Welcome to our Fall 2024 digital humanities programming! Details and registration links are posted below. Alternatively, please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to explore a wider range of offerings, including data science and qualitative data streams. Reserve your spot to receive Zoom links and do-ahead software downloads and workshop materials.

Events

RESEARCH IN THE ERA OF GENERATIVE AI: A Public Symposium for Design Justice Thinkers

Join us in person or virtually for a one-day hybrid symposium on design justice and critical AI literacies perspectives on the future of research, digital tools, libraries, and librarianship during a time of technological change. Full program and registration link at criticalai.org.

Our keynotes and panelists cross disciplines from academic librarianship, communications, computer science, data science, history of science and technology, information studies, digital humanities, philosophy, and writing studies.

Black Bibliography Project Wikidata Edit-a-thon

  • Tuesday, October 29, 1:00-4:00 p.m., Hatchery, Alexander Library, Floor B Register
Please join the Black Bibliography Project (BBP) for a Wikidata Edit-A-Thon! The BBP is building a database of Black book history to highlight the social networks and aesthetics of Black print culture from the 1700s to the present. During the Edit-A-Thon, we will learn how to create metadata for Black authors and publishers in Wikidata. These records will ultimately be linked to the BBP’s database and make it possible for people to discover forgotten or overlooked Black authors and literary figures.

Mapathon for Humanitarian Relief

  • Wednesday, November 20, Hatchery, Alexander Library, Floor B Register

Celebrate GIS Day and Geography Awareness week! Together with fellow Rutgers students, staff and faculty, you will contribute geospatial data to OpenStreetMap, a free and editable map of the world that is used by communities, organizations and governments worldwide to address local development challenges and aid disaster response. Our project will be decided closer to the date. In past years, Rutgers students, staff, and faculty worked together on a mapping project to help NGO efforts with relief operations in Puerto Rico, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania. No mapping experience or knowledge is necessary. Training will be provided. Join at any time during the scheduled event!

Workshops

Introduction to Zotero

Zotero is a free application that collects, manages, and formats citations and bibliographies. In this introductory, hands-on workshop, we’ll learn how to organize sources, attach PDFs and notes, create tags for easy searching, and generate citations and bibliographies in Word. Bring your personal laptop, download Zotero 7.0 for your OS, and the Zotero Connector for your favorite browser.

Thematic Maps in QGIS

  • Wednesday, October 23, 10:00–11:30 a.m., online (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti) Register
  • Thursday, October 24, 2:00-3:30 p.m., online (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti) Register

Thematic maps show one or more themes (or variables) arranged spatially on a map. In this workshop, we’ll explore the basic building blocks of geospatial visualizations, including data types, file formats, as well as some ways of manipulating and representing data using a free and open source GIS called QGIS. In keeping with this fall’s electoral theme, we will tinker with data provided by the Mapping Early American Elections project. Download QGIS for your operating system.

Collecting Newspaper Data Programmatically

  • Wednesday, November 13, 10:00–11:30 a.m., online (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti) Register
  • Thursday, November 14, 2:00–3:30 p.m., online (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti) Register

In this introductory workshop, we will access historical and current newspaper data via web APIs using the programming language R. We will use freely available newspaper data from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America website and the New York Times Developer Portal. We will generate dataframes and create some simple data visualizations from downloaded data.

Text Analysis with the Gale Digital Scholar Lab

  • Wednesday, November 20, 10:00–11:30 a.m., online (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti) Register
  • Thursday, November 21, 2:00–3:30 p.m., online (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti) Register

The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a platform that allows researchers to do text analysis on archival collections available through Gale (see list below). In this workshop, we’ll cover the workflow for using the Lab, focusing on the Build, Clean, and Analyze steps. We’ll review curating and creating a content set, developing clean configurations, applying text analysis tools, and exporting your results.

Primary source collections available in Gale include: Archives Unbound, British Library Newspapers, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection, the Economist Historical Archive, the Making of Modern Law, the Times Digital Archive, and U.S. Declassified Documents Online.

Featured image: “The Morning after the Election. November 1856.” Pubd by I. Childs, 84Sth 3rd St., Phil. https://flic.kr/p/vF1vub.