Join us in person Monday, May 5th to Thursday, May 8th 2025, at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia for DHSI-East.
Hosted by St. Francis Xavier University's Digital Humanities Centre. Faculty, staff, students, and all interested welcome.
For the first time ever, we will be offering concurrent workshops and an Aligned Event!
Choose one of two concurrent workshop options:
- Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects
- Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data
Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data
Instructor:
Dr. Jon Bath, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, University of Saskatchewan
Max Participants: 12
This course will introduce the use of relational databases for the analysis of humanities data. We will begin by examining why a database might be an appropriate tool for your project and then move on to how to model, or structure, your data in a database. Finally we will learn how to query, or ask questions, of your data set. Throughout this process we will be using MySQL, a free, open-source relational database tool, and learning the basics of Structured Query Language (SQL). No previous experience with databases or programming is required, and you should feel free to bring your own data in whatever form it currently is.
