Note to all attendees: Session leaders will contact you with additional information, including a meeting link, for each individual workshop, event, or demonstration. 

  • An Introduction to Wikidata

    Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, Birnbaum Library, Fishbowl Room 1 Pace Plaza, New York, NY, United States

    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 [...]

    Free
  • Git and Atom

    Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

    Learn how to use Git to put your projects, articles, and chapters under version control. Then, see how easy it is to integrate Git with Atom, a hackable text editor. Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop.

    Free
  • Introduction to Manifold Scholarship

    CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

    This workshop introduces participants to Manifold Scholarship, a Mellon-funded digital publishing platform developed by The CUNY Graduate Center, The University of Minnesota Press and Cast Iron Coding. Manifold can be used to create attractive multimodal publications and customized teaching copies of literature in the public domain. Presenters will provide an overview of Manifold and demonstrate [...]

    Free
  • Social Annotation and Reading: Digital Pedagogy for Class Texts

    Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Perusall (Perusall.com) is a fantastic new social reading and annotation tool that has come out of Harvard and the University of Texas that addresses the age-old question: "Are my students doing the reading?" Fordham University has implemented this tool in a number of classes this academic year and been impressed with the results. Come for [...]

    Free
  • Digital Without Tears: Great (and Easy!) DH Tools for Teaching & Learning

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

    Curious to get started with Digital Humanities tools in the classroom but concerned about the learning curve? Afraid that you need to be a coder to do DH? Fear not, there are tons of easy-to-use tools for creating DH projects, including timelines, interactive maps, websites and more—no coding required. This workshop will introduce participants to [...]

  • Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

    Learn small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis by using Ncapture and NVivo Requirements: Attendees should have a Twitter account.

    Free
  • Analytical Modeling of Historic Buildings and Artifacts

    CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    This workshop is for anyone who is interested in learning more about digital modeling of the historic built world. The workshop samples some of the Building History Project's recent projects in New York and abroad, along with a more detailed case study of on going work with Metropolitan Museum of Art conservator Pascale Patris. At [...]

    Free
  • Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Information & Democracy

    Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein Building, Cafeteria Atrium 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

    Wikipedia for Educators at Fordham in partnership with Wikimedia NYC will host this Edit-a-thon at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center 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. [...]

    Free
  • Humanitarian Open Street Mapping for All

    NYIT Library 1855 Broadway (at 61st Street), New York, NY

    How does digital map use work? Is it always free to use? When you hear open street mapping it may sound daunting, but it is an excellent introduction to GIS work as well as a low effort way to help organizations like the red cross, disaster response teams and more. Requirements: Attendees should bring their [...]

    Free
  • NYCDH Kickoff Event 2020: Histories and Representations of Communities Across the Five Boroughs

    Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus 113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Following last year’s highly successful event, NYCDH Week 2020 begins on February 3 with a kickoff gathering at Lincoln Center Campus (113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor). This year’s theme is Histories and Representations of Communities Across the Five Boroughs. The day-long event features speakers, roundtables, lightning talks and networking sessions. Stay tuned for more [...]

    Free
  • International and Interdisciplinary: Collaborations in DH Research

    NYU, 19 Washington Square North 19 Washington Square North, New York, NY, United States

    Digital Humanities take on a different flavor when they cross borders. This panel will discuss perspectives and challenges for international and interdisciplinary collaboration in digital humanities research and training. After lightning talks by panelists, four of whom are just returning from the NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (wp.nyu.edu/widh), we will have a [...]

  • Exploring Immersive & Spatial Technology for the Humanities

    Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Room 444 219 W 40th St, Fl 3, New York, NY

    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 [...]

    Free
  • NYCDH Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

    Fordham University's Rose Hill Campus, Keating 124 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY, 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. [...]

    Free
  • Digital Humanities for Teens at the New-York Historical Society

    New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • The Helen Keller Archive: A Fully Accessible Digital Archive

    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 [...]

    Free
  • A Project-Ready Approach to Teaching Visual Cultures: Replacing the Textbook with a Flexible, Scalable Database

    NYU, 726 Broadway, 6th Floor, Conference Room B 726 Broadway, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Digital Tools for Students as Producers of Public Scholarship

    Brooklyn College, Room 412 2900 Bedford Avenue, Room 412, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Make a Simple Webmap with Leaflet

    Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

    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

    Free
  • Information Visualization Open House

    NYPL, Center for Research in the Humanities, Room 216 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 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 [...]

  • An Introduction to Wikidata

    METRO 599 11th Avenue, 8th floor, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • NLP for non-data scientists – Event Extraction

    Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 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  

    Free
  • The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits

    CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room 365 5th Ave, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Out of the Classroom with Fulcrum: A Digital Note Taking App for Student Fieldwork

    Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 309 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Devotion in Virtual Reality: Rome’s Grottapinta – a Demonstration

    Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Text as Data in the Humanities

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 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, [...]

  • Creating Minimal Humanities Projects with Jekyll

    Columbia (Butler Library room 305) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 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: [...]

    Free
  • Zine Union Catalog: Bringing Together Disparate, Unruly Data

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Introduction to OpenRefine

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 743 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Digital Tools for Teaching Undergraduate Research: A GIS History of NYC Theatre

    Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, 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. [...]

    Free
  • Git in a Jiff

    Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

    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.    

    Free
  • Introduction to WebAnno

    Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, 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: [...]

    Free
  • Getting Started with TEI

    CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

    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, [...]

    Free
  • Introduction to Omeka

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, 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.   Equipment Requirements: [...]

    Free
  • Intro to Carto

    Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, LL 601 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Advanced Omeka

    Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, 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. [...]

    Free
  • Intro to Networks

    Pratt Manhattan Center, Room 609 144 West 14th, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
  • Fair Use in the Digital Humanities

    CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9207 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 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.    

    Free
  • Web Accessibility

    Pace University, Babble Lab, Rm. 202 41 Park Row, New York, NY, 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. [...]

    Free
  • The Making and Knowing Project’s Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of a 16th-c. Manuscript of Artisanal Recipes

    Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 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 [...]

    Free
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