Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024

02-05 July 2024

Welcome to the repository of the DH RSE Summer School 2024. Here you will find all materials relating to the Summer School held in Edinburgh, UK.

Day to day programme information can be found here. The programme information will cover the different presentations that will be given.

The Summer School is a partnership between Cambridge Digital Humanities, The Alan Turing Institute, King's Digital Lab and Centre for Data, Culture & Society (University of Edinburgh). This year the Centre for Data, Culture & Society is hosting the Summer School in Edinburgh.

Partner institution leads: Mary Chester-Kadwell, Federico Nanni, Neil Jakeman, Lucia Michelin Jonathan Blaney

Schedule

This a general overview of the schedule. All times are in UTC+1 (BST). More information about each day is available in each day's specific folder

Day 1 July 2nd - Centre for Data, Culture & Society

Talks

• Project Deep Dive - Coding my way out of a box: Achieving emancipation and collaboration through the Digital Humanities
• DH&RSE at Edinburgh - What it means to work as an RSE in the Humanities and Social Sciences College at the University of Edinburgh.

Workshops

• Data Visualisation with R
• Custom data visualisation with D3

Day 2 July 3rd - Cambridge Digital Humanities

Talks

• Introduction & Society for Research Software Engineering talk
• Encouraging Sustainability in Digital Humanities Projects
• Bridging the Gap between Philology of Middle Eastern Texts and Data Science
• Careers Panel
• Introduction to Best Practices for Sustainable Code
• Evaluating GitHub Repositories

Workshops

• Applying Best Practices for Sustainable Code

Day 3 July 4th - King's Digital Lab

Talks

• Introduction & Software Sustainability Institute talk
• Digital creative approaches for research and engagement
• Creative Technologist role in impact and engagement
• Creation and Data types in 3D

Workshops

• Constructing an Immersive experience from a research scenario

Day 4 July 5th - The Alan Turing Institute

Talks

• Introduction & RSE in the Arts and Humanities Community Interest Group talk
• Research Software Engineering in the Arts and Humanities: a community-driven approach
• DH & RSE practices -MapReader, open-source software library for analysing large map collections
• The Seshat Project
• Living with Machines

Workshops

• Collaborative Coding

This repository is under construction and will have more details added closer to the event.