Building Collaborative Collections with Zotero: From Desktop to Website
Friday, 9/6, 12:00-1:00 pm
Join us for an interactive workshop designed for students, researchers, and librarians. This workshop aims to equip participants with the skills to utilize Zotero for building collaborative collections of books, artworks, and documents, ready to be published with the website generator MOREL (morel.github.io).
Attendees with enhance their existing knowledge of Zotero by learning how to use it for collaborative collection building, gain hands-on experience in creating and managing a digital collection, and understand the process of organizing and sharing collections with a broader audience.
Participants should have a basic familiarity with Zotero and come prepared with a Zotero account and the Zotero desktop app installed.
Presenter: Eduardo Febres Muñoz
OCR Basics with Transkribus
Friday, 9/20, 1:00-2:00 pm
There are many resources and programs to explore when thinking about using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to enhance the accessibility and research potential of a document. However, transforming a physical item into a digitized, searchable text does not necessarily require expensive software or intense coding skills. Among the several free, open-source options is the powerful web-based tool Transkribus.
In this workshop, we will give a brief overview of the useful applications of OCR, how to prep for the best result from your images, and how to use Transkribus to render machine-readable text from a variety of handwritten and printed documents.
Presenters: Kiana Fekette and Karla Roig
Basic Textual Analysis with GPT 4.0
Friday, 10/4, 12:00-1:00 pm
GPT 4.0 can be very advantageous for Digital Humanities procedures involving coding. Novice programmers may find GPT useful in kickstarting projects that require data analysis. In this workshop, we will demo two basic use cases for GPT in a Digital Humanities workflow. We will choose a dataset and use Python for topic modeling and sentiment analysis wielding GPT as an assistant. It is intended for participants with minimal coding knowledge.
Presenter: Kameron Dunn
Introduction to Coding in Rust
Friday, 10/18, 12:00-1:00 pm
This workshop will serve as a general introduction to using the Rust programming language, with a focus on how it can be applied to the digital humanities. After an introductory presentation, participants will apply what they’ve learned with a hands-on coding exercise.
Presenter: Ian Goodale
Introduction to Text Analysis Using Python
Friday, 11/1, 12:00-1:00 pm
This workshop will introduce attendees to basic concepts and techniques for computational text analysis, focusing on the unique opportunities and methodologies available to researchers who utilize computational approaches to understanding and examining textual data. A practical, hands-on exercise using Python will follow the introductory talk.
Presenters: Ian Goodale and Karina Sánchez
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