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The Pedagogical Value of Social Annotation
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesCome 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: […]
Share and Preserve Your Work on Humanities Commons
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesHumanities 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
The New York Public Library, 39th Street Offices, 5th Floor Leadership Education Center 455 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesAction 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 […]
Introduction to the Map Warper
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Sourt Court Classroom B 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesThe 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 […]
Scalar: Writing for the 21st Century
Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesLearn 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: Augmented Reality Interactive Storytelling
Bard Graduate Center Digital Media Lab 38 West 86th St., 3rd Floor, New York, United StatesARIS 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 […]
Building a Text Analysis Pipeline with Python
Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, E101 1 Pace Plaza, New YorkThis 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 […]
Introduction to QGIS
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 […]
Introduction to R and Emacs
John Jay College, 6th Floor, Math Conference Room 524 West 59th. Street, New York, NY, United StatesAlmost 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 […]
Working with Open Data – Intro to APIs
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesThere 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 […]
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Teaching with WordPress
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesJoin 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 […]
Introduction to Networks
Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 609 144 West 14th, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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
NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United StatesThis 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, […]
Thinking Through Word Embeddings
Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United StatesWord 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 […]
Publishing Sites with GitHub Pages
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 […]
Preserving Performance: An Archive-Making Guide for Theater Artists
American Jewish Historical Society at the Center For Jewish History, Scholar's Lounge 15 W 16th St., New York, United StatesAfter 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 [...]
Analyzing Twitter Data for Beginners
Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United StatesInterested 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 […]
How To Set Up a Web Server for Teaching and Research
DigitalOcean 101 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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. […]
ARIES (Art Research Exploration Space)
Frick Art Reference Library 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWorking 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, […]
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesInterested 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 […]
How to Make Your Humanities Course More Digital: The Syllabus Re-design
NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United StatesOne 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 […]
R for Text Analysis
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesIn 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. […]
Life of a Gothic Cathedral: An Interactive Experience
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesOur 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 […]
Introduction to Omeka
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesOmeka 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: […]
Planning and Prototyping a Digital Humanities Project
Pace University, 163 William Street, Room 1103 163 William St., New YorkFor 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 […]
Introduction to Minimal Computing
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesIn 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 […]
Advanced Omeka
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesBuilding 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. […]
Programming with R
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C201 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesR 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 […]
Digital and Spatial Study of Mosques: Xinjiang and Ningxia of China as Case Studies
Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United StatesDifferent from conventional research methods, spatial study is designed to apply GIS to study space, time and mapping, all of which are valuable in analyzing religious institutions, sites and locations. Supported by multiple spatial, digital and statistical methods, this workshop selects eight cities and prefectures in China to examine the Islamic mosques based on accessible […]
Introduction to Islandora
The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY, United StatesIslandora is an open-source software framework used by cultural institutions to create and share digital collections. The New York City Islandora Working Group (NYCIslandora) is composed of members in the local New York City area that currently use Islandora or are considering it for the future. NYCIslandora will present an introductory workshop on Islandora for […]
Analyzing Musical Performances with AMPACT
NYU, Education Building, 6th Floor Conference Room 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY, United StatesCome and learn about the process of analyzing musical performances both in general and using the MATLAB-based Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT). The workshop will primarily focus on extracting performance data for audio recordings for which is a corresponding musical score is available, but will also consider workarounds for audio without a corresponding score. […]
Simple JavaScript Mapping
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United StatesA gentle introduction to JavaScript and manipulating webpages with the goal of making a map in Leaflet. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: Bringing a personal laptop is suggested.
Teaching with/on Scalar
Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United StatesA hands-on overview of Scalar, a free, online platform designed for creating digital editions. This workshop will showcase and discuss examples of textbooks created on Scalar, offer a quick tutorial on the basics of using Scalar (pages, paths, adding users, tagging, adding images) and offer suggestions for how to incorporate this tool in the classroom. […]
Experimenting with Locative Media/ AR
Tisch School of the Arts: Cinema Studies Department, Room 670 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThis workshop will cover ways of incorporating locative media (such as Augmented Reality apps and Geographic Information System platforms) into teaching. The workshop will be partly hands-on, demonstrating some easy-to-use AR and GIS tools, and partly discursive, illustrating collaborative student projects from Film and Media Studies courses to explore the pedagogical potential of these new […]
Word Embeddings: Can Vectors Encode Meaning?
Columbia University, CEPSR, Room 620 530 West 120th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWord embeddings, or vector representations of words, are commonly used in computer science to work with and analyze text. They are particularly useful as a powerful off-the-shelf tool when using open-source word embeddings previously generated by Google, Facebook, or other technology companies based on web crawls. We present the background and justifications for using vectors […]
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NYCDH Kickoff Event: Information and Democracy
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus 113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesFollowing last year’s highly successful event, NYCDH Week 2019 begins on February 4 with a kickoff gathering at Lincoln Center Campus (113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor). This year’s theme is Information and Democracy. The day-long event features speakers, roundtables, lightning talks and networking sessions. Schedule Registration: 10-10:30 Keynote: 10:30-11:30 - Meredith Broussard Panel: 11:30-12:30 - Information, […]
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The Empire Rooftop Bar 44 w 63 st, New York, NY, United StatesNYCDH folks never stop partying, so join us at an establishment of fine beverages to continue the conversations and celebrate!
Building a Support Structure for Digital Humanities Research Projects in the Classroom
NYU 726 Broadway 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B, New York, NYThis workshop will be a hands-on experience in which participants learn about the different aspects of support necessary for planning and implementing digital humanities research projects in the classroom. The session will be structured in a jigsaw format that puts participants in teams, assigns them functional roles (faculty member, student, instructional designer, librarian, technical staff), […]
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Hands-on with 360 Photo and Video Storytelling
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NYTell stories and explore space from a first-person perspective in this workshop. See how to get started with 360-storytelling and try a 360 camera. We'll watch a 360-video, go over immersive production tools, use the 360 camera and discuss how 360 can be applied to your work. Requirements: attendees should bring a smartphone.
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