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Building a Support Structure for Digital Humanities Research Projects in the Classroom
NYU 726 Broadway 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B, New York, NYThis 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), […]
Free
Hands-on with 360 Photo and Video Storytelling
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NYTell 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.
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Introduction to Jekyll
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesIn 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 […]
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Text as Data in the Humanities
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesAn 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 […]
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A Digital Recreation of the Lenox Library Picture Gallery: A Contribution to the Early History of Public Museums in the United States
Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, United StatesDavid 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 […]
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Beyond TEI: Metadata for Digital Humanities
Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 501 New York, NY, United StatesHigh-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 […]
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Fair Use in the Digital Humanities
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9204 365 Fifth avenue, New York, NY, United StatesA 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
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Developing a Digital Mapping Assignment for Your Course
Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United StatesFor 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 […]
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Make a simple webmap with Leaflet
Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NYLearn 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.
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Working with Open Data – intro to APIs
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesThere 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.
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Advanced Topics in Word Embeddings
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesWord 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 […]
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Intro to the Command Line
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesLearn 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 [...]
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What matters to your Congressperson?
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesWhat 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 […]
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Betwyll: discover the potential of social reading
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesBetwyll 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 […]
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Using IMDb as a Dataset for Digital Humanities
SUNY-Empire State College Manhattan 325 Hudson Street 3rd floor, Room 320, New York, NYCindy 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 […]
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Data Epistemologies: Intro to Data Taxonomies
NYU English Department Event Space 244 Greene St., First floor, New York, NYIncreasingly, 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 […]
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Introduction to Web Accessibility for DH
Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesInterested 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 […]
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Doing DH at a Predominantly Technical University
NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United StatesDo 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 […]
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Simple-CV
Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NYCreate 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.
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Open Pedagogy & Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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.
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Introduction to Network Analysis with Python
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesNetworks 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 […]
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Introduction to Carto
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWith 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 […]
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Intro to Networks
School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609 Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609This 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.
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Intro to Omeka
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesOmeka 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 […]
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Introduction to GitHub for Scholars
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesIn 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.
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Intermediate Carto
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesKnow 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 […]
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Advanced Omeka
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesBuilding 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. […]
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Beyond Bechdel: Using Computation to Analyze Gender in Film
Columbia University, Mudd Building, Computer Science Conference Room 500 W. 120th Street, new york, NY, United StatesThis 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 […]
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Sketchup: 3D Modelling
Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, United StatesSketchup 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.
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Multimedia Scholarship: Project-oriented and Alternative Forms of Academic Writing
Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 670 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 […]
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An Introduction to Wikidata
Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, Birnbaum Library, Fishbowl Room 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY, United StatesIf 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 […]
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Git and Atom
Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NYLearn 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.
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Introduction to Manifold Scholarship
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NYThis 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 […]
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Social Annotation and Reading: Digital Pedagogy for Class Texts
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPerusall (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 […]
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Digital Without Tears: Great (and Easy!) DH Tools for Teaching & Learning
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesCurious 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 […]
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesLearn small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis by using Ncapture and NVivo Requirements: Attendees should have a Twitter account.
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Analytical Modeling of Historic Buildings and Artifacts
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 […]
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Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Information & Democracy
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein Building, Cafeteria Atrium 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWikipedia 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. […]
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Humanitarian Open Street Mapping for All
NYIT Library 1855 Broadway (at 61st Street), New York, NYHow 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 […]
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