NYCDH Week

NYCDH Week Kick-Off Gathering
2018-02-05 09:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, 113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States
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 a project? Attend an informational sessions on various DH tools. A light breakfast will be available.
Schedule

Time
Activity

9:30-11:00am
DH Networking / Q&A, DH Consulting, and Project Example Tables / Coffee

11:00am-12:00pm
Lightning talks

12:00-1:00pm
Lunch is complimentary for registered participants in the atrium downstairs.*
PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND LUNCH AND THE RECEPTION.
Optional: Take part in a Birds-of-a-Feather lunch group with shared interests.

1:00-2:00pm
NYCDH Graduate Student Award presentations: Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University), Roxanne Smith (Columbia University), Aaron Hershkowitz & Rick Hale (Rutgers University), and David Danzig (New York University)

2:00-3:00pm
Panel: “DH in the Moment: Reaction, Response, Relevance”
Panelists: Gregory Donovan (Fordham); Alex Gil (Columbia); Julie Napolin (The New School); Moacir De Sa Pereira (NYU)

3:00-3:30pm
Coffee Break

3:30-4:30pm
Keynote Address: Kelly Baker Josephs (CUNY)

4:30-5:30pm
DH Networking / End of Day Reception at Fordham, followed by Digibar (location TBA)

*Thanks to a generous donation from Fordham University, all registered participants are invited to a complimentary lunch and an afternoon reception, following the keynote.

Digibar
2018-02-05 17:00 - 20:00 | TBA
Continue the conversations and celebrate!

The Pedagogical Value of Social Annotation
2018-02-06 09:00 - 11:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
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: Beginner
NOTES: Personal laptop would be nice to bring

Share and Preserve Your Work on Humanities Commons
2018-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
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, including datasets. Every deposit gets a DOI, and is indexed by a range of services (BASE, SHARE, Google Scholar, Altmetrics). In this workshop, we’ll introduce the basic features of the platform, and outline ways you can use Humanities Commons to support collaborations across institutions, and to ensure preservation of and access to your digital humanities work.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Personal laptop preferred

Action Learning
2018-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 | The New York Public Library, 39th Street Offices, 5th Floor Leadership Education Center, 455 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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 unlock hidden knowledge.
In this event you will experience a total action learning demonstration. In an extensive debrief we will reflect on the Action Learning Coaching process and discuss observations. One of these participants should be prepared to share a professional problem that they would like to work on (fix) in the session. If you are interested in this workshop and are willing to share your professional problem for the workshop, please register and contact Mies de Konig.
Because of the highly interactive nature of this event there will only be space for 8 participants.
LEVEL: Beginner

Introduction to the Map Warper
2018-02-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Sourt Court Classroom B, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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 of historical maps with today’s map through a process called georectification, or “warping” maps. Workshop participants will use the Map Warper to explore the library’s digital map collection and generate georectified map images. This work creates new public resources for research and supports ongoing digital mapping initiatives at the Library.
LEVEL: Beginner/Intermediate
NOTES: N/A

Scalar: Writing for the 21st Century
2018-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
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 an account in advance at: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/ and obtain a registration key by emailing the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture here: https://scalar.me/anvc/contact/

ARIS: Augmented Reality Interactive Storytelling
2018-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, United States
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 classroom!
ARIS has two key parts. One part of the platform is the editor, which allows you to build things (i.e., tours, games and interactive stories). The other part is the iOS app that allows you to play things you and other people have created. The app can be downloaded for free from the app store. At the moment, ARIS only runs on iOS devices (iPod, iPad, iPhone). We will have some iPads available during the workshop if you do not have access to an iOS device.
Please, sign up in advance for an ARIS account
And download the app
Skill Level: Beginner
Requirements: Computers available. Feel free to bring a laptop.

Building a Text Analysis Pipeline with Python
2018-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, E101, 1 Pace Plaza, New York, 10038
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 to have Python3

Introduction to QGIS
2018-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of computer-based mapping using QGIS, an open-source mapping platform popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic mapping skills such as uploading existing spatial datasets (shape files) to a project, editing shapefiles, adding a vector layer, and joining layers to discover new spatial information. By participating in this workshop, you will be able to create a simple map and use QGIS to analyze spatial information. No previous mapping experience is required. Participants must bring their own computer with QGIS installed.
Please install QGIS before attending http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html. If you need help with the installation, please contact Michelle McSweeney at m.mcsweeney@columbia.edu
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Personal laptop with administrator capabilities

Introduction to R and Emacs
2018-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | John Jay College, 6th Floor, Math Conference Room, 524 West 59th. Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Almost everyone is going to have to load data and make graphs. You want to do this in a stat system that is free and open source. Also, it is a waste of time to reinvent the wheel every time you change languages. We will use simple crime and poverty data but generate a wide variety of plots including maps.
LEVEL: Intermediate
NOTES: Personal laptop in which software can be downloaded (Chromebooks are discouraged)

Working with Open Data - Intro to APIs
2018-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
There is so much data out on the web, but who wants to copy-and-paste or scrape web pages? Knowing how to use APIs will let you explore and collect data in a reliable and efficient way.
LEVEL: Intermediate
NOTES: Laptop, Python 3, Jupyter. Workshop Organizer can provide a Jupyter notebook before the workshop for the participants to follow through

Teaching with WordPress
2018-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join staff from the Teaching and Learning Center for a workshop on how to teach with WordPress. WordPress is a web-based publishing platform that, when used in college courses, can facilitate a variety of writing and multi-modal assignments and can help faculty harness the power of networks in and across their teaching. WordPress seamlessly integrates a variety of web applications in ways that empower students and instructors to take full advantage of the open web, while also offering granular privacy and design controls that allow educators to build the kinds of digital teaching and learning spaces they want.
LEVEL: Beginner

Introduction to Networks
2018-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 609, 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.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop with Gephi installed

Introduction to Carto
2018-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
This workshop will introduce participants to Carto, a freemium, open-source mapping platform. It will include a short review of digital mapping, background information about the platform, and a hands-on demonstration of how to create a simple map on Carto. The workshop will also briefly describe ways to develop personal data that is compatible with Carto, although the hands-on portion will be completed using a dataset available online.
The Introduction to Carto workshop is intended for new Carto users who are minimally familiar with mapping. It will also serve as a refresher for more advanced users of Carto who are unfamiliar with the platform’s new interface.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Attendees will need a laptop to participate in the hands-on portion. They will also need to create an account at https://carto.com/ before the workshop.

Thinking Through Word Embeddings
2018-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105, 163 William St., New York, NY, 10038, United States
Word embeddings are a family of algorithms that can be remarkably effective at representing the meanings of words, and their relationships to each other. We’ll cover the basics of word embeddings: what they do, how to train a model using word2vec, and how to use them to search for synonyms and analogies. And we’ll look at issues more specific to the humanities and social sciences, including how to compare models trained on different sets of texts to each other, when to use word2vec vs topic models, and strategies for visualizing models. Finally, we’ll talk about the social biases embodied in the space of language models, both as a technical problem with solutions and as an opportunity for algorithmic criticism.
Hands-on analysis and visualization will be done editing pre-written scripts in the R statistical environment; no prior programming experience is necessary. We’ll distribute several pre-trained models at the workshop, but you can try to train one on your own texts ahead of time as well.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop with R and Rstudio programs installed required. Instructions available.

Publishing Sites with GitHub Pages
2018-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
This workshop is for staff, students, and scholars of all kinds who want to publish content online without paying hosting fees or getting stuck in a particular platform. In the course the session, participants will set up their own website using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. We will learn how to format text with Markdown and pull in open source themes with GitHub. The pacing will be geared towards absolute beginners, and will serve as an entry point into the world of web development.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Bring laptop of any kind with a modern browser

Preserving Performance: An Archive-Making Guide for Theater Artists
2018-02-07 14:00 - 16:00 | American Jewish Historical Society at the Center For Jewish History, Scholar’s Lounge, 15 W 16th St., New York, 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 theater and other artists to the process of archiving their work, with tips on selection, storage, preservation and digital engagement. The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) is a collaboration of archivists, dramaturgs, and academics who support theater makers in archiving records of their work for the benefit of future generations of artists, scholars, patrons, and the public. Members of ATAP’s New York City team have collaborated with Atlantic Theater Company, the Cherry Lane Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, HERE, and the Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble on preserving their histories and are beginning a project with The Dramatists’ Guild.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: N/A

Analyzing Twitter Data for Beginners
2018-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Interested in analyzing conversations on Twitter but don’t know where to start? This workshop will demonstrate how to use TAGS <https://tags.hawksey.info/get-tags/>, an open source tool developed by Martin Hawksey to collect and visualize Twitter data as it happens. Aimed at novice users, this session will experiment with small datasets generated from Twitter conversations under specific hashtags. All that is needed to participate is a Twitter account, a Gmail account, and a personal laptop. Resources regarding the restrictions and ethics of working with social media data will also be presented.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Bring your own laptop. Must have your own Twitter & Gmail accounts to participate.

How To Set Up a Web Server for Teaching and Research
2018-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | DigitalOcean, 101 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10013, United States
This workshop will go over how to complete an initial Linux server setup for use with the web. We will go over security, firewalls, HTTPS, and high availability. Administering one’s own server rather than relying on managed web hosting companies empowers researchers, teachers, and students by providing them with complete control over their web assets. The resulting setup can be used with WordPress, Omeka, Scalar, and Drupal websites, and will be ready for use with domain names. In addition to providing an entry point to the web, servers can also enable teams of researchers and students to collaborate on programming projects or access shared data.
LEVEL: Beginner level. Familiarity with the command line / terminal would be great but not required.
NOTES: Participants should bring a laptop that they have administrative access to, such as a personal computer. A Mac or Linux laptop will work out of the box. If they are bringing a Windows laptop, they should set up an SSH client prior to the workshop by following a guide (e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/336775/how-to-enable-and-use-windows-10s-built-in-ssh-commands/).

ARIES (Art Research Exploration Space)
2018-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Frick Art Reference Library, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY, 10021, United States
Working with Dr. Claudio Silva and Dr. Lhaylla Crissaff at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, we have designed a prototype for a system we have dubbed ARIES for ARt Image Exploration Space. Aries is an interactive image manipulation system that allows for the exploration and organization of fine art images (of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, etc.) taken from multiple sources (e.g. websites, digital photographs, scans) in a virtual space. ARIES provides a novel, intuitive interface to explore, annotate, rearrange, and group art images freely in a single workspace environment, using organizational ontologies (collections, etc.) drawn from existing best practices in art history. The system allows for multiple ways to compare images, from using dynamic overlays analogous to a physical light box to advanced image analysis and feature–matching functions available only through computational image processing. Additionally, users may import and export data to and from ARIES.
In this workshop, we will demonstrate the tool’s functionality and participants will be able to work with an open-source BETA version.
LEVEL: Beginner

Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
2018-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | 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.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: N/A

How to Make Your Humanities Course More Digital: The Syllabus Re-design
2018-02-08 09:00 - 11:00 | NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room, 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
One of the most valuable tools in any course is the syllabus as it establishes the first connection between teachers and students, which also means the syllabus can set the course tone and create the impression of whether the course will a success or failure. A good, concise syllabus can answer many of the initial questions students may have as well as lessen anxieties felt by students. The power of the syllabus cannot be understated, which is why the principles of syllabus design require exploration and discovery.
In the age of digitizing of almost every aspect of our lives it is important to pay attention to how we approach teaching Humanities courses. By exploring the consequences of integrating the infocommunication technologies into social media, politics, economics and social life we could create a fruitful DH course syllabus by re-designing an existed one.
How to make your Humanities course more digital? What platform to choose for communicating with your students? How to adjust the tasks to make them more effective and productive for your class?
By the end of this task-based learning workshop, participants will not only have learned the core principles of re-designing the Humanities course syllabus, but will have been provided by a vital supplementary pedagogical training to make the existed Humanities course more digital.
LEVEL: Beginners
NOTES: N/A

R for Text Analysis
2018-02-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
In this workshop, we will use R for text analysis, with a focus on the Tidy Text approach within the Tidytext framework. Your insights will be visualized and can also be turned into an interactive without any web coding skills, using Shiny R. The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in this topic. No prior experience in R is needed.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop computer with WIFI; paper and pen for sketching and note taking. You don’t need R and R Studio installed prior to the workshop, but it would help to do so. The workshop will be an online interactive.

Life of a Gothic Cathedral: An Interactive Experience
2018-02-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Our new website, Life of a Gothic Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens 1220-1530 is intended to change the way we understand and teach the cathedral: it was designed especially for use in the Core Curriculum. This session will be a demonstration of how the website allows you to experience Amiens Cathedral not just as a thing of the distant past, but existing in our own time and space. There will also be a discussion of the process of building the interactive experience and its pedagogical uses.
The three-hundred year “life” of the Gothic cathedral embraced the agency of three overlapping worlds of makers and users: the layfolk who visit it, the clergy in their sumptuous choir and the artisans who built it. The website will allow you to enter into each of these three worlds. You can do this by clicking on the three major buttons at the top of the home page or by reading the EText which is linked with the high-resolution images and panoramas.
LEVEL: Beginner

Introduction to Omeka
2018-02-08 13:00 - 15:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, 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.
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Bringing a personal laptop is recommended

Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project
2018-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 1103, 163 William St., New York, 10038
For this workshop, I’m going to introduce three tools for prototyping a Digital Humanities Project for interaction.
IDEA & FORM
We’ll introduce visual encoding methods, user-centered prototyping methods, and organizing principle for surveying the landscape and asking questions about your information.
IDIOM
We’ll look at common interactive patterns. We’ll use the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra to guide the interactive: Overview first, filter, zoom, and details on demand, to examine a user-centered experience.
STRUCTURE
We’ll look at simple sketching methods, pen on paper, working from the big picture to the details. Then, we’ll look at sketching from the details to the big picture, using Tableau Public, a free tool, to develop a story that answers the 6 W’s: Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why, and create an interactive prototype for online use, building from the details to the big picture (no coding needed). We’ll examine using a Story and Dashboard in Tableau to prototype and plan your project.
CRAFT & SURFACE
We’ll look at design and interaction principles to make the reading experience much more personal, beautiful, and reader-friendly. I’ll introduce affiliated design tools to accomplish this, free and paid (such as Illustrator vs. Inkscape; Invision App)
LEVEL: Beginner
NOTES: Laptop computer, Google Sheets, Tableau Public, pen and paper

Introduction to Minimal Computing
2018-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, United States
In this workshop we will introduce you to minimal computing concepts in general, and Jekyll and GitHub Pages in particular. Given our political & economic vulnerabilities, and the imminence of the anthropocene, several scholars/technologists have begun to design different workflows and tech for producing several genres of digital humanities that seek the essentials in a time of precarity, offering tentative answers to the question “What do we really need?” In this workshop, I will introduce you to the concepts with some hands on exercises. At the end of the workshop you will be exposed to the Alpha version of Jekyll Wax—a workflow and set of tools for static minimal exhibitions.
LEVEL: Intermediate
NOTES: Bring your own laptop. UNIX systems preferred (Mac or Linux).

Advanced Omeka
2018-02-08 15:30 - 17:30 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, 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.
LEVEL: Intermediate/Familiarity with Omeka. Some familiarity with web file transfers, web design, and content management system administration is recommended.
NOTES: 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.

Programming with R
2018-02-08 18:30 - 20:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
R has become an indispensable tool for academics in a range of disciplines for analyzing data. Many users come to it though with limited programming experience which can often lead to many more headaches than anyone should reasonably suffer. This workshop attempts to make R a bit less painful. Fortunately the past few years have seen a flowering of open source packages that have tried to do just that. We will learn about some of these packages and how they can be incorporated into our projects. Though this workshop does not require you already know R, it makes more sense for those who have already begun using it or are considering using it for a future project.
LEVEL: Intermediate
NOTES: Can bring own laptop or borrow one at workshop
