NYCDH Week

Working with Open Data - intro to APIs
2019-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
There is so much data out on the web, knowing how to use APIs will let you explore and collect data in a reliable and efficient way.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop with Jupyter Notebook and Anaconda installed.

Make a simple webmap with Leaflet
2019-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library, 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY, 10027
Learn to make a website from scratch that features a simple webmap with Leaflet.
Prerequisites: HTML and JavaScript knowledge is useful but not required.
Requirements: attendees should bring their own laptop.

Developing a Digital Mapping Assignment for Your Course
2019-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105, 163 William St., New York, NY, 10038, United States
For instructors interested in developing a digital mapping assignment, this workshop will provide an overview of some of the most accessible options (Google Earth, StoryMap JS, ArcGIS) and provide examples of mapping assignments. Participants will be asked to submit an idea in advance (it can be very preliminary), which we will develop as part of the workshop.
Requirements: attendees should bring their own laptop.

Fair Use in the Digital Humanities
2019-02-05 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9204, 365 Fifth avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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.
Requirements: none

Beyond TEI: Metadata for Digital Humanities
2019-02-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 501, New York, NY, United States
High-quality metadata is essential for the description, discovery, and preservation of DH projects. While TEI is the most used metadata standard in DH, there is so much more to learn and explore! This course will introduce metadata schemas and standards such as Dublin Core, VRA, controlled vocabularies, and linked data and RDF in the DH context. A demo of OpenRefine will be given showing metadata/data cleaning and creating custom schemas. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how to structure metadata for their projects and how to use OpenRefine.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptop, but it is not required.

A Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Museums in the United States
2019-02-05 12:15 - 13:45 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, United States
David Schwittek and Sally Webster will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Tuesday, February 5, at 12:15 pm. Their talk is entitled “A Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Museums in the United States.”
The website, “The Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Art Galleries in the United States,” is a fully interactive, online recreation of New York’s Lenox Library Picture Gallery (1870-1911), published by the ejournal Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide. The Lenox Library Picture Gallery was located on the second floor of the Lenox Library (1870) on the Fifth Avenue site now home to the Frick Museum. The focus of this talk is two-fold: to view the website as a teaching and research tool for the study of collecting patterns and installation strategies of the post-Civil War, pre-Gilded Age period (the founding of the Lenox Library was contemporaneous with the incorporation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston), and to explore the site as a useful template for the reconstruction of other “lost” exhibitions for students of art and museum history, material and visual culture, as well as the digital humanities.
David Schwittek is an award-winning artist, designer, and filmmaker working in New York City. His current academic interests include UI/UX design, digital media and technology, documentary film, and fiber-based media. He is assistant professor of graphic design and digital media at Lehman College
Sally Webster is a much-published author in the field of American Art History including the recent essay, “The Lenox Library: New York’s Lost Treasure House,” published in the anthology, New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age (New York: Routledge Research in Art History, 2018). She was for many years a professor of art history at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Text as Data in the Humanities
2019-02-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
An introduction to text analysis for literature with a foundational overview of considerations for approaching computational text analysis in the humanities. This workshop will cover a) gathering text corpus, b) copyright considerations c) data cleaning, d) an introduction to the computational software tools e) reading the output and analysis that may include word frequencies, cluster analysis, wide spectrum analysis, and topic modeling, and f) a general overview of common questions asked in computational literary studies. This workshop is an introduction to working with text as data in the humanities.
Requirements: none
Please register here as well as at the following link: https://nyu.libcal.com/event/5021279

Introduction to Jekyll
2019-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
In this workshop you will learn how to use the static website generator, Jekyll. Jekyll is so flexible it can be used to create most modern forms of digital humanities projects and related projects, from personal professional pages, to fully functional digital exhibits.
Some familiarity with symbolic computing recommended, but not required. If using a Windows machine, please install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) before the workshop.
Requirements: attendees should bring their own laptops.

Hands-on with 360 Photo and Video Storytelling
2019-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444, 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NY, 10018
Tell stories and explore space from a first-person perspective in this workshop. See how to get started with 360-storytelling and try a 360 camera. We’ll watch a 360-video, go over immersive production tools, use the 360 camera and discuss how 360 can be applied to your work.
Requirements: attendees should bring a smartphone.

Building a Support Structure for Digital Humanities Research Projects in the Classroom
2019-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | NYU 726 Broadway, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B, New York, NY, 10003
This workshop will be a hands-on experience in which participants learn about the different aspects of support necessary for planning and implementing digital humanities research projects in the classroom. The session will be structured in a jigsaw format that puts participants in teams, assigns them functional roles (faculty member, student, instructional designer, librarian, technical staff), and presents them with one of two actual classroom research scenarios. New groups will then be assembled by roles for a brief information and coaching session from representatives of each of the functional groups who have experience in digital research projects. After the coaching session, the original groups reassemble and members share what they’ve learned as they articulate a brief statement of approach to their assigned scenario. Participants will gain hands-on experience structuring collaboration to produce learning.
Requirements: none

Digibar
2019-02-04 17:00 - 20:00 | The Empire Rooftop Bar, 44 w 63 st, New York, NY, 10023, United States
NYCDH folks never stop partying, so join us at an establishment of fine beverages to continue the conversations and celebrate!

NYCDH Kickoff Event: Information and Democracy
2019-02-04 10:00 - 17:00 | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States
Following last year’s highly successful event, NYCDH Week 2019 begins on February 4 with a kickoff gathering at Lincoln Center Campus (113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor). This year’s theme is Information and Democracy. The day-long event features speakers, roundtables, lightning talks and networking sessions.
Schedule
Registration: 10-10:30
Keynote: 10:30-11:30 – Meredith Broussard
Panel: 11:30-12:30 – Information, Democracy, Archives and Absence
Lunch: 12:30-1:30
Lightning Talks: 1:30-2:15
Graduate Student Awards and Presentations: 2:15-3:15
Break: 15 minutes
Roundtable: 3:30-4:30 – DH in K-12
Digibar: 5pm, Empire Hotel Rooftop
Keynote
Meredith Broussard
This year’s keynote speaker will be data journalist Meredith Broussard. Ms. Broussard is an assistant professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She is also interested in reproducible research issues and is developing methods for preserving innovative digital journalism projects in scholarly archives so that we can read today’s news on tomorrow’s computers.
Roundtables
In addition to our keynote there will be two roundtables at the NYCDH Kickoff Event:
Information, Democracy, Archives, and Absence
This panel offers a historical perspective for our kick-off day’s theme of Information and Democracy. As digitization makes archives more accessible, and as digital humanities methods such as mapping and computational analysis provide new ways of interrogating the relationship between knowledge and power, we ask how scholars are bringing about new insights about the relationship between the social and political challenges of our present and the lost voices of our past. Panelists will build on recent discussions of what Thomas Padilla has called “engaging absence” in the archive to demonstrate how DH enables us to contemplate what we know and how we know it and democratize the production of knowledge.
Panelists:

Juber Ayala, Library Associate Puerto Rican Community Archive, NJ Hispanic Research & Information Center at The Newark Public Library and graduate student in Rutger’s University’s Information Science program
Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University Libraries and Affiliate Faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Jenna Freedman – Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian, Personal Librarian for transfer and commuter students and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Wendy Hayden – Associate Professor, Department of English, Hunter College
Meredith Broussard – Assistant Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University (respondent)

Moderator: Kelley Kreitz, Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of Babble Lab, Pace University
DH in K-12
What are the challenges and success stories to date in adapting DH for K-12 education, and how might those experiences inform DH pedagogy in higher education? This panel contributes to an emerging conversation about expanding digital humanities into K-12 education. Panelists with experience running DH and computer science initiatives in public and private schools will discuss the opportunities that such initiatives provide to enhance K-12 education. They will also discuss how DH differs in a K-12 context, and how we can strengthen the relationship between K-12 and higher education DH communities.
Panelists:

Tom Liam Lynch, Associate Professor of Educational Technology, Co-Director of Babble Lab, Pace University
Dave Thomas, History Teacher, Trevor Day School
Cheryl Wolf, Librarian, NYC Public Schools
Ben Samuels-Kalow, Founder and Head of School, Creo College Prep Charter School, Bronx, NY

Moderator: Kimon Keramidas, Clinical Associate Professor, NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s Program
Graduate Student Award Presentations

Eamonn Bell (Columbia University), “A New Ground-Truth Data Set for Automatic Annotation Extraction from Musical Scores”
Lucia Motolinia Carballo (NYU), “Electoral Accountability and Local Public Goods: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico”
Katy Gero (Columbia University), “Visualizing Sonority to Augment Poetry Writing”
John Clegg (NYU), “African American Civil War Soldiers Project”

Free Lunch!!
Registrants to the kickoff event will be provided a free lunch courtesy of Fordham University. In order to guarantee a free lunch make sure you register for the kickoff event by January 29th!
Also, registration for workshops is open so go to our schedule or workshop listings and sign up now!

Word Embeddings: Can Vectors Encode Meaning?
2018-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Columbia University, CEPSR, Room 620, 530 West 120th Street, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Word embeddings, or vector representations of words, are commonly used in computer science to work with and analyze text. They are particularly useful as a powerful off-the-shelf tool when using open-source word embeddings previously generated by Google, Facebook, or other technology companies based on web crawls. We present the background and justifications for using vectors to represent meaning, how word embeddings are created, and applications of word embeddings in the social sciences and humanities. We’ll also touch on algorithmic bias, how this is presented in word embeddings, and what practitioners should be aware of.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: none

Experimenting with Locative Media/ AR
2018-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 670, 721 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, United States
This workshop will cover ways of incorporating locative media (such as Augmented Reality [AR] apps and Geographic Information System [GIS] platforms) into teaching. The workshop will be partly hands-on, demonstrating some easy-to-use AR and GIS tools, and partly discursive, illustrating collaborative student projects from Film and Media Studies courses to explore the pedagogical potential of these new locative media.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop or smartphone

Teaching with/on Scalar
2018-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105, 163 William St., New York, NY, 10038, United States
A hands-on overview of Scalar, a free, online platform designed for creating digital editions. This workshop will showcase and discuss examples of textbooks created on Scalar, offer a quick tutorial on the basics of using Scalar (pages, paths, adding users, tagging, adding images) and offer suggestions for how to incorporate this tool in the classroom.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Bring personal laptop. Also, you must create an account in advance at: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/ and obtain a registration key by emailing the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture here: https://scalar.me/anvc/contact/

Simple JavaScript Mapping
2018-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
A gentle introduction to JavaScript and manipulating webpages with the goal of making a map in Leaflet.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Bringing a personal laptop is suggested.

Analyzing Musical Performances with AMPACT
2018-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | NYU, Education Building, 6th Floor Conference Room, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Come and learn about the process of analyzing musical performances both in general and using the MATLAB-based Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). The workshop will primarily focus on extracting performance data for audio recordings for which is a corresponding musical score is available, but will also consider workarounds for audio without a corresponding score. Topics include: extracting low-level audio features, summarizing low-level features at the musical note-, beat-, and measure-levels, encoding performance data, and making comparisons between performances.

LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Please bring a laptop running MATLAB or Octave

Introduction to Islandora
2018-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY, 10029, United States
Islandora is an open-source software framework used by cultural institutions to create and share digital collections. The New York City Islandora Working Group (NYCIslandora) is composed of members in the local New York City area that currently use Islandora or are considering it for the future.
NYCIslandora will present an introductory workshop on Islandora for anyone interested in learning more about the system. The workshop will provide an overview of the system, how to manage and ingest content, and different ways organizations in NYC has implemented Islandora.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Attendees should bring a laptop

Digital and Spatial Study of Mosques: Xinjiang and Ningxia of China as Case Studies
2018-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105, 163 William St., New York, NY, 10038, United States
Different from conventional research methods, spatial study is designed to apply GIS to study space, time and mapping, all of which are valuable in analyzing religious institutions, sites and locations. Supported by multiple spatial, digital and statistical methods, this workshop selects eight cities and prefectures in China to examine the Islamic mosques based on accessible government data. Following the discussion of the methodologies and data, the workshop focuses on the density of the Muslim population in the selected cities by calculating the average number of Muslims attending one mosque. In addition, this workshop applies a spatial method, the Location Analysis Method, to scrutinize the availability of Islamic mosques by measuring the average distance between Chinese Muslim residential areas and their nearest mosque. Furthermore, this workshop employs two different spatial methods, the Two Step Floating Catchment Area and the Network Analysis Method, to investigate the accessibility of mosques by means of estimating the average driving time required for Muslims to reach the nearest mosque. After comparing the average rankings of density, availability and accessibility of mosques in the eight cities and prefectures, this workshop proposes three criteria for determining the accessibility of mosques in Xinjiang and Ningxia, two areas with heavy concentration of Muslim population in China.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: N/A

Programming with R
2018-02-08 18:30 - 20:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
R has become an indispensable tool for academics in a range of disciplines for analyzing data. Many users come to it though with limited programming experience which can often lead to many more headaches than anyone should reasonably suffer. This workshop attempts to make R a bit less painful. Fortunately the past few years have seen a flowering of open source packages that have tried to do just that. We will learn about some of these packages and how they can be incorporated into our projects. Though this workshop does not require you already know R, it makes more sense for those who have already begun using it or are considering using it for a future project.
LEVEL: Intermediate
NOTES: Can bring own laptop or borrow one at workshop

Advanced Omeka
2018-02-08 15:30 - 17:30 | 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.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Familiarity with Omeka. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.
NOTES: 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.

Introduction to Minimal Computing
2018-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
In this workshop we will introduce you to minimal computing concepts in general, and Jekyll and GitHub Pages in particular. Given our political & economic vulnerabilities, and the imminence of the anthropocene, several scholars/technologists have begun to design different workflows and tech for producing several genres of digital humanities that seek the essentials in a time of precarity, offering tentative answers to the question “What do we really need?” In this workshop, I will introduce you to the concepts with some hands on exercises. At the end of the workshop you will be exposed to the Alpha version of Jekyll Wax—a workflow and set of tools for static minimal exhibitions.
LEVEL: Intermediate
NOTES: Bring your own laptop. UNIX systems preferred (Mac or Linux).

Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project
2018-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 1103, 163 William St., New York, 10038
For this workshop, I’m going to introduce three tools for prototyping a Digital Humanities Project for interaction.
IDEA & FORM
We’ll introduce visual encoding methods, user-centered prototyping methods, and organizing principle for surveying the landscape and asking questions about your information.
IDIOM
We’ll look at common interactive patterns. We’ll use the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra to guide the interactive: Overview first, filter, zoom, and details on demand, to examine a user-centered experience.
STRUCTURE
We’ll look at simple sketching methods, pen on paper, working from the big picture to the details. Then, we’ll look at sketching from the details to the big picture, using Tableau Public, a free tool, to develop a story that answers the 6 W’s: Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why, and create an interactive prototype for online use, building from the details to the big picture (no coding needed). We’ll examine using a Story and Dashboard in Tableau to prototype and plan your project.
CRAFT & SURFACE
We’ll look at design and interaction principles to make the reading experience much more personal, beautiful, and reader-friendly. I’ll introduce affiliated design tools to accomplish this, free and paid (such as Illustrator vs. Inkscape; Invision App)
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop computer, Google Sheets, Tableau Public, pen and paper

Introduction to Omeka
2018-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | 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.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Bringing a personal laptop is recommended

Life of a Gothic Cathedral: An Interactive Experience
2018-02-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Our new website, Life of a Gothic Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens 1220-1530 is intended to change the way we understand and teach the cathedral: it was designed especially for use in the Core Curriculum. This session will be a demonstration of how the website allows you to experience Amiens Cathedral not just as a thing of the distant past, but existing in our own time and space. There will also be a discussion of the process of building the interactive experience and its pedagogical uses.
The three-hundred year “life” of the Gothic cathedral embraced the agency of three overlapping worlds of makers and users: the layfolk who visit it, the clergy in their sumptuous choir and the artisans who built it. The website will allow you to enter into each of these three worlds. You can do this by clicking on the three major buttons at the top of the home page or by reading the EText which is linked with the high-resolution images and panoramas.
LEVEL: Beginner

R for Text Analysis
2018-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
In this workshop, we will use R for text analysis, with a focus on the Tidy Text approach within the Tidytext framework. Your insights will be visualized and can also be turned into an interactive without any web coding skills, using Shiny R. The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in this topic. No prior experience in R is needed.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop computer with WIFI; paper and pen for sketching and note taking. You don’t need R and R Studio installed prior to the workshop, but it would help to do so. The workshop will be an online interactive.

How to Make Your Humanities Course More Digital: The Syllabus Re-design
2018-02-08 09:00 - 11:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
One of the most valuable tools in any course is the syllabus as it establishes the first connection between teachers and students, which also means the syllabus can set the course tone and create the impression of whether the course will a success or failure. A good, concise syllabus can answer many of the initial questions students may have as well as lessen anxieties felt by students. The power of the syllabus cannot be understated, which is why the principles of syllabus design require exploration and discovery.
In the age of digitizing of almost every aspect of our lives it is important to pay attention to how we approach teaching Humanities courses. By exploring the consequences of integrating the infocommunication technologies into social media, politics, economics and social life we could create a fruitful DH course syllabus by re-designing an existed one.
How to make your Humanities course more digital? What platform to choose for communicating with your students? How to adjust the tasks to make them more effective and productive for your class?
By the end of this task-based learning workshop, participants will not only have learned the core principles of re-designing the Humanities course syllabus, but will have been provided by a vital supplementary pedagogical training to make the existed Humanities course more digital.
LEVEL: Beginners
NOTES: N/A

Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
2018-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | 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.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: N/A

ARIES (Art Research Exploration Space)
2018-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Frick Art Reference Library, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021, United States
Working with Dr. Claudio Silva and Dr. Lhaylla Crissaff at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, we have designed a prototype for a system we have dubbed ARIES for ARt Image Exploration Space. Aries is an interactive image manipulation system that allows for the exploration and organization of fine art images (of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, etc.) taken from multiple sources (e.g. websites, digital photographs, scans) in a virtual space. ARIES provides a novel, intuitive interface to explore, annotate, rearrange, and group art images freely in a single workspace environment, using organizational ontologies (collections, etc.) drawn from existing best practices in art history. The system allows for multiple ways to compare images, from using dynamic overlays analogous to a physical light box to advanced image analysis and feature–matching functions available only through computational image processing. Additionally, users may import and export data to and from ARIES.
In this workshop, we will demonstrate the tool’s functionality and participants will be able to work with an open-source BETA version.
LEVEL: Beginner

How To Set Up a Web Server for Teaching and Research
2018-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | DigitalOcean, 101 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10013, United States
This workshop will go over how to complete an initial Linux server setup for use with the web. We will go over security, firewalls, HTTPS, and high availability. Administering one’s own server rather than relying on managed web hosting companies empowers researchers, teachers, and students by providing them with complete control over their web assets. The resulting setup can be used with WordPress, Omeka, Scalar, and Drupal websites, and will be ready for use with domain names. In addition to providing an entry point to the web, servers can also enable teams of researchers and students to collaborate on programming projects or access shared data.
LEVEL: Beginner level. Familiarity with the command line / terminal would be great but not required.
NOTES: Participants should bring a laptop that they have administrative access to, such as a personal computer. A Mac or Linux laptop will work out of the box. If they are bringing a Windows laptop, they should set up an SSH client prior to the workshop by following a guide (e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/).
