Field-Recording: Beyond Your Ears

Room C197 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

Register today! GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series presents an interactive talk with Zach Poff, a New York area media artist, educator, and maker-of-things.  His artwork is rooted in open systems that eschew individual authorship in favor of collaborative or generative models. His algorithmic remixes of popular media uncover hidden subtexts lurking inside familiar forms (Parallel Rhetoric, …

Digital Identity and WordPress

The purpose of this workshop is to help you establish a digital academic identity while becoming familiar with the WordPress platform. We will focus on utilizing the CUNY Academic Commons, helping you establish your digital CV, a blog, or both. We will focus on organization and design, including theme editing, managing content, custom menus and …

Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Oral History Project, Digital Archive and Documentary

Register today! GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series presents a talk on the Kentucky Bourbon Tales Oral History Project by Doug Boyd Ph.D., a national expert on oral history, archives, and digital technologies.  Boyd serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries.  Boyd manages the Oral History in the Digital Age collaborative initiative …

Doing Digital Oral History Workshop

Room C202 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Register today! GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series presents a featured workshop on doing digital oral history by Doug Boyd Ph.D., a national expert on oral history, archives, and digital technologies.  Boyd serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries.  Boyd manages the Oral History in the Digital Age collaborative initiative …

Sound! Workshop

Does your research involve sound? Would you like to learn more about digital tools for recording, editing and sharing audio files, as well as qualitative coding and transcribing their content? This workshop will review some hardware, software, techniques and concepts that are useful to scholars working with sound – be it music, voices, soundscapes or …

How to scrape the Internet!

Twitter, NYC Open Data, wikipedia - what are some ways to use the Python programming language to pull stuff off the internet? This workshop will introduce specialized libraries like SodaPy and TweetPy and generalizable tools like requests and Beautiful Soup. Register HERE

Python Users Group (PUG)

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

PUG is a bi-weekly, open, and informal opportunity for those interested in or working in the Python programing language to come to the GC Digital Scholarship Lab and find support.

Podcasting

Are you curious about podcasting? Have you thought about starting one, or being involved in one, but feel unsure about the technology you will need, or the skills required to make it happen? Have you ever wondered if podcasting is a viable medium to integrate into your research, class assignments, public outreach, or departmental projects? This workshop will address all …

Humanidades Digitales / DH in Spanish

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

GC Digital Initiatives and the GC Library are hosting an open discussion of Digital Humanities (DH) in Spanish-language contexts, both written in Spanish and/or in Spanish-speaking countries; and the geopolitics …

Audio Annotation with Praat and Python

Praat is best known as a standard tool for doing phonetics with computers, but is also a terrific open-source tool for any type of audio annotation. Quick to download and …