Note to all attendees: Session leaders will contact you with additional information, including a meeting link, for each individual workshop, event, or demonstration. 

NYCDH Kickoff Event 2020: Histories and Representations of Communities Across the Five Boroughs

Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus 113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States

Following last year’s highly successful event, NYCDH Week 2020 begins on February 3 with a kickoff gathering at Lincoln Center Campus (113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor). This year’s theme is Histories and Representations of Communities Across the Five Boroughs. The day-long event features speakers, roundtables, lightning talks and networking sessions. Stay tuned for more […]

Free

International and Interdisciplinary: Collaborations in DH Research

NYU, 19 Washington Square North 19 Washington Square North, New York, NY, United States

Digital Humanities take on a different flavor when they cross borders. This panel will discuss perspectives and challenges for international and interdisciplinary collaboration in digital humanities research and training. After lightning talks by panelists, four of whom are just returning from the NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (wp.nyu.edu/widh), we will have a […]

Exploring Immersive & Spatial Technology for the Humanities

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NY

Join this session to explore new virtual and augmented reality tools and examples and hear from two practitioners and teachers at CUNY, Dominika Ksel and Andrew Demirjian. We’ll look at everything from 3D model and video capture to augmented reality that works in a smartphone web browser. These tools can be applied to research, public […]

Free

NYCDH Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus, Keating 124 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, United States

Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham in partnership with Wikimedia NYC will host this Edit-a-thon at Fordham University’s Rose Hill 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. […]

Free

Digital Humanities for Teens at the New-York Historical Society

New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, United States

Learn about Digital Humanities programs for high school students at the New-York Historical Society! N-YHS offers a wide array of DH afterschool programs in it's new Tech Commons @ New-York Historical, a state-of-the-art digital media lab where teens conduct research and create creative digital projects to share their scholarship. Get a hands-on look at our […]

Free

The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive

Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, Birnbaum Library, Fishbowl Room 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY, United States

American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) staff, and members of the project team will demonstrate the features of AFB’s fully accessible digital Helen Keller Archive. This digital collection is pioneering in that it is accessible to visitors who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind, as well as sighted and hearing audiences. Helen Keller [...]

Free

A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database

NYU, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B 726 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

In this demonstration, attendees will learn about building a flexible, platform neutral textbook replacement using low tech collaborative tools. The resulting data set can be published to a variety of display platforms (such as WordPress or Omeka) in addition to being available for faculty and student projects such as maps, timelines, and exhibits. Participants will […]

Free

Digital Tools for Students as Producers of Public Scholarship

Brooklyn College, Room 412 2900 Bedford Avenue, Room 412, New York, NY, United States

This open pedagogy demonstration illustrates different ways of enacting the belief that students, as part of the their learning, can be- and should be- not only consumers of knowledge but also producers of it. This digital tools demonstration includes annotation software such as Hypothes.is. and Slack, Story Maps other Web-based mapping, podcasting tools and platforms […]

Free

Make a Simple Webmap with Leaflet

Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

Learn to make a website from scratch that features a simple webmap with Leaflet. Prerequisites: HTML and JavaScript knowledge is useful but not required. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.   Lehman Library 215 SIPA building 420 W 118th

Free

Information Visualization Open House

NYPL, Center for Research in the Humanities, Room 216 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Explore examples of data visualization in the Library's historic collections. The New York Public Library's Center for Research in the Humanities (2nd Floor Stephen A. Schwarzman Building) invites teaching faculty, students, information professionals and others to a reception and open house focusing on both historic and current data visualization projects and collections items. The event […]

An Introduction to Wikidata

METRO 599 11th Avenue, 8th floor, New York, NY, United States

This workshop has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Please accept our apologies for this late notice. 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 […]

Free

NLP for non-data scientists – Event Extraction

Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, United States

The amount of text data available is mind-boggling. We will explore programatic approaches to identify information about what happened and when it happened by gathering knowledge from text. Equipment: Python, Anaconda, Laptop Prerequisites: Working familiarly with Python  

Free

The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits

CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

Do you want to connect the public with digital archives? In this talk, public historian and digital humanist Mary Rizzo will use her work on community-driven digital archives and exhibits to help you make those connections. Through case studies of exhibits on police reform and LGBTQ history, she will discuss how to work with communities […]

Free

Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork

Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

For many instructors who teach in New York, the city is seen as a pedagogical asset that can be used to extend their classroom.  As a result, many courses include assignments that ask students to leave campus and to explore, examine, and evaluate the city as primary source material.  At Fordham University, Fulcrum - a […]

Free

Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration

Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, United States

The madonnelle (street shrines) of Rome are vernacular expressions of religious devotion traced to the thirteenth century. Recent interventions, intended to restore the shrines as important cultural artifacts, inadvertently risk displacing their devotional communities. This demonstration presents an ongoing research project on the perception of a virtual replica of the Grottapinta, in the increasingly touristic […]

Free

Text as Data in the Humanities

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

An introduction to computational text analysis for literature with basic introduction to software packages. This workshop is a primer for working with text as data in the humanities. This workshop will cover: gathering text corpora, data cleaning, an introduction to some computational software tools, reading the output and analysis of topic modeling and cluster analysis, […]

Creating Minimal Humanities Projects with Jekyll

Columbia (Butler Library room 305) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, United States

In this session you will get and overview of how to design and deploy Jekyll sites. You will also learn how to apply this knowledge to many genres in the humanities: archives, exhibits, editions, maps, journals, etc. Equipment: Laptop. Preferably Mac or Linux. If you have a Windows machine, please update to Windows 10. Prerequisites: […]

Free

Zine Union Catalog: Bringing Together Disparate, Unruly Data

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

The Zine Union Catalog, or ZineCat, is a catalog built on Collective Access, a digital asset manager similar to, but with more complete metadata connectors than Omeka. ZineCat brings together records from six libraries with wildly different metadata schema. They are public, academic, community, and digital libraries using RDA, xZINECOREx, LibraryThing, and homegrown/standalone schema. Lauren […]

Free

Introduction to OpenRefine

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

OpenRefine is a popular open-source application for data analysis, clean up, and enrichment. It can help you prepare your digital humanities dataset for further analysis and visualization through: text filters and facets batch editing assisted clustering of terms splitting and merging values advanced transformations, such as regular expressions It also allows you to export your […]

Free

Digital Tools for Teaching Undergraduate Research: A GIS History of NYC Theatre

Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, United States

In this session we will share the design and implementation of a digital mapping project used in an undergraduate class in theater history. The independent research project utilizes ESRI Story Maps software--a free online GIS software for everyday users. As part of an interdisciplinary course on theater and architecture, students conduct research on historical sites around the city and enter the data into spreadsheets. […]

Free

Git in a Jiff

Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

Learn the basics of using Git to put your projects, articles, and chapters under version control. Then, learn to integrate Git with Visual Studio Code. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.    

Free

Introduction to WebAnno

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

WebAnno is a web-based tool for linguistic annotation (marking up) of text, with layers for morphological, syntactic, and semantic annotation. We will work through tagging named entities and relationships in a text, exporting as a tab-delimited file, and using the annotated text as input into a (Python) machine-learning algorithm for named entity recognition. Equipment Requirements: […]

Free

Getting Started with TEI

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

This workshop is a deep introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. It is designed for students who are interested in the transcription and digitization of manuscripts and print-based texts into diplomatic, digital formats. The workshop contains three parts: first, an overview of TEI and the major schemas; second, […]

Free

Introduction to Omeka

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 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.   Equipment Requirements: […]

Free

Intro to Carto

Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, LL 601 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, 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 […]

Free

Advanced Omeka

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 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. […]

Free

Intro to Networks

Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 609 144 West 14th, New York, NY, 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. Attendees can bring their own data, or sample data will be […]

Free

Fair Use in the Digital Humanities

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

A crash course on fair use, particularly for digital humanities projects that use copyrighted works as data. We will look at the wiggle room intentionally built into the language about fair use in United States copyright law, as well as the increasing importance of transformativeness in fair use rulings.    

Free

Web Accessibility

Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202 41 Park Row, New York, NY, United States

The web’s importance in our daily lives continues to grow. The internet is the new public square. It is a place where ideas, information, education, entertainment, and commerce are taking place. For accessibility to become embedded in our everyday thinking and world, we all need to realize the role we all can play in accessibility. […]

Free

The Making and Knowing Project’s Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of a 16th-c. Manuscript of Artisanal Recipes

Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The Making and Knowing Project (Center for Science and Society, Columbia University) is excited to present Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France—a digital critical edition and English translation of a sixteenth-century French manuscript of artisanal recipes. The publication of this edition marks the culmination over five years of iterative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary work by […]

Free

Intro To WordPress: Gutenberg

Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, United States

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 its revamped block editor called Gutenberg, which offers a new visual editing experience for media rich pages and posts.  This intro-level workshop is a […]

Free

Critical Data Methods: Theory & Praxis

NYU, 244 Greene Street, 1st Floor Event Space 244 Greene Street, New York, NY, United States

Whether in the classroom or archive, humanities scholars and students often encounter data methods as means to an end. Processes like data modeling, analysis, and visualization — sometimes represented by particular applications or technologies — populate the proverbial DH toolbox, equipping practitioners to pursue data-driven research and project-based learning curricula. But, while these data-oriented skills […]

Free

Translating Questions into Actionable Research

Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 610 144 West 14th, Room 610, New York, NY, United States

Researchers are often driven by a hunch, a practical problem or a gap in existing knowledge. However, successfully translating research questions into data collection and analysis methods requires skills and experience. This workshop will review commonly used methods for collecting primary sources data (questionnaires, interviews, observations), as well as qualitative and quantitative approaches to data […]

Free

Humanitarian Map-a-thon: DH for Disaster Relief

Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202 41 Park Row, New York, NY, United States

This session will focus on the use of digital tools for social justice and humanitarian disaster relief work. Utilizing digital mapping, you will join the Humanitarian OpenStreetMapping Team to learn basic GIS skills. Attendees will get familiar with iD editor, and JSOM using OpenStreetMaps for this and many other projects. We will discuss the need […]

Free

Simple CV

Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

Create a PDF and HTML CV for yourself out of plain text files and set up a free personal CV website. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.  

Free

Edition Launch: Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France by the Making and Knowing Project

Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join the Making and Knowing Project for the release of its digital critical edition of the sixteenth-century art and technical manuscript, BnF Ms. Fr. 640. Five years in the making, Secrets of Craft and Knowledge in Renaissance France: A Digital Critical Edition of BnF Ms. Fr. 640 resulted from collaborative pedagogy and research. The edition allows users […]

Publishing with Manifold

CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Manifold Scholarship invites teachers and scholars to learn how to publish materials on Manifold, a digital platform for scholarly publishing. Participants will learn how to turn a Google Doc into a polished publication or create a mobile-friendly version of a public domain text. Manifold Graduate Fellow Jojo Karlin will lead a quick introduction to putting […]

Free

Working with Open Data – intro to APIs

Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 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. We will use Python to get data from New York Times archive. Equipment: Laptop, Anaconda Prerequisites: Familiarity with Python and Anaconda    

Free

Tome Collaborative Course Publications

NYU 20 Cooper Square 20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor, New York, NY, United States

This workshop looks at Tome as a tool for publishing media rich, accessible, peer reviewed and preservable publications. Tome is now being developed for use in the classroom as a collaborative, academic writing tool and media archive for faculty and students. Equipment Requirements: Laptop with Wifi capabilities

Free
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