About

Research innovation is increasingly being driven by techniques that require access to advanced computing and knowledge of software development. This dependency on computational infrastructures creates a competency gap between researchers’ that supply domain knowledge of data and engineers that develop software to process data. The NeIC competency development initiative CodeRefinery and our sister organization Software Carpentry target this gap by teaching good programming practice and software development for research. We aim to help researchers and students to get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them how to write better code and provide research groups with software development e-infrastructure tools to collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, and share their codes.

The workshop combines insights and teachings from CodeRefinery and Software Carpentry in order to raise awareness of both initiatives. We tailor the workshop to specific needs of the humanities. Researchers, students, educators, and librarians will all find the workshop relevant to their specific interests. The workshop focuses on hands-on experience and will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, and task automation. The core lessons of the workshop are the Software Carpentry’ Programming with Python and CodeRefinery’s Introduction to Version Control with Git.

About us

CodeRefinery is a project within the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) that offers training workshops to researchers from Nordic research groups and projects in using state-of-the-art tools and practices from modern collaborative software engineering. Our workshops focus on methods to build modular, reusable, maintainable, sustainable, reproducible, testable, and robust software.

Since 1998, Software Carpentry has been teaching researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain. Our volunteer instructors have run hundreds of events for over 22,000 researchers since 2012. All of our lesson materials are freely reusable under the Creative Commons - Attribution license.

Instructors

Annika Rockenberger, Annika(DOT)Rockenberger(AT)nb(DOT)no, , Ph.D., Research Librarian for Digital Humanities, The National Library of Norway. AR studied Literary Studies, History, and Communication Science in Berlin. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oslo for her work on analytic philosophy of textual scholarship. Since 2010 she has been active in the digital humanities communities in Germany, Norway, the Nordic Countries, and Europe. She currently works at the National Library of Norway.

Max Roald Eckardt, mrec(AT)sdu(DOT)dk, is a Research Software Engineer at the Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus (CHCAA). He has 12 years of experience with user-centred design for researchers in the humanities. With a background in Mechatronics Engineering and IT Product Design he implemented services and full-stack applications for micro-processors, mobile devices, and web applications. His passion lies with generative programming and social innovation. As instructor for codeRefinery.org and software-carpentry.org he is engaged with research and development of best practices for research software development and their dissemination.

Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, rdkm(AT)cc(DOT)au(DOT)dk, is a Research Assistant based at Aarhus University. His academic background is in English Language and Linguistics but he now works more broadly in computational humanities and cultural analytics. He has a strong interest in English historical linguistics, as well as cognitive and computational approaches to lexical semantics and textual analysis. Most recently, he has been involved in the Digital Literacy project at Aarhus, where he provides digital support for a number of research projects working with a diverse range of texts – from 17th-century English drama and Stephen King novels, through to Facebook groups and contemporary Danish church sermons.

Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo, kln(AT)cas(DOT)au(DOT)dk, is Carpentries instructor, CodeRefinery SG member, and associate professor of humanities computing at Aarhus University, where he runs Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus (CHCAA). KLN has specialized in applications of quantitative methods and computational tools in analysis, interpretation and storage of cultural data. He has participated in a range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects involving researchers from the humanities, social sciences, health science, and natural sciences. His research covers two areas of interest of which one is more recent (automated text analysis) and the other (modeling of cultural behavior) has followed him during his entire academic career. Both interests explore the cultural information space in new and innovative ways by combining cultural data and humanities theories with statistics, computer algorithms, and visualization.