Exploring Immersive & Spatial Technology for the Humanities
2020-02-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444, 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NY, 10018
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 engagement and teaching.
Dominika Ksel is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and teaches at Baruch and Hunter.
Andrew Demirjian teaches theory and production courses in emerging media in the Film and Media Department and the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College, he is currently a Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
Matt MacVey is the Academic Program Specialist for the AR/VR Journalism Lab at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

Equipment requirements: Smartphone

NYCDH Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
2020-02-04 11:00 - 15:00 | Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus, Keating 124, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 10458, 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.
Equipment Requirements: Laptops required
To register for this event, please follow this link: https://itnews.blog.fordham.edu/?tribe_events=wikipedia-edit-a-thon-celebrating-the-histories-and-communities-of-the-5-boroughs

Digital Humanities for Teens at the New-York Historical Society
2020-02-04 13:00 - 15:00 | New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, 10024, 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 most popular program, Tech Scholars, as you learn HTML to create your own website to feature a woman in history!

The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive
2020-02-04 13:00 - 15:00 | 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 was a leading advocate for people with visual impairments, and likely the most famous person with a disability in the 20th century. Moreover, she loved NYC! Helen, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and their assistant Polly Thomson lived in Forest Hills, Queens from 1917 until two years after Anne’s death in 1936, at which time Helen and Polly moved to Westport, Connecticut. Manhattan was home to AFB’s headquarters, first on 46th Street, and then on 16th Street (the latter building is now the Center for Jewish History). Helen Keller and blindness advocacy are intertwined with NYC, and Keller wrote about New York’s landmarks and commuted regularly to AFB’s offices in Manhattan.
Navigating to digitized documents that focus on these topics, the digital project team will lead attendees through the digital archive, explaining the challenges of creating a fully accessible collection and its ins and outs.
Equipment: Laptops optional

A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database
2020-02-04 13:00 - 15:00 | NYU, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B, 726 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, 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 learn about the necessary documentation and workflows to make these projects scalable.
The model will be the Liberal Studies Global Image Gallery, an innovative open educational resource project that uses high-resolution, zoomable, public domain and licensed images and faculty-authored content to provide a free and superior alternative to costly art history texts.
Equipment: Can bring a laptop if desired

Digital Tools for Students as Producers of Public Scholarship
2020-02-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Brooklyn College, Room 412, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Room 412, New York, NY, 11210, 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 such as Scalar that beautifully showcases student work.

Make a Simple Webmap with Leaflet
2020-02-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library, 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY, 10027
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

Information Visualization Open House
2020-02-04 16:00 - 18:00 | NYPL, Center for Research in the Humanities, Room 216, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10018, 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 will draw attention to examples of data visualization found in the Library’s historic collections materials and Big Data collections that can be incorporated into current visualization projects on any scale, subject, or medium. Selected items from the collection will be on view. Network with colleagues from local academic institutions, and hear from subject expert staff and other researchers about the deep collections available to support your research and teaching.
Wine and cheese will be served.

This event is open to the public with RSVP.

An Introduction to Wikidata
2020-02-04 18:00 - 20:00 | METRO, 599 11th Avenue, 8th floor, New York, NY, 10036, 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 knowledge across all 301 language editions of Wikipedia and its sister projects. This workshop will introduce attendees to Wikidata and its applications to the digital humanities, with opportunities for hands-on editing.
Equipment Requirements: laptop

NLP for non-data scientists - Event Extraction
2020-02-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Columbia (Butler Library room 208B), 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 10027, 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

The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits
2020-02-04 18:30 - 20:30 | CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, 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 and bring students into these projects.
Mary Rizzo is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). She tweets as Rizzo_pubhist.
Sponsored by the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives (GCDI) and the Digital Archive Research Collective (DARC).

Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork
2020-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309, 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 10023, 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 digital note-taking app – provides a flexible framework for students to document their out-of-the-classroom experience (in text, photos, video, and audio) in a way that can be easily consolidated and shared with the class as a whole. The data recorded in Fulcrum can then be extracted and visualized on any number of qualitative and/or quantitative platforms or simply explored on the FulcrumApp.com website and map.
This workshop will give participants access to Fulcrum and the opportunity to test this app in the neighborhood around Fordham University. Our workshop data will then be examined back in a classroom and we will discuss how this app can benefit not only undergraduate and graduate-level courses but academic research as a whole.
Equipment Requirements: Please bring a working (charged) cell phone if you can.

Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta - a Demonstration
2020-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Columbia (Butler Library room 208B), 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 10027, 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 zone of the Campo de’ Fiori that was recently “restored” by the Capella Orsini Lab (in an adjoining deconsecrated church). The virtual Grottapinta allows us to assess user interactions with an informal, vernacular “sacred space,” testing fundamental questions concerning learned versus anthropological responses to such spaces, and how restoration shapes viewers’ responses.
The shrine was recreated virtually by using photogrammetry (Agisoft). It was subsequently imported into Unity and optimized for user studies in virtual reality employing HTC Vive headset. The demonstration will be through videos taken during the testing and will describe the modeling process and technical challenges of recreating the experience of the Grottapinta itself, based on the initial user studies and surveys. We will conclude with a discussion of very early results and implications for similar communities and devotional sites throughout New York.

Text as Data in the Humanities
2020-02-05 10:00 - 12:00 | 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.
