CDCS Becomes an Institutional Partner of the Programming Historian

The Centre for Data, Culture and Society is delighted to have joined the Programming Historian Institutional Partner Programme. Following a successful collaboration to provide training earlier this year, becoming an Institutional Partner enables CDCS to support the growth, development, and sustainability of the Programming Historian project, helping ensure that it remains an open and accessible community resource.  

The Programming Historian is a highly-regarded not-for-profit project that publishes novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. Lessons are made available online for researchers to use, to teach themselves new technical skills or to understand how humanists are using new digital tools, methods, and research processes (more about The Programming Historian). 

In May, the Centre for Data, Culture & Society collaborated with Dr Adam Crymble of the Programming Historian to provide a series of curated online workshops to University of Edinburgh colleagues and researchers throughout May 2020. Each workshop was designed to support the exploration of computational methods and best practice, and to gauge the potential of digital methods for participants’ research projects.  We look forward to sharing more of the Programming Historian’s lessons and resources with our research community, and to exploring ways in which we can develop such collaborative engagements further.