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Join the Digital Humanities Initiative mailing list to learn about public events, conferences, courses, lectures, and workshops taking place at Rutgers and throughout the region. This is a low-volume listserv maintained in Sakai. Click here to subscribe (netID credentials required). If you are not a current member of the Rutgers community, please send a subscription request e-mail to Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian, at francesca.giannetti [at] rutgers.edu.Read More →

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Taught by Daniel McGlone, GIS Analyst at Azavea Monday, December 15, 2014 3:00 – 6:00 PM Alexander Library, Room 415 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ Familiar with GIS but ready to take the next step and add some more tools to your spatial toolbelt? This workshop will provide an overview of GIS and how it’s used in Digital Humanities. We’ll provide hands-on training in QGIS for some common spatial analysis techniques like: geocoding, georeferencing a historic map, querying data, spatial joins and symbology. You’ll also learn about some resources for open data with and the latest tools available. Finally, we’ll work together to createRead More →

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Taught by Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian, Alexander Library Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:00 – 6:00 PM Alexander Library, Room 415 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ Have you been wanting to explore a geographic component to your research but don’t know how to get started? Attend this workshop, and you will learn the basics of geospatial analysis, including file types, the csv data format – one of the most ubiquitous and application agnostic,  how to create vector data (points, lines, polygons), finding and reusing geospatial data, examples of how to visualize your data, and how to share interactive digital maps online. E-mail Francesca (francesca.giannettiRead More →

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January 29th, 2014, 2:00–6:30 p.m. Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ (map) Introduction Meredith McGill New Tools, New Disciplines? (2:10–2:55 p.m.) Opening comments by Andrew Urban Social Media Adoption by Medievalists Kristen Mapes (Library and Information Science) The American Historical Review and the Digital Turn Belinda Davis (History) The Online Certificate in Women’s Global Health Nafisa Tanjeem (Women’s and Gender Studies) The American Studies Media Culture Program Christopher Rzigalinski (American Studies) New Media, New Methods (3:00–3:55 p.m.) Opening comments by Ann Fabian Citation Patterns: Charting Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go Octavio Gonzalez (English) Figures Don’t Lie: Spatial Humanities andRead More →

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Taught by Andrew Goldstone, Department of English, Rutgers University–New Brunswick Wednesday, April 30, 20144:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.Alexander Library, Room 413169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ With the increasing prominence of the digital humanities, humanists are once again asking themselves whether they can make use of the computer’s most fundamental capacity: its ability to count. This workshop introduces some of the methodological choices required for computational counting: what representations of data are suitable for machine processing? Once you have such a representation, how can you begin to analyze it? We will make these questions concrete through an introduction to R, which is both a programming language andRead More →