This workshop introduces you to GitHub, a widely used platform for developing, managing and storing code and documentation. Today, GitHub is home to a growing number of research projects. Researchers and developers collaborate across institutional and national borders and share their code and software for data analysis alongside documentation, notes, and project reports.
Whether you are a research software engineer with years of practice, a researcher collaborating in an international project, a graduate student working on their thesis, or a specialist in the library, archive and museum sector: If you are creating code, texts, or databases, if you are collaborating, and if you want your work to be shared openly, this workshop is for you!
You will learn how to set up a profile on GitHub and create a repository and add files to it. You will learn about licenses and which ones apply best to your projects. You will learn about version control, working together in a shared folder, and managing and reviewing changes in files. You will learn how to collaborate online with colleagues - and strangers. You will learn how to create a simple website for your project.
You must bring a laptop, or a tablet with wifi enabled.
No! To get something out of this workshop, you don’t need to know any programming language or do any coding. We will work with text files only.
For the on-site workshop at the University of Oslo on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021, you can now register in the University Library’s registration system
| Time | Action |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Introduction |
| 10:20 | Getting Started |
| 11:30 | Short Break |
| 11:40 | Writing Together as a Team |
| 13:00 | Break |
| 13:30 | Collaborating With Others |
| 14:00 | Wrapping Up |
Annika Rockenberger, Ph.D.
Senior Academic Librarian for Digital Research Methods
GitHub user arockenberger