Workshops will be held on Wednesdays at the Perry-Castañeda Library in Learning Lab 4 from 1:00-2:30, unless otherwise noted below.
Please bring your own device if you wish to participate in the hands on portions of the workshops on 10/10, 11/7, and 11/28
10/10- Text Analysis- taught by Andrew Akhlaghi
Wednesday, October 10
1:00-2:30pm
PCL Learning Lab 4
Please bring your own laptop if you wish to participate in the hands on portions of this workshop.
Computers can compliment how we read. Anyone with a PC has access to a huge amount of text and the means to statistically analyze it. This class will show you how to assemble and analyze a large amount of text using python. You will walk away from this class knowing how to assemble a corpus and some of the tools available to analyze it.
10/17- Cleaning Old Data Using OpenRefine- taught by Zach Benalayat
Wednesday, October 17
1:00-2:30 PM
PCL Learning Lab 4
Every organization has old, messy data is both too important to dispose of and too unwieldy to use easily. But it can be remarkably simple to turn that data into something far more accessible and useful. Using the program Open Refine we will show you a few basic techniques to clean and organize your data sets, as well as answer questions about specific data sets and point you towards resources for more advanced data cleaning techniques.
Taught by Zach Benalayat
Resources for OpenRefine Workshop
10/31-Using APIs to Access Holdings from Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums- taught by Joshua Ortiz Baco and Adriana Casarez- 10:00am-11:30am
Wednesday October 31st
10:00-11:30am
PCL Learning Lab 4
Using the Europeana Collection as an example, we will explore the basics of an Application Programming Interface, or API, some common uses you may already be familiar with, and how just one line of text and symbols allows you to access and gather information from cultural heritage institutions. Providing this way of interacting with collections has become more commonplace due to the greater exposure and discoverability that APIs provide. This tool has also gained traction among people in the Humanities interested in a more targeted way of accessing materials than what a search function can provide. The goal of the workshop is to provide you with enough information to start exploring APIs from other collections.
11/7- Corpora for Humanities Research, taught by Dale Correa
Wednesday, November 7th
1:00-2:30pm
PCL Learning Lab 4
Please bring your own laptop if you wish to participate in the hands on portions of this workshop.
Corpora have long been a research model utilized by linguists to answer critical questions about the development of and relationships among languages. This workshop takes inspiration from corpus linguistics to demonstrate the applicability of text corpora to Humanities research generally. We will learn how to conceptualize a corpus project, from research question to model, and then implement test annotations using the EXMARaLDA annotation tool. We will also review existing text corpora projects and the myriad ways that corpora can be utilized for Humanities research.
Downloading EXMARaLDA
The workshop uses a tool from the EXMARaLDA software suite. Participants who are interested to use their own machines can download EXMARaLDA for Windows or Mac here. For Mac, they’ll want to specifically install the “Partitur-Editor” tool. Participants may also need to update or install Java, too. There are notes for installation for Windows 8 or higher and MacOS X on that page as well. More documentation can be found in the Getting Started guide.
11/14- Using Scalar in the Classroom- taught by Allyssa Guzman and Joshua Kopin
Wednesday, November 14th
1:00-2:30pm
PCL Learning Lab 4
Scalar is a publishing platform that allows users to create multi-media digital books. Existing at the crossroads between an ebook and a website, Scalar's many features allow instructors to design classroom assignments that bring traditional essay writing into the realm of the digital humanities, allowing students to experiment with tagging, web scraping, and integrating media into their work. In this workshop, participants will receive an overview of the Scalar's capabilities and potential applications in the college classroom.
11/28-TWARC It! Workshop: Harvesting and Preserving Twitterature- taught by Micah Bateman
Wednesday, October 24th
1:00-2:30pm
PCL Learning Lab 4
Please bring your own laptop if you wish to participate in the hands on portions of this workshop.
In this workshop, participants will install and learn the basics of TWARC, a Python script used to harvest and archive data from Twitter. Many disciplines use social media data. As a literary historian, I use Tweets featuring poems of resistance for reception studies. But only recent Tweets are easy to find using Twitter’s search apparatus, and Tweets are only archived for two years, making the public discourses of resistance movements ephemeral. TWARC makes it easier to search for and archive Twitter data given research parameters. The workshop will begin with an introduction to TWARC through my own research about archiving and preserving #BlackLivesMatter Tweets that intersect with quotations of Black radical poetry. We’ll also discuss the task of archiving Twitter, a task that even the Library of Congress has taken on and quit. Then I’ll walk participants through installing TWARC on Windows and Mac operating systems followed by a number of search exercises, including some directed toward participants’ own research needs.
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