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 create collections for different projects, attach PDFs and notes to references, tag references for easy searching, and generate citations and bibliographies. Please download Zotero 7.0 for your OS and the connector for your favorite browser.

Finding and Creating Textual Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Just because the Libraries subscribe doesn’t necessarily mean that we have text and data mining (TDM) rights. This workshop provides a brief tour through the rights and technical issues associated with the creation of textual data for computational text analysis in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. We will examine some commonly used sources of historic and contemporary textual data, including primary source collections, web APIs, open data collections, and, yes, library databases.

Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon

Douglass Day 2025 will focus on materials from the “African American Perspectives” collection at the Library of Congress. Training on the transcription of primary source materials will be provided. Bring a laptop! Participants may come or leave at any time during the event. Learn more about Douglass Day at https://douglassday.org.

This event is hybrid. Refreshments will be available to in-person participants.

Digital Humanities and Narrative Part 1

The collection and presentation of evidence in the humanities advances new perspectives more so than proof of a given argument. This workshop explores how humanities scholars use digital tools in the service of narrative. A hands-on portion will focus on one such approach: the narrative map (ArcGIS StoryMaps). We will use sources pertaining to the War Service Bureau records in Special Collections.

If you are a Rutgers affiliate, create your account by signing in with your netID at https://rutgers.maps.arcgis.com before the workshop.

Digital Humanities and Narrative Part 2

This second, in-person workshop is a bring-your-own-media session to develop themes, connections, point(s) of view in connection with participants’ Storymaps. We will do a sketching/storyboarding exercise to explore two or more possible versions and compare each other’s choices with research goals and intended audience(s). Loose, disposable, and ugly sketches are great! The purpose of this exercise is to generate ideas with relatively low effort.

DH Showcase

  • Thursday, March 27, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Teleconference Lecture Hall (registration link)

Join us for the 2025 Digital Humanities Showcase, the Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative’s annual symposium. The Showcase features Rutgers student and faculty speakers, including the 2023–24 Digital Humanities Graduate Seed Grant recipients.

Featured image: NPS | Katy Cain. Leaf Lattice. Source: Flickr.