Note to all attendees: Session leaders will contact you with additional information, including a meeting link, for each individual workshop, event, or demonstration.
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. [...]
Participants will learn how to use Internet Archive’s API to pull a set of documents from the web. They will then test a hypothesis by loading those documents onto a crowd sourcing website and asking others to answer questions about those documents. Instructor: Heidi Knoblauch Location: Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, Avery Fisher Center, [...]
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary. This workshop will be led by GC Digital Fellows Ian [...]
This workshop will cover the basics of both destructive (spine removal) and non-destructive (camera-based) book scanning as well as postprocessing of page images with ScanTailor and finally binding processed images into searchable pdfs. All software used will be FOSS. We will also discuss FOSS pdf manipulation and image conversion tools that will enable participants to [...]
Our big event! The afternoon of networking, lightning talks and an NYCDH roundtable will be followed by a social outing at a local watering hole. This is your opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones and get to know your New York City Digital Humanities community. Looking forward to seeing you there! Please RSVP [...]
Scheduled Presenters Name Institution Project Title Twitter Handle Project URL Christy Pottroff Fordham The U.S. Goes Postal: Mapping Union and War in the Antebellum Era @ChristyPottroff http://www.christypottroff.com/ page-dh/ Jonathan Reeve Columbia University Git-Lit @j0_0n http://git-lit.github.io/ Eileen Clancy CUNY Graduate Center Beyond Citation @clancynewyork http://www.beyondcitation.org/ Margaret Galvan CUNY Graduate Center Mapping and Networking Alison Bechdel to [...]
A integral part of the NYCDH agenda is supporting and building our community! To foster this initiative, the kick off event for NYCDH Week features a session of three-and-a-half minute (3:30) lightning talks that showcase a wide range of DH work done across the NYCDH community. Following is a list of presenters from 2016: Scheduled Presenters Name Institution Project Title Twitter Handle Project [...]
Ahhh. Time for refreshments among friends! We'll be gracing the halls of BAR NINE for the merry making. The hope is to head there as soon as our kickoff event is over. No RSVP needed. We get from good authority that they can hold a large group.
Workshop lead: Dennis Tenen This is a github tutorial for beginners geared towards collaborative work in the humanities. In this tutorial you will learn about Git and Github, and how to set up your own versioning environment. For this event you will need a pass at the door.
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. PCs will be provided, or bring a laptop with Gephi 0.8.2. [...]
As humanists, a good portion of the work we do involves text. Whether it's writing an paper, editing an article, or putting together a website, we spend significant amounts of time moving words around. This workshop will teach you how to write and edit text in the most efficient way possible, using a modal text [...]
Pinterest offers a unique way to display and interrelate digital assets with a wider world of interconnected materials and activity. Learn how UK-based research group, Architecture_MPS promotes its journal articles, conferences and online resources by exposing it's relationships with other research, exhibitions, and imagery. As part of our engagement with scholarly communication AMPS provides current [...]
Participants will be exposed to an array of digital projects, technologies, and methods, and will learn some simple principles for figuring out the sources and technologies that constitute a “project.” The workshop will also address how to find and structure data, including the kinds of data scholars in the humanities tend to be interested in, [...]
This workshop will introduce the Twitter API, a way of programmatically interacting with the Twitter platform, and will place a particular emphasis on gathering data for textual, sociological, or linguistic analysis. Some knowledge of Python will be helpful, but is not strictly necessary. This workshop will be led by GC Digital Fellows Patrick Smyth and [...]
Learn how to use the command line to perform basic tasks. We’ll begin by discussing why humanists would want to learn something so technical, then jump into learning how to create and edit files and directories. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several of the other workshops offered this […]
Omeka: Whether to Dive in, and at Which End of the Pool? The proliferation of Content Management Systems (CMS’s) have radically altered our experience of the web, both as creators and consumers of content. At the cost of a few limitations in flexibility, these structures vastly simplify website creation and editing. The multiplicity of such [...]
In today's technology-driven world, digital projects are not judged by how fast or attractive they are but rather by their ability to consistently offer memorable and engaging experiences for users. In this workshop, attendees will learn the key concepts and methods of User Experience (UX) and how a combination of design thinking and experience-centered strategy [...]
Digital Art History in Practice 10:30 Welcome and Introductions Jason Varone, Artist; Web & Electronic Media Manager, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU 10:40 Through Machine Eyes: Art, Artifice, and Artificial Intelligence Emily L. Spratt, Director of the Program in Art and Artificial Intelligence and Visiting Lecturer in Byzantine Art and Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies [...]
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 PDFs, and social media into your research design. Presenters will provide [...]
In this workshop students will learn how to install and deploy their own instance of Ed. We will learn how to work with different genres, and stylistic elements. At the end of the workshop, workshop participants should be able to deploy their own scholarly or reading editions online. [** This event was originally title minimal [...]
Meet like-minded individuals, collaborate, bring your art history questions and learn a tool. There will be four stations where participants have the opportunity to learn CartoDB, Cytoscape, D3.js and bibliographic tools such as Zotero. Specialists will be on hand to address your questions and to discuss your projects. Please bring your own technology and if […]
Math and statistics bring about fear and apprehension in many humanities and social science students, yet these skills are often required for research and effective evidence-based practice. This workshop aims to introduce humanities students to basic statistical concepts, various types of qualitative data, and methods of data analysis. The workshop will be taught by a […]
“Typography is what language looks like.” This quote by educator and designer Ellen Lupton has been used countless times to explain how typography, the arrangement and use of type, permeates our visual landscape, from the printed page to screens to physical environments. Those who work in the digital humanities are called upon to make typographic […]
This workshop will examine the process of creating digital interactives for the Bard Graduate Center’s Focus Gallery, an academic gallery located on 86th Street and Central Park West. We will be discussing methods used to bring digital projects from idea to installation with a focus on the thoughtful and effective integration of pedagogical practice into […]
A workshop focusing on demonstrations and applications of easy-to-use platforms for film/audiovisual media analysis, such as video annotation software, and interactive image annotation tools like Thinglink. In addition to brief how-to tutorials, this workshop will also give examples of how to productively incorporate those tools into multimedia assignments for Film and Media Studies courses. A […]
An introduction to the hardware & software of the Raspberry Pi, a small, credit-card sized computer useful for teaching & learning computing, programming, digital design and electronics. This workshop will follow the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi, from box to working computer, and cover several small computing projects. This workshops is best suited […]
A integral part of the NYCDH agenda is supporting and building our community! To foster this initiative, the kick off event for NYCDH Week features a session of three-and-a-half minute (3:30) lightning talks that showcase a wide range of DH work done across the NYCDH community. Following is a list of presenters for this year:
Our big event! A full day of networking, lightning talks, an NYCDH roundtable, and a keynote delivered by our first NYCDH Award winner will be followed by a social outing at a local watering hole. This is your opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones and get to know your New York City Digital Humanities […]
Join the NYCDH gang at The Liberty Bar (29 W. 35th St., New York, NY 10001) for some food, folks, and fun. Banter, network, collaborate, or scheme; it's all easier with a frosty beverage or tasty cocktail! Check out the space here: http://youvis.it/nn6Hf1
This presentation will introduce attendees to the fundamentals of Nvivo queries and analyses. Participants will be shown to easy-to-follow demonstrations of NVivo functions that allow users to visualize information from data sources such as surveys, literature reviews, and interview transcripts. The workshop is geared toward beginners who have had little previous exposure to NVivo. Attendees […]
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform developed by the University of Southern California that’s designed to make it easy for authors (faculty or students) to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Projects that are best suited to Scalar are media rich and able to take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital […]
With Museums and Libraries rapidly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public, educational scaffolding and digital access programming have become critical to the understanding and approachability of archival contents. Learn to foster a deeper connection between the public and a digitized archive of a cultural institution through thoughtfully constructed digital programs. Follow […]
Learn how to use the command line to perform basic tasks. We’ll begin by discussing why humanists would want to learn something so technical, then jump into learning how to create and edit files, and also learn some tricks for text analysis. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several […]
Do you have a huge archive to analyze? Do you want to find trends in a large data set? Are your methods time-consuming and difficult to automate? Sampling may be the answer! Learn how sampling can save you time and energy, why representative sampling matters, how to pick random subsets of your data, and how […]
Learn the basic to intermediate steps that you can take to protect yourself against malicious agents, government surveillance and other threats. Skill Level Beginner Prerequisites None Equipment Requirements Laptop
Imagine a humanities network with the sharing power of Academia.edu, the archival quality of an institutional repository, and a commitment to using and contributing to open source software. Now imagine that this network is not-for-profit. It doesn’t want to sell your data or generate profit from your intellectual property. That’s Humanities Commons. Humanities Commons wants […]
This workshop will introduce participants to creating static maps using QGIS. QGIS is an open source mapping software that allows users to create maps and analyze data with a spatial component. This workshop is intended for those new to GIS who want to get started creating maps. By the end of this session, participants will […]
If you’re working in Islandora, thinking about it, or just curious, then join us for a new Islandora Working Group! Building on an active Islandora community, the Islandora Working Group is an opportunity to bring together local New York City information professionals working to create and build cultural heritage collections using Islandora. It is the […]
After 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 artists to the process of archiving their work, with tips on selection, storage and preservation. The American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) is a collaboration of archivists, dramaturgs, and academics […]
We will discuss strategies for creating experiences and performances that cross the domains of software, sound, and dance while respecting each medium's idiosyncratic strengths. D. Schmüdde will provide a brief overview of the hardware, software, and original code he wrote to track bodies and manipulate sound in "Borderless." Co-creator Kim Burgas will discuss the process […]
