Citizen Cartography
New York Public LibraryLearn how to use the NYPL Map Warper, a tool for digitally aligning ("rectifying") historical maps from the NYPL's collections to match today's precise maps.
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DH 101
New York UniversityDigital Art History: lecture and workshop
The morning session comprises a 70-minute overview of the field (offered by the DAHL); the afternoon session, which is scheduled to last 4 hours, will be run like a clinic where students interested in DAH can come with their research questions and discuss their projects with specialists
Use of Webrecorder
Language Resource Center (Columbia University) 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027This will be a short, hands-on workshop focusing on creating high-fidelity archives of the dynamic web (in warc file format) using Webrecorder.io. We will cover the basics of the warc file format, the use of the tool, and introduce the idea of warc replay using cloud-based or Desktop software. Capacity is 14 participants, and will [...]
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. Please note: regular […]
A DIY Digital Maps Primer
New York Public LibraryIn this workshop you learn how to bring paper maps to the web and annotate them with data. The end result will look something like this. In the process you will learn about: the process of “geo-referencing” or converting a scanned map to a web-map-friendly image generating data to use as annotations in the map [...]
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. […]
Public Participation in Humanities Research: Using APIs and Crowd Sourcing Platforms
Bobst Library, NYU, East Room, 2nd Floor 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesParticipants 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, [...]
Introduction to Programming with Python
CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 [...]
Book digitization and post-processing
Language Resource Center (Columbia University) 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027This 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 [...]
NYCDH Week Kickoff Gathering
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA 113 W 60th Street, New York, United StatesOur 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 [...]
Free
Presentations by NYCDH Graduate Student Award Winners
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA 113 W 60th Street, New York, United StatesScheduled 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 [...]
Lightning Talks 2016
Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus, Room TBA 113 W 60th Street, New York, United StatesA 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 [...]
Digibar
BAR NINE 807 9th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesAhhh. 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.
Git for Humanists
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesWorkshop 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.
Introduction to Networks
School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609 Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609This 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. [...]
Lightning-Fast Text Editing with Vim
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesAs 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 as Exhibition Gallery
METRO 599 11th Avenue, 8th floor, New York, NY, United StatesPinterest 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 [...]
Digital Humanities: Visualizing Data
New York Academy of Medicine 1216 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesParticipants 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, [...]
Social Media Scraping with the Twitter API
CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 [...]
Intro to the Command Line
New York UniversityLearn 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 [...]
Introduction to Omeka
Fordham UniversityOmeka: 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 […]
User Experience for Digital Humanists: A Primer
School of Information, Pratt Institute, Room 609 Pratt Institute, School of Information, 144 W 14th Street, New York, NY 10011, Room 609In 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
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY, United StatesDigital 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 [...]
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research
Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesThis 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 [...]
Introduction to Ed: Make your own digital edition
Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United StatesIn 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.
