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Research Guides

Digital Scholarship

This guide will provide a jumping off point for key digital scholarship concepts, as well as point to resources both on and off campus for your DS endeavors.

On-Campus Resources

Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC)

DISC provides a variety of support services for researchers, particularly through data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-enabled research. 

Digital Humanities Community of Practice

The Digital Humanities Community of Practice, a collaboration between DISC and the Arts & Humanities Forum, is a working group of faculty and staff dedicated to identifying new ways to support DH research and pedagogy. For more information, please email humanities.forum@ou.edu. 

Arts and Humanities Forum

The OU Arts and Humanities Forum supports and promotes innovative, interdisciplinary humanities research here on campus. 

Off-Campus Resources

The Programming Historian

The Programming Historian is a website with beginner-friendly tutorials that help humanists learn a variety of digital tools.

The Carpentries

The Carpentries are a global community teaching foundational computational and data science skills to researchers in academia, industry, and government. The lesson plans for the Carpentries' workshops and free and available to learn these concepts on your own time. There are currently three different "schools" of Carpentries curriculum, based on the kind of computational work the material helps with:

  • Software Carpentry
    • Software Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental programming skills needed to conduct research.
  • Data Carpentry
    • Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research, based on domain specificities.
  • Library Carpentry
    • Library Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the computational skills needed to efficiently handle and explore large volumes of information.

Learn more about OU's Carpentries infrastructure at the OU Library Software and Data Carpentry page.

Project Management for the Digital Humanities (PM4DH)

Project Management for the Digital Humanities is a site developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. This site is designed to help DH practitioners think through how to manage their project. Can be applicable to digital scholarship projects, more generally. 

The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook

This resource from Carnegie Mellon offers videos and a collection of resources to help folks that are new to the world of digital humanities.