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XQuery Working Group
Jan. 30, 2019—XQuery Working Group Fridays, 2:10-3:00 pm, Center for Digital Humanities (344 Buttrick) XQuery is a programming language that works seamlessly with XML and other forms of data. XQuery is a great language to learn if you are working with semi-structured data of any sort—literary texts encoded in TEI, bibliographic data in JSON, or even tabular...
Race, Gender, and Technology Working Group
Jan. 30, 2019—Race, Gender, and Technology Working Group Alternate Fridays, 1:00-2:00 pm, Center forDigital Humanities (344 Buttrick) The Race, Gender, and Technology Working Group will meet every other week at the Center for Digital Humanities on Fridays at 1 p.m., starting January 25, 2019. The purpose of the group is to engage members in key conversations regarding race,...
Library Digital Scholarship Workshop: Tools for Creating Multimodal Works
Jan. 30, 2019—Library Digital Scholarship Workshop: Tools for creating multimodal works 11:10am-12:00 pm, 418a Central Library Are you looking to create multimodal works? This workshop will look at how to leverage Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator to enhance your digital scholarship. See the Scholarly Communications Digital Scholarship Workshops webpage for more information: https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/scholarly/workshops.php If...
Remote Sensing Working Group
Jan. 29, 2019—Remote Sensing Working Group Thursdays 12:10-1:00 pm, Eskind Library Training Room Do you have a project that could benefit from using satellite or aerial imagery? What about LiDAR, Radar, drone or hyperspectral imagery? Have you ever been curious about what Remote Sensing is or how you can apply it to your work? The group will...
Data Visualization Workshop Series
Jan. 29, 2019—Data Visualization Workshop Series Wednesdays, 3:00 -4:30 pm, Wond’ry 302 The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL), the Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Vanderbilt Research IT Service present a series of Data Visualization Workshops for scholars at all levels. The workshops run in 60 minute sessions, with an additional optional 30 minutes for q&a, discussion,...
GIS Working Group
Jan. 29, 2019—GIS Working Group Wednesdays, 12:10-1:00 pm, Eskind Library Training Room If you have an interest in learning GIS for digital mapping projects, come to the GIS working group and learn from the ground up in smart, supportive company. Using traditional ArcGIS and open source software like QGIS and R, this working group will explore...
January 29: Steve Wernke, “Colonizing Spaces in the Andes”
Jan. 29, 2019—Tuesday, January 29, 6:00 pm Cohen 203 Steve Wernke, “Colonizing Spaces in the Andes: Toward Embodied Archaeological Perspectives through Virtual Reality and Simulation” The Spanish invasion and colonization of the Andean region of South America proceeded in large measure through projects of mass resettlement and compulsory urbanism. The Spanish brought with them certain Mediterranean orientations...
Python Working Group
Jan. 29, 2019—Have you been thinking that you should start learning Python? Do you have a project where a Python script would help you get the job done? Each week during the first hour, this working group will help beginners get started with Python. The second hour is a drop-in session where participants can figure out how...
Social Media Working Group
Jan. 29, 2019—Social Media Working Group This working group is an open space for students and faculty of all interest and expertise levels to explore current scholarship on social media. We will discuss issues such as best practices and ethics for social media scholarship, as well as methodologies and challenges for researching different platforms such as Instagram,...
Humanities Data Workshop Series
Oct. 26, 2018—Humanities Data Workshop Series and Working Group This program of linked workshops is designed to help humanities scholars at any level gain experience with data in ways that are relevant to their own research work. Workshops will build on one another in sequence, but anyone may attend any session without concern for prerequisites or prior...