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- No events scheduled for February 3, 2020.
NYCDH Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus, Keating 124 441 East Fordham Road, BronxThe Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive
Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, Birnbaum Library, Fishbowl Room 1 Pace Plaza, New YorkA Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
NYU, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B 726 Broadway, New YorkMake a Simple Webmap with Leaflet
Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New YorkInformation Visualization Open House
NYPL, Center for Research in the Humanities, Room 216 476 Fifth Avenue, New YorkThe Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room 365 5th Ave, New YorkDevotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New YorkCreating Minimal Humanities Projects with Jekyll
Columbia (Butler Library room 305) 535 West 114th St, New YorkZine Union Catalog: Bringing Together Disparate, Unruly Data
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743 70 Washington Square South, New YorkGit in a Jiff
Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New YorkBetwyll: a social reading app for teaching and learning literature and languages
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New YorkThe Making and Knowing Project’s Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of a 16th-c. Manuscript of Artisanal Recipes
Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New YorkIntro To WordPress: Gutenberg
Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New YorkCritical Data Methods: Theory & Praxis
NYU, 244 Greene Street, 1st Floor Event Space 244 Greene Street, New YorkTranslating Questions into Actionable Research
Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 610 144 West 14th, Room 610, New YorkHumanitarian Map-a-thon: DH for Disaster Relief
Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202 41 Park Row, New YorkSimple CV
Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New YorkWorking with Open Data – intro to APIs
Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New YorkTome Collaborative Course Publications
NYU 20 Cooper Square 20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor, New YorkCommons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New YorkUnity for Spatial Research: SpatioScholar
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New YorkOpenRefine for Beginners
Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234 113 W 60th Street, New YorkOpen & Digital Pedagogy: Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York- No events scheduled for February 8, 2020.
- No events scheduled for February 9, 2020.
Week of Events
Exploring Immersive & Spatial Technology for the Humanities
Exploring Immersive & Spatial Technology for the Humanities
Join this session to explore new virtual and augmented reality tools and examples and hear from two practitioners and teachers at CUNY, Dominika Ksel and Andrew Demirjian. We’ll look at everything from 3D model and video capture to augmented reality that works in a smartphone web browser. These tools can be applied to research, public […]
NYCDH Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
NYCDH Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham in partnership with Wikimedia NYC will host this Edit-a-thon at Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, editing support, reference materials, and refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate. […]
The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive
The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) staff, and members of the project team will demonstrate the features of AFB’s fully accessible digital Helen Keller Archive. This digital collection is pioneering in that it is accessible to visitors who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind, as well as sighted and hearing audiences. Helen Keller […]
A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
In this demonstration, attendees will learn about building a flexible, platform neutral textbook replacement using low tech collaborative tools. The resulting data set can be published to a variety of display platforms (such as WordPress or Omeka) in addition to being available for faculty and student projects such as maps, timelines, and exhibits. Participants will […]
Make a Simple Webmap with Leaflet
Make a Simple Webmap with Leaflet
Learn to make a website from scratch that features a simple webmap with Leaflet. Prerequisites: HTML and JavaScript knowledge is useful but not required. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code. Lehman Library 215 SIPA building 420 W 118th
Information Visualization Open House
Information Visualization Open House
Explore examples of data visualization in the Library's historic collections. The New York Public Library's Center for Research in the Humanities (2nd Floor Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) invites teaching faculty, students, information professionals and others to a reception and open house focusing on both historic and current data visualization projects and collections items. The event […]
The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits
The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits
Do you want to connect the public with digital archives? In this talk, public historian and digital humanist Mary Rizzo will use her work on community-driven digital archives and exhibits to help you make those connections. Through case studies of exhibits on police reform and LGBTQ history, she will discuss how to work with communities […]
Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
The madonnelle (street shrines) of Rome are vernacular expressions of religious devotion traced to the thirteenth century. Recent interventions, intended to restore the shrines as important cultural artifacts, inadvertently risk displacing their devotional communities. This demonstration presents an ongoing research project on the perception of a virtual replica of the Grottapinta, in the increasingly touristic […]
Creating Minimal Humanities Projects with Jekyll
Creating Minimal Humanities Projects with Jekyll
In this session you will get and overview of how to design and deploy Jekyll sites. You will also learn how to apply this knowledge to many genres in the humanities: archives, exhibits, editions, maps, journals, etc. Equipment: Laptop. Preferably Mac or Linux. If you have a Windows machine, please update to Windows 10. Prerequisites: […]
Zine Union Catalog: Bringing Together Disparate, Unruly Data
Zine Union Catalog: Bringing Together Disparate, Unruly Data
The Zine Union Catalog, or ZineCat, is a catalog built on Collective Access, a digital asset manager similar to, but with more complete metadata connectors than Omeka. ZineCat brings together records from six libraries with wildly different metadata schema. They are public, academic, community, and digital libraries using RDA, xZINECOREx, LibraryThing, and homegrown/standalone schema. Lauren [...]
Git in a Jiff
Git in a Jiff
Learn the basics of using Git to put your projects, articles, and chapters under version control. Then, learn to integrate Git with Visual Studio Code. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.
Getting Started with TEI
Getting Started with TEI
This workshop is a deep introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. It is designed for students who are interested in the transcription and digitization of manuscripts and print-based texts into diplomatic, digital formats. The workshop contains three parts: first, an overview of TEI and the major schemas; second, […]
Introduction to Omeka
Introduction to Omeka
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. This workshop will explain the basics of why and when to use Omeka and include a walkthrough of how to use Omeka to manage online collections and create digital exhibitions. Equipment Requirements: […]
Intro to Carto
Intro to Carto
With almost 40% of the entire world carrying a GPS device around with them in their bag or pocket, digital mapping has exploded in both popularity and accessibility. Carto offers a powerful platform to creatively design maps to explore spatial relationships embedded in any topic or subject you are passionate about. Join us for Intro […]
Intro to Networks
Intro to Networks
This workshop will introduce participants to designing a network study, including data collection, analysis, and visualization. After an overview of network studies in the humanities, students will get hands on experience using Gephi, a free and open source software for network analysis and visualization. Attendees can bring their own data, or sample data will be […]
Fair Use in the Digital Humanities
Fair Use in the Digital Humanities
A crash course on fair use, particularly for digital humanities projects that use copyrighted works as data. We will look at the wiggle room intentionally built into the language about fair use in United States copyright law, as well as the increasing importance of transformativeness in fair use rulings.
Web Accessibility
Web Accessibility
The web’s importance in our daily lives continues to grow. The internet is the new public square. It is a place where ideas, information, education, entertainment, and commerce are taking place. For accessibility to become embedded in our everyday thinking and world, we all need to realize the role we all can play in accessibility. […]
Betwyll: a social reading app for teaching and learning literature and languages
Betwyll: a social reading app for teaching and learning literature and languages
This workshop will show the pedagogical potential of Betwyll, an app for mobile devices that allows to employ social reading as a tool to teach and learn languages and literatures. Equipment Requirements: Smartphone
The Making and Knowing Project’s Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of a 16th-c. Manuscript of Artisanal Recipes
The Making and Knowing Project’s Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of a 16th-c. Manuscript of Artisanal Recipes
The Making and Knowing Project (Center for Science and Society, Columbia University) is excited to present Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France—a digital critical edition and English translation of a sixteenth-century French manuscript of artisanal recipes. The publication of this edition marks the culmination over five years of iterative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary work by […]
Intro To WordPress: Gutenberg
Intro To WordPress: Gutenberg
Wordpress is an advanced CMS (Content Management System) that can be employed to build a wide-variety of online projects from personal academic sites to online exhibitions. Come learn about Wordpress and its revamped block editor called Gutenberg, which offers a new visual editing experience for media rich pages and posts. This intro-level workshop is a […]
Critical Data Methods: Theory & Praxis
Critical Data Methods: Theory & Praxis
Whether in the classroom or archive, humanities scholars and students often encounter data methods as means to an end. Processes like data modeling, analysis, and visualization — sometimes represented by particular applications or technologies — populate the proverbial DH toolbox, equipping practitioners to pursue data-driven research and project-based learning curricula. But, while these data-oriented skills […]
Translating Questions into Actionable Research
Translating Questions into Actionable Research
Researchers are often driven by a hunch, a practical problem or a gap in existing knowledge. However, successfully translating research questions into data collection and analysis methods requires skills and experience. This workshop will review commonly used methods for collecting primary sources data (questionnaires, interviews, observations), as well as qualitative and quantitative approaches to data […]
Humanitarian Map-a-thon: DH for Disaster Relief
Humanitarian Map-a-thon: DH for Disaster Relief
This session will focus on the use of digital tools for social justice and humanitarian disaster relief work. Utilizing digital mapping, you will join the Humanitarian OpenStreetMapping Team to learn basic GIS skills. Attendees will get familiar with iD editor, and JSOM using OpenStreetMaps for this and many other projects. We will discuss the need […]
Simple CV
Simple CV
Create a PDF and HTML CV for yourself out of plain text files and set up a free personal CV website. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.
Publishing with Manifold
Publishing with Manifold
Manifold Scholarship invites teachers and scholars to learn how to publish materials on Manifold, a digital platform for scholarly publishing. Participants will learn how to turn a Google Doc into a polished publication or create a mobile-friendly version of a public domain text. Manifold Graduate Fellow Jojo Karlin will lead a quick introduction to putting […]
Working with Open Data – intro to APIs
Working with Open Data – intro to APIs
There is so much data out on the web, knowing how to use APIs will let you explore and collect data in a reliable and efficient way. We will use Python to get data from New York Times archive. Equipment: Laptop, Anaconda Prerequisites: Familiarity with Python and Anaconda
Tome Collaborative Course Publications
Tome Collaborative Course Publications
This workshop looks at Tome as a tool for publishing media rich, accessible, peer reviewed and preservable publications. Tome is now being developed for use in the classroom as a collaborative, academic writing tool and media archive for faculty and students. Equipment Requirements: Laptop with Wifi capabilities
Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
This workshop introduces Commons In A Box OpenLab: free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world. Funded by a generous grant from the NEH’s Office […]
Unity for Spatial Research: SpatioScholar
Unity for Spatial Research: SpatioScholar
The workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the SpatioScholar workflow. SpatioScholar is an application developed in Unity for scholarly work that requires spatial and temporal processing and visualization in art/architectural/urban history and heritage studies. SpatioScholar provides a single interface for combining 3D modeled spaces, digitized primary documents, historical data and scholarly research and [...]
OpenRefine for Beginners
OpenRefine for Beginners
Looking to organize and rearrange a large spreadsheet for a project? Join us for an interactive, step-by-step introduction to OpenRefine, an open source desktop application described as “a powerful tool for working with messy data.” This session will cover OpenRefine basics including editing and reconciling data, transforming data into different formats, and connecting to external […]
Open & Digital Pedagogy: Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
Open & Digital Pedagogy: Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
This workshop will present models and strategies for teaching with Wordpress. We’ll explore open teaching, considering methods and digital tools that allow instructors and their students to engage with wider audiences and public discourses. The workshop will also introduce the CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress platform for the CUNY community, and demonstrate how this platform […]