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(Do not) make it new: On Reusing Research Software and Tools in Digital Humanities Scholarship

At the Collaborations Workshop 21, Emily Bell and Anna-Maria Sichani discussed the issue of software reusability in digital humanities (DH) research. This blog post provides an overview of some of the underlying issues, as well as the conversation points, resources and avenues for future exploration that arose from the discussion.

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Software Sustainability training for Bioscience Postgraduate students

SSI Fellow Emma Rand discusses the analytics training programme she runs for PhD students, covering the rationale behind the course design, and the experience level and current tool preferences of participants.
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Teaching the Next Generation of Software Engineers

Find out how University of Manchester Research Software Engineers have been working with researchers from Computer Science to bring coding to the next generation.
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News

Carpentries Instructor Training by the SSI running from 15-18 June

The SSI is running The Carpentries Instructor Training online over four mornings from 15-18 June 2021. 
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Registration open for Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Registration is open for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS), running from 12 July - 15 July 2021.
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Registration open for Alan Turing Institute Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering summer school

Registration is now open for the Alan Turing Institute's Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering virtual summer school, running from 26 - 30 July 2021.

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Events

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Carpentries Instructor Training

The SSI is running The Carpentries Instructor Training online over four mornings from 15-18 June 2021. 

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"We are in a position to fundamentally reorganise the heart of the software. By doing so, this will enable us to maintain the software into the future and facilitate the process of adding new functionality to the software ... SSI can assist in having software usable by others not just for a few months or a year, but rather for a much longer software lifetime"

- Eric Rexstad, Distance