A wide range of open resources and online courses are available to help researchers build digital skills. We want to highlight three particularly valuable platforms: DARIAH Teach, The Carpentries, and The Programming Historian. Each provides practical, well-structured learning materials that align closely with the needs and interests of researchers at MF. 

DARIAH Teach 

DARIAH Teach provides a growing collection of courses and teaching materials developed by the European research infrastructure for the arts and humanities. One example is the course: Digital Tools for the Research and Study of Ancient Writing Cultures. It introduces digital approaches for studying manuscripts, inscriptions, and other written artefacts, including methods for digitization, text encoding, and visual analysis. These themes resonate closely with the work of the MF Lab for Manuscript Studies and Digital Research, where we explore how computational tools can support the study of ancient texts and writing traditions.

 The Programming Historian 

Another excellent resource is The Programming Historian, a peer-reviewed open-access publication that offers tutorials on digital tools and methods for humanists and social scientists. The lessons cover a wide range of topics including text analysis, network visualization, web scraping, and geospatial analysis. 

The Carpentries 

The Carpentries is an international community that teaches foundational computing and data skills for researchers. Their open-access lessons include Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry, all designed to introduce essential tools and practices for working with data in research contexts. For scholars in religious and social studies, these lessons can be especially valuable. Topics such as data cleaning with OpenRefine, organizing and analyzing data with R or Python, or version control with Git help researchers manage and process both qualitative and quantitative data. These are the kinds of skills increasingly useful in projects involving survey data, text corpora, or metadata related to manuscripts and archival sources. 

In addition, the University of Oslo Library’s Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) regularly offers Carpentry workshops, where participants can receive guided, hands-on training in these methods. 

Learn More with L-MaSDR 

All three of these platforms provide freely available, high-quality resources for developing DH skills at all levels. We encourage researchers and students at MF to explore them, and to contact L-MaSDR if you are interested in applying digital tools or methods in your own research. Our lab is here to support you in getting started with Digital Humanities. 

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