The Commons Development Team recently released an update to the privacy options for groups. The new release adds a question to the “Public” privacy settings option that allows a Group Admin to make a public group only visible to logged-in Commons members.

Now, if you select the “Public” setting option under Group Privacy, you…[Read more]

I’m sorry you couldn’t find the link — you can view a recording of the event here. I’m also attaching the presenter slides for your convenience.

Thanks,
Maggie

I can’t find the link to join today’s event. https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/lets-archive-it/
Can you share the recorded talk when it’s available?

Thank you,

** RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 13, 12-1:30PM**

Graduate Center, Room 9206 with hybrid option (RSVP for Zoom link here).

Doing archival research? Teaching with archives? Creating digital archives? Come hear from three CUNY archivists about the exciting archi…[Read more]

Graduate Center Digital Initiatives and the Mina Rees Library are excited to invite you to an upcoming event:

“Let’s Archive It!” Three CUNY Archivists on What it Means to Steward Collections

Monday, February 23rd 2026, Noon to 1:30pm

Graduate Center, Room 9206

In-person event with hybrid option (RSVP for Zoom link here<…[Read more]

The GC Digital Fellows are planning to reinvigorate the Python User’s Group in Spring 2026. We will plan to have our first meeting next week. We can use the first meeting to discuss what kind of space we want the user group meetings to be, and make a plan for the coming semester. Please comment below to indicate interest, and mention any…[Read more]

Issue 28: General Issue

Issue Editors:

Shawna Brandle, Kingsborough Community College & The Graduate Center, CUNY

Inés Vañó García, Framingham State University

Laurie Hurson, The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the…[Read more]

The ACH 2026 conference is focused on themes of transnationalism and solidarity, particularly with an…[Read more]

I’m excited to invite you to apply for the focused inquiry group I’ll be running in Spring 2026 through the GC’s Teaching and Learning Center. Participants will receive a $500 stipend to collaborate on developing critical AI methods and teaching practices to scale sustainably at the GC and…[Read more]

I am pleased to announce that the 2025 CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks is coming up on Tuesday, October 28th from 6:30-8pm (in person at the GC and remote on Zoom). Please see below for more information on presenting a 3 minute / 3 slide presentation about your digital humanities project at the event. You can also…[Read more]

I have been using Microsoft word to automatically transcribe some interviews I conducted in Spanish.  The results have been OK, but could be better.

Ive also tried Riverside.

Does anyone have any reccomendations of other software that they have successfully used to transcribe Spanish language audio?

The Localized History Project@AAARI-CUNY is hiring! 

The Localized History Project is a youth driven history collective housed at the Asian American/Asian Research Institute@CUNY. We recently were awarded 2.5 million dollars to work in collaboration with the Asian American Education Project to build NYC’s first ever youth driven, community led,…

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“We’re looking for NYC-based grad students to help us beta test our Sourcery app — could you please share with your students? $1k for 40…[Read more]

May 13, 2025 from 2 -4 PM

The GC Digital Fellows are hosting a seminar featuring roundtable discussions on topics related to digital scholarship and methods. These sessions will be held concurrently on May 13, 2025 from 2-4pm, and are designed to generate a…[Read more]

Our workshop on metadata for digital project (“Data about Data: Best Practices for Metadata”) was rescheduled for this coming Monday, April 7th at 1pm. You can register for the workshop here. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Maggie

View the call for submissions on Manifold here: https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-call-for-submissions/section/48f029cb-6048-4b08-b6c3-68ebbea5390c

Themed Issue 27

Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Issue…[Read more]

I wanted to let you know about an upcoming workshop that I am teaching which is very relevant for digital archives projects: “Data about Data: Best Practices for Metadata”. We’ll be focusing on how to approach metadata through a critical lens, and resources for creating ethical metadata. This is particularly applicable for…[Read more]

We are excited to share that the GC Digital Fellows are hosting an inaugural event on Tuesday, May 13th called GCDI Conversations in Digital Scholarship. The event will feature six facilitated round table conversations designed to build cross-disciplinary dialogue about the many ways that scholarship and research are changing in…[Read more]

Join us next Wednesday for our second Manifold Lunchtime Community Event, featuring Dr. Wendy Barrales (NYU), a former Manifold Graduate Fellow and the author of the first digital dissertation published on Manifold, searching for mami and abuelita: reimagining ethnic studies praxis through women of color feminisms, art, and…[Read more]

We’re excited to share our Spring 2025 schedule of workshops, community events, and drop-in co-working sessions for the CUNY Manifold digital publishing platform. Below are the details for each event:

 
WORKSHOPS
Introduction to Manifold
February 14, 2025, 12–2 PM
Registration link…[Read more]