NYCDH Week

Sensing Urban Noise
2017-02-10 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | NYU Steinhardt School, 6th Floor Conference Room, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY, 10012
Whether you’re an expert maker, artist, or simply interested in learning how easy it is to get up and running in sensing, mapping, and using soundscape data for music creation, please join the Citygram-IBM hosted Noisescapes Workshop & Hackathon by bringing your laptop/notebook computer. We will provide the rest: access to NYU’s Citygram’s API to enable sound data streaming from sensor nodes in areas such as the NYU campus. We’ll have Raspberry Pi’s “nodes” available with onboard audio capture equipment streaming sound data.
We will be using and introducing our software as well as third party apps including Supercollider, for mapping data to sound with a global goal of contributing in this idea of “soundmapping our world” for fun, for understanding soundscapes, for mitigating urban noise pollution, or to make music or visualizations through real-time data streams.
Skill Level
All levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment & Software requirements
Laptop, limited computers available onsite

How do I Get My Catalogue Raisonné Online?
2017-02-10 11:00 - 13:00 | Frick Art Reference Library, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021, United States
Compiled by scholars to assemble the disparate works of art that constitute the oeuvre of a particular artist alongside provenance, exhibition, and bibliographic information, Catalogues Raisonné are essential tools in the study of art history. They are, however, often outdated as soon as they appear in print, as new works of art appear on the market, or works of art change hands. In addition, they are expensive to buy and often only available in specialized art libraries. Many scholars are therefore eager to put their catalogues online, where they will be able to update them in a timely fashion without incurring the costs of reprinting them, and where a larger community of scholars will have easy access.
Over the past 10 years, several good catalogue raisonné platforms have been created by software developers. In an effort to aid art historians in their search for a product that is right for them, this workshop will give a broad overview of many of the systems that have been developed, both open source and proprietary.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Multimedia Film Analysis
2017-02-10 08:00 - 10:00 | Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 652, 721 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, 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/ Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment & Software requirements
Laptop (optional)

Advanced Text Analysis with SpaCy and Scikit-Learn
2017-02-10 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, 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 tools. We will cover advanced topics such as word embeddings, dependency parsing, and machine learning.
Skill Level
Intermediate/Advanced
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Python is required.
Equipment Requirements
Please bring a laptop on which you’ve installed Python 3, SpaCy, Scikit-Learn, and the NLTK.

Social Network Analysis for Humanities
2017-02-10 05:00 - 07:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10016, 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

The Pedagogy of DH: A Conversation
2017-02-10 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom, 14 University Place, New York, NY, 10003, United States
This conversation/workshop will be open to anyone who teaches or is interested in teaching courses where DH as a field is the central topic. Topics may include, structuring syllabi, digital teaching platforms, tool integration, classroom needs, organizing subfields or subcategories of DH, DH in relation to other disciplines, seminal texts and tools, issues in DH, and the perpetual biggie What is DH? We will discuss gradations necessary for DH instruction at different levels of the academy (undergrad, MA, PhD), for different communities (humanities, social science, computer science), and groups with differing levels of technical proficiency. Instructors and students alike are invited.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Introduction to Information Security
2017-02-09 13:30 - 15:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This workshop will cover issues of data security. What does it mean for data to be “secure”? What is data encryption? How might you begin to protect yourself from data surveillance, reconsider data storage, and think about personal privacy in an age of internet research? This workshop is designed for someone who has never really thought of data security as a humanities scholar but who might want to consider where to begin.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop recommended but not required.

Dealing with Messy Data using Open Refine and other tools
2017-02-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 612, 144 West 14th, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The raw data received or compiled for an analysis project is often messy, inconsistent, or in the wrong format. Learn how to use Google Open Refine and Microsoft Excel to transform data into the structure you need to conduct analysis and successfully complete your project.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop with Open Refine installed

Digital Mapping for JavaScript Novices
2017-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
JavaScript is one of the most popular and ubiquitous programming languages in history. Because every web browser speaks it, it’s worth knowing at least a little bit when doing any kind of web-based DH work. This workshop takes JavaScript novices (and those with more experience) and introduces them the language with the goal of making an interactive web map using Leaflet.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
Some HTML and/or JavaScript knowledge is useful but not required.
Equipment Requirements
Computer w/ text editor and browser

Making the Most of Text: Using a Text-only Workflow with Markdown and Pandoc
2017-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Participants will be introduced to the reasons for considering a move from proprietary software like MS Word to text-based workflow, including preventing future obsolescence. They will get an introduction to the simple and popular markup language Markdown. They will learn to create word-processing documents with headers, links, images, tables and footnotes. Finally they will be introduced to pandoc, the document-conversion software that can take their Markdown documents and turn them into web pages, PDFs, presentations, and even Word documents. Along the way, the virtues of various related (open-source) software applications will be extolled. These include Zotero for bibliography and reveal.js for presentations.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
2017-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Interested in incorporating social media content into your qualitative research project? 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. Introductory level.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Advanced Omeka
2017-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, 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 your collections and exhibitions.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Omeka. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.
Equipment Requirements
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.

Design-Based Thinking for Humanists
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU, Great Room, 19 University Place, New York, NY, 10003, 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 visibility of your humanities scholarship.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
In this workshop, we’ll cover how to plan and prototype an online, interactive digital humanities storytelling project. The planning phase will include rapid sketching, user experience methods, and two ways of working: from big picture to details, and details to the big picture. We’ll investigate which method is appropriate in typical digital humanities circumstances. The interactives will be produced as sketches in free visualization software, Tableau Public, and we’ll also discuss other free academic sketching and protoyping resources available to digital humanists, such as R and Shiny R.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptops, notebooks, pens, and sticky notes

Intro to Omeka
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
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.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Experimenting with DH: A Beginner's Workshop
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
For the DH-curious, this workshop will cover finding and arranging open access historical data for experimentation with visualization tools. Tips and tricks for searching and extracting data from the Internet Archive and the HathiTrust Digital Library will be demonstrated, along with sharing best practices for organizing different types of data. Participants will experiment with the visualization capabilities of Voyant Tools and Carto, and begin thinking about the research methods underpinning the digital humanities.
Skill Level
Absolute Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Physical Computing 101 with Arduino
2017-02-08 13:30 - 15:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for this absolutely no-experience necessary workshop to introduce you to the basics of using Arduino, an open-source hardware and software prototyping platform, so you can begin to consider and develop your own projects. In this course, we’ll use critical experimentation as a way to think about interactivity in our computational world.
*Room: TBA
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
We will provide access to Arduinos and laptops through the GC Maker Space.

Sustaining and Growing your DH Projects
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
What does it take for a DH project to go from concept to community treasure? While some DH projects are purely experimental, many project leaders are eager to see their work grow and develop over time and become useful to a significant community of scholars and students.
This workshop will introduce digital project leaders to the basics of dynamic sustainability, the notion that for a project to continue to grow and develop over time, its leaders must create and encourage an ongoing cycle of support. Using examples of success stories from the field, the session will offer an outline of some practical steps you can take to develop a reliable sustainability model, exploring the role of audience, the host institution, and the potential for a range of revenue sources. Participants at all stages of work, from developing proposals to running established projects, are encouraged to attend.
Workshop leader Nancy Maron is author of Sustaining the Digital Humanities, Guide to the Best Revenue Models and Funding Sources for your Digital Resources, and several other reports and case studies concerning strategies for DH support. Prior to founding BlueSky to BluePrint, she led the Sustainability and Scholarly Communications team at Ithaka S+R. She currently serves as President of the Board of the Yonkers Public Library.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to Build a DH Corpus
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Students will learn how to use common OCR software, including Tesseract and ABBYY Finereader, to build the text corpora they need to for common DH methods such as text mining, topic modeling, bibliographic visualizations, and text-as-data analyses.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Making Maps into Webmaps with Leaflet.js
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
The workshop will introduce participants to one method of turning a map into a Web Map. The primary difference between a static map and a web map (in addition to the fact that one is on the web) is interactivity. We expect webmaps to respond to users by showing popups, highlighting features, or by being able to change layers and information. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of turning a map into a webmap.
We will be using the Javascript Library, Leaftlet to turn a pre-made static map with multiple layers of information into an interactive map that can be displayed within a webpage.
This workshop will be highly scaffolded so that knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript is not necessary, though familiarity with these languages will be helpful to get the most out of making web maps in this way. However, this workshop will provide a gentle introduction to the power of these languages and one tangible application.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
* Embed a static map into a web page
* Select tiles for the base map based on their needs
* Make custom markers for data points
* Add interactivity to a map by including tool tips
Participants will get the most out of this workshop by taking ‘Making Maps with QGIS’, but no GIS knowledge is assumed.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None. Familiarity with GIS, HTML, CSS, and Javascript is beneficial.
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Building Mobile Narratives and Games Using ARIS
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, United States
ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space.
Visitor’s will be required to sign in at the security desk.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop, some computers available

Introduction to FromThePage
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Room LL 306, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
FromThePage is an open-source platform for collaborating on texts, from simple, plain-text transcriptions to complex bilingual digital editions. The workshop will outline project steps, from collecting raw text images to producing searchable, exportable, indexed digital editions.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment & Software requirements
Laptop

Machine Learning: A Primer
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10016, United States
In recent years we have seen words related to recent developments in computer science and technology, like machine learning, artificial intelligence or neural networks, be used increasingly in diverse fields of research and of the society in general. This workshop will survey basic concepts of machine learning. No specific background is expected. The goal is to provide some vocabulary with which one can get a sense of what these computational methods are about. In addition, we will also survey existing machine learning-related resources that one can explore to learn further; the resources will address technical understanding as well as critical thinking about the many implications of the technology.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Making a Minimal Digital Edition of a Historical or Literary Text
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, 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

Intro to Networks
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 606, 144 West 14th, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop with Gephi installed

Machine Learning for the Study of Literary and Historical Corpora
2017-02-08 04:30 - 06:30 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, 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 of Python will be helpful. Participants will learn what these techniques are, some of the assumptions these techniques make, and how they can immediately apply these techniques to their own set of literary or historical texts. Larger implications of using these techniques for humanist study will also be discussed.
Skill Level
Beginner to Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptops required, participants will access jupyter notebooks via their web browser (no install required)

Strategies for Interactive and Immersive Dance
2017-02-07 13:30 - 15:30 | Kitchen Table Coders, 274 Morgan, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
We will discuss strategies for creating experiences and performances that cross the domains of software, sound, and dance while respecting each medium’s idiosyncratic strengths. D. Schmüdde will provide a brief overview of the hardware, software, and original code he wrote to track bodies and manipulate sound in “Borderless.” Co-creator Kim Burgas will discuss the process of developing a physical language for video and highlight how the subject matter affected the medium and how the medium affected the subject. After establishing this context, the group will workshop themes and initiatives brought by each member. This may include specific projects or general research interests. We’ll discuss tools and techniques, implementing by direct experimentation wherever possible.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment & Software requirements
None

Preserving Performance
2017-02-07 13:30 - 15:30 | American Jewish Historical Society at the Center For Jewish History, 5th Floor Conference Room, 15 W 16th St, 5th Floor Conference Room, New York, NY, 10011, United States
After a show closes, how you handle and store materials can mean the difference between preserving theatre legacy and irreversible damage and loss. This workshop introduces artists to the process of archiving their work, with tips on selection, storage and preservation. The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) is a collaboration of archivists, dramaturgs, and academics who support theatre makers in archiving records of their work for the benefit of future generations of artists, scholars, patrons, and the public.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Islandora Working Group
2017-02-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY, 10029, 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 first meeting of the group to discuss ideas, challenges, sharing information and ways of building a local community.
Audience
Information Professionals (libraries, archives, museums, digital humanities, colleges, etc.) interested in and/or using Islandora, an open-source content management system.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Introduction to Mapping with QGIS
2017-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
This workshop will introduce participants to creating static maps using QGIS.
QGIS is an open source mapping software that allows users to create maps and analyze data with a spatial component. This workshop is intended for those new to GIS who want to get started creating maps.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Create a base map
Add layers of data to a basemap
Perform a spatial join on two data sets
Perform calculations on a data set within QGIS.

These skills provide the foundation for analyzing spatial data and representing it for further analysis. We will discuss where to find spatial data as well. Participants in this workshop are encouraged to take the second half of this workshop where we will cover turning QGIS maps into web maps using Leaflet.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Participants must install QGIS in advance of the workshop. We will send out a link to registrants in advance of the workshop. Registrants must be able to download data to their machine.
