EMPOWER Track: Digital Tools & Workflows to Support the WRITING phase of research
Channel: ESCALATOR
Date: 24/08/2022

ESCALATOR (https://escalator.sadilar.org) is a programme hosted by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources. We support developing an active community of practice in #DigitalHumanities and #ComputationalSocialSciences in South Africa.

This event forms part of the EMPOWER Digital Champions initiative - one of the ESCALATOR activities. In the presentation, we looked at various digital tools and platforms that could be used in the WRITING phase of the research lifecycle. For more information about the research lifecycle we're building these sessions on, please see the slides and video from the first presentation in this series - https://tinyurl.com/escalatorworkflows and https://youtu.be/jH618mF66HM. 

These sessions are meant to provide researchers and students with new information about how they can improve their research workflows. We show a variety of digital tools and methodologies. This forms part of the EMPOWER 8-step programme developed to help grow an online learning. community 

EMPOWER specifically offers support for women in humanities and social sciences at South African research organisations who want to hone their digital/computational research skills.

For more information about the 8-step programme, please visit https://escalator.sadilar.org/champions/empower.

Speakers:
- Neo Putini (Masters Candidate, UKZN)
- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18bP7FyRt0uxOylcgzgbWHOPE4cC5Yczy/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106395724383600944408&rtpof=true&sd=true

- Nomalungelo Maphanga (Project manager & Data Science mentor, Talarify)
- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TXopE7rr3-9ffF0NkKOIhN_JYARTGlcKfPZKSNDm29o/edit?usp=sharing

Tools demonstrated
- Overleaf & LaTeX: https://www.overleaf.com/

Templates are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6563415.