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    • Session 1
    • Session 2
    • Session 3
    • Session 4
    • Session 5
    • Session 6
    • Session 7
    • Session 8
    • Session 9
    • Session 10
    • Session 11
    • Session 12
    • Session 13
    • Session 14
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Published

2 September 2026

Modified

2 September 2026

Teaching team

Both courses are co-taught by three convenors. Session pages and the programme tables carry a coloured badge showing who leads which session.

Hodel Tobias Hodel Spadini Elena Spadini Beretta Francesco Beretta Hart Stephen Hart Demleitner Adrian Demleitner Prada Ziegler Ismail Prada Ziegler Course team all three convenors

Convenors

Hodel Prof. Dr. Tobias Hodel

Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Bern, Walter Benjamin Kolleg. ORCID: 0000-0002-2071-6407

Contact: tobias.hodel@unibe.ch

Spadini Prof. Dr. Elena Spadini

ORCID: 0000-0002-4522-2833

Leads Session 7 in both courses: Data modelling: editions, and the TEI lab that goes with it.

Beretta Prof. Dr. Francesco Beretta

ORCID: 0000-0002-4389-4126

Leads Session 4 in both courses (Data structures and the SQLite lab) and Session 5 in the Intro (Data modelling: Linked Open Data).

Guest sessions in the Lab

Lab session Topic Taught by
2 Get to know your computer Demleitner Adrian Demleitner (ORCID), possibly with further colleagues
5 From LOD to RiC-O, LRM and CIDOC-CRM Hart Stephen Hart (ORCID)
10 Data cleaning and connecting: OpenRefine Demleitner Adrian Demleitner (ORCID)
12 GenAI in action: multimodal LLMs Prada Ziegler Ismail Prada Ziegler (ORCID)

About this website

This site is the syllabus for Introduction to Digital Humanities. It is built with Quarto, kept in a public Git repository and published automatically with GitHub Pages — the same workflow you learn in Session 6 and use for your own assignment. If you want to see how a page here is made, use the Edit this page link in the right-hand margin.

Corrections, dead links and suggestions are welcome as issues or pull requests.

Course materials

Readings, scans and any material that cannot be published openly are in the ILIAS course space, accessible to enrolled students.

Licence

Text and teaching materials on this site are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 unless stated otherwise; the site’s code is licensed AGPL-3.0. Third-party material — readings in particular — remains under its own licence.

Related courses and sites

  • DH Lab — the hands-on companion course, same Tuesdays
  • Decoding Inequality — colloquium on machine learning and social inequality
  • Digital Humanities Bern — the department site: projects, services, events

Imprint

University of Bern
Walter Benjamin Kolleg / Digital Humanities
Muesmattstrasse 45
3012 Bern

digitalhumanities@unibe.ch

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