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, NY, United States

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, NY, United States

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 […]

Introduction to Ed: Make your own digital edition

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

In this workshop students will learn how to install and deploy their own instance of Ed. We will learn how to work with different genres, and stylistic elements. At the end of the workshop, workshop participants should be able to deploy their own scholarly or reading editions online.

Understanding Numbers: Basics of Statistical Literacy

School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609 Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609

Math and statistics bring about fear and apprehension in many humanities and social science students, yet these skills are often required for research and effective evidence-based practice. This workshop aims to introduce humanities students to basic statistical concepts, various types of qualitative data, and methods of data analysis. The workshop will be taught by a […]

Typography for [Digital] Humanists

Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA 113 W 60th Street, New York, United States

“Typography is what language looks like.” This quote by educator and designer Ellen Lupton has been used countless times to explain how typography, the arrangement and use of type, permeates our visual landscape, from the printed page to screens to physical environments. Those who work in the digital humanities are called upon to make typographic […]

Easy-to-use Digital Tools for Film Analysis

Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use platforms for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software, and interactive image annotation tools like Thinglink. In addition to brief how-to tutorials, this workshop will also give examples of how to productively incorporate those tools into multimedia assignments for Film and Media Studies courses. A […]

Raspberry Pi

School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609 Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609

An introduction to the hardware & software of the Raspberry Pi, a small, credit-card sized computer useful for teaching & learning computing, programming, digital design and electronics. This workshop will follow the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi, from box to working computer, and cover several small computing projects. This workshops is best suited […]

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

NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom 14 University Place, New York, NY, United States

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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Sampling for the Digital Humanities

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

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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Islandora Working Group

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY, United States

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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Machine Learning for the Study of Literary and Historical Corpora

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

Depending on participant interest, this workshop will discuss either (1) principal component analysis or (2) word embeddings as a technique for exploring large digitized corpora, with particular emphasis on applications to literary and historical study. The workshop will be conducted using Jupyter notebooks in Python. No prior experience with Python is assumed, but elementary knowledge […]

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Making a Minimal Digital Edition of a Historical or Literary Text

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

Learn how to make and publish an edition online of your source materials using Ed: A Jekyll theme, designed for documentary editors. Skill Level Beginner/Intermediate Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Mac or Linux Laptop

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Design-Based Thinking for Humanists

NYU, Great Room 19 University Place, New York, NY, United States

Iterative. Practical. Critical. Accessible. Sound familiar? Design-based thinking and DH are a natural fit. This workshop will offer you tips for increasing creativity and leveraging design strategies in your humanities research. Join us to learn best practices for using design thinking to create engaging experiences, build new audiences, encourage conversation and inquiry, and boost the […]

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Advanced Omeka

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER 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 […]

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Social Network Analysis for Humanities

CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

Present the basics of Social Network Analysis (SNA): graphs, metrics, filtering, grouping; introduce NodeXL, Excel-based tool for SNA; do a couple of examples: (characters in Les Miserables; wordnet). Skill Level Familiarity with Excel Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptops  

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Advanced Text Analysis with SpaCy and Scikit-Learn

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

This workshop is an introduction to the Python module SpaCy, a new library for natural language processing written in Cython, and Scikit-Learn, a library for machine learning. It is intended for intermediate to advanced Python programmers who are familiar with natural language processing suites such as the NLTK, and who are ready to explore next-generation […]

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Multimedia Film Analysis

Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 652 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use tools for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software and interactive image annotation tools. In addition to brief how-to tutorials, this workshop will also give examples of how to productively incorporate those tools into multimedia assignments for Film and Media Studies courses. Skill Level Beginner/ […]

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Introduction to the Map Warper

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Sourt Court Classroom B 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The New York Public Library is home to one of the world’s premier map collections, including 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases published between the 15th and 21st centuries. Its Map Warper (available at maps.nypl.org) is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables both librarians and the general public to align digital images […]

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