Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2025

30 June - 3 July 2025

About

Welcome to the repository of the DH & RSE Summer School 2025. Here you will find all materials relating to the Summer School held at King's College London.

The Summer School is a partnership between King's Digital Lab (King's College London), Cambridge Digital Humanities (University of Cambridge) and Centre for Data, Culture & Society (University of Edinburgh), in collaboration with Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities (DISKAH) project. This year King's Digital Lab is hosting the event in London.

Partner institution leads: Mary Chester-Kadwell, Neil Jakeman, Jonathan Blaney, Lucia Michelin

Work in progress: This repository is under construction and details will continue to be added during the event.

Programme

This a general overview of the agenda. More information about each day is available in each day's specific folder.

Day 1: 30 June 2025 - King's Digital Lab

Software Development Life Cycle

Talks

• Introduction to RSE in Digital Humanities
• Community and capacity building around RSE in A&H
• Introduction to the Software Development Lifecycle
• Case studies of Digital Humanities projects

Workshop

• Software Development Life Cycle planning scenario – requirements elicitation

Day 2: 1 July 2025 - Cambridge Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities at the Command Line

Talks

• Humanities RSE work at Cambridge
• The command line: principles and best practice

Workshops

• Command line group challenge: Building a complex pipeline
• Distant reading with the command line and Python

Day 3: 2 July 2025 - King's College London e-Research

High Performance Computing for Digital Humanities

Talks

• Case studies using HPC in Digital Humanities Research
• Principles of High Performance Computing for digital humanists

Workshop

• Introduction to High Performance Computing with CREATE HPC

Day 4: 3 July 2025 - Centre for Data, Culture & Society

Responsible Digital Research

Talks

• Welcome and introduction to the work of the Centre for Data, Culture & Society and the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition
• Responsible Data Collection
• Estimating carbon emissions from high performance computing
• Minimal Computing for Digital Research and Publishing

Workshops

• Greening the Software Life Cycle
• Greening your Python Code
• Digital Sustainability Cards Game