Courses in the winter semester 2023/24

Recommended courses of the departments

The courses are usually held in German. Subject-specific knowledge is required for some courses, please inform yourself individually. We recommend contacting the respective lecturers, as there may be limited numbers of participants, too. If you know of other courses at the University of Münster in which aspects of Digital Humanities are applied or taught and would like to participate in the certificate, please let us know.

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CIT courses

The CIT courses are usually held in German.

Workshops of the Service Center for Digital Humanities Münster

The workshops of the SCDH are usually held in German.

Semantic web and data modelling
7 March 2024, 2-6 p.m. (s.t.) and 8 March 2024, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (s.t.)
(Dr Immanuel Normann, Dr Benjamin Weber, Katharina Dietz)

Computer-aided analysis methods usually require data in a structured form. Typically, raw source data is first converted into a suitable target structure that is appropriate for the research question and can be processed by the computer. The design of target structures in so-called data models is therefore elementary for the success of such analyses.

This introduction is intended to provide the basics of data modelling with a view to applications in the humanities, cultural and social sciences. Using exemplary material from these fields, techniques and tools for this purpose will be presented, the application of which can then be tested in practical exercises.

The workshop is open to all humanities researchers at the University of Münster and students on the Digital Humanities certificate. The number of participants is limited to 20. Participants should bring laptops connected to the WIFI. It is planned to hold the workshop in presence. Please register by 29.02.2024 at scdh@uni-muenster.de.


Introduction to TEI
21 March 2024, 2-6 p.m. (s.t.) and 22 March 2024, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (s.t.)
(Dr Benjamin Weber, Dr Christian Lück)

The markup language of the same name, developed by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) since 1987, is the de facto standard for the representation and processing of texts in digital form.
TEI is therefore one of the most important technologies used in digital corpus and edition projects in the humanities (see, for example, the German Text Archive (DTA) or Online.Swift at the University of Münster).
In this introduction, the essential handling of the TEI guidelines and the underlying X-technologies (XML, X-Path and XSLT) will be taught using practical examples and encouraged to continue working independently.  

The workshop is open to all humanities researchers at the University of Münster and students of the Digital Humanities certificate. The number of participants is limited to 20. Participants should bring laptops connected to the WIFI. It is planned to hold the workshop in presence. Please register by 14.03.2024 at scdh@uni-muenster.de.