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  • We now have access to Gale's Digital Scholar Lab at FIU Libraries!

    What is Gale's Digital Scholar Lab ? This is a product from Gale the allows you to create datasets and run text analysis on materials that FIU already subscribes to through our Gale databases. The following workshops are offered through Gale and are open to anyone in the FIU…

  • Digital Privacy in the Home: From Passwords to the Internet of Things

    Digital Privacy in the Home: From Passwords to the Internet of Things April 6, 2022, 11am-12pm This workshop will teach you how to identify where your PII (personally identifiable information) is at risk and how to protect your privacy in the digital world when using everything…

  • Text Analysis with Python for Absolute Beginners

    Text Analysis with Python for Absolute Beginners March 23 & 25, 2022, 11am-12pm Come learn basic Python coding skills through JSTOR's Constellate text analysis platform. We will utilize Jupyter Notebooks (a web-based coding tool) to analyze textual data contained in document…

  • Data Analysis With Pandas And Matplotlib

    Data Analysis With Pandas And Matplotlib February 25, 2022, 2-3:30pm Co-hosted by the Google Developers Student Club at FIU Join us to learn about two commonly used Python libraries, Pandas and Matplotlib. We will be covering what they are, how they are used, and their practical…

  • De-Identifying Your Data

    De-Identifying Your Data February 23, 2022, 11am-12pm Come learn about data de-identification approaches such as pseudonymization and anonymization so that you can accurately assess the de-identification technique best suited to your research data. We will provide an overview of…

  • Join us for Douglass Day 2022!

    February 14, 2022, 12-3pm Co-hosted by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab , the Humanities Edge , and the Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment Please join us for this celebration of Frederick Douglass’ Birthday! The FIU Libraries will be hosting Douglass Day 2022…

  • Managing and Sharing Your Research Data

    Please join us for the next upcoming workshop on research data presented by Jill Krefft! This workshop is geared towards students and faculty who will be creating or have already gathered data as part of their research. Topics will include: Understanding Research Data, Organizing…

  • Building Interactive and Media-Rich Timelines with TimelineJS

    Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio’s online space, Wednesday Nov 17th, 2:30-3:30pm ! Join us for a hands-on virtual workshop on how to build an interactive timeline. TimelineJS is a free and open-source digital scholarship tool that allows for anyone to build interactive and…

  • A Brief Introduction to the Digital Humanities

    DH curious? Don’t know where to start? Join us in the Virtual Digital Scholar Studio Wednesday, October 20th , from 2:30-3:30pm ! This workshop will give a very brief overview of the digital humanities, including its core values, a selection of popular tools and methods, and…

  • Best Practices for Conducting Remote Oral Histories

    Webinar Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 at 2:30 pm. Join us for a workshop to learn about the pros and cons of conducting oral history interviews remotely. Advice, tips, tools and the technical considerations of distance interviewing will be provided, as well as general best…

  • Mapping Locations From Unstructured Data With ARCGIS LocateXT

    Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio’s online space, Wednesday January 20th at 12:00pm (noon), Diana Ter-Ghazaryan will lead a workshop using ArcGIS LocateXT: Imagine being able to map every location mentioned in a novel or a set of documents--ArcGIS LocateXT provides the…

  • Primary Source Literacy: Digital Collections Center at FLDH 2020

    We thought we would share this panel from the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium's online webinar series featuring Digital Collections Center staff, current and former. Molly Castro, Digital Humanities Librarian, talks about a project she did creating a primary source set out…

  • Excelling with Excel: Part Two

    Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio’s online space! Part two of a two-part webinar series on best practices, tips, and tricks for working with tabular data, appropriate for beginning to advanced users. These webinars will be focused primarily on textual data, rather than…

  • Digital Humanities Toolkit for Remote Teaching: The Webinar

    Coming up in the Digital Scholar Studio's online space, Wednesday August 26th, 2:30-3:30om ! We're taking our workshops online this semester and we hope you'll join us. This workshop will introduce some easy DH tools for instructors to use in remote classes to increase engagement…

  • Call For Proposals: Archives Day 2020

    Archives Day, hosted annually by the South Florida Archives Collective , will happen online this year, and we are accepting submissions from anyone who works with/in/adjacent to archives, including scholars. If you have something you think would make a great session, please…

  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute Goes Online

    The Conference and Colloquium for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) will be online--and free --this year. Online events will run from June 2nd through J une 10th . More information, including a schedule, can be found here: https://dhsi.org/dhsi-2020/

  • DH Tools for Remote Teaching in the Context of COVID-19

    A network visualization of high frequency terms in the blogpost " Thoughts & Resources for Those About to Start Teaching Online Due to COVID-19 " made with Voyant . Digital scholarship tools can increase engagement in online classes and help move group work and discussion beyond…

  • Find Us at Library Fair!

    Want to learn more about digital scholarship resources for faculty and staff at FIU? Come see us (and all of our wonderful colleagues in the Library) at Library Fair! RSVP at go.fiu.edu/ library fair . See you there!

  • A brief Introduction to the Digital Humanities

    DH Curious? Don't know where to start? Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio ( GL540 ) Tuesday, January 21st , from 2-3pm ! This workshop will give a very brief overview of the digital humanities, its core values, and some popular tools and methods. It is open to everyone in the…

  • Don't Be Satisficed! Survey Writing Workshop

    Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (GL 540) Tuesday, December 10th, from 2-3PM to learn what makes a better survey--whether for research or assessment--that will minimize ambiguity and bias in responses, and increase participation. The workshop will also cover what to do with…

  • Learn Digital Storytelling! StoryMapJS and TimelineJS Workshop

    Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (Green Library 540) on Thursday, November 14th, at 2pm, for a workshop on digital storytelling using the free web tools TimlineJS and StoryMapJS . This workshop will be taught by Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert and is open to anyone in the FIU…

  • CFP: Grants-in-Aid for US Latinx DH

    The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) is providing stipends of up to $7500 to scholars to advance their work on US Latinx digital humanities projects. For more information see the call for proposals here…

  • Introducing DH Open Studio in the DSS

    Are you interested in digital humanities, but you don't know where to start? Are you already working on something great and just want to share? Open Studio is a weekly chance to consult with a DH Librarian, discuss digital scholarship methods and tools, exchange ideas, and form…

  • Call for Projects: Reviews in Digital Humanities

    Reviews in Digital Humanities , a new peer-reviewed journal that seeks to offer scholarly evaluation of projects in digital humanities, has issued its first call for projects with a deadline of September 1st, 2019. The goal of Reviews in Digital Humanities is to foster critical…

  • FADGI Webinar Series from LYRASIS

    LYRASIS is offering a webinar series on FADGI (Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative): Standards-Compliant Still Image Digitization , and we will be tuning-in in the Digital Scholar Studio! From the LYRASIS website: What makes an image a "good" image? How can image…

  • Call for Proposals: Digital Humanities 2020

    The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has issued the call for proposals for DH2020, taking place in Ottawa, Canada on July 20-25, 2020. The conference theme is “carrefours/intersections,” or a place where roads or streets meet. More information can be found in…

  • Digital Scholarship @ FIU: an interview with Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert

    As part of our new series getting to know the digital scholars of FIU, we sat down with Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) , to talk about her experiences with digital humanities projects and digital scholarship tools…

  • Upcoming DLOC and HASTAC Digital Humanities Tools Workshops

    FIU Libraries' Digital Library of the Caribbean will be hosting two Digital Humanities Tools Workshops at the Digital Scholar Studio, led by FIU's HASTAC Scholars, Natália Marques da Silva and Stephanie Chancy. The first will be held on March 5, and the second will be held on…

  • Caribbean Digital Humanities- A Talk by Alex Gil

    On February 18, the FIU Libraries' dLOC (Digital Library of the Caribbean), will be hosting the Caribbean Digital Humanities , a talk by Dr. Alex Gil. At this talk, Dr. Gil, the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University Libraries, will explore current trends in…

  • Inaugural Florida Digital Humanities Consortium Conference, March 2019

    The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium(FLDH), is hosting their inaugural conference at the University of North Florida in March of 2019. FLDH serves as a collective of Florida institutions working in the digital humanities. A call for presentations is now open for the two-day…

  • Call for Proposals- HASTAC 2019

    The HASTAC 2019 Conference has released a call for proposals. The conference will be held from May 16-18 in Vancouver,BC, and is co-sponsored by the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia and the Department of English at the University of…

  • DH2018 links

    The recent DH2018 conference held in Mexico City brought together researchers, data scientists and humanists alike from all over the world. Projects and posters presented at the conference ranged from new text encoding and processing tools to global perspectives on decolonizing…

  • Upcoming SEFLIN Webinars

    https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=SEFLIN&WebCode=EventList&FromSearchControl=Yes There are several upcoming webinars provided by SEFLIN, beginning in July. Topics include fundamentals of preservation, metadata, and library marketing. All classes are open to…

  • Collections as Data Google group

    Collections as Data is an IMLS-sponsored public Google group that regularly provides access to computationally-driven research related to Digital Humanities, Public History, Digital History, and Data Journalism, among other areas. The group can be accessed at the following link-…

  • GIS Day 2018 at the FIU Libraries

    https://libguides.fiu.edu/gisday/welcome April 6,2018 is GIS Day at the Green Library. Come to find out about the practical applications of GIS and check out the site to find the schedule of events for the day.

  • Upcoming Digital Humanities Events at the University of Miami

    Three digital humanities events are coming up in March at the University of Miami. Data Intersections will be on March 2nd and is a 1-day free conference featuring speakers from data science, statistics, data journalism, and the digital humanities. For more information visit…

  • VizUM Visualization Competition

    This competition sponsored by the University of Miami Center for Computational Science is a great opportunity to design a data visualization essay, story, or infographic using publicly available data about Miami. Participate in order to learn a new tool or showcase your talent!…

  • Happy Holidays from the Digital Scholar Studio

    This upcoming spring the Digital Scholar Studio will have several new items available for check out, including new microphones, camcorders, a studio lighting kit, a green screen, and a white background- which was used for this photoshoot in the gif with Santa. Look for more…

  • The Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge

    If you ever wanted to create a visualization project or digital tool using Congressional data- this is your chance. The Library of Congress has announced the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge, where submissions will be evaluated based on usefulness, creativity, and…

  • Hurricane Maria Mapping Project

    A new effort for performing damage inspections in Puerto Rico has been started by Esri. Volunteers will use ArcGIS to map. For more information, visit https://community.esri.com/community/education/blog/2017/10/11/hurricane-maria-mapping-project-we-need-your-help

  • Digital Humanities Quarterly

    Digital Humanities Quarterly is an open-access, peer reviewed online journal covering the digital humanities. The journal takes submissions and serves as a great tool for learning about current perspectives and activities in DH area. Visit their site to see issues dating back to…

  • Greater North Miami Historical Society Collection

    The Greater North Miami Historical Society Collection is now available on FIU Digital Collection Center's repository Dpanther. The Greater North Miami Historical Society collection, funded by The Southeast Florida Library and Information Network and the City of North Miami, is…

  • New Student Work on DSS Gallery Page

    New student work from HIS 4935: Senior Seminar- #History in the Digital Age is now on view on the DSS gallery page. The undergraduate course was taught online this summer by Dr. Lisa Howe . For their final project, students created research projects on the topic of their choice…

  • New equipment available at the DSS

    New recording/audio equipment has been added for rental at the DSS, GL 540. The new items are Rode NT5 condenser microphone, a C03 Multi-pattern Microphone, a Marantz Professional recorder, and two microphone stands.

  • Articles on Google Books

    Interesting recent perspectives on Google Books from Backchannel and The Atlantic, and another article from Mike Furlough giving his perspective on the two articles. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/…

  • Call for papers for CRDH 2018

    There is a call for submissions for the first annual Current Research in Digital History conference, hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The one day conference publishes online and peer-reviewed proceedings, and aims to…

  • Piktochart Workshop

    Join us at the Digital Scholar Studio on Wednesday, April 19th for a workshop on Piktochart given by Shadee Rios. Piktochart is an online tool for making presentations, infographics and print-ready graphics. https://piktochart.com/ As always, presentations will be made available…

  • Register now for courses Lyrasis courses offered by SEFLIN!

    Throughout the spring and summer, SEFLIN will be presenting online digitization-related courses offered by Lyrasis. https://www.seflin.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=SEFLIN&WebCode=EventList&FromSearchControl=Yes The courses will be offered for group viewing at the Digital…

  • Newspaper Digitization Examples

    There are many 18th, 19th and early 20th century U.S. and international digitized newspapers available online. Here are just a few sites that feature some newspaper digitization efforts- some of which are ongoing projects. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ndnp/newspapers The University of…

  • Digitization Cost Calculator

    The Digitization Cost Calculator, a project undertaken by the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group's working group on Cost Assessment, uses best practices and guidelines to determine the costs of digitization projects. The goal is to best.assist organizations in…

  • Call for Papers- "Invisible work in the Digital Humanities"

    There is a Call for Papers for "Invisible work in the Digital Humanities" , a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly (2018). Among the questions and topics that are suggested for contributions for this issue are "What is the nature of invisible work in the digital…

  • GIS Workshop at Green Library

    On March 23rd the GIS Center will offer Intro to GIS and Georeferencing Images in ArcGIS. Program: Introduction to GIS Introduction to Coordinate System Overview in ArcGIS (basic tools and table of attribute) Georeferencing images Please contact Sheyla Aguilar de Santana at…

  • Coding in DH

    Scott B. Weingart, the Digital Humanities Specialist at Carnegie Mellon University, has created a guide to Book-length analytic coding for Digital Humanities. The guide, a Google document, is open for editing and lists both digital and print resources for analytic coding…

  • Robots Reading Vogue

    "Robots Reading Vogue",a project created by the Digital Humanities Lab and Haas Arts Library of Yale University, looks at years of digitized images and text from Vogue Magazine. Many search, visualization and topic modeling tools- as well as other projects by student and staff-…

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