Developing Digital Project Assignments: Storytelling with Maps

Digital mapping assignments engage classrooms in critical discussions of space and place. With easy-to-use mapping tools, classes such as literature, history, film and media, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are visualizing archives, telling spatial stories, creating engaging exhibits, contributing to crowdsourced projects, and developing geospatial datasets.

Digital Scholarship Conversations

Tisch Library is hosting a Digital Scholarship Conversations series, a monthly brown bag open to faculty and graduate students. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching.

Discussion topic/guest speaker: Mat Rappaport (Professor of the Practice), Film & Media Studies

This event will be hybrid. Join us onsite at Tisch Library in the Austin Room.

Crafting with Data: Weaving 101

“Crafting with Data” explores data analysis and visualization from a data feminist perspective, examining methods for critical making and physicalization through arts and crafts. Data physicalizations create tangible, embodied representations of data, engaging both creators and audiences in the labor behind the data, its contents, and presentation.

Developing Digital Project Assignments: Foundations

Instructors: Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian & Kylie Burnham, Digital Media Specialist

Are you interested in developing creative, alternative assignments for your classes? Whether you’re dreaming of a podcast, map, digital archive, exhibit, or multimodal publication, this workshop will walk through the basics of designing a digital project for your course. We will discuss a range of activities and projects, tools and technologies, how to match digital projects to your course objectives, scaffolding, and creative assessment.

Drop-In Research Consultations

Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:

  • developing keywords and search strategies
  • identifying and searching for sources
  • evaluating information types
  • planning and organizing your research

There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.

Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include:

  • Thursday, February 20th 2-4pm

  • Wednesday, February 26th 2-4pm

  • Friday, March 7th 3-5pm

Let’s build a search engine: Exploring the past with Natural Language Processing

Instructor: Peter Nadel, Natural Language Processing Specialist

Have you ever wanted to build a search engine for your own data? Whether it be archival material, personal notes or anything other kind of text, a search engine can give you the tools to do your work more efficiently. Join us in this workshop as we study the inner-workings of search engines and how we can use them for our own research.

No programming experience required. To follow along, you will need a laptop.

From Script to Print: Transcribing Archival Documents with Handwritten Text Recognition

Instructor: Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian

If you need to transcribe handwritten documents such as letters or manuscripts so you can search, analyze, or publish them, we can help get you started. This workshop will provide a gentle introduction for automating the transcription process with Transkribus, a multilingual, customizable AI-powered text-recognition tool.

You will need a laptop. No programming experience required.

Write Together: Drop-In Research Consultations and Writing Support

Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:

  • developing keywords and search strategies
  • identifying and searching for sources
  • evaluating information types
  • planning and organizing your research

A writing consultant from the StAAR Center will also be present for writing support.

There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.

Snacks and beverages provided!

Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include: