An overview of all units, research hubs, resources, and training related to digital scholarship at UBC. Also includes a glossary of DS terms. This archive is set up as an Obsidian knowledge base, but can be accessed as individual Markdown pages.

Home

• [[DiSA (Digital Scholarship in the Arts)]] (website)

UBC Sites

Key Partners

• [[PHH (Public Humanities Hub)]] (website)
• [[Research Commons (UBC Library)]] (website)
• VPRI (Vice President for Research & Innovation) (website)

Service & Support

• [[Applied Statistics and Data Science Group]] (website)
• [[ARC (Advanced Research Computing)]] (website)
• [[Arts ISIT (Arts Instructional Support and Information Technology)]] (website)
• [[CTLT (Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology)]] (website)
• [[CIC (Cloud Innovation Centre)]] (website)
• [[DXL (Digital Experience Lab)]] (website)
• [[Digitization Centre (UBC Library)]] (website)
• [[EML (Emerging Media Lab)]] (website)
• [[LDDI (Learning Design & Digital Innovation)]] (Faculty of Education) (website)
• [[LT Hub (Learning Technology Hub)]] (website)
• [[Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office]] (website)
• [[UBC IT (Information Technology)]] (website)
• [[UBC Studios]] (website)

Research Hubs

• CAIDA (Centre for AI Decision-making and Action) (website)
• CIDER (Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research) (website)
• CCSS (Centre for Computational Social Science) (website)
• CSDI (Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions) (website)
• [[LTIC (Learning Technology Innovation Centre)]] (website)
• NLP (Natural Language Processing Group at UBC) (website)
• UBC Digital Multimedia Lab (website)

Collaborative Projects

• ATN (Adaptive TEI Network) (website)
• Indigitization (website)
• UBC AI and Health Network (website)

Digital Scholarship Projects

• DRH (Database of Religious History) (website)

Data Storage & Repositories

• [[cIRcle]] (website)
• UBC Dataverse Collection at Borealis (website)
• Open Collections (UBC Library) (website)

Teaching & Learning Resources

Artificial Intelligence

• A.I. In Teaching and Learning (CTLT & LTIC) (website)
• Artificial Intelligence and Teaching in the Faculty of Medicine (website)
• Generative A.I. at UBC (website)
• GenAI tools in teaching and learning (Academic Integrity) (website)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• UBC Geospatial Resources (website)

Open Scholarship

• Open UBC (website)
• POSE (Program for Open Scholarship and Education) (website)

Open Software & Tools

• Open Software (website)

Quantitative Data Analysis

• Quantitative Data Analysis, Faculty of Education, Canvas Course Module (website)

Quantitative Textual Analysis

• Introduction to Text Analysis from Voyant to NLTK (website)
• Quantitative Textual Analysis Resources (HECC/CERC) (website)
• tweetr (R package for text analysis and sentiment analysis on tweets) (website)

Research Data Management

• Research Data Management (UBC Library) (website)

Text and Data Mining (TDM)

• Text and Data Mining (TDM) (UBC Library Guide) (website)

Relevant Courses

Most of these courses require departmental permission, have additional prerequisites, or are limited to only students within that department or degree.

Undergraduate Courses

• FNEL 380 - Technologies for Endangered Language Documentation and Revitalization
• INFO 300 - Information and Data Design
• EPSE 482 - Introduction to Statistics for Research in Education

Graduate Courses

• CPSC 532 - Topics in Artificial Intelligence
• CPSC 534 - Topics in Data Management
• EPSE 592 - Experimental Designs and Analysis in Educational Research
• EPSE 594 - Meta-Analysis: Quantitative Research Synthesis
• LAIS 609A - Interactive Information Retrieval
• LAIS 609C - Data Analysis
• LIBR 515/ARST 575H - Information Visualization and Visual Analytics
• LIBR 554/ARST 554 - Database Design
• LIBR 555 - Information Design I: Systems
• LIBR 556 - Information Design II: Documents
• LIBR 559C - Python Programming
• LIBR 559N - Text Analytics
• LIBR 559S - Research Data Management for Information Professionals
• LIBR 559W - Human-Centred AI
• LIBR 561 - Information Policy
• LIBR 581/ARST 556M - Digital Libraries
• LIBR 582/ARST 556P - Digital Images & Text Collections
• STAT 545A - Exploratory Data Analysis I
• STAT 545B - Exploratory Data Analysis II

Workshops

Learning Technology Hub

• Virtual Drop-Ins
  • LT Hub Drop-Ins (Mon-Fri, 9:00am-4:30pm), one-one-help with pedagogy strategies, tool training, and troubleshooting technical issues
  • Qualtrics Studio (Variable days once a month), training on Qualtrics for surveys and research analysis of survey data
  • WordPress and Wiki Clinics (Thu 1:00pm-3:00pm), one-on-one support for WordPress and Wiki for teaching, learning, or administrative purposes. Specialists available.
• Self-Paced Course
  • Canvas 101 (Any day/time), self-paced course designed to provide overview of features and functionality. Highlights ways to leverage Canvas to design, deliver, and manage your course
  • Introduction to Teaching Online (Any day/time), learn to adapt your course to the online environment and prepare to teach online.
• Workshop
  • Generative AI Studios (Wed 1:00pm-2:00pm), 60-minute weekly sessions for faculty and staff considering the use of Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Facilitated by UBC technologists and pedagogy experts. Insights into what's new, tool-of-the-week demonstration, and open Q&A
  • Getting Start with Canvas/Kaltura/Zoom (Periodically held), technical and pedagogical workshops for Canvas, Kaltura, and Zoom. Workshops can be requested and scheduled.

Research Commons (UBC Library)

• Data Analysis & Visualization
  • AI for coding (beginner)
  • Beginner R Part 1
  • Beginner R Part 2
  • Data manipulation with dplyr
  • Data visualization with ggplot2
  • Designing dashboards with Tableau
  • Intro to data visualization with Tableau
  • Intro to R and RStudio (beginner)
  • Introduction to APIs
  • Intro to Python
  • Introduction to Python for Data Analysis (Beginner) (archived)
  • Introduction to tidyverse
  • Introduction to Web Scraping
  • Principles of Data Visualization
  • R showcase: Statistics Canada microdata
  • Using R Markdown (beginner)
  • Working with data in Excel
• Digital Scholarship
  • Building Exhibits with Omeka
  • Building Exhibits with Wax
  • Building Project Websites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
  • Creating Digital Exhibits: A Survey of Tools
  • Creating XML Files in oXygen
  • Editing Audio with Audacity
  • Intermediate Jekyll
  • Intro to Web Scraping with Python
  • Introduction to APIs
  • Introduction to Blockchain Research Skills
  • Introduction to Docker
  • Introduction to Git and GitHub
  • Introduction to Jekyll and GitHub Pages
  • Introduction to Large Language Models
  • Introduction to Machine Learning: Regression Models
  • Introduction to Markdown Digital Workflows
  • Introduction to Regular Expressions
  • Introduction to Text Analysis from Voyant to NLTK
  • Introduction to the Unix Shell
  • Introduction to Web Scraping
  • Metadata Basics: Describing Research Data
  • Network Analysis and Visualization using Gephi and Palladio
  • Research Workflows & Data Management for Digital Storytelling
  • Setting Up a Development Environment -
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping
  • Geocoding and Web Mapping with Python
  • Georeferencing Historical Maps
  • Geospatial Analysis and Visualization with Python
  • GIS with R
  • Introduction to Mapbox
  • Introduction to StoryMaps with ArcGIS Online
  • Introduction to Web Maps with Leaflet.js
  • Map Production in GIS with ArcGIS Pro
  • Map Production with QGIS
  • Network Analysis with QGIS
  • Plugins in QGIS
  • Telling Spatial Stories
  • Tools and Workflows in QGIS
  • Understanding Spatial Data: Map Projections
  • Visualizing Data in ArcGIS Online (archived)
• Research Data Management (RDM)
  • File Naming
  • File Formats
  • Creating a README file
  • Creating a Data Dictionary
  • Directories Structure
  • Introduction to Markdown for Research Data Management
  • Create a README with Markdown
  • Advanced Markdown
  • Metadata basics: describing research data
  • Deposit in UBC Dataverse Collection: Basic Deposit
  • Deposit in UBC Dataverse Collection: Advanced Deposit
  • Deposit in UBC Dataverse Collection: Admin Deposit
  • Deposit in UBC Dataverse Collection: Geomatics Deposit
  • Introduction to the OSF
  • Create a Data Management Plan
  • Create a Simplified Data Management Plan
  • License Research Data

• Citation Management
  • Choose the right Citation Management Tool for your Research (Beginner)
  • Citation Management using Zotero (Intermediate)
  • Citation Management using Mendeley (Intermediate)

Extended Learning

Courses

• Health Data Analysis and Machine Learning (website)
• Health Data and Visualization

Micro-Certificates

• Analytics for Leaders in Ocean Management (website)
• Health Data Analytics: Opportunities and Applications (website)

Certificates

• Key Capabilities in Data Science (website)

Degree Programs

• Master of Business Analytics (website)
• Master of Data Science (website)
• BSc in Food and Resource Economics (Data Analytics) (website)

Funding

• Learning Analytics Faculty Partnership Program (website)
• [[Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF)]]

External Sites

Partnerships

• The Alliance (Digital Research Alliance of Canada) (website)
• CDM (Centre for Digital Media) (website)

Data Repositories

• FRDR (The Federated Research Data Repository) (website)

Digital Humanities / Digital Scholarship

Certification

• cc:DH/HN (Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques) (website)

Conferences

• DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute) (website)

Education / Training

• Introduction to Digital Humanities (Harvard Online) (website)
• Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results (Harvard Online) (website)
• The Carpentries (lessons) (website)
• The Programming Historian (lessons) (website)