From February 12-16, 2024, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Alliance) and the Alliance Federation will offer an introductory digital research tools webinar series for humanities, arts, and social sciences researchers. These are introductory, beginner-level sessions. No prior experience or knowledge is required.

Tools available through the Alliance and Federation will be discussed, as well as some out-of-the-box tools available to Canadian researchers, and additional information and techniques relevant to digital research projects.

You may register for as many or as few of the sessions as you wish. Registration for English sessions is available here. 

Sessions at-a-glance:

• Keynote: Dr. John Simpson (ISED)
• Introduction to Canadian Certificate of Digital Humanities (cc:DH/HN)
• Canadian HSS Commons platform
• Introduction to GIS
• DMP Assistant
• Managing sensitive data in Canada
• Introduction to FRDR, Lunaris, Borealis, and Odesi platforms
• Stylo: semantic text editor
• TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
• Introduction to interactive coding notebook environments: Jupyter and Colab
• Introduction to Python
• Introduction to R
• Machine Learning 
• 3D Visualization

Most sessions are in both French and English. For further information, contact hss-series@gw.alliancecan.ca.