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Collaboration

We have an expanding network of partners. This year has seen us deepen our relationships with other skills-focused organisations such as the Programming Historian and the Scottish Graduate Schools, co-develop a Community Interest Group for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association, and contribute to a range of externally organised events. We've also worked closely with other teams within the University of Edinburgh, hosting an internship with Library and University Collections and ensuring we collaborate to provide seamless support for data-led and digital research.

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new community interest group

The Digital Humanities Climate Coalition, which CDCS helped to establish, has been announced as one of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association’s Community Interest Groups. Co-led by CDCS Director Lisa Otty, the DHCC Community Interest Group will hold workshops, events and a discussion forum to explore the environmental aspects of DH research practice. Through these community-led conversations the CIG will identify appropriate activities and support short term working groups to expand our toolkit and develop complementary materials, raise awareness of the need for climate conscious digital research practices, and build up a knowledge base of relevant resources for the Association’s wider membership.

CDCS/CHDS OCR internship

We were delighted to jointly host an internship with the University's Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service this summer. Intern Ash Charlton focused on exploring the current state of Optical Character Recognition and spent time looking at how OCR has advanced and been impacted by machine learning, writing a report for the CHDS team and developing a workshop on OCR for CDCS.

The programming historian

We are proud partners of the Programming Historian project, which makes peer-reviewed self-guided digital humanities tutorials available online. This year we were pleased to have our Training Manager, Lucia Michielin, contribute to UCLDH's online roundtable discussion: 'Where' Affects 'How' We Teach which focused on how digital humanities can be taught through the use of Programming Historian in different global contexts.

Skills and Training Collaborations

DH RSE Summer School

Along with Cambridge Digital Humanities, Kings Digital Lab, and Turing Institute, CDCS co-organised the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School, featuring a combination of online talks and in-person workshops hosted by Cambridge Digital Humanities. The content focused on the roles and practices of the Research Software Engineer in Digital Humanities and we contributed sessions on rapid prototyping, high-performance computing, and teaching computational methods.

Design for sustainable socio-economic models: Decode Winter School

CDCS training fellows designed and delivered 3 masterclasses for the Decode winter school, focused on finding patterns across data, data science in the wild, and network analysis with Gephi. The modules complimented a broader programme of advanced training modules that revised and extended data-driven notions of optimisation and efficiency and provided participatory methods to support the use of designed artefacts for data-driven value capture and co-creation.

SSI Collaboration Workshop

Our training manager collaborated with researchers from across the UK to deliver a workshop on good teaching practices during the Collaboration Workshop 2023. The "Carpentries Superstars: How to Make the Best of Your Teaching Experience helped Carpentries instructors who have not had many opportunities to gain teaching experience to build confidence, give/obtain feedback and understand how they might want to develop and expand their teaching skills.

Techne': digitalisation and interdisciplinary research in social science

We delivered a presentation on teaching and learning digital methods and skills for cultural heritage at a workshop run by the Techne’ collaborative doctoral training consortium.

SGSAH PhD workshop: using data in legal research

We contributed to a workshop organised by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities, exploring the broad issues arising from engaging in data-based research in the context of legal scholarship. We gave an overview of the types of tools, software and databases that are available for doing data analysis and the practicalities of embedding them in research.

Edinburgh and UK Carpentries

CDCS continues its ongoing collaboration with the Carpentries and its Edinburgh branch. Our centre Director sits on the steering committee of Edinburgh Carpentries and our Training Manager sits on the organising committee and collaborates on the monthly UK community call.