1-4 hour workshop

Don’t lose all that hard work you’ve put into creating a digital scholarship project! With all the moving parts involved, digital scholarship projects can “break” two or three years after completion when preservation concerns aren’t considered. Websites require maintenance, platforms like Omeka and StoryMaps need version updates, file formats become obsolete – making projects interactive and accessible over the long-term can be complex. In this roundtable discussion, we’ll explore challenges in preserving digital scholarship projects, as well as tools & approaches to supporting their long-term access and use. We’ll conclude with a sandbox session where we share case studies and respond to participant questions.

This workshop aims to equip participants with a basic understanding of Generative AI (GenAI) and the ethical implications of its use in student research. Participants will explore its use for idea generation, and literature reviews, and consider ethical considerations such as plagiarism, privacy, and research integrity. In the hands-on portion of the workshop, participants will […]

Aimed at grad students and faculty researchers, this lecture-style workshop reviews the key components of a data management plan (DMP) and offers guidance on using the DMP Assistant, a bilingual tool for preparing data management plans. A DMP is a formal and evolving document that outlines the practices, processes, and strategies of the data you expect to acquire or generate […]

Are you a UVic student, staff, or faculty member and want to learn more about creating infographics? If so, then this hands-on workshop will give you an introduction. Once you’ve completed this session you will be able to do or be aware of the following: Instructor: TBA

OpenRefine is a free and easy-to-learn tool for changing and augmenting data. It has many uses, including cleaning and reconciling structured data (e.g., spreadsheets) in preparation for creating Linked Open Data (LOD). This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to OpenRefine. Using sample data provided in the workshops, participants will be taught how to clean […]

Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to a set of standards and practices that allow data to contribute to the Semantic Web. This introduction will cover how LOD works in theory and practice. It will provide an overview of various projects and tools for using and making it, with an emphasis on cultural data and on […]

In this workshop we will work with visual artifacts, translating ideas contained in earlier protest items into the digital vernacular of memes that are so predominant in the present. By exploring different acts of translation between digital and the martial objects of feminist protest we will develop a stronger sense of the affective and rhetorical […]

In this workshop we will work with a digital repository of feminist memes and translate them into material form. By exploring these different acts of translation between digital and the martial objects of feminist protest we will as a group develop a stronger sense of the affective and rhetorical force of feminist visual culture and […]

This workshop dives into the Semantic Web with its possibilities for humanities research through exploring ontologies and vocabularies for Linked Open Data (LOD): providing an introduction to how they function in relation to data structure and creation, and how they impact data publication, querying, and visualization. An understanding of the complementary roles played by OWL […]

This is an opportunity for researchers who have data within LINCS, or prospective LINCS projects, to consult with LINCS developers and UX specialists about how their data works or will work in ResearchSpace. Possibilities for consultation include tuning search pages, reviewing how their data interacts with the entity summary pages, planning how in-progress datasets will […]

The Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) has developed several Application fProgramming Interfaces (APIs) that enable developers to access LINCS datasets and tools. In this workshop, we will provide an overview of how LINCS data is modelled as Linked Open Data (LOD), and introduce participants to the LINCS authority service, LINCS API, and the […]

This workshop will provide an overview of the ResearchSpace environment for linked data. ResearchSpace is a web-based tool for the storage, review, publication, and discovery of Linked Open Data. It allows users to search, browse, visualize, and edit existing LOD stored in the LINCS triplestore. LINCS has adapted ResearchSpace as a publishing platform to support […]

Lead by the co-leads the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance’s Respectful Terminology Platform Project, this workshop will introduce the work of the RTPP which brings together community projects with a similar goal of respectful terminology for all, and to discuss needs and goals of a national, Indigenous-led platform for respectful terminologies. Instructors: Stacy Allison–Cassin […]

LEAF-Writer is a free web-based semantic editor that supports text encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative and linked open data annotation without users having to learn complex encoding. LEAF-Writer supports all the core functionalities of an XML editor including tagging and adding attributes, validation, and error feedback within a stylesheet-based what-you-see-is-what-you-get interface that can show […]

This bilingual workshop provides a practical introduction to bibliometrics, covering fundamental concepts and practical applications of publication and citation analysis in the context of research evaluation and science of science studies. Participants will gain hands-on skills in interpreting bibliometric indicators and in collecting, cleaning and analyzing bibliographic metadata from Web of Science and OpenAlex, using […]

This month we are focusing on getting started on a LEMDO edition. In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will guide new editors through the process of being set up in the LEMDO Subversion repository. LEMDO Director Janelle Jenstad will be present to support editors in breakout rooms and to answer questions.

Are you a UVic student, faculty, or staff member and want to learn more about video editing? If so, then this hands-on workshop will give you an introduction to video editing using either iMovie or Microsoft Video Editor. Once you’ve completed this session you’ll create and edit a video including: Instructors: Dani K. Johnson and Rich […]

Why use transcription services? Automated transcription services can help save time in qualitative research. While there are many options available, Microsoft 365, Whisper Transciption, and Zoom are services that are free for UVic students and faculty. When choosing transcription services to use, one should also take into account the pros, cons, and research ethics considerations that are specific to […]