Are you curious about the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, the Digital Fellows, and the services that we provide? Come join us on Wednesday, February 13th, from 1pm-7pm for the Digital Scholarship Lab Open House! The GC Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 7414) is a great place to come for support for a variety of digital projects and research. Stop …
Researchers across the humanities and social sciences are increasingly using data from social media in their work, and the troves of data available present unique opportunities for deepening our understanding of human behavior and contemporary culture. However, as datasets and tools for conducting social media research proliferate, many researchers experience increasingly pressing ethical questions about …
Located in the New Media Lab, room 7388.01
When researchers come to you asking for help organizing the photos they took of materials in your archives, do you have a plan for them? Come learn about Tropy, free and open-source desktop software designed to help researchers organize and describe their research photos. This workshop will walk you through how to use Tropy, including …
Before your students begin to do archival research on their own, help them establish good research practices from the beginning, such as good habits for photographing sources and organizing them. Come learn about Tropy, free and open-source desktop software designed to help researchers organize and describe their research photos. This workshop will walk you through …
Are you interested in using a map to tell your research story? to explore your data? to illustrate your argument? This workshop will offer an approachable introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and its uses: storage, capture, edition, analysis and visualization of data. In the first part of the workshop we will look at the …
The purpose of this workshop is to help you establish a digital academic identity while becoming familiar with different digital tools. We will focus on utilizing the CUNY Academic Commons, CUNY Academic Works, Google Scholar, and setting up an ORCID, with the goal of helping you establish your digital CV, a blog, or unique academic identifier. …
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, …
Sentiment analysis is a popular topic in the burgeoning field of data analysis. But what does sentiment analysis consist of? In this workshop, we give an overview of what sentiment analysis is and how sentiment analysis algorithms work. We will also discuss some of the problems with current sentiment analysis research, and tools that are …
Omeka is a free Content Management System (CMS) and a web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and individual researchers and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a digital collection of primary …
