NYCDH Week

Lightning Talks 2017
2016-11-22 03:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | NY
A integral part of the NYCDH agenda is supporting and building our community! To foster this initiative, the kick off event for NYCDH Week features a session of three-and-a-half minute (3:30) lightning talks that showcase a wide range of DH work done across the NYCDH community. Following is a list of presenters for this year:

NYCDH Week 2017 Kickoff Gathering
2017-02-06 04:30 - 12:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Our big event! A full day of networking, lightning talks, an NYCDH roundtable, and a keynote delivered by our first NYCDH Award winner will be followed by a social outing at a local watering hole. This is your opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones and get to know your New York City Digital Humanities community.
NYCDH’s Kickoff Gathering will be hosted by The Graduate Center, CUNY at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) See the map to the right for specific location.
All are welcome and an RSVP is strongly encouraged (see bottom right of this page). Participants will be asked to show a picture ID in order to enter the building. Tell the security desk that you are attending the NYC DH Week Kickoff meeting. Proceed to the elevator bay, take the elevators to the 9th floor, then follow signs to rooms 9204-9207.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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9:30-10:00
Check-in and Morning Mingling
Once you’ve arrived and checked-in, meet old friends, make new ones, get pumped up for the festivities that lie ahead!

10:00-10:30
Welcome to NYCDH Week
A quick framing of the day, NYCDH’s origins, and the impetus behind DHWeek

10:30-12:00
Presentations by NYCDH Graduate Student Award Winners

12:00-1:30
Lunch
Head out to a local eatery and get together with one of our birds-of-a-feather lunch groups. Sign up for a group here.

1:30-2:30
Lightning Talks
Read more about how they work and how to apply.

2:30-2:45
Break

2:45-3:45
NYCDH Roundtable – Infrastructure

How do you develop and advocate for change in infrastructure, and how much control do you really have over changes?
What kinds of projects does your institutional infrastructure enable?
How are collaborations between library, staff, faculty and students determined and influenced by infrastructure?
How does your critical work influence the infrastructures you help design and implement?
What is your ideal infrastructure?

Join us for a roundtable as members of the NYCDH committee discuss their relationships to these and other questions about infrastructure.
Discussants
Matthew K. Gold, Kimon Keramidas, Claire Potter, Ben Vershbow
Moderator
Alex Gil

3:45-4:00
Break

4:00-5:00
NYCDH Award Keynote
Our inaugural NYCDH Award winner Dr. Stephen Brier will deliver the day’s keynote address.

5:00
Off to Digibar! Come join us at The Liberty Bar (29 W. 35th St., New York, NY 10001) where we will continue the conversations and celebrate!

Digibar!
2017-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Liberty Bar, 29 W. 35th St., New York, NY, 10001, United States
Join the NYCDH gang at The Liberty Bar (29 W. 35th St., New York, NY 10001) for some food, folks, and fun. Banter, network, collaborate, or scheme; it’s all easier with a frosty beverage or tasty cocktail!
Check out the space here: http://youvis.it/nn6Hf1

Visualizing Qualitative Data
2017-02-07 05:00 - 06:30 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
This presentation will introduce attendees to the fundamentals of Nvivo queries and analyses. Participants will be shown to easy-to-follow demonstrations of NVivo functions that allow users to visualize information from data sources such as surveys, literature reviews, and interview transcripts. The workshop is geared toward beginners who have had little previous exposure to NVivo. Attendees must bring their own laptops to the session.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Introduction to Scalar
2017-02-07 05:00 - 07:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform developed by the University of Southern California that’s designed to make it easy for authors (faculty or students) to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Projects that are best suited to Scalar are media rich and able to take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital writing. Scalar also supports collaborative authoring, reader commentary, and the annotation of video, audio, images, and text.
Fordham University beta tested Scalar for academic use during the Fall 2016 semester, and now has opened up access to this tool to all faculty, staff and students. Scalar has been used in graduate and undergraduate courses to help Fordham students become comfortable creating multi-threaded, non-linear texts, and using paths, tags, and annotations to innovatively curate their material.
This Introduction to Scalar will be both an overview of the tool, as well as hands-on workshop to explore Scalar through the creation of a quick Scalar project.
Attendees are urged to bring images and text that they would like to use in this workshop, although generic material will be provided as well.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Requirements
A collection of sample images and text would be useful, but not necessary to bring.

Access: Bridging the Continuum between Digital Archival Management and the Public Interface
2017-02-07 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom, 14 University Place, New York, NY, 10003, United States
With Museums and Libraries rapidly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public, educational scaffolding and digital access programming have become critical to the understanding and approachability of archival contents. Learn to foster a deeper connection between the public and a digitized archive of a cultural institution through thoughtfully constructed digital programs. Follow the history of today’s archival public interface from the early computerization in the 1960s, to the origins of access initiatives in 1990s Japan to the high tech world of visitor-centric, mission-based institutions of the digital age. Explore established museological theory on the necessity, significance and advantages of digital programming as well as steps to avoid the common pitfalls of implementation. Learn in detail, the distinct financial, practical, social, educational and theoretical reasoning for digital access programming. Review website visitor behavior studies and discover how to program for your archival audience by discussing the advantages of digital programming’s capabilities over those of a physical experience. Learn from case studies assessing leading cultural institutions with cutting edge digital programming and engage with new software and hardware showing promise of appropriate application in cultural institutions.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Intro to the Command Line
2017-02-07 05:30 - 07:00 | 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 also learn some tricks for text analysis. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several of the other workshops offered this week!
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None (computers provided, but attendees are encouraged to bring own laptops)

Sampling for the Digital Humanities
2017-02-07 08:00 - 10:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
Do you have a huge archive to analyze? Do you want to find trends in a large data set? Are your methods time-consuming and difficult to automate? Sampling may be the answer! Learn how sampling can save you time and energy, why representative sampling matters, how to pick random subsets of your data, and how to test if your sample is big enough to generalize!
Skill Level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None, laptop and data if available

Introduction to Security and Privacy for Researchers
2017-02-07 08:00 - 10:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Learn the basic to intermediate steps that you can take to protect yourself against malicious agents, government surveillance and other threats.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Introduction to Humanities Commons
2017-02-07 08:00 - 10:00 | NYU Center for Humanities, Classroom, 14 University Place, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Imagine a humanities network with the sharing power of Academia.edu, the archival quality of an institutional repository, and a commitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell your data or generate profit from your intellectual property. That’s Humanities Commons. Humanities Commons wants to help you expand the reach of your scholarship, create an online presence, find others who share your interests. It wants to provide a home for open access research and educational resources and be the hub for interdisciplinary collaboration and advocacy.
This workshop will show you how you can make the Humanities Commons platform work for you.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Introduction to Mapping with QGIS
2017-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
This workshop will introduce participants to creating static maps using QGIS.
QGIS is an open source mapping software that allows users to create maps and analyze data with a spatial component. This workshop is intended for those new to GIS who want to get started creating maps.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Create a base map
Add layers of data to a basemap
Perform a spatial join on two data sets
Perform calculations on a data set within QGIS.

These skills provide the foundation for analyzing spatial data and representing it for further analysis. We will discuss where to find spatial data as well. Participants in this workshop are encouraged to take the second half of this workshop where we will cover turning QGIS maps into web maps using Leaflet.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Participants must install QGIS in advance of the workshop. We will send out a link to registrants in advance of the workshop. Registrants must be able to download data to their machine.

Islandora Working Group
2017-02-07 12:00 - 14:00 | The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY, 10029, United States
If you’re working in Islandora, thinking about it, or just curious, then join us for a new Islandora Working Group!
Building on an active Islandora community, the Islandora Working Group is an opportunity to bring together local New York City information professionals working to create and build cultural heritage collections using Islandora.
It is the first meeting of the group to discuss ideas, challenges, sharing information and ways of building a local community.
Audience
Information Professionals (libraries, archives, museums, digital humanities, colleges, etc.) interested in and/or using Islandora, an open-source content management system.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Preserving Performance
2017-02-07 13:30 - 15:30 | American Jewish Historical Society at the Center For Jewish History, 5th Floor Conference Room, 15 W 16th St, 5th Floor Conference Room, New York, NY, 10011, United States
After a show closes, how you handle and store materials can mean the difference between preserving theatre legacy and irreversible damage and loss. This workshop introduces artists to the process of archiving their work, with tips on selection, storage and preservation. The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) is a collaboration of archivists, dramaturgs, and academics who support theatre makers in archiving records of their work for the benefit of future generations of artists, scholars, patrons, and the public.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Strategies for Interactive and Immersive Dance
2017-02-07 13:30 - 15:30 | Kitchen Table Coders, 274 Morgan, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
We will discuss strategies for creating experiences and performances that cross the domains of software, sound, and dance while respecting each medium’s idiosyncratic strengths. D. Schmüdde will provide a brief overview of the hardware, software, and original code he wrote to track bodies and manipulate sound in “Borderless.” Co-creator Kim Burgas will discuss the process of developing a physical language for video and highlight how the subject matter affected the medium and how the medium affected the subject. After establishing this context, the group will workshop themes and initiatives brought by each member. This may include specific projects or general research interests. We’ll discuss tools and techniques, implementing by direct experimentation wherever possible.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment & Software requirements
None

Machine Learning for the Study of Literary and Historical Corpora
2017-02-08 04:30 - 06:30 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
Depending on participant interest, this workshop will discuss either (1) principal component analysis or (2) word embeddings as a technique for exploring large digitized corpora, with particular emphasis on applications to literary and historical study. The workshop will be conducted using Jupyter notebooks in Python.
No prior experience with Python is assumed, but elementary knowledge of Python will be helpful. Participants will learn what these techniques are, some of the assumptions these techniques make, and how they can immediately apply these techniques to their own set of literary or historical texts. Larger implications of using these techniques for humanist study will also be discussed.
Skill Level
Beginner to Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptops required, participants will access jupyter notebooks via their web browser (no install required)

Intro to Networks
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 606, 144 West 14th, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop with Gephi installed

Making a Minimal Digital Edition of a Historical or Literary Text
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Learn how to make and publish an edition online of your source materials using Ed: A Jekyll theme, designed for documentary editors.
Skill Level
Beginner/Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Mac or Linux Laptop

Machine Learning: A Primer
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C196.05, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10016, United States
In recent years we have seen words related to recent developments in computer science and technology, like machine learning, artificial intelligence or neural networks, be used increasingly in diverse fields of research and of the society in general. This workshop will survey basic concepts of machine learning. No specific background is expected. The goal is to provide some vocabulary with which one can get a sense of what these computational methods are about. In addition, we will also survey existing machine learning-related resources that one can explore to learn further; the resources will address technical understanding as well as critical thinking about the many implications of the technology.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Introduction to FromThePage
2017-02-08 05:00 - 07:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Room LL 306, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
FromThePage is an open-source platform for collaborating on texts, from simple, plain-text transcriptions to complex bilingual digital editions. The workshop will outline project steps, from collecting raw text images to producing searchable, exportable, indexed digital editions.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment & Software requirements
Laptop

Building Mobile Narratives and Games Using ARIS
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, United States
ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space.
Visitor’s will be required to sign in at the security desk.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptop, some computers available

Making Maps into Webmaps with Leaflet.js
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
The workshop will introduce participants to one method of turning a map into a Web Map. The primary difference between a static map and a web map (in addition to the fact that one is on the web) is interactivity. We expect webmaps to respond to users by showing popups, highlighting features, or by being able to change layers and information. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of turning a map into a webmap.
We will be using the Javascript Library, Leaftlet to turn a pre-made static map with multiple layers of information into an interactive map that can be displayed within a webpage.
This workshop will be highly scaffolded so that knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript is not necessary, though familiarity with these languages will be helpful to get the most out of making web maps in this way. However, this workshop will provide a gentle introduction to the power of these languages and one tangible application.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
* Embed a static map into a web page
* Select tiles for the base map based on their needs
* Make custom markers for data points
* Add interactivity to a map by including tool tips
Participants will get the most out of this workshop by taking ‘Making Maps with QGIS’, but no GIS knowledge is assumed.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None. Familiarity with GIS, HTML, CSS, and Javascript is beneficial.
Equipment Requirements
Laptop

Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to Build a DH Corpus
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Students will learn how to use common OCR software, including Tesseract and ABBYY Finereader, to build the text corpora they need to for common DH methods such as text mining, topic modeling, bibliographic visualizations, and text-as-data analyses.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Sustaining and Growing your DH Projects
2017-02-08 08:00 - 10:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
What does it take for a DH project to go from concept to community treasure? While some DH projects are purely experimental, many project leaders are eager to see their work grow and develop over time and become useful to a significant community of scholars and students.
This workshop will introduce digital project leaders to the basics of dynamic sustainability, the notion that for a project to continue to grow and develop over time, its leaders must create and encourage an ongoing cycle of support. Using examples of success stories from the field, the session will offer an outline of some practical steps you can take to develop a reliable sustainability model, exploring the role of audience, the host institution, and the potential for a range of revenue sources. Participants at all stages of work, from developing proposals to running established projects, are encouraged to attend.
Workshop leader Nancy Maron is author of Sustaining the Digital Humanities, Guide to the Best Revenue Models and Funding Sources for your Digital Resources, and several other reports and case studies concerning strategies for DH support. Prior to founding BlueSky to BluePrint, she led the Sustainability and Scholarly Communications team at Ithaka S+R. She currently serves as President of the Board of the Yonkers Public Library.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Physical Computing 101 with Arduino
2017-02-08 13:30 - 15:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for this absolutely no-experience necessary workshop to introduce you to the basics of using Arduino, an open-source hardware and software prototyping platform, so you can begin to consider and develop your own projects. In this course, we’ll use critical experimentation as a way to think about interactivity in our computational world.
*Room: TBA
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
We will provide access to Arduinos and laptops through the GC Maker Space.

Experimenting with DH: A Beginner's Workshop
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
For the DH-curious, this workshop will cover finding and arranging open access historical data for experimentation with visualization tools. Tips and tricks for searching and extracting data from the Internet Archive and the HathiTrust Digital Library will be demonstrated, along with sharing best practices for organizing different types of data. Participants will experiment with the visualization capabilities of Voyant Tools and Carto, and begin thinking about the research methods underpinning the digital humanities.
Skill Level
Absolute Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Intro to Omeka
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
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.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
In this workshop, we’ll cover how to plan and prototype an online, interactive digital humanities storytelling project. The planning phase will include rapid sketching, user experience methods, and two ways of working: from big picture to details, and details to the big picture. We’ll investigate which method is appropriate in typical digital humanities circumstances. The interactives will be produced as sketches in free visualization software, Tableau Public, and we’ll also discuss other free academic sketching and protoyping resources available to digital humanists, such as R and Shiny R.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
Laptops, notebooks, pens, and sticky notes

Design-Based Thinking for Humanists
2017-02-09 05:00 - 07:00 | NYU, Great Room, 19 University Place, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Iterative. Practical. Critical. Accessible. Sound familiar? Design-based thinking and DH are a natural fit. This workshop will offer you tips for increasing creativity and leveraging design strategies in your humanities research. Join us to learn best practices for using design thinking to create engaging experiences, build new audiences, encourage conversation and inquiry, and boost the visibility of your humanities scholarship.
Skill Level
All Levels
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None

Advanced Omeka
2017-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
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.
Skill Level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Omeka. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.
Equipment Requirements
Although not required, attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops with file transfer (i.e. Cyberduck, Filezilla) and text editing software (i.e. TextEdit, Notebook, TextWrangler, TextMate, Bbedit) installed.

Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
2017-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Interested in incorporating social media content into your qualitative research project? This workshop will introduce the basics of using small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis. Using NCapture, a web browser extension, and NVivo, a qualitative analysis software package, this session will focus on methods to incorporate the context from web pages, online PDFs, and social media into your research design. Presenters will provide detailed examples for importing and coding Facebook and Twitter data using the NVivo software platform. In addition, discussions may include topics such as collecting, storing, and reporting social media data as academic researchers. Brief overview of aims of Qualitative Research and NVivo Software will be provided. Please note that this workshop will not cover larger data sets and web scraping using tools like Python or R. Introductory level.
Skill Level
Beginner
Prerequisites
None
Equipment Requirements
None
