Introductory Text Analysis with Voyant Tools This workshop focuses on Voyant, an open source suite of tools for analyzing texts or a corpus of texts in quantitative ways. Participants will learn basic information about different types of text analysis and their applications. We will use a prepared corpus of texts to explore different tools, skins (layouts), and discuss how they might used in humanities scholarship.   [2021-02-12 update: Voyant handout and sample corpus]  Thursday, October 14th, 2021, 11:00 -12:30pm,  online synchronous, (Instructor: Wafa Isfahani)    Digital Storytelling with Narrative Maps In this introductory workshop, we will learn about combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content to create an immersive digital story. ArcGIS StoryMaps can help to illustrate spatialRead More →

Friday, October 15, 2021, 11AM to 12:30PM (virtual) The Digital Humanities and Teaching Asian American Studies Jason Chang (Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies; Director of Asian American Studies Institute, UConn) Andrea Kim Neighbors (Manager of Education Initiatives for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center) Lori Kido Lopez (Professor in Media and Cultural Studies; Director of the Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Manan Desai (Associate Professor; Director of A/PIA Studies Program, University of Michigan) In 2021, Make Us Visible New Jersey launched a campaign to advocate for the inclusion of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American (APIDA) studies in theRead More →

#dayofDH2021 is finally here, hosted by @LUCTSDH, @UCLA_DH, University of Guelph, and the Università del Piedmont Orientale. Date: April 29. Theme: Multilingual DH. Head over to https://t.co/78PFzqGDlL for details and stay tuned for more! https://t.co/LYTfwjNE2h — Day of DH (@DayofDH) April 4, 2021 Attention digital humanists of Princeton, Rutgers, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, and the Mid-Atlantic. Join us for Day of Digital Humanities 2021 by tweeting about your multilingual DH. The aim of this year’s Day of DH is to “open up conversation about projects being undertaken in the various languages and put together a list of non-English tools, libraries, software products, tips, hacks, andRead More →

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DH programming this spring includes events and workshops on Wikipedia editing, social media, network analysis, web scraping, text analysis, and more. Reserve your place at a workshop at https://go.rutgers.edu/cq7y8muq. Workshops will be taught by Alex Leslie and Caterina Agostini—Digital Humanities Graduate Specialists—and Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian. Additional workshop topics will be added later in the spring. More to come! Note by FG on 2020-02-26: Added information on workshops taking place in March and April. Note by FG on 2020-03-23: COVID-19 related updates. Added Hugo workshop text. Events Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon Friday, February 14, 2020, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Alexander Library, JetStream (RoomRead More →