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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Participants will be introduced to the reasons for considering a move from proprietary software like MS Word to text-based workflow, including preventing future obsolescence. They will get an introduction to the simple and popular markup language Markdown. They will learn to create word-processing documents with headers, links, images, tables and footnotes. Finally they will be [...]
JavaScript is one of the most popular and ubiquitous programming languages in history. Because every web browser speaks it, it's worth knowing at least a little bit when doing any kind of web-based DH work. This workshop takes JavaScript novices (and those with more experience) and introduces them the language with the goal of making an interactive web map using [...]
The raw data received or compiled for an analysis project is often messy, inconsistent, or in the wrong format. Learn how to use Google Open Refine and Microsoft Excel to transform data into the structure you need to conduct analysis and successfully complete your project. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop with Open [...]
This workshop will cover issues of data security. What does it mean for data to be "secure"? What is data encryption? How might you begin to protect yourself from data surveillance, reconsider data storage, and think about personal privacy in an age of internet research? This workshop is designed for someone who has never really [...]
This conversation/workshop will be open to anyone who teaches or is interested in teaching courses where DH as a field is the central topic. Topics may include, structuring syllabi, digital teaching platforms, tool integration, classroom needs, organizing subfields or subcategories of DH, DH in relation to other disciplines, seminal texts and tools, issues in DH, [...]
Present the basics of Social Network Analysis (SNA): graphs, metrics, filtering, grouping; introduce NodeXL, Excel-based tool for SNA; do a couple of examples: (characters in Les Miserables; wordnet). Skill Level Familiarity with Excel Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptops
This workshop is an introduction to the Python module SpaCy, a new library for natural language processing written in Cython, and Scikit-Learn, a library for machine learning. It is intended for intermediate to advanced Python programmers who are familiar with natural language processing suites such as the NLTK, and who are ready to explore next-generation [...]
A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use tools for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software and interactive image annotation tools. In addition to brief how-to tutorials, this workshop will also give examples of how to productively incorporate those tools into multimedia assignments for Film and Media Studies courses. Skill Level Beginner/ [...]
Compiled by scholars to assemble the disparate works of art that constitute the oeuvre of a particular artist alongside provenance, exhibition, and bibliographic information, Catalogues Raisonné are essential tools in the study of art history. They are, however, often outdated as soon as they appear in print, as new works of art appear on the [...]
Whether you're an expert maker, artist, or simply interested in learning how easy it is to get up and running in sensing, mapping, and using soundscape data for music creation, please join the Citygram-IBM hosted Noisescapes Workshop & Hackathon by bringing your laptop/notebook computer. We will provide the rest: access to NYU's Citygram's API to [...]
DH in the Moment: Reaction, Response, Relevance Join us at the kickoff for presentations, keynote, lightning talks, and discussions, with ample opportunities to meet fellow DHers and discover more about their projects and initiatives. New this year: Bring your DH project to the morning session (9:30-11:00) for consultation and critiques from experienced DHers. Don’t have [...]
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Come and learn how Fordham University faculty are using social annotation (Lacuna Stories) to enhance student comprehension and engagement with course texts. Explore a reading using Lacuna Stories in this workshop, and see how this tool from Stanford University can help faculty better prepare for class discussions, and assess student engagement with course texts. LEVEL: [...]
Humanities Commons combines a scholarly network and open access repository—allowing you to share your work with groups and on your profile, while also ensuring long-term preservation in a Fedora repository built in partnership with Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship. The CORE repository accepts a wide range of item types and file types, [...]
Action Learning enforces the power of questions through a very simple, yet highly effective and challenging method. In Action Learning, a group of 6-8 participants develops leadership skills, by working together on solving a complex problem. Questions are the driving force of Action Learning, and empower participants to discover the root of problems and to [...]
The New York Public Library is home to one of the world’s premier map collections, including 433,000 sheet maps and 20,000 books and atlases published between the 15th and 21st centuries. Its Map Warper (available at maps.nypl.org) is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables both librarians and the general public to align digital images [...]
Learn how to create a basic Scalar book in this hands-on workshop. We will create and integrate multiple pages, tags, paths, multimedia, and (of course) annotations. See why this open source tool from the University of Southern California is so well adapted to contemporary student and scholarly multimedia projects. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: You must create [...]
ARIS is an open source platform developed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison that allows you to create mobile games, interactive stories, scavenger hunts, tours and data collection activities. Come learn the basics of the program, get some ideas to start you off, and learn more about integrating place-based, active learning experiences in your [...]
This workshop will show participants how to use the Python and the Natural Language Toolkit to load a plaintext document, split it into paragraphs/sentences/words, and retrieve dictionary headwords and part-of-speech information for the words in the document. We will then create charts and visualizations for the feature counts. LEVEL: Beginner/Intermediate NOTES: Bring personal laptop; required [...]
