My name is Nicolás Lázaro, and I am a Professor and PhD in Philosophy graduated from the National University of Rosario (UNR). Working at CONICET-UNR Institute "Studium". I also teach the undergraduate course "Medieval and Renaissance History of Philosophy Seminar" at the Catholic University of Santa Fe (UCSF).

As a very personal hobby I am developing a Digital Humanities project. I have started from absolute zero, with no-digital skills at all. In my free time I have launched this initiative, which objectives are, between some others:

* To take advantage of the technologies and data tools to communicate my research, exploring new ways of doing it.
* To gain knowledge from data. Id est: transform all the info I can gather from using these tools, into knowledge through my own interpretation

Some chapters of this project are dedicated to learning how to use markup language in late medieval / Italian Renaissance / early modern texts. My PhD Thesis was a comparative dissertation between two authors. I have done it "old school": flash cards, charts, etc. In other words: I want to transform my PhD Thesis research and conclusions from its analogic format into digital (="the side project"). This is just a first step.

It is my own experience that there is a poor offer around here (South America) regarding DH and Philosophy. Researching on the Web and through Twitter I have found your center, offering training and resources to develop some skills. Of course I am interested in getting involved and I would like to be in touch with you and your colleagues, at least to learn from you.

The other aim of my email is to invite you or anyone who (if) is interested or curious, to visit and know this "side project" I just launched a few days ago on Twitter.  @_nicolazaro_

Till now I have learned HTML5 and CSS3 basics, bought a domain and wrote some code. I am working developing this landing page, that will replace the one you can see at https://nicolaslazaro.com/  

So, again, I invite you to see someone with no-digital skills getting involved with DH and see my progress, advise me, give me some suggestions or feedback.
I will deliver my progress there, and I will be really pleased to see you and interact.

Thank you very much for reading this mail and I am sorry for my English (as you can wish, I am far away from being a native speaker...).

Kind regards,
Nicolás.-