Note to all attendees: Session leaders will contact you with additional information, including a meeting link, for each individual workshop, event, or demonstration. 

Visualizing Qualitative Data

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York

This presentation will introduce attendees to the fundamentals of Nvivo queries and analyses. Participants will be shown to easy-to-follow demonstrations of NVivo functions that allow users to visualize information from data sources such as surveys, literature reviews, and interview transcripts. The workshop is geared toward beginners who have had little previous exposure to NVivo. Attendees [...]

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Introduction to Scalar

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York

Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform developed by the University of Southern California that’s designed to make it easy for authors (faculty or students) to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Projects that are best suited to Scalar are media rich and able to take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital [...]

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Access: Bridging the Continuum between Digital Archival Management and the Public Interface

NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom 14 University Place, New York

With Museums and Libraries rapidly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public, educational scaffolding and digital access programming have become critical to the understanding and approachability of archival contents. Learn to foster a deeper connection between the public and a digitized archive of a cultural institution through thoughtfully constructed digital programs. Follow [...]

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Intro to the Command Line

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York

Learn how to use the command line to perform basic tasks. We’ll begin by discussing why humanists would want to learn something so technical, then jump into learning how to create and edit files, and also learn some tricks for text analysis. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several [...]

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Sampling for the Digital Humanities

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York

Do you have a huge archive to analyze? Do you want to find trends in a large data set? Are your methods time-consuming and difficult to automate? Sampling may be the answer! Learn how sampling can save you time and energy, why representative sampling matters, how to pick random subsets of your data, and how [...]

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Introduction to Security and Privacy for Researchers

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York

Learn the basic to intermediate steps that you can take to protect yourself against malicious agents, government surveillance and other threats. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop

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Introduction to Humanities Commons

NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom 14 University Place, New York

Imagine a humanities network with the sharing power of Academia.edu, the archival quality of an institutional repository, and a commitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell your data or generate profit from your intellectual property. That’s Humanities Commons. Humanities Commons wants [...]

Free

Introduction to Mapping with QGIS

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York

This workshop will introduce participants to creating static maps using QGIS. QGIS is an open source mapping software that allows users to create maps and analyze data with a spatial component. This workshop is intended for those new to GIS who want to get started creating maps. By the end of this session, participants will [...]

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Islandora Working Group

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York

If you’re working in Islandora, thinking about it, or just curious, then join us for a new Islandora Working Group! Building on an active Islandora community, the Islandora Working Group is an opportunity to bring together local New York City information professionals working to create and build cultural heritage collections using Islandora. It is the [...]

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Preserving Performance

American Jewish Historical Society at the Center For Jewish History, 5th Floor Conference Room 15 W 16th St, 5th Floor Conference Room, New York

After a show closes, how you handle and store materials can mean the difference between preserving theatre legacy and irreversible damage and loss. This workshop introduces artists to the process of archiving their work, with tips on selection, storage and preservation. The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) is a collaboration of archivists, dramaturgs, and academics [...]

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Strategies for Interactive and Immersive Dance

Kitchen Table Coders 274 Morgan, Brooklyn

We will discuss strategies for creating experiences and performances that cross the domains of software, sound, and dance while respecting each medium's idiosyncratic strengths. D. Schmüdde will provide a brief overview of the hardware, software, and original code he wrote to track bodies and manipulate sound in "Borderless." Co-creator Kim Burgas will discuss the process [...]

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