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

A DIY Digital Maps Primer

New York Public Library

In this workshop you learn how to bring paper maps to the web and annotate them with data. The end result will look something like this. In the process you will learn about: the process of “geo-referencing” or converting a scanned map to a web-map-friendly image generating data to use as annotations in the map [...]

Advanced Omeka

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

Building on the Introduction to Omeka workshop, this workshop will show you how to gain greater control of your Omeka installation. Participants will learn the difference between different deployments of Omeka, how to manage your own hosted Omeka installation, and how to use plugins, themes, HTML, CSS, and PHP to customize your collections and exhibitions. [...]

Public Participation in Humanities Research: Using APIs and Crowd Sourcing Platforms

Bobst Library, NYU, East Room, 2nd Floor 70 Washington Square South, New York

Participants will learn how to use Internet Archive’s API to pull a set of documents from the web. They will then test a hypothesis by loading those documents onto a crowd sourcing website and asking others to answer questions about those documents. Instructor: Heidi Knoblauch Location: Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, Avery Fisher Center, [...]

Book digitization and post-processing

Language Resource Center (Columbia University) 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027

This workshop will cover the basics of both destructive (spine removal) and non-destructive (camera-based) book scanning as well as postprocessing of page images with ScanTailor and finally binding processed images into searchable pdfs. All software used will be FOSS. We will also discuss FOSS pdf manipulation and image conversion tools that will enable participants to [...]