Tropy: Train the Trainers Workshop (Librarians)

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 …

Tropy: Train the Trainers Workshop (Faculty)

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 …

Workshop: Intro to Mapping using QGIS

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 …

Workshop: Developing a Scholarly Profile with Social Media

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. …

Workshop: Getting started with TEI

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, …

Workshop: Sentiment Analysis

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 …

Workshop: Introduction to Omeka

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 …

Youngmin Kim: Digital Humanities in Asia

C198 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Youngmin Kim: Digital Humanities in Asia In his influential world-wide known book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (2016), Klaus Schwab initiates the transdiscursive provocation on the new technology revolution by introducing “The Fourth Wave of the Industrial Revolution,” and argues that the size, speed and scope of these historic changes were brought up by the “unlimited possibilities” of …

New Media Lab General Meeting

Room 7388.01 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

presenting: Pablo Muñoz, Jaime Shearn Coan

Talk: What Can You Do with a 3D Reconstruction of Ancient Rome?

Room C201 @ The GC 365 5th Ave., New York, NY

Event Summary: Talk: What Can You Do with a 3D Reconstruction of Ancient Rome? by Dr. Bernard Frischer, DIRECTOR of the Virtual Heritage Track, and PROFESSOR of Informatics at the School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington DIRECTOR of the Rome Reborn Project When: Thursday, March 14, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Where: …