Note to all attendees: Session leaders will contact you with additional information, including a meeting link, for each individual workshop, event, or demonstration.
- Events
- Intermediate
- No events scheduled for February 3, 2020.
A 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 YorkNLP for non-data scientists – Event Extraction
Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New YorkOut of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New YorkDevotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration
Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New YorkStarting to Text Mine the Digitized Library with HathiTrust Features.
Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202 41 Park Row, 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 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
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 […]
NLP for non-data scientists – Event Extraction
NLP for non-data scientists – Event Extraction
The amount of text data available is mind-boggling. We will explore programatic approaches to identify information about what happened and when it happened by gathering knowledge from text. Equipment: Python, Anaconda, Laptop Prerequisites: Working familiarly with Python
Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork
Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork
For many instructors who teach in New York, the city is seen as a pedagogical asset that can be used to extend their classroom. As a result, many courses include assignments that ask students to leave campus and to explore, examine, and evaluate the city as primary source material. At Fordham University, Fulcrum - a […]
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 [...]
Introduction to WebAnno
Introduction to WebAnno
WebAnno is a web-based tool for linguistic annotation (marking up) of text, with layers for morphological, syntactic, and semantic annotation. We will work through tagging named entities and relationships in a text, exporting as a tab-delimited file, and using the annotated text as input into a (Python) machine-learning algorithm for named entity recognition. Equipment Requirements: […]
Advanced Omeka
Advanced Omeka
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. […]
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. […]
Starting to Text Mine the Digitized Library with HathiTrust Features.
Starting to Text Mine the Digitized Library with HathiTrust Features.
Millions of books have been digitized in the past two decades. Thanks to a 2014 court ruling, about 15 million books are available for computational analysis in the HathiTrust including data about word counts on each individual page. In the next year or two, similar data will become available for JStor and Portico books. This […]
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 [...]
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 […]