We are back for the next pandemic installment of digital humanities programming. This online-only schedule of events includes several new offerings based on feedback from our past workshops, for which we are grateful. We continue to use the LibCal reservation system together with the rest of the New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program. Please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to reserve your spot (the information is the same in both places).

The digital humanities workshops will be taught by Wafa Isfahani and Caterina Agostini, Digital Humanities Graduate Specialists, and Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian. Watch this list for newer additions later in February.

Note by FG on 20201-01-27: Added additional workshops taught by Isfahani and Agostini.

Events

Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon

Join us to transcribe the papers of Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), an educator, civil rights activist, and one of the leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. We will use the By The People platform of the Library of Congress.

Register to receive the event link. For more information about Douglass Day, visit https://douglassday.org.

Sponsored by the Department of English, Rutgers Initiative for the Book, Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative, New Brunswick Libraries

Workshops

Advanced Zotero

  • Monday, February 8, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, online synchronous (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti)
  • Thursday, February 11, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, online synchronous (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti)

If you are already a Zotero user and are looking to take your citation and literature review game to the next level, this workshop is for you. We will learn how to route PDF attachments to a cloud storage folder and retrieve and organize our PDF annotations using the third-party plugin Zotfile. In case a refresher is needed, our “Introduction to Zotero” materials are available at https://libguides.rutgers.edu/zotero/tutorials. [2021-02-12 update: both intro and advanced handouts available on Zotero research guide]

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]

Network Analysis for Humanists

  • Monday, February 22, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, online synchronous (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti)
  • Thursday, February 25, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, online synchronous (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti)

Are you interested in exploring and recreating historical or cultural networks representing trade, communication, kinship relationships, and the like? In this workshop, we’ll use Gephi to analyze the relationships between actors and make a network graph to show our findings. No prior experience with network analysis is required.

Organizing Archival Photos with Tropy

  • Monday, February 22, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, online synchronous (Instructor: Wafa Isfahani)
  • Tuesday, February 23, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, online synchronous (Instructor: Wafa Isfahani)

Tropy is a useful DH tool for managing and organizing images of archival materials, texts, objects, etc. This workshop is designed to help participants who study archival materials (especially manuscripts) to navigate their content; organize, transcribe, and annotate.

Working with APIs in R

  • Monday, March 1, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, online synchronous (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti)
  • Thursday, March 4, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, online synchronous (Instructor: Francesca Giannetti)

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow us to send structured requests and retrieve data for all kinds of humanistic and social science research. With a little bit of programming know-how, it becomes possible to manipulate and visualize data to produce insights into our questions. Assuming an interest in the consumption and reception of popular culture, this workshop will compare the New York Times Article Search and Spotify Web APIs.

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 spatial relationships and add visuals and texture to your stories. Note: Rutgers affiliates, please sign up for a Rutgers ArcGIS account prior to the workshop.

Visualizing Data with Palladio

  • Monday, April 5, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, online synchronous (Instructors: Caterina Agostini and Wafa Isfahani)
  • Tuesday, April 6, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, online synchronous (Instructors: Caterina Agostini and Wafa Isfahani)

Palladio is a web-based, data-driven tool to analyze relationships across time and visualize historical or cultural networks. In this workshop, we will learn to visualize humanistic data on a map and draw connections between data points.