The Centre for Digital Scholarship Collaborates with The Carpentries for Innovative Trainings

Recognising that there is a growing need among researchers, teachers, and students to develop data science skills, the CDS has begun to collaborate with the international Carpentries community on the organisation of interactive workshops about coding literacy and computational thinking.

Peter Verhaar • February 24, 2023

Hackathons – not only for techies

The Leiden University Data Management Network enjoyed a safari tour around the data hackathons that have recently either taken place at Leiden, or involved people from Leiden. After clarifying what hackathons really are, and how everyone benefits, we brainstormed some ideas for future hackathons.

Joanne Yeomans and Kristina Hettne • March 22, 2022

Digital Skills and Thinking for the Humanities

The first “Teach the Teachers workshop in Digital Skills and Thinking for the Humanities” was successfully delivered in January 2021. The workshop was a collaboration between the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities and Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship.

Peter Verhaar • March 31, 2021

Delivering data management training at Leiden

How is data management training delivered across the university? What can we share and learn from each other? And how can we make the most of what’s available? The Data Management Network met to learn about and discuss these topics.

Joanne Yeomans • November 09, 2020

Learn about data management concepts in this online Data Horror Escape Room

Our new digital escape room introduces some basic data management concepts and offers a fun way to educate and to prompt discussions with researchers.

Joanne Yeomans and Guest author • October 30, 2020

Delivering data management training remotely

The Centre for Digital Scholarship normally delivers training in face-to-face sessions on campus but in April we delivered our first remote training session and addressed some of the new challenges that researchers face whilst working from home.

Joanne Yeomans and Fieke Schoots • May 07, 2020

Introduction to Python: (programming) lessons learnt

The second Python programming course from CDS has again become fully booked. The course covers the basics of Python in a supported hands-on environment. Ben explains what's covered in this popular course and how to find out about future courses.

Ben Companjen • February 25, 2020

Best Practices: file names and folder structures

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Rutger de Jong • June 03, 2016

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