Course website for the DH Lab, the hands-on companion to Introduction to Digital Humanities at the University of Bern (Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities).
Co-taught by Tobias Hodel, Elena Spadini and Francesco Beretta, with guest sessions by Stephen Hart, Adrian Demleitner and Ismail Prada Ziegler.
🌐 https://dhbern.github.io/dh-lab/
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2026 (HS 2026) |
| Time | Tuesdays, 14:00–17:15 (sharp) |
| Room | Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, F-123 |
| First / last session | 15 September 2026 / 15 December 2026 |
| Companion course | Introduction to DH (repo) |
| Course materials | ILIAS |
The Lab is where the practical part of the MA Major and MA Minor in Digital Humanities happens: command line, Git, SQLite, ontologies, APIs, TEI, Omeka, notebooks, OpenRefine, eScriptorium and multimodal LLMs — plus the programme's introductions, consultations and final-year presentations.
contents/
home.qmd what the Lab is, organisation, joint weekly programme
syllabus.qmd all 14 sessions
sessions/NN.qmd one page per session
assignment.qmd workflow assignment (presentation + write-up)
resources.qmd toolbox
blog.qmd student workflow write-ups
posts/ student contributions
about.qmd teaching team, licence, related sites
bibliography.bib readings (currently a placeholder)
Requires Quarto.
quarto preview # live preview
quarto render # build to _site/
npm install # dev tooling (prettier, husky, commitizen)
npm run format # format sourcesPushing to main triggers .github/workflows/quarto-publish.yml, which lints, renders,
optimises, checks for dead links and deploys to GitHub Pages.
Corrections and better tools are welcome — open an issue or a pull request. See CONTRIBUTING.md and the Code of Conduct.
- Text and teaching materials: CC BY-SA 4.0
- Code: AGPL-3.0