NYCDH Week

Humanitarian Open Street Mapping for All
2019-02-08 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | NYIT Library, 1855 Broadway (at 61st Street), New York, NY, 10023
How does digital map use work? Is it always free to use? When you hear open street mapping it may sound daunting, but it is an excellent introduction to GIS work as well as a low effort way to help organizations like the red cross, disaster response teams and more.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Information & Democracy
2019-02-08 14:00 - 20:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein Building, Cafeteria Atrium, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States
Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham in partnership with Wikimedia NYC will host this Edit-a-thon at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, editing support, reference materials, and refreshments. This event is free and open to the public. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and have registered for a Wikipedia account.

Analytical Modeling of Historic Buildings and Artifacts
2019-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This workshop is for anyone who is interested in learning more about digital modeling of the historic built world. The workshop samples some of the Building History Project’s recent projects in New York and abroad, along with a more detailed case study of on going work with Metropolitan Museum of Art conservator Pascale Patris. At the end of the talk we will set up a follow up session using the museum galleries for an “on site” demonstration of the documentation process and 3d printed study modeling that anyone can master in a few hours and tailor to their own teaching and research.
Requirements: Participants are encouraged to bring their own Mac laptops, and we will have them available to loan out as well.

Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
2019-02-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Learn small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis by using Ncapture and NVivo
Requirements: Attendees should have a Twitter account.

Digital Without Tears: Great (and Easy!) DH Tools for Teaching & Learning
2019-02-08 11:00 - 12:30 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Curious to get started with Digital Humanities tools in the classroom but concerned about the learning curve? Afraid that you need to be a coder to do DH? Fear not, there are tons of easy-to-use tools for creating DH projects, including timelines, interactive maps, websites and more—no coding required. This workshop will introduce participants to over half a dozen free (and mostly open-source) tools that can be learned in minutes to spice up pedagogy or enhance current scholarship.
Please register for this event at the following link: https://nyu.libcal.com/event/4873861

Social Annotation and Reading: Digital Pedagogy for Class Texts
2019-02-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Perusall (Perusall.com) is a fantastic new social reading and annotation tool that has come out of Harvard and the University of Texas that addresses the age-old question: “Are my students doing the reading?” Fordham University has implemented this tool in a number of classes this academic year and been impressed with the results. Come for an introduction to Perusall, a discussion of the faculty and student experience, and an exploration of the analytics and AI grading system that automatically scores student annotations for faculty.
Requirements: none.

Introduction to Manifold Scholarship
2019-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
This workshop introduces participants to Manifold Scholarship, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by The CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press and Cast Iron Coding. Manifold can be used to create attractive multimodal publications and customized teaching copies of literature in the public domain. Presenters will provide an overview of Manifold and demonstrate how faculty, students, and staff can use Manifold to publish scholarly works and OER materials to create vibrant digital editions for the classroom and beyond. The presentation will include a hands-on demonstration of Manifold’s collaborative annotation features and will showcase some exemplary uses of Manifold publishing.
Requirements: none.

Git and Atom
2019-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library, 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY, 10027
Learn how to use Git to put your projects, articles, and chapters under version control. Then, see how easy it is to integrate Git with Atom, a hackable text editor.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

An Introduction to Wikidata
2019-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, Birnbaum Library, Fishbowl Room, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY, United States
If Wikipedia aims to provide access to the sum of all human knowledge, Wikidata aims to structure it. The newest project of the Wikimedia movement, Wikidata is a collaboratively edited, free repository of linked open data that connects knowledge across all 301 language editions of Wikipedia and its sister projects. This workshop will introduce attendees to Wikidata and its applications to the digital humanities, with opportunities for hands-on editing.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

Multimedia Scholarship: Project-oriented and Alternative Forms of Academic Writing
2019-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 670, 721 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, United States
This workshop will consist of: a) a showcase of a range of multimedia scholarship and classroom projects, from digital and interactive to analog, and b) an introduction to some DIY and easily accessible tools for digital modes of writing. RSVPs are encouraged to mention what types of projects/scholarship they are interested in so that the workshop can be customized as much as possible.
Requirements: Attendees encouraged to bring their laptop and smartphone, but it is not required.

Sketchup: 3D Modelling
2019-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, United States
Sketchup is a 3D modeling program used for architectural and interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design. This workshop will look at the basics of working and creating with Sketchup, providing the tools necessary to conceptualize and plan a virtual exhibition space.
Requirements: none.

Beyond Bechdel: Using Computation to Analyze Gender in Film
2019-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Columbia University, Mudd Building, Computer Science Conference Room, 500 W. 120th Street, new york, NY, United States
This workshop will explore using computational methods to analyze gender in movies. Movies lend themselves nicely to computation, since researchers can leverage scripts, visuals, or metadata (e.g. genre, year, cast members and production crew). For example, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media used machine learning to automatically detect the gender of characters in top-grossing films, which allowed them to study gender metrics at scale, such as how many lines are given to different genders. We will spend the first part of the workshop covering studies like this one that use machine learning, natural language processing, and data science techniques.
After the overview, we will discuss the pros and cons of using computational methods for studying social phenomena. Then, we will provide attendees with a dataset of movie scripts (with a pre-prepared API for basic processing functions) and let them analyze it for potential patterns we brainstorm as a group. Those who do not know how to code can be paired with those who do. Given the range of content and the interdisciplinary material, we hope this workshop will appeal to anyone drawn to the topic, regardless of computational background.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop. Knowing basic Python and having Python 3 installed is a prerequisite for those who want to code at the end. For participants who don’t mind pairing up for the coding activity, no prerequisites are required.

Advanced Omeka
2019-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | 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.
Requirements: Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptop. Attendance of Introduction to Omeka or familiarity with Omeka is required. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.

Intermediate Carto
2019-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Know the basics of Carto and what to learn more? Join us for Intermediate Carto, which will cover advanced techniques for using Carto, such as implementing widgets to filter and manipulate your data and transforming your maps with built-in analysis features. Participants from Introduction to Carto as well as others who have a general knowledge of Carto are welcome to this session.
Requirements: This workshop will take place in a computer lab. Please sign up for a Carto account prior to the workshop. Introduction to Carto or working knowledge of Carto is a prerequisite.

Introduction to GitHub for Scholars
2019-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
In this workshop participants will learn how to create and use a GitHub repository in order to do collaborative work with each other.
Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

Intro to Omeka
2019-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | 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.
Requirements: Attendees should bring a laptop.

Intro to Networks
2019-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | 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.
Requirements: Attendees should bring a laptop with Gephi installed.

Introduction to Carto
2019-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
With almost 40% of the entire world carrying a GPS device around with them in their bag or pocket, digital mapping has exploded in both popularity and accessibility. Carto offers a powerful platform to creatively design maps to explore spatial relationships embedded in any topic or subject you are passionate about. Join us for Intro Carto, which will cover all the basics you’ll need to create beautiful and powerful digital maps. We will provide sample datasets you can use in this workshop. No mapping experience required and all are welcome.
Requirements: none.

Introduction to Network Analysis with Python
2019-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 | 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.
