Unity for Spatial Research: SpatioScholar
2020-02-07 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

NYCDH Kickoff Event 2021
2021-02-08 12:00 - 18:00 | New York, NY, United States
NYC Digital Humanities
in a Context of Radical Care
This year’s kickoff event will focus collective attention and action on the relationship between individual digital humanists and NYCDH as a community of practice impacted by ongoing crises and traumas, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, budget austerity, labor conditions, and pedagogical transition, that expose the inequitable conditions in which we do our work. In A Burst of Light, NYC-based poet Audre Lorde writes: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” Foregrounding the unequal, varied, and fluid impacts of the past year’s events on the NYC DH community as individuals and as a collective, our kickoff events and week-long focus groups will consider how “radical care” might mobilize communities toward positive social action while resisting its potential to reinforce systemic inequity. How might the NYC DH community come together through a shared understanding of radical care and “show up” for one another, moving us toward hopeful change?
In place of the traditional keynote lecture, this year’s kickoff ceremony will feature a conversation between two members of our NYC DH community, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Research and Learning Technologies Librarian at Columbia University, and Lisa Rhody, Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Following the conversation, there will be opportunities for breakout room discussions and networking sessions.
Madiha Zahrah Choksi

Lisa Marie Rhody

As is tradition, following the keynote we will be announcing the winners of our annual Graduate Student awards with presentations by the winners
Schedule
Noon – 1:30

Introduction to the week
Kickoff keynote talk

1:30 – 2:30

Breakout Room Discussions
Networking Sessions

4:30 – 6:00

Graduate Student award announcement and presentations

2020 Award Winners

First Place
Hilary Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center), “Urban Policy from the Post-WWII Period to the Present”

Second Place
Daniel Fox (CUNY Graduate Center), “Is there Gender Bias in the Genre Labels for Musicians on Wikipedia?”

Honorable Mention
Kristen Hackett (CUNY Graduate Center), “Recalibrating Queens”

Honorable Mention
Maria Agustina Checa (CUNY Graduate Center), “Magnetismo Sónico”

Honorable Mention
Lara Alonso (CUNY Graduate Center), “Corona Stories”

Click here for more info about NYCDH Graduate Student Awards

FairCopy: A word processor for the digital humanities.
2021-02-09 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
FairCopy is a simple and powerful tool for transcribing, editing, and studying manuscripts and historical texts. FairCopy gives humanists an editor to create TEI encoded texts without writing a single line of XML, so this rich format becomes accessible for everyone. Nick Laiacona will demonstrate the use of this new tool and its functionality. The software is in early access and is available for free at www.faircopyeditor.com.

Introduction to Hypothes.is web annotation
2021-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
In this session you will learn how to use the hypothesis web annotation tool in and outside the classroom. Using real life examples, you will learn how to set up an instance for your classroom to enable online discussion among students that resembles the comment feature on a google doc. You will also learn how to organize events to bring your scholarly community around a single literary or cultural text.

Network Analysis for the Humanities
2021-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
The world is full of networks and different topics of study in the humanities can make up networks: people, texts, ideas, etc. This workshop will introduce basics of network analysis for the humanist. We will learn how to design a network in order to answer research questions in the humanities, how to create and visualize networks with open software and how to interpret some of their most important features and metrics. Participants will practice the skills acquired on a corpus of networks of characters in movies and theatre plays.
Equipment/Software Requirements: Recommended but not compulsory: installation of Gephi (https://gephi.org/) or Cytoscape (https://cytoscape.org/).

Reducing Your Digital Carbon Footprint
2021-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
The digital is material. Learn how you can measure and reduce your digital carbon footprint to “embody the just and liberated worlds we long for” (adrienne maree brown).
In this workshop, we’ll talk about the material impacts of our digital lives. You will be given tools to measure and understand these impacts and, through an ethics of care, reduce and repair harm by shrinking your digital carbon footprint. We frame this work, not through the faulty ideology of individual responsibility, but through the Black feminist praxis of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Without absolving corporations and governments of environmental responsibility, we simultaneously embrace “ways for humans to practice being in right relationship to our home and each other, to practice complexity, and grow a compelling future together through relatively simple interactions” (brown 24). Join us in this work!

Using R and Shiny for Visualizing Humanities Spatial Data
2021-02-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
This course will focus on using the programming language R as a way of visualizing spatial data. It will use four humanities datasets (pre-modern and modern, from Europe and the Middle East) and the code required to carry out the visualization. We will discuss how participants might match different kinds of spatial datasets for different visualizations in Shiny. We will approach the visualization process in four steps: (1) discussing what the “story” of our data is, and which aspects or conclusions from it we want to illuminate via visualization. (2) preprocessing our data into a dataset. Here it is especially important to determine the aspects of a given dataset, i.e. if a two-faceted approach is satisfactory or if a more faceted approach (e.g. temporospatial) is required. (3) choosing the clearest and most efficient visual representation for our dataset. (4) selecting the most viable user interface to maximize accessibility and impact of our visualization.
Prerequisites: basic familiarity with Leaflet & a programming language such as R
Note: The course will be carried out using RStudio Cloud. You will be added to an account using the email address that you provide for the registration and you will need to activate it by responding to an email before the session. Participants can also observe the process without being added to RStudio.

Digital Humanities & Humanities Advocacy within the University
2021-02-09 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
As universities face increasing economic pressures, there is a risk that, at the very moment when we need humanistic inquiry the most in order to provide the leaders of the future with the tools they need to address this century’s most pressing problems, many institutions will choose instead to prioritize programs deemed as more practical and profitable. In this session, we’ll be looking to share success stories, brainstorm ideas, and develop messaging that can help us collaborate across institutions to advocate for from our digital humanities platforms for the humanities.

Introduction to Manifold Scholarship
2021-02-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Please join the GC Digital Initiatives for this workshop on Manifold Scholarship, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by the CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press, and Cast Iron Coding. Learn about how Manifold allows you to create beautiful, dynamic projects that can include text, images, video, embedded resources, and social annotation. We will provide an overview of Manifold and demonstrate how faculty, students and staff can use Manifold to publish scholarly works, host community discussion and/ or peer review through annotations and reading groups, and create custom edited versions of public domain course texts and OER. The presentation will include a hands-on demonstration of how to publish your first text—either something you have written or a public domain or openly licensed text. We will also cover how to customize your project’s structure, look, and feel, and how you can participate in conversations in the margins of your texts using Manifold’s social annotation features.

QuicheGIS: A cooking show style introduction to thinking about geospatial projects and transforming text to maps
2021-02-10 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
This session will focus on learning to think about geospatial projects and will demonstrate the data collection, creation, and mapping steps by:

Planning the menu (thinking about your sources and ideas),
Mise en place (structuring point data in a spreadsheet prior to GIS work),
Cooking (plotting, styling, or analyzing data),
Serving (sharing the end product or map)

Attendees are welcome to follow along as much as possible on their own computers. However, the outcome of this session is for attendees to gain confidence and awareness surrounding spatial and tabular thinking for geospatial projects by utilizing open resources. View session outline and resources: tiny.cc/quichegis
Prerequisites:

Ability to use and navigate spreadsheet software, especially Google Sheets.
Prior experience with GIS or mapping is NOT required.
Experience with analysis, visualization, or complex software suites (e.g., Stata, R, Adobe Creative Suite) is recommended for participants who wish to fully participate.
Download AND install QGIS 3.X prior to start of session for full participation. This session will NOT provide a space for download and install assistance.

Equipment software: QGIS 3.X: https://download.qgis.org/ (The instructor will use 3.10 Coruña but any prior 3.X version should work. DO NOT DOWNLOAD LATEST RELEASE, 3.16). View the NYU Data Services install guide for assistance: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mfhx3F7rSeKkfUhVtB1eDMf1kHeQR8EWeRyjBJSuDVs/edit?usp=sharing

Archiving Web Content With Conifer
2021-02-10 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
The composition of corpus, analysis and preservation of Web archive is crucial for Social Sciences and Humanities. Conifer (ex Webrecorder) developed by Rizhome offers a wide range of possibility to start the simple and fast constitution of standardized research corpus. After a quick introduction to the problematic and landscape of Web Archiving, this Workshop aim at learning how to use Conifer and build a first set of archived Web pages.

Introduction to Arabic Text Processing with Python and CAMeL Tools
2021-02-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
This workshop introduces the basics of Arabic text processing. The workshop consists of two parts. We first introduce the basic challenges and common tasks associated with Arabic natural language processing. We then present CamelTools, a Python Open-Source toolkit for Arabic processing that addresses the challenges and targets the tasks. The second part of the workshop will be hands-on and introduces general Python text processing utilities, CamelTools utilities for transliteration, normalization, morphological analysis and disambiguation, named-entity recognition, dialect identification and sentiment analysis.
Note: Participants should have access to COLAB, with 3.0GB available on Google Drive for running interactively (needs a gmail account). Participants should have some skills in programming (Jupyter notebooks, Python, command line, etc.). Arabic literacy is not necessary, but obviously helpful.

Exploring City Narratives with the Elements of Gamification
2021-02-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Considering the discursive and associative nature of cultural heritage data that has been pointed out by various scholars, the speakers will raise the questions of its relevant representation within the database on the demonstration of the work-in-progress “Que.St” mobile app. Que.St is a mapping project for representing culturally significant locations in Saint-Petersburg. First, through their links with historic personalities associated with them and, second, through the mobile application which provides users with interactive novels and quests around the city. Designed as an open-source project, the project’s mission is not only to raise awareness about culturally significant sites among the local community but also to engage them in the evaluation of historic locations and collection of relevant data.

Mapping with Palladio
2021-02-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
“Mapping with Palladio” Palladio (https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio) is a web-based tool for investigating and visualizing multi-dimensional data. In this workshop, we will learn to visualize humanistic research data on a map, and track connections between data points.

Introduction to Open Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2021-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Open access, open science, open knowledge, open data … what does all of this openness mean, and what does it mean for those working in or alongside the humanities in particular? This offering will explore the role of open knowledge dissemination in the humanities, academia, and at large. We will focus on the history, evolution, forms, and impact of open digital scholarship within the domain of scholarly communication. Our time together will be content- and discussion-driven, but we’ll also engage with an open publishing tool or two. This workshop is geared toward students, librarians, scholars, publishers, government representatives, and others who are invested in the open development and sharing of research output.

Intro to Wordpress: The Block Editor
2021-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, 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 the new block editor (the artist formerly known as 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.

OpenRefine for Beginners
2021-02-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, 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/Software Requirements: A computer (running Windows, Mac, or Linux operating systems) with OpenRefine 3.4.1 and Google Chrome installed. We can try to guide participants through installation at the beginning of the workshop if needed. A sample data set will be provided for exercises and experimentation.

Providing and Managing a Diverse and Accessible Classroom/Community Through Technological Means
2021-02-10 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Although distanced learning can have many potential benefits, including making it easier for students to schedule classes around their other life commitments, we’ve seen that this format can also highlight and widen learning and accessibility gaps. In this session, we’ll discuss strategies for ensuring our (virtual and tech-enhanced) classrooms are equitable, ethical, and promote community building. We will brainstorm resources and share experiences regarding how to support students’ self-discovery on issues of privacy, decolonization, and accessibility.

Collecting Twitter Data for Research
2021-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Twitter data provide researchers with a real-time view into a wide variety of social and cultural topics. In this workshop, we’ll explore beginning and intermediate tools for collecting social media data from Twitter.
Attendees will need a Google/Gmail account, a Twitter account, and an Rstudio Cloud account (free)
Prerequisites: A Google/Gmail account, a Twitter account, an Rstudio Cloud account (free)

Implementing Learner-Created Podcasts
2021-02-11 08:00 - 10:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
As global podcast listenership continues to grow, students are now aware and interested in the medium. Podcasts can be an engaging collaborative course activity and/or assignment and it works well in the remote learning environment. This workshop will focus on implementing learner-created podcasts in the classroom including rubrics on how to assess creative content. No audio or podcasting experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome to join, though space is limited.
Before attending this session, please listen to some podcasts (come prepared to share some of what you’re listening to).
-Here are some student produced podcasts:

https://soundcloud.com/woubdigital/sets/the-outlet
https://soundcloud.com/ohradiogirl/sets/jrmc-award-winning-audio
https://undercover.transistor.fm/

Bringing Eileen Online: Reimagining Bard Graduate Center's Eileen Gray Exhibition during the Pandemic
2021-02-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
When Covid-19 hit New York City in March, Bard Graduate Center was forced to close the Eileen Gray exhibition that had opened to the public just two weeks earlier. With no timeline for reopening and limited access to the gallery space, the curatorial staff coordinated with the Director of DH/DX (Digital Humanities and Exhibitions) to devise a plan to bring the exhibition to life online. These efforts resulted in an interactive exhibition featured in the New York Times that reimagined the objects and research on display in the gallery and aimed at reaching a global audience during the pandemic.
Eileen Gray Online Exhibition
This demo will explore the challenges involved in transferring the objects and spirit of a physical exhibition online. It will also reveal some of the tools BGC used to create interactive experiences for the project and outline the ways in which this endeavor provided a new path forward for future exhibitions at the institution.
This demo is hosted by:
Emma Cormack: Associate Curator at Bard Graduate Center
Jesse Merandy: Director of Digital Humanities and Digital Exhibitions at Bard Graduate Center

Using Google Sheets to Create, Organize and Explore Your Humanities Data
2021-02-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet program, equivalent in some ways to Microsoft Excel, with a wide array of features and uses. For people who would like to embark on a digital humanities project, it is one of many options for organizing data.
This workshop is aimed at total beginners and will introduce a few ways to facilitate automatic data entry, organization, and visualization on Google Sheets. The skills presented in this workshop are suitable for anyone working with spreadsheets, and apply for any project in which there is repeated information (names, places, objects, dates). We will learn to sort and filter data, auto-populate cells, and organize sheets visually.
The workshop is in three parts: first, an overview of Google Sheets and potential use cases (e.g., art exhibitions over time, books authored by a publishing house); second, a detailed explanation of some of Google Sheets’ features (Code Tables, Data Validation, Conditional Formatting, VLookup, Column Stats and Filters, and Pivot Tables); and third, a walkthrough of these tools using a sample data set. Participants can follow along with the walkthrough by using their own data or the sample set provided.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with Google Sheets or Excel.
The course will be carried out using Google Sheets. You will be added to a shared sheet using the email address that you provide for the registration, so a Google account is required. Participants can also observe the process without using the Sheets and can use their own data set to practice the skills learned.

Introduction to Omeka
2021-02-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual, NY, 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.

Archiving digital projects using the DDP
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
The Digital Documentation Process allows scholars to catalog and produce a reliable archive of their digital projects, so that fellow scholars can access, cite, and reuse in their own work. This workshop will outline the components of the DDP and teach participants how to catalogue their own projects. https://digitalhumanitiesddp.com/
Participants should have a project they want to catalog, or work with scholars who wish to catalog their projects for long-term access and reference.
Prerequisites: Participants should have a project they want to catalog, or work with scholars who wish to catalog their projects for long-term access and reference

Podcasting 101
2021-02-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Podcasts are an exciting medium for public scholarship. If you have ever thought about launching your own independent podcast project then this workshop is for you! In this workshop, learn the basics of developing, producing, distributing, and marketing your own independent podcast project from Anuli Akanegbu, NYU Doctoral Student and the producer behind “The BLK IRL Podcast” (www.blkirl.com). No audio recording/editing experience is expected or required. This workshop will focus on the non-technological aspects of podcast production.

Accessible Design
2021-02-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Over the last thirty years, the internet has become of vital importance to daily life, especially in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic when nearly all interactions for non-essential workers have gone online. Nevertheless, accessibility on the internet has often remained a low priority, making this indispensable resource difficult to use for many people. Participants in this workshop will learn how to combat this problem by being proactive in their own design. We will discuss why accessibility is important, best practices for designing an accessible site or visualization, and some of the follies of “universal design.” We will conclude with some hands-on practice with accessibility checkers that participants can use for their own work.

Tips and Strategies for Enacting Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Working Collaboratively
2021-02-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
Within the DH community, we often talk about interdisciplinarity and collaboration as a given. But in reality, there remain very real obstacles to working in these ways. Institutional resistance, orthodoxy in one’s field, or a lack of visible partners can all make it very difficult to find the proper environment to do interdisciplinary or collaborative work. In this session, we hope to gather people from both sides of the coin, those who’ve been able to find collaborations and those for whom it has been a struggle. We will share strategies and stories and discuss how along with administrative, disciplinary, and technical obstacles, these environments can be both enabled and hindered by personalities and dispositions towards working together and negotiating how to manage the reins of control.

Build Your Own Text-as-Data Corpus: A Print-to-Bytes Primer
2021-02-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual, NY, United States
This hands-on workshop will teach participants how to construct their own digital text corpus for conducting humanities data analysis. We’ll cover simple tools for turning printed texts in a variety of languages into computer-readable files, the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, and consider helpful tools for post-process correction of digitized texts. We’ll also look at open-access text-as-data sources available over simple web-browser-based API calls. The workshop is geared toward digital humanists needing to assemble text data that are not yet compiled or in computer readable form for analysis, and who are looking for an introduction to the workflows and software suited to building the research materials needed for analysis. We’ll learn how to use Tesseract, an open-source OCR software, consider the anatomy of an HOCR file (the output of OCR efforts), and deploy techniques for extracting structured information from a page.
Computer with a text editor installed such as BBEdit, TextWrangler, Atom, Notepad++ or the like; administrator access to install open-source software (Tesseract).
