The Libraries’ is pleased to announce the schedule for our Digital Humanities Workshop Series and the Data & Donuts workshops for Spring 2024.
Digitization, Digital Projects, and Copyright Issues
Friday, 2/2, 12:00-1:00 pm
Join us for a discussion about some of the common copyright issues that pop up when digitizing materials or creating digital projects. We’ll have some scenarios to talk through as a group, but feel free to also bring your questions and we’ll try to discuss some of those scenarios as well. If you are new to copyright, you may want to review Copyright Basics (download slides to see notes) in advance of the discussion.
Presenters: Gina Bastone and Colleen Lyon
In person only workshop
Registration for in person attendance
Location: PCL Scholars Lab Project Room 6 (2.218)
Interactive Writing in Twine
Friday, 2/9, 12:00-1:00 pm
Twine is an open-source application used to write interactive narratives ranging from fictional adventures to practical decision trees. This workshop will introduce the basics of Twine story creation: creating your first passage of text, linking passages, incorporating HTML and variables, and publishing a Twine project. The session will include a variety of example Twines of different complexity and purpose, and by the end, participants will have their skeleton decision tree that they can expand into a larger text.
Presenter: Megan Gilbert
Zoom Registration
Getting Started with Scalar
Friday, 2/23, 12:00-1:00 pm
Scalar is a free, open-source publishing platform designed for long-form, born-digital, and media-rich digital scholarship. This workshop will give an overview of Scalar and discuss what differentiates it from other content management systems, before demonstrating how to build your Scalar site.
Presenter: Miriyam E. Judd
Zoom Registration
Introduction to Recogito
Friday, 3/8, 12:00-1:00 pm
Recogito is an open-source semantic annotation tool that allows you to tag key terms and reveal the relationships between key names, places, and events between multiple documents. Attendees will learn how to create an account, upload documents, and start working on tags and annotations. They will also learn the deeper capabilities of Recogito, such as mapping relationships, working collaboratively on a corpora of documents, and exporting data for use in other DH tools.
Presenters: Miriam Santana and Willem Borkgren
Zoom Registration
Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Friday, 3/22, 12:00-1:00 pm
This workshop introduces the basics of optical character recognition (OCR), which allows for full-text searching and other types of text manipulation of a digitized document. Attendees will learn how to use Google Docs to create a basic machine-readable text from an image file and be introduced to Tesseract for OCR through exercises in Google Colab. This workshop is open to researchers interested in OCR for any language.
It is strongly recommended that attendees: 1) prepare a digitized, highly legible sample image file for trying out the tools, and 2) have a Google account to do the exercises fully and save their work.
Presenter: Dale J. Correa, Mercedes Morris, Natalya Stanke
This workshop will be a hybrid.
PCL Scholars Lab Data Lab or Zoom Registration
Open source data analysis and visualization with R
Friday, 1/26, 12:00-1:15pm
R is a powerful statistical computing and graphics software that is open source and widely popular—particularly in academia. In this workshop we will cover how to use the R scripting language to construct workflows for reproducible, publication ready analyses and graphics. This workshop is being presented in collaboration with the UT Open Source Program Office (UT-OSPO)
Presenter: Alex Marden
This workshop will be hybrid – PCL Scholars Data Lab or Zoom
Registration
Research Data Management Best Practices
Friday, 2/16, 12:00-1:15pm
This workshop will go over helpful strategies and techniques for effective research data management in all stages of the research lifecycle, from the drafting of comprehensive data management plans to successful publication of research data. Join this session to learn how to overcome data management challenges and stay in compliance with research data management regulations.
Presenter: Michael Shensky
This workshop will be hybrid – PCL Scholars Data Lab or Zoom
Registration
Discovering and Utilizing Data From Research Databases
Friday, 3/1, 12:00-1:15pm
This workshop will demonstrate how to search for datasets in different research databases that are available through UT Libraries subscriptions. In this session you will have the opportunity to get hands on experience utilizing the interfaces of databases like ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) Data Archive to query and download datasets for use in research.
Presenters: Meryl Brodsky and Michael Shensky
This workshop will be on Zoom.
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