NYCDH Week

Raspberry Pi
2016-02-12 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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 for those comfortable with computer hardware and familiar with programming concepts.

Easy-to-use Digital Tools for Film Analysis
2016-02-12 08:00 - 10:00 | Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, 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 selection of student projects from past courses I taught will be included, including collaborative DH class projects, and participants can also share their own examples during the workshop.
[Note: The workshop will be accessible enough for tech novices, in hopes of encouraging more educators (especially in Film Studies – an area where there is demand for this type of workshop) to think of alternatives to the traditional academic paper, for instance.]

Location: Room 652, Department of Cinema Studies, 6th floor, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, NY 10003. Non NYU attendees must present ID at the front desk.

We recommended that attendees bring their laptops.

Gallery Interactive Design: Prototype to Product
2016-02-12 05:00 - 07:15 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, United States
This workshop will examine the process of creating digital interactives for the Bard Graduate Center’s Focus Gallery, an academic gallery located on 86th Street and Central Park West. We will be discussing methods used to bring digital projects from idea to installation with a focus on the thoughtful and effective integration of pedagogical practice into digital production. The workshop will look at several previous examples of gallery interactives and will conclude with a visit to the gallery to view the exhibitions currently on display: Swedish Wooden Toys and Revisions. Reception to follow (12:15PM-1:00PM).

Typography for [Digital] Humanists
2016-02-12 05:00 - 07:00 | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA, 113 W 60th Street, New York, 10023, 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 choices everyday, yet few have any training in how to select, arrange and design with type to create effective messages. This workshop will provide an overview of basic typographic principles and will focus specifically on issues related to typography for [digital] humanists, such as typeface selection for digital projects, web typography tools and typography for UI/ UX design. Participants must bring a laptop with a recent version of Chrome installed.
Location:
LL608
Lowenstein Building
Fordham University
60th and Columbus

Understanding Numbers: Basics of Statistical Literacy
2016-02-11 13:00 - 15:30 | 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 humanities major turned social scientist and will employ statistical methods while using illustrations and exercises from the humanities.

Digi Café
2016-02-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY, 10075, United States
Meet like-minded individuals, collaborate, bring your art history questions and learn a tool. There will be four stations where participants have the opportunity to learn CartoDB, Cytoscape, D3.js and bibliographic tools such as Zotero.
Specialists will be on hand to address your questions and to discuss your projects. Please bring your own technology and if you’re interested in learning one of these tools sign up for an account and/or download the software before attending.
CartoDB: Create interactive, map-based data visualizations that you can integrate easily into digital humanities projects. CartoDB has free accounts and is open source.
Andy Eschbacher, Map Scientist, CartoDB
Stuart Lynn, Map Scientist, CartoDB
Sign up for a free account at https://cartodb.com/.
Mapping Resources: https://gist.github.com/auremoser/e7603d70406fe5956a62
Cytoscape: Learn to visualize relationships between artists, patrons, dealers and institutions using datasets and Cytoscape, an open source network visualization platform.
Titia Hulst, Adjunct Professor, Art History, Purchase College
Download the software at http://www.cytoscape.org/ .
D3.js: D3 is short for ‘Data Driven Documents’. It’s a free an open source JavaScript library that can be a powerful tool for rendering art historical data. Projects to be discussed:
Mapping Video Art; Mapping Institute of Fine Arts Alumni.
Jason Varone, Artist; Web & Electronic Media Manager, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Download the source code at http://d3js.org/.
Bibliographic: Create bibliographies with groups in real time and use plug-ins to visualize your lists with a click of a button.
Ralph Baylor, Assistant Librarian for Public Services, Frick Art Reference Library
Download the software and sign up for your account at: https://www.zotero.org/
Install Paper-Machines Plug-in at: http://papermachines.org/
(Can assist with installation on-site)

Introduction to Ed: Make your own digital edition
2016-02-11 08:00 - 10:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, 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.
[** This event was originally title minimal computing for writers. This new iteration encompasses many of the principles of the first.]

Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
2016-02-11 08:00 - 09:30 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
This workshop will introduce the basics of using small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis. Using NCapture, a web browser extension, and NVivo, a qualitative analysis software package, this session will focus on methods to incorporate the context from web pages, online PDFs, and social media into your research design. Presenters will provide detailed examples for importing and coding Facebook and Twitter data using the NVivo software platform. In addition, discussions may include topics such as collecting, storing, and reporting social media data as academic researchers. Brief overview of aims of Qualitative Research and NVivo Software will be provided. Please note that this workshop will not cover larger data sets and web scraping using tools like Python or R.
Presenter: Sarah DeMott, NYU Data Services, Qualitative Data Analysis & Survey Design Specialist

Digital Art History in Practice
2016-02-11 05:30 - 07:00 | Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY, 10075, United States
Digital Art History in Practice
10:30 Welcome and Introductions
Jason Varone, Artist; Web & Electronic Media Manager, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
10:40 Through Machine Eyes: Art, Artifice, and Artificial Intelligence
Emily L. Spratt, Director of the Program in Art and Artificial Intelligence and Visiting Lecturer in
Byzantine Art and Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies in the Department of Art History,
Rutgers University
11:00 Seeing the Future: PHAROS, ARIES and the Digital Image
Louisa Wood Ruby, Head of Photoarchive Research, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference
Library
11:15 Data: Collecting, Consolidating, and Analyzing
Samantha Deutch, Assistant Director, Center for the History of Collecting, The Frick Collection
and Frick Art Reference Library
11:30 GIS Technologies and Their Use for Art-Historical Research
Ellen Prokop, Associate Photoarchivist, The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
11:50 Questions from the Audience
12:00 Lunch on your own

User Experience for Digital Humanists: A Primer
2016-02-11 05:00 - 07:00 | School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609, Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609
In today’s technology-driven world, digital projects are not judged by how fast or attractive they are but rather by their ability to consistently offer memorable and engaging experiences for users. In this workshop, attendees will learn the key concepts and methods of User Experience (UX) and how a combination of design thinking and experience-centered strategy can help researchers and practitioners create digital tools that consistently engage users on both cognitive and emotional levels.

Introduction to Omeka
2016-02-11 04:30 - 06:30 | Fordham University
Omeka: Whether to Dive in, and at Which End of the Pool?
The proliferation of Content Management Systems (CMS’s) have radically altered our experience of the web, both as creators and consumers of content. At the cost of a few limitations in flexibility, these structures vastly simplify website creation and editing. The multiplicity of such systems available and their infinitely variable limitation, however, can make it difficult to determine whether any particular CMS is suitable for your needs.
This session will be intended to equip beginners to web design with sufficient knowledge of one particular CMS, Omeka, which has been rising in popularity, to assess whether it is appropriate for their particular projects, and to describe some resources which they might use to unravel any problems they encounter with the system in the future. In addition, because Omeka is available in a wide variety of configurations, this session will lay out basic differences between these based on needs and available resources.
Location: Lowenstein 304, Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham

Intro to the Command Line
2016-02-10 10:00 - 12:00 | New York University
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 directories. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several of the other workshops offered this week!

Social Media Scraping with the Twitter API
2016-02-10 09:00 - 11:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This workshop will introduce the Twitter API, a way of programmatically interacting with the Twitter platform, and will place a particular emphasis on gathering data for textual, sociological, or linguistic analysis. Some knowledge of Python will be helpful, but is not strictly necessary. This workshop will be led by GC Digital Fellows Patrick Smyth and Jennifer Tang.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EST
The Graduate Center at CUNY – 365 5th Avenue. Room TBA. New York, NY 10016

Digital Humanities: Visualizing Data
2016-02-10 08:00 - 12:00 | New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10029, United States
Participants will be exposed to an array of digital projects, technologies, and methods, and will learn some simple principles for figuring out the sources and technologies that constitute a “project.” The workshop will also address how to find and structure data, including the kinds of data scholars in the humanities tend to be interested in, and how to use Palladio, a kind of Swiss Army-knife for visualizing humanities data. This workshop is geared toward those who are new to data visualization.
Please note this is a paid event at $25.

Pinterest as Exhibition Gallery
2016-02-10 08:00 - 10:00 | METRO, 599 11th Avenue, 8th floor, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Pinterest offers a unique way to display and interrelate digital assets with a wider world of interconnected materials and activity. Learn how UK-based research group, Architecture_MPS promotes its journal articles, conferences and online resources by exposing it’s relationships with other research, exhibitions, and imagery. As part of our engagement with scholarly communication AMPS provides current listings supported by additional materials relevant to both academics and discipline information professionals. Since 2014, we have used Pinterest for curating collections of images and articles on topics related to our published journal articles. The boards function as a resource guide or reference to current books, films, exhibits, conferences, lectures and competitions related to the AMPS remit.
Location: METRO, 57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor Training Room

Lightning-Fast Text Editing with Vim
2016-02-10 06:00 - 07:30 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
As humanists, a good portion of the work we do involves text. Whether it’s writing an paper, editing an article, or putting together a website, we spend significant amounts of time moving words around. This workshop will teach you how to write and edit text in the most efficient way possible, using a modal text editor called Vim. Not only will these skills greatly increase your editing efficiency, but you will also be able to apply the techniques of modal editing to working with files and even web pages.

Introduction to Networks
2016-02-10 05:00 - 08:00 | School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609, Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609
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.

PCs will be provided, or bring a laptop with Gephi 0.8.2.
Location: Pratt Institute School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, Room 606

Git for Humanists
2016-02-10 04:30 - 06:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Workshop lead: Dennis Tenen
This is a github tutorial for beginners geared towards collaborative work in the humanities. In this tutorial you will learn about Git and Github, and how to set up your own versioning environment.
For this event you will need a pass at the door.

Digibar
2016-02-09 12:00 - 15:00 | BAR NINE, 807 9th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Ahhh. Time for refreshments among friends!
We’ll be gracing the halls of BAR NINE for the merry making. The hope is to head there as soon as our kickoff event is over. No RSVP needed. We get from good authority that they can hold a large group.

Lightning Talks 2016
2016-02-09 08:30 - 10:30 | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA, 113 W 60th Street, New York, 10023, United States
A integral part of the NYCDH agenda is supporting and building our community! To foster this initiative, the kick off event for NYCDH Week features a session of three-and-a-half minute (3:30) lightning talks that showcase a wide range of DH work done across the NYCDH community. Following is a list of presenters from 2016:
Scheduled Presenters

Name
Institution
Project Title
Twitter Handle
Project URL

Angus Grieve-Smith
NYU
The Digital Parisian Stage: A representative corpus of 19th-Century French Theater
@grvsmth
http://grieve-smith.com/
blog/stage/

Marion Thain
NYU
The Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium
@MarionThain
https://sites.google.com/
a/nyu.edu/marion-thain/

Ellen Hoobler
Cornell College
Of ceramics and software: ancient Zapotec tombs given new digital life
@zapotecurn
digitalzapotectombs.com

Caroline Catchpole
METRO
Culture in Transit: Creating a mobile digitization service
@DigitizeNYC
http://www.mnylc.org/cit/

Liza Harrell-Edge
The New School
Challenges Integrating Curatorial/Interpretive Content with “Straight” Digital Collections
@lizahar
http://digitalarchives.library
.newschool.edu

Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Text mining JSTOR, EEBO, and the HathiTrust
@Ericleasemorgan
Http://planet.infomotions.com

Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre dame
Analysis of fine art through digital image inspection
@Ericleasemorgan
Http://planet.infomotions.com

Walter Perry
Fiduciary Automation
Precision Digital Law (Like Precision Medicine)
@weperry

Augustus Wendell & Burcak Ozludil
NJIT
Visualizing Spaces of Madness: An Ottoman Asylum

Emily Fuhrman
Columbia University
Spatial Text: Mapping Indexicality in Walter Benjamin’s _The Arcades Project_
@xxzvx
emilyfuhrman.co

Nathan LaFave
NYU
Language Attitudes Toward New York City English on Twitter

https://sites.google.com/
a/nyu.edu/nlafave/

Scott Zukowski
Stony Brook University
Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences

http://arcg.is/1N4amu8

Anders Wallace
CUNY Graduate Center
Seduction By Design: Masculinity, Pickup Artists, and the Uses of Social Media in Virtual Social Skills Training Communities

Jonathan Reeve
Columbia University
Building the Collaborative, Open-Source Critical Edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in TEI XML
@j0_0n
https://github.com/
JonathanReeve/
corpus-joyce-portrait-TEI

Heather Hill
Fordham University
Exploring Place in the French of Italy
@HeatherVHill
https://heathervhill.
wordpress.com/

Boyda Johnstone
Fordham University
Hook & Eye: Feminist Blogging in the Academy
@boydajosa
http://hookandeye.ca

Aaron Plasek
Columbia/NYU
On the notion of “Best Available”: experimental humanities as pedagogical practice and ethical investigation
@aaronplasek
http://aaronplasek.com

Presentations by NYCDH Graduate Student Award Winners
2016-02-09 08:15 - 09:00 | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA, 113 W 60th Street, New York, 10023, United States
Scheduled Presenters

Name
Institution
Project Title
Twitter Handle
Project URL

Christy Pottroff
Fordham
The U.S. Goes Postal: Mapping Union and War in the Antebellum Era
@ChristyPottroff
http://www.christypottroff.com/
page-dh/

Jonathan Reeve
Columbia University
Git-Lit
@j0_0n
http://git-lit.github.io/

Eileen Clancy
CUNY Graduate Center
Beyond Citation
@clancynewyork
http://www.beyondcitation.org/

Margaret Galvan
CUNY Graduate Center
Mapping and Networking Alison Bechdel to Grassroots Periodical Culture, 1983-2008
@magdor
http://margaretgalvan.org/mapping
-and-networking-bechdel/

Alice Lynn McMichael
CUNY Graduate Center
Reconstructing a Sacred Barrier: Testing the Virtual Waters of 3D Modeling
@ByzCapp
http://documentingcappadocia.
newmedialab.cuny.edu/nycdh-lightening-talk/

Connor Gaudet
NYU
D-FOCRO: Directory-Formatted OCR Output
@cegaudet
https://nycdh.org/members/cegaudet/

NYCDH Week Kickoff Gathering
2016-02-09 07:30 - 12:00 | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA, 113 W 60th Street, New York, 10023, United States
Our big event! The afternoon of networking, lightning talks and an NYCDH roundtable will be followed by a social outing at a local watering hole. This is your opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones and get to know your New York City Digital Humanities community. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Please RSVP here.
~ SCHEDULE ~

12:30-1:00
Winding Up
Meet old friends, make new ones, get pumped up for the festivities that lie ahead!

1:00-1:15
Intro to NYCDH
A quick framing of the day, NYCDH’s origins, and the impetus behind DHWeek

1:15-2:00
Presentations by NYCDH Graduate Student Award Winners

2:00-2:45
Lightning Talks Pt 1

2:45-3:00
Break

3:00-3:45
Lightning Talks Pt 2 – Graduate Student Work

3:45-4:30
NYCDH Roundtable
A panel of NYCDH Steering Committee members discuss the role they see NYCDH playing in the community from their personal and institutional perspectives.

4:30-5:00
Winding Down
Take some time to catch your breath, exchange ideas with new colleagues, and think about future projects and collaborations.

5:00
Off to Digibar!

Book digitization and post-processing
2016-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Language Resource Center (Columbia University), 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, 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 take existing document scans, eg copy packet pdfs, and re-process them using the same post-processing tools.

Introduction to Programming with Python
2016-02-08 09:00 - 11:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary. This workshop will be led by GC Digital Fellows Ian Phillips and Patrick Smyth.

Monday, February 8, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EST) [eventbrite.com]
The Graduate Center at CUNY – 365 5th Avenue. Room TBA. New York, NY 10016
RSVP[eventbrite.com]

Public Participation in Humanities Research: Using APIs and Crowd Sourcing Platforms
2016-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, East Room, 2nd Floor, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, 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, East Room, 2nd Floor

Participants must follow directions and must RSVP here: http://nyu.libcal.com/event/2310192

Advanced Omeka
2016-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, 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. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.
Although not required, attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops with file transfer (i.e. Cyberduck, Filezilla) and text editing software (i.e. TextEdit, Notebook, TextWrangler, TextMate, Bbedit) installed.

A DIY Digital Maps Primer
2016-02-08 05:00 - 12:00 | 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
adding a second map (to serve as reference/present day)
integrating all assets in an interactive web page

The workshop will run from 10am to 5pm, with a one hour lunch break at 1pm.
Please contact the organizer to RSVP.

The workshop will run from 10am to 5pm, with a one hour lunch break at 1pm. Mauricio Giraldo of NYPL Labs will lead the workshop.
Capacity is 15 participants, and will be enrolled on a first-come, first-served basis.

The workshop will take place in South Court Classroom B in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, on 5th Avenue & 42nd St.

Introduction to Omeka
2016-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
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.
Please note: regular registration is full. We have however opened up ten slots for people who can provide their own laptops.
Please RSVP here.

Use of Webrecorder
2016-02-08 04:30 - 06:30 | Language Resource Center (Columbia University), 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027, 10027
This will be a short, hands-on workshop focusing on creating high-fidelity archives of the dynamic web (in warc file format) using Webrecorder.io. We will cover the basics of the warc file format, the use of the tool, and introduce the idea of warc replay using cloud-based or Desktop software.
Capacity is 14 participants, and will be enrolled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please visit this link to RSVP

Digital Art History: lecture and workshop
2015-12-08 03:00 - 12:00 | NY
The morning session comprises a 70-minute overview of the field (offered by the DAHL); the afternoon session, which is scheduled to last 4 hours, will be run like a clinic where students interested in DAH can come with their research questions and discuss their projects with specialists
