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Developing Methods, Projects, and Digital Humanities

The Digital Scholarship team collaborates with colleagues in the library and across campus to create new scholarly methods and in Digital Humanities.

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Workshops

Digital Research Skills Workshop Series - Coming Back in Fall 2019!

This series includes:

  • Introduction to Command Line for Digital Research Projects
  • Introduction to Git and Github for Humanities and Social Science Research Projects
  • Topic Modeling with Lexis Nexis Data
  • Introduction to ArcGIS
  • Prepping for your Summer Research Project

The libraries also provide a number of workshops available as a calendar here.

We will also gladly offer on-demand workshops for Text Mining, Mapping, Digital Exhibits, and many other topics. Workshops we are offering or have offered in the past include:

Text Analysis

Workshops in this series will introduce participants to computational text analysis. These tools can help researchers discover new patterns of language use and thought, to visualize changes in those patterns over time and across spatial boundaries.

Digital Exhibits and Web Design

These workshops will demonstrate a variety of tools and methods for sharing your research and content on the web.

Mapping

Our mapping workshops cover topics ranging from analysis with ArcGIS to Mapping your Data.

Data Management

These workshops explore methods for obtaining, preserving and working with your data.

General

Want to learn more about what we do? Check out these workshops that discuss all that the digital scholarship team has to offer.

Guides

In addition to workshops, Penn Libraries maintains a range of guides to help you get started with digital tools. 

 

Create

Use New Methods

As new research methods emerge, and new tools are developed for their use, the DS team works with faculty, students and our colleagues in the library and elsewhere to

Start A New Project

We can support your use of many tools and platforms for digital projects, including Omeka and Scalar. In cooperation with the Price Lab, the DS team also assists the development of new teaching and research projects in Digital Humanities.

Consultations

Don't see what you're looking for here? You can request a consultation here:

Intern with Us!

 

Become a member of the Digital Scholarship team! DS interns will work together with Digital Scholarship staff to build digital projects requested by Penn faculty, students, and researchers. Past projects include Python/Django web applications and databases for faculty research projects, custom PHP templates, plugins, and themes for Content Management Systems such as Omeka and Scalar, and web-mapping projects. Check out our projects page to learn more about what we do.

All interns receive training in command line, Git, and the languages necessary to complete their projects!

Students of any program and background are encouraged to apply! We do not require a CS background, but we do require an interest in learning!

Digital Scholarship Summer Internship

The DS Summer Internship allows students to train and work in a team environment. Students work for 35 hrs/week, Mon-Fri on large scale development and design projects. Hiring for these positions begins in April. To apply, email Sasha Renninger or Scott Enderle.​

Digital Scholarship Academic Year Internship & Workstudy Positions

The DS Academic Year Internship allows students to work directly with a DS team staff member to support course-integrated projects and long-term design and development. Students work on average 8-10 hrs/wk with a maximum of 20 hrs/week. Scheduling is flexible, but must overlap with the assigned staff member. Hiring for these positions begins in August and December. To apply, email Sasha Renninger or Scott Enderle.​

Contact Us

Scott Enderle​
Digital Humanities Specialist
enderlej@upenn.edu​

Specializations: statistical text analysis, machine learning, data visualization
Contact me about: using new technologies and large collections of data for humanities research and teaching