Events

Description This course introduces fundamental web and DH skills using CollectionBuilder, an open source framework 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. […]

Description Over the past five years we have seen a proliferation of academic job advertisements, publications, and discussions demonstrating ways in which race and social justice can be engaged in digital humanities scholarship. Interest by students and local communities in technological advancements through Web 2.0, social media, and mobile phones are permitting new forms of […]

Description This course introduces graduate students, university faculty, and independent scholars in the humanities to some foundational tools and critical frameworks within digital scholarship, with an emphasis on developing publishable projects. Using the open-access, scholar-led platform COVE (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education), participants will explore how digital tools deepen analysis, expand communication, and support public-facing […]

Description The course offers an effective hands-on intro and further deployable deliverables in large-language-model (LLM) deployment and adaptation, natural language processing (NLP), text and media analysis, and text and/or media corpus network visualization and analysis. We will harness the power and amplitude of LLMs and other computing resources in analyzing single/discrete datums as well as […]

Description Participants will explore the nature and range of spatial data, immersive interfacing (AR/VR) hardware, and the unique scholarly benefits that this combination affords. Information professionals – including IT, library, and instructional technologists – will survey the associated hardware and software landscape and related (3D printing, scanning, and preservation) tools. In addition to theoretical background […]

Description This course aims to introduce educators to the field of recovery and its value as a pedagogical tool. The course will begin by introducing the goals of recovery and what it may look like in practice: from projects incorporating creative expression, gaming, and other multi-disciplinary approaches for interrogating or speculating upon archival silences; to […]

Description This class provides students with hands on experience with games and their uses in the humanities classroom. The focus of our course is to learn how games are structured, how they function and how they can become an integral part of a humanities curriculum. Participants will learn to use Twine and incorporate game narratives […]

Description 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 […]

Description Ivan Illich wrote of the alphabet and the printing press that they are “almost ideally convivial” because “anybody can learn to use them, and for own purpose. They use cheap materials. People can take them or leave them as they wish. They are not easily controlled by third parties” (Illich, Tools for Conviviality, 1973). […]

Description This course introduces participants to AVAnnotate, an open-source digital humanities tool for creating annotated audiovisual exhibits. Through hands-on exercises with sample media, participants will learn how to set up projects, create annotations for accessibility and research, and explore case studies in teaching and scholarship. By the end of the week, participants will have built […]

Description The course will be an introduction to automatic text recognition technologies, focusing on the example of Kraken and eScriptorium but including an overview of other existing solutions. At the end of the course, participants will have a better understanding of machine learning through the example of automatic text recognition, will have first-hand experience using […]

Description 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 […]