Introduction to Network Analysis in the Digital Humanities
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 (America/Halifax) | Ontario
Led by Jessica Otis. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Critiques & Praxis
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob and Kush Patel. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Social Knowledge Creation / Construction
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Ray Siemens, Alyssa Arbuckle, Gabriel Hankins, Matt Huculak, Sarah-Nelle Jackson, Graham Jensen, and Amanda Madden. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

3D Visualization for the Humanities
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Alex Razoumov. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Teaching the Digital Humanities: Without a Budget
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Helen Davies and Larry Eames. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Deep Learning for Humanists
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Hoyeol Kim. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

NLP Coding Libraries and Network Analysis for Text Corpora. With a Bonus Track: #GraphPoem Live Interactive Coding
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Chris Tanasescu (Margento). For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Digital Storytelling
2023-06-12 00:00 - 2023-06-16 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Richard Snyder. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Open Knowledge in Context: The Commons
2023-06-13 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Graham Jensen. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Building Communities Focused on Social Advocacy and Care in Digital Humanities Labs and Programs
2023-06-13 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Jacquelyne Thoni Howard. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

DH for Chairs and Deans
2023-06-13 00:00 - 2023-06-15 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Harold Short, John Unsworth, Bethany Nowviskie, and Ray Siemens. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Open Knowledge in Wikipedia and Beyond: Possibilities and Responsibilities
2023-06-13 00:00 - 2023-06-15 00:00 | Ontario
Led by Natasia Herold. For more information, visit http://dhsi.org.

Data Visualization in R using ggplot2
2023-09-14 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This virtual workshop will provide an introduction to ggplot2, an open-source data visualization package for the statistical programming language R. This workshop will go overbasic tips for creating visualizations and customizing the design of those graphs. A basic familiarity with R will be helpful for this workshop.

Building JavaScript Websites 1: Styling Modern Web Apps
2023-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Are you building your own web site using JavaScript and frameworks? In this first workshop of the Building JavaScript Websites series, learn to apply consistent design standards to a JavaScript web site. Starting from a simple prepared single-page application, we will walk you through how to apply consistent theme styling, using McMaster Branding guidelines as an example. Each workshop in this series can be taken independently of the other workshops in the series.

Crash Course: Digital Tools to Ace Grad School
2023-09-20 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Start your research off on the right track using digital tools. In this session Jeff Demaine (Bibliometrics Librarian) and Isaac Pratt (Research Data Management Specialist) will introduce you to research impact and research data management tools you can use to organize your research and create a researcher profile. Your profile as a researcher should be a story that you create. Learn how to distinguish yourself from other researchers using a free ORCiD account that will automatically showcase all your academic activities. Learn how to organize and document your data to save time and make your life easier. Follow a few simple tips to keep your data safe and securely store your research data so your thesis isn’t taken down by a hard drive failure.

How Ideas Travel: Introduction to Research Impact
2023-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This virtual session introduces attendees to the world of Research Impact. Research impact counts the number of times a publication has been cited by other researchers or mentioned in media. Understanding the field can help you identify “hot topics” of emerging research, gain a more thorough grasp of your research community, benchmark your career progress, communicate your knowledge more effectively, and more. Learn to leverage key databases to identify the expertise of researchers, institutions, and journals at this introductory workshop!

Best Practices for Managing Data in your Research
2023-09-27 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
In this introductory workshop, learn about research data management best practices and how investing a small amount of time in organizing your data now can save you a lot of time and prevent future headaches. We will go over best practices for data planning, storage, organization, preservation, and sharing.

RDM Community of Practice - Data Management Plan (DMP) Roundtable
2023-09-28 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
McMaster’s Research Data Management (RDM) Community of Practice is back! We meet the last Thursday of every month to learn together as researchers and research support staff across all levels of RDM expertise. Data Management Plans (DMPs) are growing as a requirement for grants, from the Tri-Agencies, to NIH, and others. They can also be a helpful document to guide best practices—either as a process document for your research group or as an individual researcher. Join our RDM Community of Practice to discuss DMP development!

Protect Your Research Data: Introduction to Information Security for Researchers
2023-10-04 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Universities are not immune from data breaches and cyber attacks. Learn to protect your research data at this webinar with McMaster experts in IT Security and Cybersecurity. After introducing Information Security (a field dedicated to protecting sensitive digital information and data from unauthorized access, alteration, and/or destruction), the session will examine InfoSec problems specific to researchers. This webinar will also include a case study: If we take a hypothetical research workplace (such as a lab or office), what are its potential Information Security weak spots and how might we fix them?

The Library and DH
2023-10-17 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
The Library is the heart of DH at the University of Ottawa. Our colleagues in the Library have supported DH research and teaching since the very beginning. Come to the second session to meet the librarians that support and engage in DH research and teaching. They will highlight services, tools, and resources available through the Library and the Archives and Special Collections, showcasing projects on which our university Librarians and Archivists have collaborated. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Introduction to R Programming
2023-10-18 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This beginner-level workshop will focus on basic concepts of R programming using RStudio. Various Data Types and Data Structures will be discussed, as well as basic data analysis in R. No prior knowledge of R programming is required.

Data Management Plans + Introduction to DMP Assistant
2023-10-25 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Planning ahead for research helps you prepare for data questions and problems before they happen. Submitting a Data Management Plan (DMP) is increasingly a requirement for funding applications with Tri-Agencies and the NIH. But DMPs can also be very helpful « living documents »: research tools that identify strengths and gaps which are updated through your research process. In this session, we’ll start with best practices of data management planning and go through a demo of DMP Assistant, a web-based tool for developing and collaborating on Data Management Plans in the Canadian research context. We’ll end with a sandbox session.

Building JavaScript Websites 2: Designing for Mobile UI
2023-10-26 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Are you building your own web site using JavaScript and frameworks? In this second workshop of the Building JavaScript Websites series, learn to design your web site to work for desktop and mobile sized screens. Starting from a simple prepared single-page application, we will walk you through how to scale your web site to work with the small screens on mobile devices without any loss of functionality. Each workshop in this series can be taken independently of the other workshops in the series.

‘Ghosts in the Machine: Large Language Models Are Mostly Full of Crap But Still Surprisingly Useful If You Dare’
2023-10-31 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Alternative title: ‘There is No Artificial Intelligence, Only Zuul; or, now that this thing is here, what can/should we do with it?’ We are so pleased to host again our colleague from Carleton University: Dr. Shawn Graham! Dr. Graham been playing with models of language since the days of Markov chains and Recurrent Neural Networks. In this talk, he’ll explain poorly how they work, why they work, and why you might want to just think of them as ‘calculators for words’. Alternatively, we can think of them as ghostly echoes of our web culture back to itself. In which case, he’ll walk us through some of the ways he’s found listening to these echoes to be useful in his research, in his teaching, but will also share some of the dead ends too. This isn’t a boosterism talk but rather an attempt to dispel hype. He didn’t write this abstract with the help of an LLM. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Coding for the Humanities
2023-11-07 00:00 - 23:59 | Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada
This series of workshops introduces humanities scholars to coding in the humanities. The suite of workshops covers the following topics:

Creating a static page for cuPortfolio (learning to use the command line and GitHub)

Python I: Basic coding for text analysis

Python II: CSV files for literature reviews

Python III: Error searching, web scraping, and the ethics of open data

Each of these workshops introduces a core topic for those interested in computational methods for the humanities and provides opportunities to apply the ideas and techniques discussed. Attending all sessions is essential as the workshops are scaffolded to ensure that participants can progress from simpler strategies to more sophisticated approaches. For example:

work with a command line to create a static web page; and

export a CSV from the Library search engine Omni for a literature review.

Participants must attend an initial “office hours” session to ensure that their device meets the technical requirements of the workshops—no time will be available during the workshops for major technical set-up.

All students and faculty are welcome.

Learning outcomes

Setup Windows or Mac system to meet workshop technical requirements.

Write some basic commands to access files from their desktop/laptop directory.

Identify the benefits of using Python for certain humanistic research problems.

Import a CSV from Omni (Library discovery tool) into Python and then use pandas and NLTK to analyze the data in the CSV file.

Define a legal and ethical process for accessing digital data.

The workshops will run on the following dates and times. These sessions are in person only, with the exception of the technical set up session.

Room ML252A

Tuesday, November 7 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Required technical set-up)

Tuesday, November 14 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 21 1:00 p.m. tp 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 28 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 5 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Tuesday, December 12 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 14 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Workshop leader(s):

Martha Attridge Bufton, Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian

Chantal Brousseau, MA candidate (History)

Alparsian Ozturk, Business and Government Document Technician

Jennifer Whitney, Digital Initiatives Librarian

Please note: sessions taking place in December do not count toward paid pedagogical training hours.

Competencies:

Research & Analysis; Digital Literacy; Discipline-specific knowledge

Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians
2023-11-08 00:00 - 23:59 | Ontario
This introductory workshop offers best practices for data organization in spreadsheets for humanities, social sciences, & librarians.

Introducing the "Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex"
2023-11-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Started by professors Jinny Yu and Celina Jeffery (from uOttawa) and Ming Tiampo (from Carleton U), the project is a searchable database of Canadian BIPOC artists aimed to facilitate and encourage research, teaching, and exhibitions on BIPOC artists, who as you might know, continue to be underrepresented in publications, exhibitions, and curricula. Research assistants Tia Carey and Candide Mawoko will introduce the database, which has been named the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex, references the ways in which BIPOC artists have been historically known through personal and artistic networks rather than through institutions. It seeks to increase accessibility to BIPOC artists during first-phase research and subsequently increase their representation in curriculum, publications, and art institutions. It is conceived of in equal measures as a curated platform, digital humanities project, and advocacy work. Location: Univeristy of Ottawa CreatorSpace (Pérez Hall, room 302).

Introduction to Statistical Analysis with SPSS
2023-11-15 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
This beginner-level workshop will introduce you to the basics of SPSS statistical software, how it works, and some basic descriptive statistics, statistical procedures and chart building features. No prior knowledge of SPSS is required.

Database Management using SQL for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians
2023-11-15 00:00 - 2023-11-22 23:59 | Ontario
This is a hands-on introductory workshop on database management using SQL for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Librarians. This workshop will be offered in collaboration with an instructor from Calcul Québec. It is a two-part six-hour session with the introductory materials covered on November 15, and the more advanced SQL content covered on November 22. Attendees register for both parts.

Enhancing Your Digital Exhibit: Customization and Interactive Elements in Omeka S
2023-11-16 00:00 - 23:59 | McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada
Create next level digital exhibits! We will use HTML5 to customize the appearance of your Omeka S digital exhibit and add interactive elements to your website.
