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May and June have been busy months for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Scientists around the world.

Wow! It’s been six months since ESCALATOR officially started and it’s time to reflect on what’s been done and where we’re going next.

About the event In April 2021 ESCALATOR hosted a virtual Computational Research and Open Science Community Mentorship Indaba. The aim of the event was to bring together mentorship programme developers to share knowledge and lessons learned.

Have you always wondered how to link up with researchers working in Digital Humanities or Computational Social Sciences in South Africa? In this post we introduce two new channels where you can meet peers for conversation and collaboration and learn about opportunities and resources…

In the first week of March ESCALATOR featured at Open Education Week 2021. During the short presentation Prof. Menno van Zaanen and Anelda van der Walt briefly introduced SADiLaR and their new capacity and community building programme.

Are you running an event related to digital or computational skills in Humanities or Social Sciences? We can help you advertise to the community.

One of the outputs that ESCALATOR aims to create, is an exhaustive list of stakeholders in South Africa offering training in the field of Digital Humanities or Computational Social Sciences. We invite you to tell us about your initiative!

The Digital Humanities Slack is a set of informal, connected chat rooms for the digital humanities, with over 50 “channels” (chat rooms) devoted to specific topics such as DH teaching, coding, and conferences.