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Internet Research Team
The Internet Research Team is a student-led group of scholars interested in exploring, discussing, and using online and digital research methods. The group also includes faculty and staff and meets regularly throughout the year. We invite people of all levels of technical skills who are conducting or have an interest in online and digital research to join the group here on the Commons and attend the meetings.
For more information, please contact us at cunyirt@gmail.com.
Edwin Mayorga & Micki Kaufman, Coordinators
Collette Sosnowy, PhD & Kiersten Greene, PhD, Founders
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gcdigitalfellows started the topic Python Users’ Group (PUG) Spring Calendar in the forum
Internet Research Team 3 years, 4 months agoHello all,
We are pleased to announce the Spring calendar for the Python Users’ Group (PUG for short).
The Python Users’ Group (PUG for short) is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming language, where we learn, work, chat, snack and have the occasional beer. It is an…[Read more]
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gcdigitalfellows started the topic Python Users’ Group meeting, February 11th. in the forum
Internet Research Team 4 years, 4 months agoDear all,
The Python Users’ Group (PUG) is back for the Spring semester. For those who haven’t been in our meetings yet, it is good to know that we promote a casual and welcoming atmosphere (usually with some snacks), where people can chat about python, work together or just hang around. We have people in different levels of expertise with lot…[Read more]
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gcdigitalfellows started the topic GC Digital Research Institute, January 14-17: Apply by this Friday, Nov. 30th! in the forum
Internet Research Team 4 years, 6 months agoHi all,
We’re writing to share an opportunity for current students, faculty, and staff at The Graduate Center, CUNY, to apply to learn some digital research skills with GC Digital Initiatives and the GC Digital Fellows for free this January 14-17, during our week-long intensive GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI). The deadline to apply is THIS…[Read more]
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gcdigitalfellows started the topic Python Users’ Group (PUG) meeting, October 15th in the forum
Internet Research Team 4 years, 7 months agoPython Users’ Group (or PUG for short) invites you all for our first meeting of the year! It is going to be on October 15, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 7414). We will make sure to have some pizza.
PUG is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming l…[Read more]
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gcdigitalfellows started the topic Next Weds 6/20! DH Research Institute Participant Lightning Talks in the forum
Internet Research Team 4 years, 12 months agoHi all,
The participants of the Digital Humanities Research Institute will be presenting lightning talks next week. Come hear from this talented group of scholars, librarians, and museum and community organization leaders on their plans to expand communities of digital humanities practice at their home institutions across the cou…[Read more]
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Shirley P Grant started the topic Question: Internet Recruitment for Masters Thesis through Facebook in the forum
Internet Research Team 7 years, 7 months agoHi All,
My name is Shirley and I am new to the group. I have a question and hope that someone might be able to answer it or possibly point me in the right direction. For my research study, I am interesting in setting up a closed Facebook group. The goal of the discussion group is to investigate the possibility of obtaining participants to conduct…[Read more] -
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Jill Cirasella started the topic Upcoming library workshops about sharing your research (i.e., going open access) in the forum
Internet Research Team 7 years, 7 months agoThis week, October 19-25, is International Open Access Week, an annual opportunity for students, faculty, and other researchers to learn about open access (OA) to scholarly literature, find out how to make their works OA, and help make OA the new norm in scholarship and research. (Learn more about OA.)
During Open Access Week, you might hear…[Read more]
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Leslie Ward joined the group
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Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz started the topic Welcome Stephen Zweibel & Library Workshop Calendar is up! in the forum
Internet Research Team 7 years, 9 months agoHi all, welcome to a new semester.
I’d like to formally introduce Stephen Zweibel, who is our new Data & Digital Projects Librarian: https://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/08/31/welcome-stephen-zweibel/
Please welcome Steve!Steve will take the lead on coordinating the library workshops and events calendar. As he develops this calendar,…[Read more]
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Jill Belli started the topic Job Opportunity: City Tech’s OpenLab Hiring a Community Facilitator in the forum
Internet Research Team 7 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
Please circulate widely. Many thanks!
Cheers,
Jill & Jody—
City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/), an innovative open source digital platform for students, faculty, and staff at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, seeks a current (or recent) CUNY graduate student as a C…[Read more]
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Roxanne Shirazi started the topic Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive) at the GC Apr 20 in the forum
Internet Research Team 8 years, 2 months agoHi all,
Passing along this event info that may be of interest — please circulate widely!
Brewster Kahle at the Graduate Center
April 20, 2015
1-3pm
Skylight Room, 9th floor
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
RSVP hereKahle will be giving the 2015 Friends of the Library Annual Lecture, and will be introduced by Professor William P. Kelly. Thi…[Read more]
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evan misshula started the topic Should we fear intelligent machines in the forum
Internet Research Team 8 years, 2 months agoPlease join the GC Digital Initiatives, the GC Digital Fellows, the PhD program in Computer Science and the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative in welcoming from MIT’s legendary CS/AI Lab and the Free Software Foundation Dr. Gerald J Sussman, who will present on the problems created by intelligent agents whose governing are purposefully obscured…[Read more]
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Anders Wallace replied to the topic How to batch-convert multiple documents into .txt files in the forum
Internet Research Team 8 years, 3 months agoHi Micki, thanks so much! This looks really great. I’ll download your toolkit, looking forward to trying it out. Thanks for creating this :).
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Micki Kaufman replied to the topic How to batch-convert multiple documents into .txt files in the forum
Internet Research Team 8 years, 3 months agoHi Anders –
to do this most efficiently you need two things: a command-line utility to convert whatever filetype you have into .txt files, and a shell script, macro or other automation tool to batch process each.
In the packet I created for the Digital Fellows Workshops, you’ll find two examples of just such a shell script… designed to loop…[Read more]
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Anders Wallace started the topic How to batch-convert multiple documents into .txt files in the forum
Internet Research Team 8 years, 3 months agoHi, I have a technical question. I am using the Mallet natural language processing toolkit in my research, and as part of this process I have to convert many (thousands) of documents into .txt files. I wondered if anyone knows a program or function that can batch together and convert many docs into .txt files at once (without having to manually…[Read more]
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