podcast in this introductory and interactive workshop. This workshop will cover all levels of podcast production including content creation, recording, editing, and promotion. No previous podcasting experience is necessary. This workshop will also cover the basics of Audacity, a free sound editing software. Audacity can be used for many […]
15 July 2026 @ 11:00 – 12:30, Pacific Daylight Time This workshop is a brief introduction to the Digital Storytelling tool, Twine. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to: This workshop is part of the Digital Humanities workshop series presented by the UBC Library Research Commons.