070343 UE Course on Methodology - Introduction to DH Tools and Methods (Skills I) (2025S)

The aim of this course is to familiarise students with methods and principles of collecting, creating and formatting digital data for the use of digital humanities research. In this practice-based class, students will gain hands-on expierence with methods to collect data from the internet (webscraping), data annotation and OCR. Along the way we will discuss empirical and theoretical frameworks of data mining and data processing.

Students will acquire the necessary knowledge through hands-on work over the course of the semester, working in small teams to develop methods to collect data for a project of their own choice. They will present requirements, planned solutions, and finally an implementation of their data for a final project, which will also be documented in writing.

While no programming knowledge is required, it is advised for students to have prior knowledge of Python and a basic understanding of data structures.