What I Do
I am a senior academic librarian and team leader for digital research methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Oslo Library. My main task is to support researchers, graduate students, and research staff at UiO by implementing digital research methods and activities. I 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. I support you with my colleagues during your research project's life cycle and dissemination. The digital research methods team at HumSam supports project groups and individual researchers, from master students to PhD and PostDoc researchers to junior and senior researchers.
We can advise you on data capture, creation, enrichment, analysis, interpretation, storage, and dissemination. As subject specialists with solid humanities and social sciences backgrounds, 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 on 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 DARIAH teach.
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
- 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 Zotero
- use Pandoc for converting from different file formats for texts, e.g. Markdown
- 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 Dept. for Digital Services, the National Library of Norway, 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:
- 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 on 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 website of the Greflinger Digital Scholarly Edition.
Associations
- Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) – Chair
- Digital Humanities and Culture Organisation (DHKO) – Member
- Carpentry@UiO - Board member
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Det norske språk- og litteraturselskap (NSL - The Norwegian Society of Language and Literature) - Member
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Nordisk Nettverk for Edisjonsfilologer (NNE - The Nordic Network of Textual Scholars) - Member
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Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) – Member