The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits (Mary Rizzo, Rutgers University)

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

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 …

Param’s Office Hour

GC Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Open Office Hours with Param Ajmera

Getting Started with TEI

Room 5307 @ The GC

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, …

Tropy: Archival Research Photo Management

Room 9207 @ The GC 365 5th Ave., New York, NY

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 adding metadata, using tags and lists, merging photos into items, and doing transcriptions or taking notes. It will also offer you some suggestions for how …

New Media Lab General Meeting

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

Join the NML community for presentations by Stefano Morello and Alina Kiryayeva.

DARC Working Group Meeting

GC Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Join us for the first Digital Archive Research Collective meeting of the semester! We will discuss some of the exciting digital archive projects at the GC, technologies of archiving and curation, as well as figure out our plans for the rest of the semester. Please also sign up for our group on CUNY Academic Commons …

Event Series Cancelled– R Users’ Group (RUG)

Cancelled– R Users’ Group (RUG)

GC Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled due to ongoing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. Please stay tuned for further updates. R User’s Group (i.e., RUG) is a place for newbies and experts alike to learn and work together on projects using the statistical programming language, R. Do you want to learn the best practices for …