WORKSHOP — JULY 21, 2025, University of Tübingen:

“Tools and Tips for an Open DH Project or How to Make Our Research More Open, Visible, and Reusable”, given by Gimena del Río Riande, PhD (CONICET-USAL)

Funded by the Tübingen Research Takeoff program of the Baden-Württemberg Center for Brazil and Latin America, awarded to Dr. Adriana Rodríguez Alfonso (University of Tübingen) and Dr. Gimena del Río Riande (CONICET-USAL).

RAUM 226, WILHELMSTR. 50 (BRECHTBAU)
10:00–13:00 — Block 1: Building an Open Scholar Profile

Goal:
To become familiar with key platforms for making Digital Humanities research more visible and reusable in an open and reproducible way.

Contents:

Introduction: What Does It Mean to Do Open Research? What is open science and how does it apply to the humanities? Reproducibility, visibility, collaboration. ORCID: Creating a Persistent Academic Identity What is ORCID and why it matters. Setting up a profile, adding publications and affiliations. Zenodo: Archiving and Citation Creating an account and linking it to ORCID. Uploading datasets, presentations, or reports. Generating DOIs for unpublished materials. Git and GitHub: Version Control and Collaboration What Git is and how it works. Setting up a GitHub account, exploring example repositories. Understanding the difference between Git (local) and GitHub (remote). VSCode as a Work Environment Installing and configuring Visual Studio Code. Key extensions for Git, Markdown, CSV, etc.

Hands-on activities:

Connect accounts: Create ORCID, Zenodo, and GitHub accounts. Install VSCode and connect it to GitHub.

RAUM 3.08, NAUKLERSTR. 35 (BRALAT)
14:00–16:00 — Block 2: Working with Repositories and Research Data

Goal:
To gain basic autonomy in using Git and GitHub to clone, edit, document, and publish research data in an open workflow.

Contents:

Cloning a Repository in VSCode Using GitHub interface or terminal commands. Exploring the folder and file structure of a DH project. Editing and Versioning a File Modifying a README.md. Making commits and understanding change history. Pushing Changes to GitHub Uploading modifications from local to remote (documents, folders). Best Practices for Documentation Choosing a license.

Hands-on activities:

Clone an example repository. Edit a text file or dataset. Commit and push changes to GitHub. Upload and document a small dataset.

Wrap-Up (Last 10 minutes):

Recap of tools and workflows introduced. Resources for continued learning (tutorials, communities). Open Q&A or feedback session.

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments.
Funded as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments.