Greetings Digital GC – Welcome back! As you’re transitioning (back) into the academic year, take a moment to review the GC Digital Intiative’s (GCDI) programming and opportunities. We have an …
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Category: GCDI Updates
Graduate Center Awarded $250K NEH Grant for Digital Humanities Research Institutes
The Graduate Center was awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support an expanded version of the Digital Humanities Research Institute, a 10-day residential …
Finding the Right Tools for Mapping
Given the wide array of mapping tools available, it could be hard to know which ones will best suit the needs of a given project. This post will review and …
A Beginner’s Guide to Building Your Website on the Commons
As the semester winds down for students and faculty alike, there’s no time like the present to take a moment to think about your online scholarly profile. Do you have …
Join us for the GCDI End of Year Showcase!
Are you using digital technologies in your research? Are you interested in learning about digital initiatives at the Graduate Center? The GC Digital Initiatives End-of-Year Showcase highlights student research, teaching, …
Facebook: Friend or Foe?
Facebook: Friend or Foe? Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, recently released an op-ed in The New York Times, “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook,” expressing concern about the monopolistic nature …
How I organize my digital library
There might not be a Netflix original series about it, but organizing our digital life is today at least as important as organizing any other aspects of our life—if not …
Transforming TEI for the Web
Last month, I led a workshop for the GC Digital Initiatives on “Getting Started with TEI.” For those who don’t know, TEI (short for Text Encoding Initiative) is a method …
How to request video recording service at the Graduate Center
If you are organizing an event for your department, working group, or various other occasions, you might be interested in using the video recording services provided by the IT department …
Internet Rules per Zuckerberg
In the Washington Post article, “Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas”, Zuckerberg calls for the government to make more regulations to preserve the …
