What I Do
I am a senior academic librarian and team leader for digital research methods in the Department for Research Support at the University of Oslo Library. My main task is to implement digital research methods and activities to support researchers, graduate students, and research staff at UiO. I also teach free-standing courses at the library and co-teach in master's and graduate programs at UiO.
From 2024 to 2026, I am leading the UiO skills hub BærUt! Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions.
My mission is to help people expand their digital literacy, independent of their background.
Research Support & Methods Partner
I head the digital research methods team. We support you throughout the life cycle of your research project and its dissemination. The digital research methods team supports project groups and individual researchers, from master's students to PhD and PostDoc researchers, and from junior to senior researchers.
We can advise you on data capture, creation, enrichment, analysis, interpretation, storage, and dissemination. As subject specialists with solid backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences, we can provide tailored support for your research projects.
Skills Hub for IT in Research – Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions
For 2024–2026, I lead the University of Oslo's skills and knowledge exchange hub BærUt! for sustainable digital scholarly editions. This hub aims to build a network of researchers, developers, and research support staff for digital scholarly editing, regardless of discipline, period, language, or institutional affiliation. Read more about the skills hub and how to join the network on the hub's website.
Teaching
I am a certified instructor and trainer of The Carpentries, an international non-profit organisation dedicated to teaching foundational programming and data handling skills. I also teach and tutor with materials from the Programming Historian and DARIAHteach. I completed the Program for Basic Competence in University Pedagogy at the University of Oslo in 2017/2018.
I will teach you how to:
- interact with your personal computer using the Unix Shell
- version control your code and writing with Git
- program with the widely used programming language Python
- create powerful digital editions of texts using the markup language XML and the TEI Guidelines
- write and publish on the code-sharing platform GitHub
- collect and manage various data using spreadsheets
- work with and tame messy data using the open-source tool Open Refine
- query databases using MySQL
- use an assembly of open-source tools for analysing and visualising patterns in large amounts of text
- build data collections from your reference literature and do analyses with the reference manager and multi tool Zotero
- use Pandoc for converting from different file formats for texts, e.g. Markdown
- use the platform Transkribus for automatic text recognition of handwritten text and historical print
- apply a design thinking approach to your (digital) humanities project
My Background
Studies
I have a solid grounding in the Humanities, with a Magister Artium degree from the Free University of Berlin (Germany), where I studied literature, history, and communication science. I hold a diploma in textual scholarship. I received my PhD in Philosophy of Philology from the University of Oslo.
Work
I have previously worked at the University of Oslo Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library, the University Library's Dept. for Digital Services, the National Library of Norway, the Dept. of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo, the Berlin State Library, the Free University of Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Since 2009, I have been involved in various digital cultural heritage and digital humanities projects.
Research
My current research projects include the following:
- The digital scholarly edition of Bernt Oscar Malling Mamen's unpublished book manuscript Atter Et År i Østen (1938).
- A database and reverse image search and recognition application for Norwegian exlibris, alongside a monograph about the cultural history of the Norwegian exlibris;
- A history of Digital Humanities in Norway and the Nordic countries;
- A Linked Open Data-enriched collection of letter metadata from Norwegian cultural heritage collections, NorKorr. Read more on the project website at hypotheses.org.
- The digital scholarly edition of the Ethica Complementoria and the Tranchier-Buch, an early modern practical guide to polite conversation, etiquette, and table manners. The project is documented on the Greflinger Digital Scholarly Edition website.
Associations
- Nordisk Nettverk for Edisjonsfilologer (NNE - The Nordic Network for Textual Scholars) - Board Member
- Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) – Member
- Digital Humanities and Culture Organisation (DHKO) – Member
- Det norske språk- og litteraturselskap (NSL - The Norwegian Society of Language and Literature) - Member
- Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) – Member
- Norsk Bok- og Bibliotekhistorisk Selskap (NBBS) - Member