A crash course on fair use, particularly for digital humanities projects that use copyrighted works as data. We will look at the wiggle room intentionally built into the language about fair use in United States copyright law, as well as the increasing importance of transformativeness in fair use rulings. Register HERE
Betwyll is a social reading app, developed by the cultural association TwLetteratura since 2014, which allows commenting on texts by publishing short messages of 140 characters. Betwyll is free to download for mobile devices. It can be employed for multiple purposes and in different contexts: it can be employed as a didactic tool to make …
Networks are increasingly common aspects of contemporary life: social networks, transportation networks, information networks, citation networks, and more. Networks consist of nodes (individual people or things) and edges (links, relationships, or interactions) that connect them. Researchers increasingly use network analysis to investigate the structures and connective relationships of networks relevant to their discipline. In this …
This workshop is for anyone who is interested in learning more about digital modeling of the historic built world. The workshop samples some of the Building History Project's recent projects in New York and abroad, along with a more detailed case study of on going work with Metropolitan Museum of Art conservator Pascale Patris. At …
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 …
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. …
