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Digital Humanities Workshops

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Digital Text Processing

Introduction to Annotating Audio and Video with AudiAnnotate 

Learn to annotate audio and video files using tools like Audacity, IIIF, and GitHub for publishing and sharing annotation projects. (Spring 2023). 

Presenter: Trent Wintermeier

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Introduction to Recogito

Learn how to use Recogito for semantic annotation and document tagging, useful for mapping relationships and collaboration with research. (Spring 2024)

Presenters: Miriam Santana and Willem Borkgren 

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Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Introduces OCR and tools like Google Docs and Tesseract for making digitized documents machine-readable. (Spring 2024)

Presenters: Dale J. Correa, Mercedes Morris, Talya Stanke 

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OCR Basics with Transkribus

Learn how to use the web-based tool Transkribus to transform physical items into searchable text, covering printed and handwritten documents. (Fall 2024). 

Presenters: Kiana Fekette and Karla Roig

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Digital Exhibit

Getting Started with Omeka

Introduction to Omeka for creating digital archives and exhibitions. (Spring 2025).

Instructor: Abigayle Mazzocco

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Reclaim Hosting Part One: Introduction to Reclaim Hosting/Domain of One's Own

Adam Rabinowitz is a leader at the University of Texas at Austin in getting started with Reclaim Hosting/Domain of One's Own. Domain of One's Own is a space where UT staff, faculty, and students can sign up for their own subdomain and dashboard where they can install many different open source applications, including Wordpress, Omeka, and Scalar. Adam will provide a basic overview of the platform and cover some of the most important things you need to get started working with Reclaim Hosting/Domain of One's Own. (Spring 2022)

Presenter: Adam Rabinowitz

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Reclaim Hosting Part Two: Starting a Project in a Domain of One's Own: Setting up Omeka

This workshop will focus on the practical use of the Domain of One's Own platform to set up an online project, using Omeka as an example. The session will draw on expertise of various Omeka users and will involve sample datasets drawn from online exhbiits developed in undergraduate courses at the University of Texas at Austin. (Spring 2022)

Presenters: Adam Rabinowitz and Alyssa Guzman

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Getting Started with Scalar

Overview of Scalar, a free, open-source publishing platform for long-form, born-digital, and media-rich scholarship. Learn how to build your Scalar site. (Spring 2023). 

Presenter: Miriyam E. Judd

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Introduction to StoryMaps

Learn how to create digital exhibits using maps, images, videos, and text with StoryMaps. (Fall 23). 

Presenter: Karina Sanchez

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Computational Text Analysis

Basic Textual Analysis with GPT 4.0

Demonstrating basic use cases for GPT 4.0 in text analysis, including Python for topic modeling and sentiment analysis. (Fall 24)

Presenter: Kameron Dunn

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Introduction to Text Analysis Using Python

Learn the basics of computational text analysis using Python. (Fall 24). 

Presenters: Ian Goodale and Karina Sánchez

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Visualization and Computational Programming

Introduction to Coding in Rust

Introduction to Rust programming language and its applications in digital humanities. (Fall 24).

Presenter: Ian Goodale

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Interactive Writing in Twine

Introduction to Twine, a tool for creating interactive narratives, including decision trees and interactive text. (Spring 24).

Presenter: Megan Gilbert

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Working with APIs: An Introduction to Application Programming Interfaces

Learn the basics of APIs: What they are, how you can use them, and why they're useful. We'll review some popular APIs and various tools and approaches to working with them, then dive into a hands-on session to apply our new knowledge. All experience levels are welcome, although this workshop is primarily aimed at beginners. 

Presenter: Ian Goodale

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Data Transformation with OpenRefine

Interested in using a dataset in your next big untitled research project? Would you currently describe your data as "chaotic," "messy," or "sheer mayhem"? Cringe no longer and come learn about OpenRefine, a powerful (and free) tool for data cleaning and transformation. Through hands-on activities, we will go through the basics of OpenRefine, such as identifying inconsistencies and patterns, tracking changes and transforming data en masse with both simple clicks and using unique expressions. Additionally, this workshop will teach the importance of data preparation, show you where to find databases by discipline and provide a library of resources for your OpenRefine journey. 

Presenter: Adriana Cásarez

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Data Mining with Pymarc

This workshop will provide an overview of how to utilize Pymarc, an open-source Python program, to data mine digital collections. Participants are not required to have a background in programming. During this workshop, participants will learn how to download metadata from digital collections hosted on the Internet Archive and how to use Pymarc to gather collection-wide bibliographic information from the data. At the end of the workshop. attendees will have an understanding of how to use Pymarc and why Pymarc is a beneficial tool for humanities research. 

Presenter: Ali Gunnels

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