Training – DH @ Ramapo College of New Jersey

Building Digital Humanities Symposium

‘Building Digital’ Humanities’ is a free online symposium produced by Western Sydney University in conjunction with Gale, part of Cenage Group, and the Pondicherry University.

It will explore the conditions in which Digital Humanities (DH) can flourish at institutional, inter-institutional, national and supra-national level, considering issues such as building networks, infrastructures, research and industry collaborations, public engagement and citizen scholarship, and career paths for individual researchers.

DH has presented a set of novel issues and dilemmas for both Humanities scholars and their collaborators, partners and facilitators in venues as diverse as the classroom, the library, industry, IT, government agencies and university research offices.

As DH practices have increasingly challenged the lone scholar model of humanities research and embedded computational technologies at the heart of much cutting-edge scholarship, new challenges have arisen around infrastructures, collaborative models, approaches to scholarly attribution and accreditation, data-sharing, data-preservation, access to data, and appropriate training and career structures.

The choices policy makers, administrators and individual researchers take in response to these challenges have real world consequences, shaping, facilitating, or impeding individual careers, research agendas, or institutional or national initiatives.

The purpose of this symposium – the first globally to address these themes directly – is to explore how infrastructures, funding models, reward systems, collaborative partnerships, institutional arrangements and public engagement interact organically to shape the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities as a lived, everyday scholarly and personal experience, and how that impacts on the final research, societal and personal outcomes.

The symposium will take place across a series of thirty sessions spread over a three week period (6/7 November-25 November), with sessions lasting for ninety minutes to two hours timed for morning and evening in Australia, in order to cater for presenters and audiences around the globe. It can be viewed asynchronously.

For more information, and to register, see the Building Digital Humanities website.

Apply to Attend the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (June 2022)

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) at the University of Kansas welcomes applications to participate in the NEH-funded Public Digital Humanities Institute, June 6-11, 2022, to receive training and support in public digital humanities and academic-community collaborations. Applications are due to idrh@ku.edu by Monday, January 31, 2022 at 11:59 PM (US Central Time).

In order to focus on the under-resourced nexus of the digital humanities and public humanities, and in order to provide a one-of-a-kind opportunity for academics and their community partners to receive training together, we are inviting participants to attend in teams of two. We will host 24 participants, representing twelve collaborative digital humanities projects between the community and the academy.

This week-long summer Institute will provide foundational knowledge, skills and resources to successfully advance twelve public humanities projects, increasing their longevity, visibility and impact. This will be followed by a year of further online training, support and discussion, with a final symposium and showcase in June 2023.

Digital Scholarly Editing: An Introduction (May 3-7, 2021)

Course Convenor: Dr Christopher Ohge

A short course on Digital Scholarly Editing will be offered virtually by the Institute of English Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. It will survey the traditions and principles of scholarly editing and textual scholarship, complemented with training on the fundamentals of creating digital editions. It aims to provide an understanding of the history of editorial practice, including the study of manuscripts, the theory of copy text editing, and the decisions relating to textual and contextual apparatus that inform the design of an edition. We will focus on encoding documents in Markdown and in XML using the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Students will also learn about HTML, CSS, and publishing options.

Scholarly editing involves various philosophical commitments, arguments, and interpretive strategies for organizing and publishing texts and works. The aim of this short course is to combine the how of editing with the why, as well as the pragmatic functions of editions in the digital space, emphasizing thinking tools, in addition to technological ones.

Courses fees are £175 (standard) and £100 (student). Register here

Introduction to IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)

Friday, October 30, 10:00 am – 11:30 am, online synchronous (Instructors: Caterina Agostini, Rutgers Italian, and Danielle Reay, Drew University Library)

This workshop will explore the International Image Interoperability Framework (https://iiif.io/) and the work of the IIIF community to create universal standards for describing and sharing images online. With common viewing platforms, we can obtain interoperable digital image content to display, edit, annotate, and share images on the web, for example artworks, maps, and musical scores.

Please register here:

https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/7191035

Do More with Digital Scholarship workshop series

The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship and the McMaster University Library are pleased to share its 2020-2021 Do More with Digital Scholarship workshop series. This year’s fully virtual series consists of a mix of synchronous sessions and asynchronous modules, which will be released at various points of the year and available to watch at any time.

The series is open to all audiences. The events are listed below with registration/reminder links. The first module opens today!

More details on the workshops can be found here.

1. Introduction to Digitization

Instructor: Krista Jamieson

2. Roundtable on Digital Scholarship

Synchronous event | 30-October, 2020 | 3:00 – 4:30 ET | register

Facilitator: Andrea Zeffiro
Participants: Helen Beny, Emily Van Haren, Adrianna Michell, Amanda Montague

3. Textual Analysis with Voyant

Synchronous workshop | 04-November, 2020 | 11:30 – 1:30 ET | register

Instructor: Devon Mordell

4. Data Visualization with Tableau

Synchronous workshop | 18-November, 2020 | 11:30 – 1:30 ET | register

Instructor: Devon Mordell

5. Social Media Research Ethics – Preliminary Considerations

Asynchronous workshop | available 18-January, 2021 | register
Instructors: Andrea Zeffiro, Emily Van Haren, Jay Brodeur

6. Network Analysis with Gephi

Synchronous workshop | 20-January, 2021 | 11:30 – 1:30 ET | register

Instructor: Devon Mordell

7. Journal Publishing

Synchronous workshop | 26-January, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:30 ET | register

Instructors: Gabriela Mircea, Olga Perkovic

9. Introduction to Digital Exhibits with Omeka-S

10. Social Media Research Ethics – Project Design

Asynchronous workshop | available 22-February, 2021 | register

Instructors: Andrea Zeffiro, Emily Van Haren, Jay Brodeur

11. Roundtable on Social Media Research Ethics – Power and Provocations

Synchronous event | 26-March, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:30 ET | register

Facilitators: Andrea Zeffiro, Emily Van Haren, Jay Brodeur

Programming for Humanists Fall Course

Programming for Humanists, run at Texas A&M will offer Zoom-based courses this fall. Registration is open now and closes on September 2. For details, and to register, see http://programming4humanists.tamu.edu/overview/

Digital Editions, Start to Finish (8 weeks)

This course is designed for Humanities scholars who wish to create a digital edition of a text that is scholarly quality and can be peer-reviewed for promotion and tenure and/or used in classes for students who need access to rare texts. Students will learn all the basics of what Elena Pierazzo has described as “a new publication form called the ‘digital documentary edition’ which is composed of the source, the outputs and the tools able to produce and display them.” In this class, we will spend three weeks learning TEI encoding, the code used to create scholarly digital editions, as we will explain, and then will learn how to transform them into web pages using oXygen. Registration includes a one-year subscription to oXygen. Readings and lessons assigned before class meetings will take approximately two hours per week to complete. ($500)

HTML and CSS (6 weeks)

This class is for absolute beginners who know nothing about the code that lies behind the web sites as seen in browsers such as Google Chrome or Safari. There are other sources available for learning HTML and CSS, but in this class, students will actually create HTML and CSS files during class time, along with the instructor; making mistakes is integral to learning the coding system, and so going over mistakes is an essential part of the course curriculum. The class consists of workshops in which everyone follows along, making HTML pages and styling them with CSS (Cascading Stylesheets). When problems arise, students will share their screens with everyone, and we will troubleshoot together. We will be using oXygen to create and edit both HTML and CSS. Registration includes a one-year subscription to oXygen. Note: Students who do not already have server space for web publishing will need to purchase or activate via your university web-accessible server space (e.g., Reclaim Hosting $30 per year, not covered by the registration fee). Assignments requiring an hour to complete will be given at the end of every class to prepare you for the next one. ($400)

Taking both classes costs only $750 or $2,500 for 5 participants from the same institution.

Digitorium 2020

The University of Alabama University Libraries is proud to announce the annual Digital Humanities Conference, Digitorium, will be held October 1-3, 2020. The conference, hosted by the University of Alabama Libraries and the Alabama Digital Humanities Center, will be entirely virtual for the first time this year. In an unprecedented time when digital literacies are critically important, Digitorium represents a timely opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students to learn what’s possible with Digital Humanities (DH) methods and pedagogy. This year, we will offer several workshops that can help build DH skills, with tools such as Nvivo, Orange, 360 videos in VR, and Twine.

While we are disappointed that we won’t be able to meet in person, we’re looking forward to providing an opportunity for faculty, practitioners, and students worldwide to engage with discussions on Digital Humanities, hear from innovative scholars in the field, and to learn new skills through virtual workshops.

Registration is $25.00 and opens August 16^th, 2020.

For more information regarding our schedule, plenaries, and registration, please visit the Digitorium site.

Applications open for Second Digital Humanities Research Institute – New York City

Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI): Further Expanding Communities of Digital Humanities Practice

by Kalle Westerling

Do you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?

Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.

You are invited to apply for the second Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI), which will take place at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. This ten-day institute will introduce participants to core digital humanities skills, and help you develop those skills as part of a growing community of leaders at universities, libraries, archives, museums, and scholarly societies.

Apply here. Applications must be received by March 2, 2020.

What to expect:

8 days of in-person workshops focused on foundational digital research skills like the command line, data and ethics, introduction to python, and mapping,
mentoring to help grow local partnerships and launch your local version of the Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
sharing your experience through a final report and evaluations that will be included in our Guide to Leading Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
a stipend of $3,600.

Who should apply?

We encourage applications from humanities scholars from a wide range of institutional types, including but not limited to universities, community colleges, libraries, archives, museums, historical associations and who fill an array of professional roles (graduate students, experienced faculty, librarians, administrators, museum curators, archivists and more). No previous technical experience is required—applications will not be evaluated based on familiarity with existing technologies.

If you have questions about the form, the application process, or the evaluation criteria, see our application page or contact info@dhinstitutes.org.

The Digital Humanities Research Institute is made possible through generous funding from the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities and with the support of the Provost’s Office of the CUNY Graduate Center and GC Digital Initiatives.

Digital Humanities Research Institute (NYC) Applications Open

Do you want to become a DHRI Community Leader?
Apply now and join us from June 15-24, 2020.

Apply here. Applications must be received by March 2, 2020.

What to expect:

8 days of in-person workshops focused on foundational digital research skills like the command line, data and ethics, introduction to python, and mapping,
mentoring to help grow local partnerships and launch your local version of the Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
sharing your experience through a final report and evaluations that will be included in our Guide to Leading Digital Humanities Research Institutes,
a stipend of $3,600.

Who should apply?

If you have questions about the form, the application process, or the evaluation criteria, see our application page or contact info@dhinstitutes.org.

DH Workshops at Guelph

The DH@Guelph team is excited to announce that registration is now live for our DH@Guelph Summer Workshops 2020. Please save the dates of May 4-7th 2020 and join us for what promises to be an exciting week.
Our keynote address will be delivered by the wonderful Angel David Nieves, and we’re thrilled to welcome the fab folks from Feral Feminisms for a panel on open, feminist publishing!

Our Courses:

1. Materializing the Collection (Milena Radzikowska, Dr. Shana MacDonald)

2. Computational Digital Humanities: Command Line Fundamentals (David J. Birnbaum, Emma Schwarz)

3. Reading the Humanities from a Distance: A Survey of Text Analysis Tools (Jennifer Marvin)

4. Semantic Text Analysis with Word Embeddings (Lisa Baer)

5. Equity in Digital Publishing (Ela Przybylo, Amy Verhaeghe, Sharifa Patel, Krista Benson, Jae Basiliere)

6. Spatial Humanities: Exploring GIS in the Humanities (Quin Shirk-Luckett, Teresa Lewitsky)

7. Machine Learning and Digital Humanities (Dr. Rachel Starry, Paul Barrett, Nathan Taback)

8. Linked Data and Ontologies for the Humanities (Susan Brown, Kim Martin, Deb Stacey)

9. Getting Going with Scholarship Online: An Introduction to CWRC (Mihaela Illovan, Susan Brown) You can register at this link, and don’t hesitate to email dhguelph[@]uoguelph.ca with any questions or concerns.
Warmly,
Kim Martin (Associate Director)Susan Brown (Director)DH@Guelph