Text as Data in the Humanities
2020-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, 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, and a general overview of common questions asked in computational literary studies.
To register for this event please use the following link: https://nyu.libcal.com/event/6431701

Creating Minimal Humanities Projects with Jekyll
2020-02-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Columbia (Butler Library room 305), 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 10027, 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: Not to be afraid of symbols.

Zine Union Catalog: Bringing Together Disparate, Unruly Data
2020-02-05 13:30 - 15:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, 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 Kehoe and Jenna Freedman developed the functional prototype as their CUNY Graduate Center MADH capstone, building on work begun in the zine librarian community in 2009 and adhering to the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics, which establishes standards for honoring the needs of authors and creators’ wants, needs, and changing identities. ZineCat still has a long way to go, in terms of functionality, but with over 31,000 records from its first six member libraries, it is already serving zine creators, scholars, and lay readers’ needs.

Introduction to OpenRefine
2020-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, 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 operation history, which helps with research reproducibility.
In this beginner-level workshop, we’ll cover the basic features and functionalities of OpenRefine, with a taste of more advanced operations using GREL (General Refine Expression Language) and regular expressions. We’ll also have a discussion about how data cleaning fits into our digital humanities work, inspired by Katie Rawson and Trevor Muñoz’s article “Against Cleaning” (http://curatingmenus.org/articles/against-cleaning/).
Equipment Requirements: If possible, please bring your own laptop. Some laptops will be available to borrow on site. If you will be using your own laptop, please install the latest stable version of OpenRefine (available at http://openrefine.org/download.html) ahead of time. Workshop datasets will be made available for download closer to the date of the sessions.

Digital Tools for Teaching Undergraduate Research: A GIS History of NYC Theatre
2020-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia (Butler Library room 208B), 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 10027, 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. The data and images on urban performance are projected onto a digital map of New York City, and then narrativized into cohesive geographical and temporal units. Since the information is vast, the project will continue to evolve as the archive grows, and new maps can be designed to focus on specific historical phenomena in performance culture and urban architecture. Click for a preview of the Story Map: Architectural History of NYC Theatre.
The demonstration will include a brief overview of georeferencing, data and image collection and attribution, basic functionality of ESRI Story Maps, and a description of classroom assignments for teaching and research in digital mapping.

Git in a Jiff
2020-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library, 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY, 10027
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.

Introduction to WebAnno
2020-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Studio@Butler, 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 10027, 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: bring a computer, should have Python installed, preferably also downloaded WebAnno

Getting Started with TEI
2020-02-05 18:30 - 20:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
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, a quick introduction and tutorial on one or more applications used for encoding; and finally, for the bulk of the workshop, students will get the opportunity to practice encoding a manuscript page in small groups. Throughout this work, we will discuss common issues with encoding, such as how to tag complex data. In addition to familiarizing themselves with TEI and its theoretical contexts, students will leave with knowledge about using Github, oXygen, and XSLT.
Equipment: Bring a laptop. If you cannot bring your own, you can borrow one from us for the session.

Introduction to Omeka
2020-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 | 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.

Equipment Requirements: None, but personal laptops recommended

Intro to Carto
2020-02-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus, LL 601, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, 10019, 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 Carto, which will cover all the basics you’ll need to create beautiful and powerful digital maps. We will provide sample datasets you can use in this workshop. No mapping experience required and all are welcome.
Equipment: Laptops
Prerequisites: No mapping experience necessary

Advanced Omeka
2020-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | 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.
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.

Intro to Networks
2020-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | 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. Attendees can bring their own data, or sample data will be provided.
Equipment Requirements: Laptop with current version of Gephi installed

Fair Use in the Digital Humanities
2020-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, 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.

Web Accessibility
2020-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202, 41 Park Row, New York, NY, 10038, 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. We need to incorporate accessibility into our work and considerations. This workshop will go over why accessibility matters, how to create accessible digital content by explaining accessibility best practices and how to evaluate your digital content. For professors I will also touch on digital accessibility projects you can incorporate into your various courses.
Equipment: People can bring a laptop if they wish to follow along and experiment with some evaluation tools.

Betwyll: a social reading app for teaching and learning literature and languages
2020-02-06 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
This workshop will show the pedagogical potential of Betwyll, an app for mobile devices that allows to employ social reading as a tool to teach and learn languages and literatures.
Equipment Requirements: Smartphone

The Making and Knowing Project’s Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of a 16th-c. Manuscript of Artisanal Recipes
2020-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, 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 over 400 scholars and students worldwide. The transcribed, translated, and encoded text of BnF Ms Fr 640 is accompanied by research essays, field notes from recipe reconstructions in the Making and Knowing Laboratory, text-level editorial comments, a glossary of terms, search and navigation features, and raw data files for export and analysis.
In this demonstration, the Project team will present the edition and its features. Digital Lead Terry Catapano and Designer-Developer Nick Laiacona will discuss the challenges and workarounds in creating a function-rich static site, and Laiacona will present work-in-progress toward the creation of a “community edition,” an open-source customizable version of the edition infrastructure—in other words, a community software platform that other scholars and students can use to present their own texts. The Project team will conclude by demonstrating some of the textual analyses made possible by its custom semantic markup.
Equipment: Laptop (optional)

Intro To Wordpress: Gutenberg
2020-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab, 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, 10024, 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 perfect introduction to WordPress or a refresher for those who haven’t used the platform in a while.

Critical Data Methods: Theory & Praxis
2020-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | NYU, 244 Greene Street, 1st Floor Event Space, 244 Greene Street, New York, NY, 10003, 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 and tools frequently facilitate incredible research and classroom practice, they aren’t always accompanied by a robust critical framework that centers historical, ethical, and justice-oriented concerns.
In this workshop, we will approach basic concepts in data (including data taxonomies and applications) from a critical data studies perspective. Rather than taking a tool- or software-oriented approach, we will collaborate on ways to “do” and teach data that are informed by feminist, critical race, and indigenous theories of information. Keeping in mind this year’s theme — “Histories and Representations of Communities Across the Five Boroughs” — we will engage with local archival materials and other humanities content in order to develop data praxes that are situated and self-reflective.
Participants can expect to:

become familiar with types of data, including structured and unstructured data
think critically about ways to model their research or teaching data
begin to explore key theorists and concepts in critical data studies, including data feminism
participate in an exercise that enacts critical data pedagogy by bringing humanities methods to data modeling
situate their own use of data within historical and epistemological matrices
collaborate on a shared document featuring critical data resources

This workshop is designed for humanities scholars and students who are interested in pursuing data-driven work and who want to develop critical — rather than purely instrumental — data practices. Instructors and researchers who already work extensively with data are also welcome, regardless of discipline!
Equipment Requirements: Laptop recommended (Chromebooks OK)

Translating Questions into Actionable Research
2020-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 610, 144 West 14th, Room 610, New York, NY, 10011, 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 analysis. At the end of the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of methodological options and issues that affect their research inquiries.

Humanitarian Map-a-thon: DH for Disaster Relief
2020-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202, 41 Park Row, New York, NY, 10038, 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 for volunteers in this work, the importance of conversations on social justice in the use of digital tools, as well as how to incorporate a map-a-thon into your courses!

Equipment: attendees should bring a laptop that can hold an internet connection

Simple CV
2020-02-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library, 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY, 10027
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.

Edition Launch: Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France by the Making and Knowing Project
2020-02-06 17:00 - 20:00 | Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, 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 to read and experience the manuscript’s firsthand accounts of trials with many materials and techniques of metalworking, painting, imitation gem production, preservation of animals, plants, and much else. The text is augmented with multimedia essays, researched through hands-on reconstruction of the manuscript’s recipes in the Making and Knowing Project Laboratory.
Please RSVP to attend, and drop by as your schedule permits. Remarks and brief demonstrations of the Edition at 5:30 and 6:30 pm. Tours of the Making and Knowing Project Laboratory will take place at approximately 6:00 and 7:00 pm.
RSVP

Publishing with Manifold
2020-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
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 projects onto the free, open-source CUNY Manifold platform. Participants will then create projects of their own that they and their students can collaboratively annotate.
Equipment Requirements: Personal Laptop if possible

Working with Open Data – intro to APIs
2020-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Columbia (Butler Library room 208B), 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 10027, 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

Tome Collaborative Course Publications
2020-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | NYU 20 Cooper Square, 20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor, New York, NY, 10003, 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

Starting to Text Mine the Digitized Library with HathiTrust Features.
2020-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202, 41 Park Row, New York, NY, 10038, United States
Millions of books have been digitized in the past two decades. Thanks to a 2014 court ruling, about 15 million books are available for computational analysis in the HathiTrust including data about word counts on each individual page. In the next year or two, similar data will become available for JStor and Portico books. This session will address the following issues necessary for working with this dataset.
1. What books have been scanned, and which ones end up in Hathi?
2. How do you build up a list of Hathi volumes to address a feature set?
3. How do you acquire and work with Hathi’s “Feature Count” data programmatically?
4. What sort of questions can you answer with these word counts, anyway?
Equipment Requirements: Laptop or high-powered tablet.
Prerequisites: None; this session will generally be at a high enough level that it should be useful for those who wish to supervise research programmers rather than do it directly. Those with basic programming experience who wish to use it in the workshop should consider installing the ‘htrc-feature-counts’ module (for python) or the ‘hathidy’ package (for R).

Commons In A Box OpenLab: A Commons for Open Learning
2020-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
This workshop introduces Commons In A Box OpenLab: free, open source software that enables anyone to create a commons space specifically designed for open learning, where students, faculty, and staff can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries and share their work openly with one another and the world.
Funded by a generous grant from the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities, the project brings together Commons In A Box (CBOX; http://commonsinabox.org/) — the software that powers NYCDH — and City Tech’s OpenLab platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/). The result is a teaching-focused version of CBOX that provides a powerful and flexible alternative to costly proprietary systems, and is already being adopted at CUNY and beyond.
We will begin by introducing CBOX OpenLab and demonstrating its features and functionality, using examples drawn from City Tech’s OpenLab and BMCC’s new installation. We will then engage participants in group discussion of how they might use (or are already using) CBOX OpenLab, and the benefits and challenges of open learning.
Equipment: Laptops helpful, but not required

Unity for Spatial Research: SpatioScholar
2020-02-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 10012, United States
The workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the SpatioScholar workflow. SpatioScholar is an application developed in Unity for scholarly work that requires spatial and temporal processing and visualization in art/architectural/urban history and heritage studies. SpatioScholar provides a single interface for combining 3D modeled spaces, digitized primary documents, historical data and scholarly research and annotation. No prior knowledge of Unity is required. The team will demonstrate how to initiate a new SpatioScholar project with provided 3D models, an example project timeline, and provided primary documents.
Participants will learn to do the following using the 3D model and dataset:
(1) link the phases of a certain buildings or locations to a timeline slider for temporal simulation;
(2) connect primary documents to browse and review (photographs, drawings, textual primary documents etc.) within the 3D model
(3) leave notes, comments or browse others’ notes through the “Shared Scholarship” feature
Equipment Requirements: Laptop (Unity installed, specifications will be provided)

OpenRefine for Beginners
2020-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Looking to organize and rearrange a large spreadsheet for a project? Join us for an interactive, step-by-step introduction to OpenRefine, an open source desktop application described as “a powerful tool for working with messy data.” This session will cover OpenRefine basics including editing and reconciling data, transforming data into different formats, and connecting to external data sources like Wikidata.
Equipment Requirements: Participants will need to bring a laptop with OpenRefine 3.3 and Google Chrome installed. We can guide participants through installation at the beginning of the workshop if needed. Sample data sets will be provided.

Open & Digital Pedagogy: Teaching with WordPress and the CUNY Academic Commons
2020-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This workshop will present models and strategies for teaching with WordPress. We’ll explore open teaching, considering methods and digital tools that allow instructors and their students to engage with wider audiences and public discourses. The workshop will also introduce the CUNY Academic Commons, a WordPress platform for the CUNY community, and demonstrate how this platform has been used in classes across the university.
Equipment: Please bring a laptop.
Prerequisites: None; This workshop is geared towards all levels of WordPress skill and experience. We encourage WordPress novices to attend, though some knowledge of the platform will be beneficial to the workshop experience.
