NYCDH Week

Introduction to Network Analysis with Python
2019-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Networks are increasingly common aspects of contemporary life: social networks, transportation networks, information networks, citation networks, and more. Networks consist of nodes (individual people or things) and edges (links, relationships, or interactions) that connect them. Researchers increasingly use network analysis to investigate the structures and connective relationships of networks relevant to their discipline. In this workshop, you will learn foundational concepts of network analysis, be introduced to basic tools for conducting network analysis, and practice producing a graph visualization using a real database.
Requirements: Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop but we will have laptops available to loan out.

Open Pedagogy & Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
2019-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This session will introduce the open teaching possibilities of the CUNY Academic Commons. We will detail how the Commons facilitates teaching with OER and will walk you through several course models for open teaching.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

Simple-CV
2019-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library, 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY, 10027
Create a pdf and html CV for yourself out of plain text files and set up a personal CV page for free.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

Doing DH at a Predominantly Technical University
2019-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
Do you work at a predominantly technical university? Are you Interested in developing curricula and degree programs in Digital Humanities? This workshop will introduce work being done to develop Digital Humanities at ITMO University in Saint-Petersburg (Russia), which recently established an International DH Lab co-directed by workshop instructors Antonina Puchkovskaya and Kimon Keramidas. During the workshop, we will share the challenges of developing DH curriculum and programming at a predominantly technical university, address the different administrative and pedagogical perspectives at tech institutions, discuss how getting buy-in from constituencies can pose particular challenges. We will also discuss how collaborative work started during NYCDH Week 2018 led to the establishment of the center and the development of a MA in Digital Humanities that will be launching in the fall of 2019. The workshop will also cover using the cultural heritage sector to find projects and an open conversation with people already working or just starting to develop DH in environments such as this.
Requirements: none.

Introduction to Web Accessibility for DH
2019-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Interested in making sure that your DH project is accessible to people with disabilities? Curious about web accessibility but not sure what it is or where to start? Join us for an introductory session focused on the relationship between code, design, and web accessibility for people with disabilities and/or those using assistive technologies to navigate digital content. This workshop will provide resources and hands-on experimentation with multiple tools that can help to ensure that your born-digital scholarship is accessible to the widest possible audiences online.
Requirements: none.

Data Epistemologies: Intro to Data Taxonomies
2019-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | NYU English Department Event Space, 244 Greene St., First floor, New York, NY, 10003
Increasingly, humanities scholars are turning to data as a key element of both humanities research and teaching: as DH methods become more prevalent and accessible, students and researchers begin to seek out, digitize, or generate data sets such as cartographic data for mapping, unstructured textual data for distant reading and computational processing, or controlled vocabularies for XML/TEI markup.
But it’s not always clear what forms our humanities data can and should take, or how these structures might affect the results of our work. In this session, participants will receive a primer in data formats and uses, including the differences between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data and the file formats they encompass. We will work together to think critically about the implications of data organization (including for ethics and accessibility) and about how data-driven projects can serve as sites of epistemological critique, pedagogy, and self-reflection in our work and the work of those we teach.
This workshop is meant primarily for humanities instructors or students who are interested in the *idea* of data-driven projects, either as pedagogical tools or components of their own research, but don’t feel they have the basic familiarity with data taxonomies necessary to make informed, intentional decisions. While we won’t linger on any one particular tool or file format (except by popular demand), participants are encouraged to bring a laptop (Chromebooks OK) to explore some data files up close and tinker with structures. Emphasis will be on data drawn from sources pertaining to history and literature, but I’m happy to take requests by email in advance of our meeting!
Laptop computer recommended but not required.

Using IMDb as a Dataset for Digital Humanities
2019-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | SUNY-Empire State College Manhattan, 325 Hudson Street 3rd floor, Room 320, New York, NY, 10013
Cindy Conaway, an associate professor in Media Studies and Communication and Diane Shichtman an associate professor in Information Systems at SUNY Empire State College will discuss using the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and its advantages and challenges as a dataset for Digital Humanities. In many ways IMDb is an excellent source for Digital Humanities projects and gives media studies scholars a new way to use Digital Humanities. The organization makes it free to download a great deal of its very robust data. However much of IMDb’s data is inconsistent, incomplete, and often wrong or misleading. The downloadable information is also limited to certain categories. This presentation will also discuss the challenges of interdisciplinary work, and how changes in IMDb’s process over several years, and differing views available to scholars can also create issues as we have found in our project tracing connections using the show Seinfeld.
Requirements: none.

Betwyll: discover the potential of social reading
2019-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Betwyll is a social reading app which allow people to comment text in short messages. It can be employed as a didactic tool to make students read literary texts but it can also be applied to more performative texts, allowing people to express their skills and at the same time to build a community of readers, which can develop outside the app.
Attendees should bring a mobile devices (smartphone or tablets) and have the Betwyll app downloaded from Google and Apple Stores (it is free).

What matters to your Congressperson?
2019-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
What topics most preoccupy your member of Congress? Are those the sorts of things you prioritize? In this workshop users will learn how to navigate a database of Congress to constituent e-newsletters and how to perform text analyses in R to get a top level core of what members of Congress most focus on in public communication.
Requirements: attendees should bring their own laptop.

Intro to the Command Line
2019-02-06 10:30 - 12:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
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!
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

Advanced Topics in Word Embeddings
2019-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Word embeddings are the hottest new technology in natural language processing, and are used across linguistic computer science, from machine translation to information extraction and computational literary analysis. We will cover advanced topics in word embeddings, including: document similarity analysis, nearest-neighbor analysis, training vector spaces, and visualization. We will use literary texts as examples, but the methods are applicable across disciplines, and participants are encouraged to bring their own corpora to analyze. Python will be our workshop language, and we will use the libraries SpaCy, Word2Vec, and Sense2Vec.
Requirements: Please bring a laptop on which you’ve installed the Python libraries SpaCy, scikit-learn, pandas, matplotlib, word2vec, and sense2vec, as well as the `en_core_web_lg` language model. Check that you can load it successfully with `spacy.load(‘en_core_web_lg’)`. Refer to the SpaCy documentation for instructions on installing the language model. Working knowledge of Python is also necessary.

Working with Open Data - intro to APIs
2019-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 | 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
