NYCDH Week

NYCDH Karaoke
2021-02-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, NY, United States
Contribute your born-digital cultural output by singing your favorite songs with other NYCDHWeek participants – or support your colleagues and enjoy our musical productions! There are karaoke videos on YouTube for thousands of songs, from the latest hits to the deepest cuts to the goldenest oldies – and we’ll take turns performing for each other.
Here are tips for the optimal singing experience, including how to configure your Zoom!
Prerequisites: none!!
Equipment: Your voice! Sense of rhythm, pitch, and tone optional but recommended. It also helps to have a wireless headset.

Working with Data: From Formats to Ethics
2021-02-12 18:00 - 20:00
This workshop offers a space for participants to develop their data literacies and experiment with the role of humanistic inquiry in data work, and vice versa. We’ll start with a primer on data types, formats, and modeling, bringing into focus information genres that we encounter every day but often take for granted (like tables and lists). Equipped with the basics of data structures, we’ll spend the second half of our session cultivating care-informed data practices. We’ll explore what this year’s theme — “Care and Repair” — means for how we “do” data work, including humanities data management and data-driven research and pedagogy. Participants will learn about the affordances and critiques of “restorative” data approaches that seek to “fill” gaps caused by the systematic omission and erasure of marginalized peoples. We’ll discuss frameworks and strategies that have emerged from data feminism, digital justice, and critical data studies in order to think intentionally about the role of data in our scholarship and teaching. This workshop is designed for humanities scholars and students who are interested in pursuing data-driven work and who want to develop critical and ethical — rather than purely instrumental — data practices, though folks from all disciplines are welcome!

Introduction to IIIF, the International Image Interoperability Framework
2021-02-12 15:00 - 17:00
“Introduction to IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)” In this workshop, we will explore IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) and the work in the IIIF community towards universal standards for describing and sharing images online (https://iiif.io). With common viewing platforms, we can obtain interoperable digital image content to display, edit, annotate, and share images on the web, for example artworks, maps, and musical scores.

Hybrid Teaching: Tips, Tricks, and (Productive) Fails
2021-02-12 15:00 - 17:00
This session will focus on hybrid teaching methods adaptable to various subjects and fields. Participants will be introduced to new (and DIY) tools and practices for collaborative learning, mind-mapping, visualizations, and other low/no-budget platforms. The demonstration and talk will be followed by a showcase of student projects and other virtual classroom activities.

Building a Commons for Open Learning with Commons In A Box OpenLab
2021-02-12 13:00 - 15:00
Commons In A Box OpenLab is free, open-source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world.
The project brings together Commons In A Box, the software that powers NYCDH (CBOX, https://commonsinabox.org/), and City Tech’s OpenLab platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/). The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX that provides a powerful and flexible alternative to costly proprietary systems and is already being adopted at CUNY and beyond.
We will introduce CBOX OpenLab and demonstrate its features and functionality, using examples from City Tech’s OpenLab and BMCC’s installation of the software (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/). Then we will discuss how you might use (or are already using) CBOX OpenLab, and the benefits and challenges of open learning.

Advanced Omeka
2021-02-12 13:00 - 15:00
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.
Although not required, attendees are encouraged to have file transfer (i.e. Cyberduck, Filezilla) and text editing software (i.e. TextEdit, Notebook, TextWrangler, TextMate, Bbedit) installed on their computers.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Omeka. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.

Cybersecurity for Humanists
2021-02-12 13:00 - 15:00
In this session, we will discuss security challenges facing the humanities and how to defend research interests online. We will learn many of the common terms and issues related to Cybersecurity and think about how to protect our project infrastructure beyond institutional IT requirements. We will discuss how to detect, respond, and recover from an attack. We will think about a broader threat model for the humanities and academic research in general. We will also take time to consider particular threats faced by researchers engaged in politically charged issues. There are no prerequisites to participate in this session.

Reclaim Your Academic Cyberinfrastructure
2021-02-12 10:00 - 12:00
Coming to you from the people behind Reclaim Hosting and Reclaim Cloud, this 2-hour demonstration will look at everything from open source tools on LAMP environments like cPanel to Docker-based hosting in the Cloud. In particular, the demonstration will focus on the conceptual and practical shift cloud-based hosting represents for Digital Humanists working with a suite of technical tools for their teaching, research, and scholarship.
NB: The NYCDH Steering Committee would like to thank Reclaim Hosting for sponsoring this year’s NYCDH Week! Their generous donation will go towards this year’s graduate student awards. We are grateful for their assistance and happy to have them participate in the NYCDH Week festivities with this demonstration.
Follow these links for more information about Reclaim Hosting and Reclaim Cloud.

Brooklyn College Covid-19 Archive@ A Journal of the Plague Year
2021-02-12 10:00 - 12:00
This digital archive has collected stories and experiences from the Brooklyn College community related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The archive resides within the larger, omnibus archive, A Journal of the Plague Year. This demonstration will review the principles that guided the project, the submission process and explore possible digital humanities projects based upon the archive content.

Fair Use in the Digital Humanities
2021-02-12 10:00 - 12:00
A crash course on fair use, particularly for digital scholarship projects that use copyrighted works as data. We will look at the wiggle room built into the fair use clause of U.S. copyright law, and at what that wiggle room has allowed. We will also look at the increasing importance of transformativeness in court rulings about fair use.

Build Your Own Text-as-Data Corpus: A Print-to-Bytes Primer
2021-02-11 18:00 - 20:00
This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to construct their own digital text corpus for conducting humanities data analysis. We’ll cover simple tools for turning printed texts in a variety of languages into computer-readable files, the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, and consider helpful tools for post-process correction of digitized texts. We’ll also look at open-access text-as-data sources available over simple web-browser-based API calls. The workshop is geared toward digital humanists needing to assemble text data that are not yet compiled or in computer readable form for analysis, and who are looking for an introduction to the workflows and software suited to building the research materials needed for analysis. We’ll learn how to use Tesseract, an open-source OCR software, consider the anatomy of an HOCR file (the output of OCR efforts), and deploy techniques for extracting structured information from a page.
Computer with a text editor installed such as BBEdit, TextWrangler, Atom, Notepad++ or the like; administrator access to install open-source software (Tesseract).

Tips and Strategies for Enacting Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Working Collaboratively
2021-02-11 16:30 - 18:00
Within the DH community, we often talk about interdisciplinarity and collaboration as a given. But in reality, there remain very real obstacles to working in these ways. Institutional resistance, orthodoxy in one’s field, or a lack of visible partners can all make it very difficult to find the proper environment to do interdisciplinary or collaborative work. In this session, we hope to gather people from both sides of the coin, those who’ve been able to find collaborations and those for whom it has been a struggle. We will share strategies and stories and discuss how along with administrative, disciplinary, and technical obstacles, these environments can be both enabled and hindered by personalities and dispositions towards working together and negotiating how to manage the reins of control.

Accessible Design
2021-02-11 13:00 - 15:00
Over the last thirty years, the internet has become of vital importance to daily life, especially in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic when nearly all interactions for non-essential workers have gone online. Nevertheless, accessibility on the internet has often remained a low priority, making this indispensable resource difficult to use for many people. Participants in this workshop will learn how to combat this problem by being proactive in their own design. We will discuss why accessibility is important, best practices for designing an accessible site or visualization, and some of the follies of “universal design.” We will conclude with some hands-on practice with accessibility checkers that participants can use for their own work.

Podcasting 101
2021-02-11 13:00 - 15:00
Podcasts are an exciting medium for public scholarship. If you have ever thought about launching your own independent podcast project then this workshop is for you! In this workshop, learn the basics of developing, producing, distributing, and marketing your own independent podcast project from Anuli Akanegbu, NYU Doctoral Student and the producer behind “The BLK IRL Podcast” (www.blkirl.com). No audio recording/editing experience is expected or required. This workshop will focus on the non-technological aspects of podcast production.

Archiving digital projects using the DDP
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00
The Digital Documentation Process allows scholars to catalog and produce a reliable archive of their digital projects, so that fellow scholars can access, cite, and reuse in their own work. This workshop will outline the components of the DDP and teach participants how to catalogue their own projects. https://digitalhumanitiesddp.com/
Participants should have a project they want to catalog, or work with scholars who wish to catalog their projects for long-term access and reference.
Prerequisites: Participants should have a project they want to catalog, or work with scholars who wish to catalog their projects for long-term access and reference

Introduction to Omeka
2021-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
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.

Using Google Sheets to Create, Organize and Explore Your Humanities Data
2021-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet program, equivalent in some ways to Microsoft Excel, with a wide array of features and uses. For people who would like to embark on a digital humanities project, it is one of many options for organizing data.
This workshop is aimed at total beginners and will introduce a few ways to facilitate automatic data entry, organization, and visualization on Google Sheets. The skills presented in this workshop are suitable for anyone working with spreadsheets, and apply for any project in which there is repeated information (names, places, objects, dates). We will learn to sort and filter data, auto-populate cells, and organize sheets visually.
The workshop is in three parts: first, an overview of Google Sheets and potential use cases (e.g., art exhibitions over time, books authored by a publishing house); second, a detailed explanation of some of Google Sheets’ features (Code Tables, Data Validation, Conditional Formatting, VLookup, Column Stats and Filters, and Pivot Tables); and third, a walkthrough of these tools using a sample data set. Participants can follow along with the walkthrough by using their own data or the sample set provided.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with Google Sheets or Excel.
The course will be carried out using Google Sheets. You will be added to a shared sheet using the email address that you provide for the registration, so a Google account is required. Participants can also observe the process without using the Sheets and can use their own data set to practice the skills learned.

Bringing Eileen Online: Reimagining Bard Graduate Center's Eileen Gray Exhibition during the Pandemic
2021-02-11 10:00 - 11:00
When Covid-19 hit New York City in March, Bard Graduate Center was forced to close the Eileen Gray exhibition that had opened to the public just two weeks earlier. With no timeline for reopening and limited access to the gallery space, the curatorial staff coordinated with the Director of DH/DX (Digital Humanities and Exhibitions) to devise a plan to bring the exhibition to life online. These efforts resulted in an interactive exhibition featured in the New York Times that reimagined the objects and research on display in the gallery and aimed at reaching a global audience during the pandemic.
Eileen Gray Online Exhibition
This demo will explore the challenges involved in transferring the objects and spirit of a physical exhibition online. It will also reveal some of the tools BGC used to create interactive experiences for the project and outline the ways in which this endeavor provided a new path forward for future exhibitions at the institution.
This demo is hosted by:
Emma Cormack: Associate Curator at Bard Graduate Center
Jesse Merandy: Director of Digital Humanities and Digital Exhibitions at Bard Graduate Center

Implementing Learner-Created Podcasts
2021-02-11 08:00 - 10:00
As global podcast listenership continues to grow, students are now aware and interested in the medium. Podcasts can be an engaging collaborative course activity and/or assignment and it works well in the remote learning environment. This workshop will focus on implementing learner-created podcasts in the classroom including rubrics on how to assess creative content. No audio or podcasting experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome to join, though space is limited.
Before attending this session, please listen to some podcasts (come prepared to share some of what you’re listening to).
-Here are some student produced podcasts:

https://soundcloud.com/woubdigital/sets/the-outlet
https://soundcloud.com/ohradiogirl/sets/jrmc-award-winning-audio
https://undercover.transistor.fm/

Collecting Twitter Data for Research
2021-02-10 18:00 - 20:00
Twitter data provide researchers with a real-time view into a wide variety of social and cultural topics. In this workshop, we’ll explore beginning and intermediate tools for collecting social media data from Twitter.
Attendees will need a Google/Gmail account, a Twitter account, and an Rstudio Cloud account (free)
Prerequisites: A Google/Gmail account, a Twitter account, an Rstudio Cloud account (free)

Providing and Managing a Diverse and Accessible Classroom/Community Through Technological Means
2021-02-10 16:30 - 18:00
Although distanced learning can have many potential benefits, including making it easier for students to schedule classes around their other life commitments, we’ve seen that this format can also highlight and widen learning and accessibility gaps. In this session, we’ll discuss strategies for ensuring our (virtual and tech-enhanced) classrooms are equitable, ethical, and promote community building. We will brainstorm resources and share experiences regarding how to support students’ self-discovery on issues of privacy, decolonization, and accessibility.

OpenRefine for Beginners
2021-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
Looking to organize and rearrange a large spreadsheet for a project? Join us for an interactive, step-by-step introduction to OpenRefine, an open source desktop application described as “a powerful tool for working with messy data.” This session will cover OpenRefine basics including editing and reconciling data, transforming data into different formats, and connecting to external data sources like Wikidata.
Equipment/Software Requirements: A computer (running Windows, Mac, or Linux operating systems) with OpenRefine 3.4.1 and Google Chrome installed. We can try to guide participants through installation at the beginning of the workshop if needed. A sample data set will be provided for exercises and experimentation.

Intro to Wordpress: The Block Editor
2021-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
WordPress is an advanced CMS (Content Management System) that can be employed to build a wide-variety of online projects from personal academic sites to online exhibitions. Come learn about WordPress and the new block editor (the artist formerly known as Gutenberg), which offers a new visual editing experience for media rich pages and posts.
This intro-level workshop is a perfect introduction to WordPress or a refresher for those who haven’t used the platform in a while.

Introduction to Open Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2021-02-10 13:00 - 15:00
Open access, open science, open knowledge, open data … what does all of this openness mean, and what does it mean for those working in or alongside the humanities in particular? This offering will explore the role of open knowledge dissemination in the humanities, academia, and at large. We will focus on the history, evolution, forms, and impact of open digital scholarship within the domain of scholarly communication. Our time together will be content- and discussion-driven, but we’ll also engage with an open publishing tool or two. This workshop is geared toward students, librarians, scholars, publishers, government representatives, and others who are invested in the open development and sharing of research output.

Mapping with Palladio
2021-02-10 10:00 - 12:00
“Mapping with Palladio” Palladio (https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio) is a web-based tool for investigating and visualizing multi-dimensional data. In this workshop, we will learn to visualize humanistic research data on a map, and track connections between data points.

Exploring City Narratives with the Elements of Gamification
2021-02-10 10:00 - 12:00
Considering the discursive and associative nature of cultural heritage data that has been pointed out by various scholars, the speakers will raise the questions of its relevant representation within the database on the demonstration of the work-in-progress “Que.St” mobile app. Que.St is a mapping project for representing culturally significant locations in Saint-Petersburg. First, through their links with historic personalities associated with them and, second, through the mobile application which provides users with interactive novels and quests around the city. Designed as an open-source project, the project’s mission is not only to raise awareness about culturally significant sites among the local community but also to engage them in the evaluation of historic locations and collection of relevant data.

Introduction to Arabic Text Processing with Python and CAMeL Tools
2021-02-10 10:00 - 12:00
This workshop introduces the basics of Arabic text processing. The workshop consists of two parts. We first introduce the basic challenges and common tasks associated with Arabic natural language processing. We then present CamelTools, a Python Open-Source toolkit for Arabic processing that addresses the challenges and targets the tasks. The second part of the workshop will be hands-on and introduces general Python text processing utilities, CamelTools utilities for transliteration, normalization, morphological analysis and disambiguation, named-entity recognition, dialect identification and sentiment analysis.
Note: Participants should have access to COLAB, with 3.0GB available on Google Drive for running interactively (needs a gmail account). Participants should have some skills in programming (Jupyter notebooks, Python, command line, etc.). Arabic literacy is not necessary, but obviously helpful.

Archiving Web Content With Conifer
2021-02-10 08:00 - 10:00
The composition of corpus, analysis and preservation of Web archive is crucial for Social Sciences and Humanities. Conifer (ex Webrecorder) developed by Rizhome offers a wide range of possibility to start the simple and fast constitution of standardized research corpus. After a quick introduction to the problematic and landscape of Web Archiving, this Workshop aim at learning how to use Conifer and build a first set of archived Web pages.

QuicheGIS: A cooking show style introduction to thinking about geospatial projects and transforming text to maps
2021-02-10 08:00 - 10:00
This session will focus on learning to think about geospatial projects and will demonstrate the data collection, creation, and mapping steps by:

Planning the menu (thinking about your sources and ideas),
Mise en place (structuring point data in a spreadsheet prior to GIS work),
Cooking (plotting, styling, or analyzing data),
Serving (sharing the end product or map)

Attendees are welcome to follow along as much as possible on their own computers. However, the outcome of this session is for attendees to gain confidence and awareness surrounding spatial and tabular thinking for geospatial projects by utilizing open resources. View session outline and resources: tiny.cc/quichegis
Prerequisites:

Ability to use and navigate spreadsheet software, especially Google Sheets.
Prior experience with GIS or mapping is NOT required.
Experience with analysis, visualization, or complex software suites (e.g., Stata, R, Adobe Creative Suite) is recommended for participants who wish to fully participate.
Download AND install QGIS 3.X prior to start of session for full participation. This session will NOT provide a space for download and install assistance.

Equipment software: QGIS 3.X: https://download.qgis.org/ (The instructor will use 3.10 Coruña but any prior 3.X version should work. DO NOT DOWNLOAD LATEST RELEASE, 3.16). View the NYU Data Services install guide for assistance: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mfhx3F7rSeKkfUhVtB1eDMf1kHeQR8EWeRyjBJSuDVs/edit?usp=sharing

Introduction to Manifold Scholarship
2021-02-09 18:00 - 20:00
Please join the GC Digital Initiatives for this workshop on Manifold Scholarship, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by the CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding. Learn about how Manifold allows you to create beautiful, dynamic projects that can include text, images, video, embedded resources, and social annotation. We will provide an overview of Manifold and demonstrate how faculty, students and staff can use Manifold to publish scholarly works, host community discussion and/ or peer review through annotations and reading groups, and create custom edited versions of public domain course texts and OER. The presentation will include a hands-on demonstration of how to publish your first text—either something you have written or a public domain or openly licensed text. We will also cover how to customize your project’s structure, look, and feel, and how you can participate in conversations in the margins of your texts using Manifold’s social annotation features.
