Hi Digital Archives Research Collaborative!

I wanted to draw your attention to digital archives related workshops that are happening across the GC this Fall 2024  — please see below. We won’t be holding DARC meet-ups this semester, but stay turned for a digital archives reading group in the Spring 2025 semester. Please feel free to be in touch if you have any ideas about what you would like to see DARC do this year!

Thanks,
Maggie Schreiner

GCDI Digital Fellow and DARC coordinator

 

How do you DH? – October 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm (this Monday!)

How do you do Digital Humanities? How can you determine what tools or methods work best for your project idea? With the remarkable array of digital tools available, it can be difficult to determine which ones you’ll really need. This workshop will give an overview of digital humanities methods and introduce a variety of tools for different kinds of research. We’ll discuss the genres and vocabulary of DH from text analysis to geospatial mapping and review the many available resources online and at The Graduate Center. Feel free to come with your project ideas and questions.

Interview Recording Basics – October 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm (also this Monday!)

This iPhone Audio-Visual Interview Recording Basics is a beginner’s guide to shooting an interview on your mobile phone. This lab will cover lighting, visual composition principles, using a tripod/adapter, the importance of sound quality, and microphone basics. Bring your phone, and if you have a phone tripod/holder, bring it along.

Recording Basics – October 10 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

This Recording Basics: Capturing Quality Audio and Video workshop will cover the fundamentals of recording, including equipment setup, audio and video quality tips, and best practices for capturing professional-grade content. In this session, you’ll learn how to avoid common rookie mistakes and set yourself up for success when recording your multimedia project.

From Paper to Website – October 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

In this in-person workshop, participants explore the possibilities of communicating research on a website, an interactive format, while continuing to obverse the rigor expected in academic communication. To do so we depart from the characteristics of papers as a most commonly known genre and think of possibilities on how to structure the information on a website.

Intro to Omeka – November 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Omeka is a free Content Management System (CMS) and a web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, libraries, museums, individual researchers, and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a set of digital primary sources that you want to publish online in a scholarly way, you’ll want to consider Omeka. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to understand some of the conceptual challenges faced when developing digital archives and create an online database of digital archival items.

Hi Digital Archives Research Collaborative!

I wanted to draw your attention to digital archives related workshops that are happening across the GC this Fall 2024  — please see below. We won’t be holding DARC meet-ups this semester, but stay turned for a digital archives reading group in the Spring 2025 semester. Please feel free to be in touch if you have any ideas about what you would like to see DARC do this year!

Thanks,
Maggie Schreiner

GCDI Digital Fellow and DARC coordinator

 

How do you DH? – October 7 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm (this Monday!)

How do you do Digital Humanities? How can you determine what tools or methods work best for your project idea? With the remarkable array of digital tools available, it can be difficult to determine which ones you’ll really need. This workshop will give an overview of digital humanities methods and introduce a variety of tools for different kinds of research. We’ll discuss the genres and vocabulary of DH from text analysis to geospatial mapping and review the many available resources online and at The Graduate Center. Feel free to come with your project ideas and questions.

Interview Recording Basics – October 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm (also this Monday!)

This iPhone Audio-Visual Interview Recording Basics is a beginner’s guide to shooting an interview on your mobile phone. This lab will cover lighting, visual composition principles, using a tripod/adapter, the importance of sound quality, and microphone basics. Bring your phone, and if you have a phone tripod/holder, bring it along.

Recording Basics – October 10 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

This Recording Basics: Capturing Quality Audio and Video workshop will cover the fundamentals of recording, including equipment setup, audio and video quality tips, and best practices for capturing professional-grade content. In this session, you’ll learn how to avoid common rookie mistakes and set yourself up for success when recording your multimedia project.

From Paper to Website – October 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

In this in-person workshop, participants explore the possibilities of communicating research on a website, an interactive format, while continuing to obverse the rigor expected in academic communication. To do so we depart from the characteristics of papers as a most commonly known genre and think of possibilities on how to structure the information on a website.

Intro to Omeka – November 4 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Omeka is a free Content Management System (CMS) and a web publishing system built by and for scholars that is used by hundreds of archives, libraries, museums, individual researchers, and teachers to create searchable online databases and scholarly online interpretations of their digital collections. If you have a set of digital primary sources that you want to publish online in a scholarly way, you’ll want to consider Omeka. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to understand some of the conceptual challenges faced when developing digital archives and create an online database of digital archival items.