Digital Humanities Workshops

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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
• 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
• Data Mining with Pymarc
  • Presenter: Ali Gunnels
  • 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.