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Published

2 September 2026

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2 September 2026

Tools, standards and reference works used in the course, roughly in the order they come up. The DH Lab has its own, more hands-on list.

Zotero
tool
essential

Reference manager. You need an account from week 1. Install the browser connector and the word-processor plugin at the same time.

15 Sept 2026
DH UniBe Zotero group
tool
essential

Shared Zotero library of the Digital Humanities unit in Bern. Membership is by request — ask to be added and we will approve you.

15 Sept 2026
Programming Historian
tutorial

Peer-reviewed, beginner-friendly tutorials on digital methods, in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. The single most useful place to go after this course.

15 Sept 2026
Journal of Digital Humanities
journal

Open-access journal; source of the Weingart and Schöch texts on the syllabus.

15 Sept 2026
Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften (ZfdG)
journal

German-language open-access DH journal; source of the Sahle and Lang/Suárez Cronauer texts on the syllabus.

15 Sept 2026
swisscovery (UB Bern)
library

The library platform for anything on the syllabus that is not openly available and not in ILIAS.

15 Sept 2026
Digital Humanities at the University of Bern
bern

The department: people, projects, services and the MA programmes.

15 Sept 2026
DH Bern on GitHub
bern

Code, data and course sites from the Digital Humanities unit in Bern — including this one.

15 Sept 2026
GitHub
tool
essential

Version control and hosting. You need an account from week 2. Students and staff can apply for the free GitHub Education benefits.

22 Sept 2026
Git and GitHub — course guide
tutorial
essential

Our own standing reference: what Git is, three routes through it (browser only / push and pull / branches and forks), working with AI agents, how GitHub Pages works, and…

29 Sept 2026
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
standard

The fifteen-element metadata standard, plus the extended DCMI terms. Introduced in Session 4.

6 Oct 2026
METS — Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
standard

Library of Congress standard for the structural metadata of complex digital objects. Introduced in Session 4.

6 Oct 2026
Wikidata Query Service
tool

SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata, with a query builder and CSV export. Used in Session 5 to produce the dataset reused in Session 8.

13 Oct 2026
TEI Guidelines
standard

The Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines — the reference work for encoding texts in the humanities. Introduced in Session 7.

27 Oct 2026
Gephi Lite
tool

Network analysis and visualisation in the browser — no installation. Used in Session 8.

3 Nov 2026
Voyant Tools
tool

Web-based text analysis: word frequencies, trends, contexts, correlations. Used in Session 9.

10 Nov 2026
Palladio
tool

Map, network, gallery and table views over the same tabular dataset. From the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford. Used in Session 10.

17 Nov 2026
DARIAH Geo-Browser
tool

Georeferencing and animating tabular data over historical time. Used in Session 10.

17 Nov 2026
TLCMap
tool

Time Layered Cultural Map — a workbench that holds a spatial dataset and its visualisations together. Layer 2246 carries the data behind the Craig case study read for…

17 Nov 2026
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