CCDHHN

[Foundations] Making Choices About Your Data
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 (America/Halifax) | Québec, Canada
“I have some stuff that I want to do a DH project with. How do I get started?” Answering this question (and getting started doing DH) involves several related questions about data: What data/materials do you work with? What format are your data/materials in? What does the format of your data allow you to do? How can you transform your data to do different things with it? What are the stakes of the choices that you make? This course guides participants through answering these questions in relation to their own research areas, datasets, and materials. You will start by introducing your classmates to your data — and will spend the week exploring what you can do with that data, and the ways that you might develop it further.
What do you gain, or lose, by thinking about your subject matter as data? How do you balance between making your data as useful as possible, while still acknowledging its limitations? This course provides an introduction to different types and formats of data (structured, unstructured, etc.), to the work associated with data (building and using vocabularies, working with data models, normalization, cleaning); and best practices for documenting and sharing that work. We’ll look at a few different platforms & tools that you could work with your data in, and think about the full range of things you might do with your data, from analyzing it to making it available for other people to use.”
This is a hands-on course. Consider this offering in complement with most other DHSI courses.

NLP Coding Libraries and Network Analysis for Text Corpora
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
The 3-day workshop offers a quick and effective intro to natural language processing (NLP) and textual corpus network visualization and analysis. We will be doing coding in Python and learning how to use (and compare) certain relevant libraries such as Scikit-learn, NLTK, FastText, Gensim plus word2vec & doc2vec, SpaCy, TextStat, LexicalRichness, and NetworkX. We will apply those packages in computationally analyzing texts and textual corpora, representing the corpora as networks, and thus finding out unexpected if not amazing things about the texts they contain. The knowledge and skills acquired—alongside our in-class applications—will be useful in education and research in NLP, automated text and corpus analysis, network science and graph theory applications, computational literary analysis and criticism, computational linguistics, and vector space (and topic) modeling for the humanities. On the fourth day, everybody will have the opportunity to participate in the #GraphPoem event that will involve some of the Python scripts developed during the workshop. We will run those and other scripts live (on JupyterHub) on ready-made and individually/collaboratively assembled and expanded corpora, thus feeding into a hypermedia performance involving a Twitter bot and a cross-artform live stream.

Creating Digital Collections with Minimal Infrastructure: Hands On with CollectionBuilder for Teaching and Exhibits
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
This course introduces fundamental web and DH skills using CollectionBuilder, an open source project for building digital collection and exhibit websites driven by metadata and hosted on a lightweight infrastructure. The high cost and IT requirements of digital collection platforms are often a barrier to creating new collections for sharing or teaching humanities research. CollectionBuilder is optimized for non-developers and simple hosting solutions, allowing researchers to take greater ownership over their digital projects and lowering barriers to customization. Scholars in this course will learn CollectionBuilder by engaging in a scaffolded approach with hands-on experience in digital library foundations such as scanning and metadata creation to web development. Building on these skills, students will learn the basics of working with plain text files, CSV data, Markdown, Jekyll, Git, GitHub, and GitHub Pages in order to create and customize their very own digital collection. By the end of this course, students will have gained the knowledge and independence necessary to implement CollectionBuilder in contexts that include creating and disseminating research collections and custom digital exhibits, or teaching digital libraries in the classroom. This is a hands-on course that will cover basics of digitization, metadata, and web programming fundamentals. No programming experience is necessary, although you should have a strong interest to learn! Participants are asked to bring their own computers. All software used in the course is free, open source, and cross platform and will be installed during class time. Optionally, participants are invited to bring along a small collection of physical items to digitize, digital files (images, pdfs, audio) to feature in a digital collection, or metadata exported from an existing collection hosted on CONTENTdm.This offering is co-sponsored by U Idaho Libraries.
This course will complement “[Foundations] Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application,” “Creating LAMP Infrastructure for Digital Humanities Projects,” “[Foundations] Developing a Digital Project (With Omeka),” and can be built on by “The Frontend: Modern JavaScript & CSS Development.”

Digital Storytelling
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
This course explores the combination/collision/collusion of storytelling techne with digital media to prompt storytelling projects as Digital Humanities scholarship, teaching, and creative practices.The course will begin with an overview of traditional storytelling frameworks, asking how these various approaches to storytelling might be paired with and/or enhanced by a variety of digital media, including web design, video, audio, data-based, and ludic (game) storytelling. We will also discuss project planning/management for digital storytelling projects. Richard will then lead workshops on basic media integration for the web and choice-based storytelling with Twine. Twine is a digital storytelling format that builds on hypertext and includes ludic elements. We’ll discuss non-trivial work required of the user in ergodic media, as well as nonlinearity and multilinearity and some basic principles of game design.
The latter third of the course is reserved for the development and support of students’ specific project ideas and goals.
This course will make use of both Slack and Basecamp. At week’s end, participants are invited to show and discuss with other course participants their digital storytelling project, which may be in the form of a conceptual framework, a working prototype, or more.
This offering is co-sponsored by The Electronic Literature Organization.

Agile Project Management
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
Agile project management is about negotiating the completion of a project from beginning to end while remaining flexible. Being patient and delaying decisions until you have to make them, gathering as much information as you can in the meantime, and then taking action with the information you have, always keeping alternatives in mind in case your first plan of action doesn’t pan out. Just as a fighter shifts from foot to foot to be ready to counter a punch, the agile project manager constantly considers shifts to accommodate any changes in the project’s environment. But it’s about more than just negotiating within the rules. It’s about changing the rules of the game to better ensure a successful project.This course combines lecture, discussion, and hands-on activities. Consider this offering in complement with: Making Choices About Your Data; Developing a Digital Project (With Omeka); Project Management in the Humanities; Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Edition; and more.

Modeling Texts and Maps with Semantic Annotation
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
This course will provide the foundation for the extended course “Text Mapping as Modelling”, that will be offered in 2023. First, we will give a theoretical introduction about one of the most important practices in Digital Humanities, the digital mapping of texts, and expand on the use of semantic annotation as a particular method for the collection of unstructured information from literary and visual sources. Participants will experiment with various methods for modeling and visualization of data, such as the use of folksonomic vocabularies, external schemas, Linked Open Data, and network visualization. In the exercise part of the course, participants will be able to look into the various tools, and create mini-projects using Recogito. Then, we will work together in a structured discussion of the results from the practical work, exploring how textual and cartographic information can be represented through different media, and what one can learn about the interpretative process of critical mapping, geographical re-contextualisation, and the modeling of ambiguity in textual research.

Code the X-Files using the XML Family of Languages
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
This class teaches you how to navigate and process XML using tools designed for the purpose–XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron. We cover these together as members of the same XML family, sharing a common syntax in XPath. New and experienced coders of XML will benefit alike from this course, whether just beginning a project or seeking to update and refresh skills. Our goals are 1) to share strategies for systematically building archives and databases, and 2) to increase participants’ confidence and fluency in extracting information coded in XML in those archives and databases. XPath is the center of the course, but we will show you how it applies in multiple XML processing contexts so that you learn how these work similarly and how these are used, respectively, to validate documents and to transform them for publication and other reuse. We’ll apply XPath to check for accuracy of text encoding–to write schema rules to manage your coding (or your project team’s coding).
You’ll practice and gain fluency in writing XPath expressions and patterns, including sequence expressions, regular expressions, datatypes, predicates, operators, and functions (from the core library and user-defined). We’ll write XPath to calculate how frequently you’ve marked a certain phenomenon, or locate which names of people are mentioned together in the same chapter, paragraph, sentence, stanza, or annotation. You’ll learn how XPath can help you to build exciting visualizations from XML code (such as to make a chart like a timeline or a network graph). Whether you are an XML beginner or a more experienced coder, you’ll find that strengthened skills in XPath and the XML family will help you with systematic encoding, document processing, and project management.
This is a hands-on course. Consider this offering in complement with, and / or to be built on by: Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application, Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities, Text Processing – Techniques & Traditions, XML Applications for Historical and Literary Research; Parsing and Writing XML with Python; and more! No advanced knowledge of XML processing is necessary but those with interests in document processing who have taken Digital Documentation and Imaging for Humanists; Advanced TEI Concepts / TEI Customization; A Collaborative Approach to XSLT; or Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities will certainly benefit.

Using Digital Games as Critical Methods of Intervention, Advocacy, and Activism in Humanities Scholarship
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
Digital games are often studied as texts, as objects of research. However, given that games can function as simulations, models, arguments, and creative collaboratories, game-based inquiry can be used as a method of humanities research, communication, and pedagogy, and can also function as a political intervention into humanities theories and practices. Merging these two approaches, this course explores how simple game environments and tools can be used to encourage builders, players, and publics to pursue broader social, cultural, and interpersonal understandings. Understanding digital games through factors such as computational bias, disruptive and interactive play, ethics, complicity, and user awareness, participants in this course will approach games as methods of critical intervention, advocacy, and activism. In particular, participants will learn ways that game experiences can be used as tools that disrupt and defamiliarize research, reporting, teaching, spaces, objects, purposes, embodiment, and habits of perception and practice. Course outcomes will involve exploring existing examples, discussing realistic design, development, and outcome logistics, critically reflecting on the implications of game-based engagement, and working towards the creation of individual prototypes (which need not be exclusively digital).
This course combines lecture, seminar, and hands-on activities. Consider this offering to build on: Race, Social Justice, and DH; Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities; Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed; Queer Digital Humanities; Accessibility & Digital Environments; Critical Pedagogy and Digital Praxis; Engaging Play/Playing to Engage; Digital Storytelling; Digital Fictions, Electronic Literature, Literary Gaming; and more.

eTextBook Publishing and Open Educational Resources
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
This hands-on course is for those who want to author or compile an eTextbook or Open Educational Resource (OER) that is multimodal, interactive, and usable on mobile phones and tablets as well as laptops and desktops. Course topics include obtaining and remixing content from OER; integrating and synchronizing multimedia assets; applying principles of accessibility, universal design, and learning science; licensing and copyrighting; choosing the right formats and distribution channels; and using eTextbooks and OER for pedagogical purposes such as student empowerment, engagement, and co-creation.This course combines presentation, discussion, and hands-on workshops. Consider this offering in complement with, and / or to be built on by: Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Edition; Digital Publishing in the Humanities; Open Access and Open Social Scholarship; and more!

Teaching the Digital Humanities: Without a Budget
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec, Canada
This course is designed to help educators at institutions without a DH budget. This specifically considers educators at regional state schools, community colleges and other under-funded institutions and adjuncts, graduate students and other precarious members of our community. It is aimed at supporting those who desire to integrate DH into their classroom without institutional financial backing. This course will provide a brief overview of digital humanities technologies, how they can be integrated into the classroom, and why you would integrate them into a classroom. We will focus specifically on free or very low cost technologies that can be easily integrated into the classroom. The course aims to support classrooms and instructors which had not previously included significant DH content. This discussion will have two parts. One aspect will focus on finding free or low-budget DH solutions. The other part will be a discussion on how to gently ease students into these DH approaches and solutions touching on cross-campus partnerships that add depth to students’ understanding of the practical norms of the field. This part of the discussion will draw in particular on the collaborative experience of a librarian and an assistant professor.

Text Processing - Techniques & Traditions
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This course provides a practical introduction to the accumulated wealth of text processing tactics and strategies that underpin much digital humanities practice. Methods like text analysis, TEI encoding, programming and scripting all rely on underlying systems, interfaces, and paradigms for dealing with digital text, some of which are many decades old. This course asks: Why are the tools we use the way they are, and why are they not otherwise? Over the week we’ll look at a range of basic tools and toolkits — from the command line and Unix tools through XML and JSON — and explore methods for making text processes more efficient and more convivial. We’ll consider these systems in the context of the cultural histories of computing and publishing technology from which they arise. Participants should bring a laptop and an article or other body of text to work with over the week.
This offering is co-sponsored by Publishing@SFU.
This course combines lecture, seminar, and hands-on activities. Consider this offering in complement with: Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop); Web Development for Beginners, with Ruby on Rails; Creating LAMP Infrastructure for Digital Humanities Projects; [Foundations] Fundamentals of Programming/Coding for Human(s|ists); Regular Expressions; and more!

DH for Librarians
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This course will focus on the processes and methods of digital humanities and how they intersect with librarianship practice. We will start by considering big picture questions: how have librarians approached “doing DH” and “supporting DH” in libraries, what has the practice of DH librarianship been, and what could the future of DH in libraries be? From there, we will survey different aspects of DH in librarianship in more detail, including assessment and strategic planning, reference and consultation, instruction, project management, and collaborative partnerships. Along the way, we will explore key resources, methods, and tools, as well as threshold concepts, data literacy, and relationships to other parts of academic libraries.

Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Edition
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This course will explore all aspects of conceptualizing, planning for, and creating a digital edition. It provides a basic introduction to the various types of digital editions, the practice of editing in the digital age, and a survey of the many digital tools available to serve project goals. Approaching a digital edition means taking time to think about how end-users will want to work with a particular edition. Beginning with the research and analytical needs of end-users in mind, editors are better able to develop effective editorial strategies that will result in a dynamic, useful, and usable, digital edition. In this course, participants will engage in hands-on learning and group discussions related to project conceptualization, editorial policies and processes, and the selection and use of digital tools that can serve the needs of researchers and other end-users. Participants will bring a few sample materials they are working with. We will use these in a class project – creating a digital edition over the course of the week using skills learned in each session. Our goal is for participants to return to their home institutions ready and able to build upon, enhance, and transform these initial ideas into robust digital editions.
This offering is co-sponsored by the Center for Digital Editing at UVa.
This course combines lecture and hands-on activities. Consider this offering to build on: Digitisation Fundamentals and their Application; Understanding the Pre-Digital Book. Consider this offering in complement with and / or to be built on by: Digital Documentation and Imaging for Humanists; Pragmatic Publishing Workflows; XPath for Processing XML and Managing Projects; and more!

Web APIs with Python
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This course is aimed at humanities scholars interested in tapping into the data streams and functionality offered by platforms and content providers such as Twitter, Google, and the New York Times. Introduction to APIs will open with the basics of Python, a scripting language widely used in industry and the academy because of its human readability. We will proceed to the fundamentals of working with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), the most common way to programatically access web-based services and data. Lessons will cover the fundamentals of programming, the workflow of building a small script/app, accessing data from a variety of sources, and reading technical documentation. The course will be useful for those interested in understanding programming concepts, developing applications, and working with data.
This is a hands-on course. Consider this offering in complement with Fundamentals of Programming/Coding for Human(s|ists); CloudPowering DH Research; Practical Software Development for Nontraditional Digital Humanities Developers; Introduction to Data for Digital Humanities Projects; Text Analysis with Python and the Natural Language ToolKit; and more!

Cybersecurity for Humanists
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
University researchers are facing increasingly sophisticated security threats. Cyber security attacks against education and research sectors are growing faster than any other sector. Digital Humanities has brought historical and cultural research to a public audience like never before, thanks in large part to the web. Archives and applications are making rarefied cultural objects available almost anywhere on the globe, but they are also now exposed to risks associated with any online activity. This course will introduce attendees to many security best practices and policies by conducting a holistic risk assessment. We will rely on open standards like those produced by Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Cyber Essentials tool kit. During the course of the week, we will develop a threat model for your project, lab, or centre. We will work to identify ways to limit your project’s attack surface and generate custom research security policies for you and your collaborators. This session will help you develop a security-first research practice that protects the safety of your data, your researchers, and your research subjects. A security-first research practice helps ensure data integrity for your project in a global political climate that can be antagonistic or even hostile to humanities research.
This is a hands-on course with some lecture components. Consider this offering to be built on by and/or in complement with Race, Social Justice, and DH: Applied Theories and Methods, Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements, DH For Department Chairs and Deans, Introduction to Project Planning and Management for DH: Issues and Approaches, Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Critiques & Praxis, and more!

Open Knowledge in Wikipedia and Beyond: Possibilities and Responsibilities
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
In this course, we will work on the definition of Open Knowledge and its commonalities, differences and relationship to Open Access and Open Data. We look through non-profit projects of Wikimedia and through other academic and non-academic projects, by focusing on technological, collaborative, legal and ethical questions.
Whereas legal and technological restrictions, and collaborative methods are mostly well defined by laws, user guidelines and the current state of the art, social restrictions often seem to be open to interpretation. We will find and discuss guidelines to let ethical questions find access into the guidelines of Open Access projects. There will also be room to discuss your own Open Knowledge projects, based on what we learnt, if you want to share them with the class. This course is aimed at students, academic stuff, non-academic and academic archivists and librarians, community members and anyone else with an interest in ethical, legal, collaborative and technological questions about Open Knowledge.

Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This course dives into the Semantic Web with its possibilities for humanities research through exploring ontologies and vocabularies for Linked Open Data: how they are constructed, how they function in relation to data structure and creation, and how they impact dissemination and querying. Practical exercises will include ontology creation and extension, using ontologies in the creation of LOD or conversion of existing data using a range of tools, and the use of ontologies in data querying, analysis, and visualization. Discussions and reflection on class activities will work towards an understanding how ontologies both mobilize and constrain data, analyzing the implications of different ontologies as forms of modeling, and evaluating the suitability of particular ontologies for different approaches to research. We will be particularly concerned with the ability of ontologies to reflect the heterogeneity, specificity, and situatedness of humanities data, and to support critical approaches such as feminism, critical race, and indigenous studies.
This course is offered by the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship cyberinfrastructure project, which will be providing tools and methods for converting humanities datasets into LOD. Researchers are encouraged to bring content they are interested in mobilizing in the form of an essay, article, primary text for editing; XML (e.g. TEI or MODS) data; or a spreadsheet or CSV file. These will form the basis of discussions, analyses, and experimentation with tools.
This offering is co-sponsored by LINCS.
This course combines lecture, seminar, and hands-on formats. Consider this offering in relation to the following. Predecessors: Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web; Making Choices About Your Data; Race, Social Justice, and DH: Applied Theories and Methods (good for evaluating the vocabularies that we find); Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements (good for evaluating vocabularies that we find); Queer Digital Humanities: Intersections, Interrogations, Iterations (good for evaluating vocabularies that we find); Databases for Digital Humanists; Fundamentals of Programming/Coding for Human(s|ists). Successors: Introduction to Network Analysis in the Digital Humanities; Ethical Data Visualization: Taming Treacherous Data; Web APIs with Python; Information Security for Digital Researchers; Introduction to IIIF: Sharing, Consuming, and Annotating the World’s Images. Peers: Open Access and Open Social Scholarship; Endings: How to end (and archive) your digital project; XPath for Processing XML and Managing Projects; Agile Project Management. And more!

DIY Computational Text Analysis with R
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This is a course in stylometry, or the analysis of countable linguistic features of texts. While stylometry has been usually associated with authorship attribution, the same methods are successfully applied to more general text analysis, and, recently, even analysis of other modes such as music and image. The statistics of such features as word, word n-gram or character n-gram frequencies, are not only a highly precise tool for identifying authorship, but can in fact reveal patterns of similarity and difference between various works by one author, works by various authors, finally between authors differing in terms of chronology, gender, genre or narrative styles, between translations of the same author or group of authors, or specific voices such as idiolects of characters in novels. This provides a new opening in literary studies, and the results of a stylometric analysis can be compared and confronted with the findings of traditional stylistics and interpretation. It also opens a new set of questions about style and its transfer, as well as the nature of particular features and language.
The participants of our course will learn major stylometric tools and methods, from simple keywords extraction to machine-learning classification based on text features, followed by visualization techniques ranging from dendrograms to networks. The participants will learn how to identify the problem, define relevant research questions, and design an experiment. We will use our own package written for the R statistical programming environment — ‘stylo’, which allows us to avoid R’s usually steep learning curve – we don’t expect advanced programming skills. We will provide text corpora to use for training purposes, but also hope and expect participant bring their own data and problems to work on.
This course combines lecture and hands-on activities. Consider this offering to build on: Fundamentals of Coding / Programming for Human(s|ists); Web Development / Project Prototyping for Beginners with Ruby on Rails; Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities. Consider this offering in complement with and / or to be built on by: Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities; Understanding Topic Modelling; Data Mining for Digital Humanists; and more!

Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Critiques & Praxis
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
What is our ethical imperative as teachers and scholars in the digital and public humanities? How might we identify and address the colonial histories, legacies, and discursive practices pervading the contemporary technoscape and our departmental curricula? How might we hone our individual and collective capacities to sustain communities of care and transform oppressive structures of knowledge-making in the neoliberal academy? Through engaging with and reflecting on these critical questions, this weeklong course invites scholars, creative practitioners, and off-campus community members to develop collective strategies for refusing the damaging colonialities of teaching, learning, and research practices. As co-participants, we will foreground an ethic of care and community building in identifying tactics that we can share and act upon to challenge and transform colonial ideologies and systems embedded within the increasingly interdisciplinary practices of digital humanities. Building upon Paulo Freire’s writings on the pedagogy of the oppressed and aligning with Global South, Indigenous, Black, and women of colour feminist, queer, and crip justice work, we will imagine and continue the ongoing process of bringing into being the anti-colonial possibilities of classroom teaching for a bolder and more affirming environment for digital humanists inside and outside the academy.

Deep Learning for Humanists
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Québec
This hands-on course will introduce neural networks, image preprocessing, and deep learning models for those who wish to explore deep learning for the digital humanities. This course will first focus on learning activation functions, loss functions, and gradient descent, then explore image processing and deep learning models. After that, we will train GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) and cGANs (conditional Generative Adversarial Networks) models to colorize black-and-white images. Throughout this course, participants will be able to create their own datasets for deep learning then run deep learning models with them.

Humanités numériques: Web sémantique et données
2024-06-10 00:00 - 23:59 | Québec
10 juin 2024 et 14 juin 2024

Atelier sur les principes du Web sémantique et des données ouvertes liées

Les ateliers sont admissibles au certificat si aucun crédit curriculaire n’a été obtenu.

Game Making for Scholarship and Storytelling
2024-06-10 00:00 - 2024-06-14 23:59 | Toronto Metropolitan University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada
IDARE, hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), offers learning opportunities in digital making for artistic, scholarly, and educational purposes. These opportunities are open to the TMU community and to the public.

IDARE’s inaugural offering, part of the IDARESU, the IDARE Summer University, will be a week-long course on “Game Making for Scholarship and Storytelling.” Participants will be introduced to four open access creation platforms (Twine 2, Ink/Inky, Decker, and Bitsy), and will be able to start making their own game. Participants can choose to attend for the full week or one or more classes dedicated to a particular platform.

Led by: Jeremy Andriano, Reg Beatty, Jason Boyd, and Bobby Papoutsis

Diversity, Access, and Accessibility (Technical)
2024-06-13 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Director Janelle Jenstad will give a talk on “Endings Compliance, Open Access, and Equity,” explaining how LEMDO creates Endings-compliant anthologies and editions for maximum digital sustainability, archivability, and longevity.

Navarra Houldin (LEMDO Project Manager and expert in EDI and Accessibility) will then talk about “Making Editions Accessible.” Building on the DRE Editorial Guidelines’ question “Who are you editing for?” Navarra will do a positionality exercise to help editors identify their own subject position with respect to the target audience of a LEMDO edition. The session will end with a quick overview of how to write alt text and use plain language.

Anthology leads, current editors, prospective editors, and LEMDO-curious students and scholars are very welcome!

Led by: Janelle Jenstad

Semi-Diplomatic Transcriptions (Technical)
2024-07-25 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin will introduce practice for encoding style in semi-diplomatic transcriptions using LEMDO’s default styling, file-wide styling, and renditions.

Advanced Topics in Semi Diplomatic Transcriptions (Webinar 1)
2024-08-08 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, Director of LEMDO, Janelle Jenstad, will go through how to encode speech prefixes and literary divisions in semi-diplomatic transcriptions. We are excited to welcome Mahayla Galliford, LEMDO Senior Encoder, to speak on encoding stage directions in semi-diplomatic transcriptions.

Advanced Topics in Semi-Diplomatic Transcriptions (Webinar 2)
2024-08-22 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will go into detail about inline styling for semi-diplomatic transcriptions. This will include support using CSS within TEI files and an introduction to CSS Flex.

Basics of Computers
2024-09-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Québec
Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? When one of your computing devices goes wrong, do you struggle to understand why? Perhaps you do an internet search in the hope that someone else who has had the exact same problem as you found a solution that also works for you. It doesn’t need to be (quite) this way. This talk doesn’t teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but does give you insight to how media, programs and data are encoded and used by computers so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration. We provide an approachable overview of how a computer works, by both looking at their history and breaking one down to explain individual components, before highlighting some of the tradeoffs to consider when buying a computer. We provide practical, simple, and actionable advice on digital security and show you a few « pro tips » on how to make the most of your workstation, phone, or whatever device you happen to use. Whether you have a lot or a little experience using your digital technology, if you want to learn how to use your devices more effectively, this workshop is for you!

Collation (Technical)
2024-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will teach LEMDO encoders how to create links in the LEMDO environment using anchors, pointers, and references.

Machine Learning and Open Science: Research Data Management Community of Practice
2024-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 26 September 2024

Machine Learning and Open Science: Research Data Management Community of Practice Online

Our Research Data Management Community of Practice is back with a bang! September’s session is all about Machine Learning and Open Science. With training data impacting research results, what’s the best way to share ML-based science and ensure research is reproducible and valid? Join us Thursday, September 26 at 11 AM for a great discussion between researchers!

Dr. Alemu Gonsamo (Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Earth, Environment & Society) and Ricardo Barros Lourenco (Earth, Environment & Society) will unpack training algorithms with data from the Ministry of Natural Resources and then sharing data for a recent paper on peat depth and carbon storage.

Dr. Cynthia Lokker (Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact) and Rick Parrish (Programmer/Analyst, Health Information Research Unit) will discuss sharing machine learning data for an article and their move from data available on request to a publicly findable restricted access dataset backed by a data sharing agreement. Rick will also share details on depositing an algorithm separately from a dataset.

Introducing Digital Scholarship 1: Digital Storytelling, Counter Narratives and Design Fictions
2024-10-01 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Date: 1 October 2024

In the first installment of this two-event series, learn more about the interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and emergent approaches to digital scholarship from our 2024 Graduate Residency cohort.

Storying Disability: Digital Community Archives as Public Memorial at New York’s Craig Colony for Epileptics – Katie Waring

My project seeks to understand patient experiences with institutionalization at the Craig Colony for Epileptics in Sonyea, New York. As the first such institution for disabled people in the United States, the Craig Colony occupies an important role in disability history, yet little attention has been paid to the experiences of the patients forced to live there. This project integrates oral histories with survivors alongside archival research and photographs into an interactive digital map for users to explore and navigate using the design tool Vev. In this presentation, I will showcase the map and discuss the possibilities digital storytelling can offer as a strategic practice of remembrance in unearthing disability history, as well as how such strategic practices can help advocate for new and better futures for disabled communities.

Katie Waring (she/her) is a multimedia writer and doctoral candidate in the Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies program at McMaster. Her research aims to understand the potential for community-engaged digital storytelling in highlighting suppressed histories. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh and her creative work has been published in literary journals such as The Normal School and American Literary Review, among others. She’s originally from New York State.

“The Exotic Amazon and The Exotic Woman”: Practicing Refusal Through Digital Counter-storytelling – Andrea Vela Alarcón

My project aims to be a creative digital intervention presenting illustrated AR vignettes and questions reflecting the gendered relations shaped by the long history of resource extraction in Iquitos (Peru). This project departs from the framework of refusal, a concept and practice rooted in Indigenous and Black thought. Refusal exposes and rejects the histories, knowledge production practices and relations of oppression taking away our subjecthood. However, refusal is also a creative outlet embracing the « possibility of living otherwise” (Campt, 2019). This presentation showcases three AR vignettes enacting a creative refusal by being a tool and entry point to explore the gendered violence and colonial resource extraction in Iquitos. I will discuss the possibilities digital counter-storytelling open as a process and site of political action exposing and unmasking non-innocent histories legitimizing resource extraction’s gendered violence of Amazonian girls and women.

Andrea Vela Alarcón (she/her/Ella) is a community educator, illustrator and doctoral candidate in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. Her academic, creative and pedagogical practices are rooted in anti-colonial approaches and feminist care ethics to facilitate spaces of critical conversations and creation geared toward a world beyond extraction. Through her work, Andrea collaborates with communities in the crafting of stories that center refusal and resistance for environmental justice.

Fostering Creative Confidence: Reframing Ambiguity Through Storytelling and Design Fiction – Fatima Nazir

As part of my ongoing work, I have developed a workshop that empowers students from various disciplines to build ‘creative confidence’ through storytelling and by reframing ambiguity in ways that foster excitement and joy in learning. This workshop, within the context of Design Thinking education, helps students view ambiguity as an opportunity for innovation rather than discomfort. I will discuss how design fiction—a method that creates story worlds in which prototypes explore discursive spaces—facilitates this shift. Participants redesign everyday objects to reflect future scenarios or alternate realities, imagining futures that encompass technological, social, and cultural narratives. With prompts, collaborative prototyping, and reflective discussion, the workshop fosters creativity, risk-taking, and comfort with ambiguity across various fields.

Fatima Nazir has a multidisciplinary background in applied psychology and human behaviour and is pursuing graduate studies in Engineering Design (Product Design). Passionate about storytelling and human-centered design, her work in research, design, and collaborative projects aims to create inclusive spaces that place people’s stories at the heart of product decisions. Her work spans from reimagining learning experiences and fostering creativity in education to advancing co-design practices in engineering and healthcare to address systemic challenges and improve outcomes.

Let’s Talk! Academic Podcast Entanglements – Milica Hinic

My graduate residency project for the Sherman Centre is a podcast series titled, The Academic Podcast Entanglements. It is composed of 8 episodes of in-depth conversations with transdisciplinary academic podcasters from Humanities and Social Sciences. My presentation will focus on the ways faculty, staff, and students use podcasting as a method within knowledge mobilization systems. I will discuss the many ways podcasts engage individual or collective knowledge brokers such as academics, researchers, students, community members, organizations, etc. Through these critical conversations the academic podcast amplifies the values and tensions of: (1) lived experiences (2) co-creation of meanings (3) and building relationships. The goal is to share what we know, what we don’t know and make spaces for new ways of doing podcasting in our digital futures.

Milica Hinic (She/Her) is an MA student in Communication and New Media at McMaster University. Her research interests include podcasting and knowledge mobilization in higher education and beyond. She finds innovative ways of sharing information and connecting knowledge brokers across diverse fields, institutions, organizations, and communities. As a result, she co-designs projects from beginning to end and co-creates meaningful project outputs that generate social impact.

Details: This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre’s Online Learning Catalogue.
