Event: Introduction to GitHub and Markdown

Monday, August 31, 2026

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

264 Hesburgh Library, Technology Commons

Learn the basic functions of contributing to a repository and writing documents in its preferred plain-text format, markdown.

Git is a popular “version control” system used to archive and track changes in files. Traditionally used for software development, Git and the online platform GitHub have been adopted for projects of all kinds, including humanities research.

This workshop guides patrons through the basic functions of contributing to a repository and writing documents in its preferred plain-text format, markdown.

For beginners and those who need a refresher.

Open to Graduate Students, Undergraduates, Faculty, Staff, Postdocs

Instructed By

English Literature and Digital Humanities Librarian

djohns27@nd.edu

Photo of presenter Dan Johnson

Daniel Johnson is subject specialist for English literature and digital humanities. He has graduate degrees in English from Wake Forest University (MA) and Princeton University (PhD), where he specialized in literature of the long eighteenth-century.

Event: Introduction to GitHub and Markdown
Contact Info

Daniel Johnson

Interim Co-Department Head, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship; English, Digital Humanities, and Film, Television, & Theatre Librarian

(574) 631-3457

djohns27@nd.edu

250C Navari Center for Digital Scholarship

A photograph of Daniel Johnson who is a Interim Co-Department Head, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship; English, Digital Humanities, and Film, Television, & Theatre Librarian  at the Hesburgh Libraries
Hesburgh Library Second Floor