Falvey Library

Digital Scholarship Workshops & Trainings


All events are ACS-approved

Introduction to Digital Humanities

Time:
12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Date:
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Location: Zoom
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A Zoom link will be sent to registrants one day prior to the workshop.

Workshop Description:

Join Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian for a virtual workshop entitled “Introduction to Digital Humanities.”

Digital Humanities (DH) is a dynamic area of scholarship that brings together digital technologies and humanities research. This workshop will provide an overview of DH and will go over example projects and various DH definitions.

Gale Digital Scholar Lab–A Text Analysis Platform

Time:
12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Date:
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Location: Zoom
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A Zoom link will be sent to registrants one day prior to the workshop.

Workshop Description:

Join Anne Negrant, Gale Trainer and Engagement Specialist, for a virtual workshop entitled “Gale Digital Scholar Lab: A Text Analysis Platform.”

This workshop will provide an introduction to using Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab, a text and data mining platform for performing text analysis on Gale’s Primary Sources and other corpuses of text. The text analysis platform offers tools for Named Entity Recognition, Ngrams, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis. Attendees will learn how to manage data sets, apply analysis tools, and review results.

Introduction to Zotero Citation Software

Time:
12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Date:
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Location: Zoom
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A Zoom link will be sent to registrants one day prior to the workshop.

Workshop Description:

Join Sarah Wingo, English and Theatre Librarian, on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, from 12–1 p.m. for a virtual workshop entitled “Using Zotero Citation Manager.”

Many kinds of academic projects benefit from the use of citation management software. At this workshop, get an introduction to Zotero, a popular and easy to use open-source citation management tool. Topics covered will include: organizing sources for projects, importing citations, saving PDFs, formatting citations, creating bibliographies in Word, and creating groups for resource sharing. Please download Zotero and set up your account prior to the workshop.

Introduction to Transkribus

Time:
12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Date:
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Location: Room 205
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Workshop Description:

Join Meg Piorko, Distinctive Collection Librarian in Falvey room 205 for an introduction to Transkribus.

This workshop will introduce participants to the functionalities of transcribing documents using Transkribus. Most of the session will be a tutorial for transcription using the free browser version, TranskribusLite. The session will conclude with a demonstration of the additional features available in the full downloadable version of Transkribus, such as training your own transcription model. Please note this workshop will take place in person in Room 205.

Community Data Solving Social Enterprise & Business Problems

Time:
12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Date:
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Location: Zoom
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A Zoom link will be sent to registrants one day prior to the workshop.

Workshop Description:

Join Linda Hauck, Business Librarian, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, from 12–1 p.m. for a virtual workshop entitled “Community Data Solving Social Enterprise & Business Problems.”

Community profile reports and mapping data about communities’ assets and attributes can go a long way toward designing optimal solutions to business and social problems. This session will demonstrate using ESRI Business Analyst Online for both social enterprise and business consulting case.

Policy Map for Practical Purposes

Time:
12:00 p.m.– 1:00 p.m.
Date:
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Location: Zoom
REGISTER HERE
A Zoom link will be sent to registrants one day prior to the workshop.

Workshop Description:

Join Merrill Stein, Social Sciences Librarian, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, from 12–1 p.m. for a virtual workshop entitled “Policy Map for Practical Purposes.”

Introduction and practical insights to using Policy Map, the interactive mapping and analytics platform that brings together a data warehouse of 21st century Census and policy material from over 50,000 current governmental, proprietary, and open resource agency indicators. No technical skills are required to make understandable data visualizations or reports from information across multiple siloed agencies.