Events

Led by: Markus Wust Have you ever looked at the wide variety of courses offered at DHSI and wondered what all those technical terms mean? Or had problems deciding on which technologies might be best suited for your work or most interesting to pursue further? This course is meant to provide a broad overview of […]

Led by: Marie-Hélène Burle and Tannia Chevez This course is intended for humanities-based researchers with no programming background whatsoever who would like to understand how programs work behind the scenes by writing some simple but useful programs of their own. Over the week the emphasis will be on understanding how computer programmers think so that […]

Led by: Dorothy Kim and Jordan Clapper Over the past five years we have seen a proliferation of academic job advertisements, publications, and discussions demonstrating ways in which race and social justice can be engaged in digital humanities scholarship. Interest by students and local communities in technological advancements through Web 2.0, social media, and mobile […]

Led by: Denna Iammarino and Kristine Kelly A longstanding relationship exists between the digital humanities and writing studies asevidenced by journals like Kairos and Computers and Composition Online; however, inpractice, the multi-faceted and mutually influential relationship between digitaltechnology, rhetorical theory, and interdisciplinary writing practices tends to beunderestimated. By centrally orienting this relationship, our course will […]

Led by: Sean Smith and Jeffrey Lawler 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 […]

Led by: Dan Tracy and Mary Borgo Ton This course will focus on strategies for designing, building, and publishing long-form scholarship in fully digital formats. As we consider commonly-used platforms like Pressbooks, Omeka, and Scalar, we will discuss flexible writing workflows and best practices for developing a multimodal expressions of your research, regardless of medium. […]

Led by: Chris Tănăsescu The course offers an effective hands-on intro to natural language processing (NLP), text and media analysis, and text and/or media corpus network visualization and analysis. It will harness the power and amplitude of large language models (LLMs) alongside other computing resources in analyzing both single/discrete datums and big data, be they […]

Teaching and ExhibitsOlivia Wikle, Evan Williamson, Devin Becker This course introduces fundamental web and DH skills using CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for building digital collection and exhibit websites driven by metadata and hosted on a lightweight infrastructure. The high cost and IT requirements of digital collection platforms are often a barrier to creating new […]

Led by: James Smith 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 […]

Led by: John Russell and Rachel Hogan 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 […]

Led by: Shu Wan This course introduces the basic knowledge of social network analysis (SNA) to digital humanities scholars, especially historians. The course will consist of three parts. The first introduces the theory and terminology of SNA, centrality, its measurements, and other key SNA categories such as groups/subgroups, ego networks, and two-Mode networks. The second […]

Led by: Juilee Decker and David Messinger In the past, scholars applied lemon juice and a heat source when uncovering hidden features of historical documents (think: “National Treasure”). We now know that this method damaged artifacts unnecessarily. Interest in this field has led to newer, safer practices involving cameras, sensors, and LED panels. A low-cost, […]

Led by: William J. Turkel This course is a hands-on introduction to using LLM technology (large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini) to assist with the practice of writing nonfiction. Popular discussions of this technology have focused on the unconstrained models’ tendencies to hallucinate, their inability to cite or return verifiable sources of information, and […]

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 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 […]