The following workshops are held at the Charles E. Young Research Library. Check each individual workshop for exact location. The library workshops are open; no RSVP is required. *Please note: some of these workshops are geared towards humanities/social science disciplines, but many are appropriate for all disciplines.
Text Analysis and Visualization
Tuesday, April 17, 2:30 p.m.
Using ManyEyes and Voyant/Voyeur, this hour-long session will explore basic text-analysis tools and visualization techniques, including hands-on practice with an emphasis on methodology. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
EndNote
Wednesday, April 18, 2 p.m.
This hour-long session offers an introduction to EndNote, a software program that helps researchers organize and manage their references and create and format bibliographies. Meet in the Research Library East Electronic Classroom, room 21536.
Copyright Basics
Tuesday, April 24, 1 p.m.
This hour-long session will focus on the basic mechanics of copyright law, including kind of materials covered by copyright, specific rights copyright encompasses, and length of copyright. The session will also cover the important copyright principle called fair use, a vital exception for scholarship and research that allows for limited reuse of copyrighted works without permission under certain circumstances. There will be time at the end of the session for questions. Meet in the Research Library Presentation Room, room 11348.
Introduction to Network Analysis using Gephi
Tuesday, April 24, 2:30 p.m.
Learn about network analysis in this one-hour workshop by creating a visualization of your Facebook friends. This workshop will introduce researchers to the basics of network analysis: how to create network data and how to visualize and analyze it using Gephi. Participants will be led on a tour through the basic features of the software and through an exercise using their own Facebook data. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Managing Research Assets
Wednesday, April 25, 2 p.m.
There’s research, there’s writing, and then there’s a netherworld in between of wrangling all the digital files researchers gather in the course of their work. This hour-long workshop, designed primarily for researchers in the humanities, will feature tools for gathering, sorting, and citing this information so that researchers can focus on writing.Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Finding Images
Monday, April 30, 2 p.m.
This ninety-minute workshop will use online demonstrations and hands-on practice to show researchers how to find images using databases such as ARTstor and how to use these resources effectively. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Introduction to XML
Wednesday, May 2, 2 p.m.
This ninety-minute workshop will present a short introduction to XML and how and why to use it for innovative digital scholarship projects. Knowing XML will increase your ability to plan projects, talk to technology experts, and share content with collaborators anywhere. We will focus on library and digital scholarship uses of XML. By the end of the workshop you will know how to read and edit XML and understand the relationships among XML, XSLT, and HTML. There will be some hands-on exercises and an introduction to Oxygen, an XML editor. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Introduction to Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Monday, May 7, 2 p.m.
EAD is an XML markup language for archival finding aids. This ninety-minute workshop will explore the structure of EAD finding aids, the principal tags and syntax, and validating against the EAD Document Type Definition (DTD) and W3C Schemas. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Graduate Students and Open Access Publishing
Tuesday, May 8, 11:30 a.m.
Graduate students have the most to gain from a shift in the scholarly publishing landscape toward open access and away from traditional models. But until open access models gain more ground in the academy, graduate students could also have the most to lose by taking a stand. In this ninety-minute workshop, you’ll have a chance to learn more about open access, clarify your own position on the issue, and find out what the library can do to help you achieve your scholarly publishing goals. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Introduction to Topic Modeling
Tuesday, May 8, 2:30 p.m.
Are you working with a large collection of (unstructured) documents? Topic modeling is a useful method for categorizing and comparing large quantities of texts. In this one-hour workshop, participants will be introduced to topic modeling techniques using Mallet. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Zotero
Wednesday, May 9, 2 p.m.
This hour-long session offers an introduction to Zotero, an open-source application that helps researchers organize and manage references and create and format bibliographies. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Publishing EAD to the Web, or, An Introduction to XSLT for Archivists
Monday, May 14, 2 p.m.
This ninety-minute workshop will show participants how to use XSLT to convert XML Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids to XHTML for publication on the Web. Previous experience with EAD is not required, and the workshop will also serve as a general introduction to XSLT. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Introduction to TEI
Wednesday, May 16, 2 p.m.
This ninety-minute session gives a quick introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard, which is used by humanities scholars and librarians to create digital editions of documents, books, manuscripts, etc. Learn to use the TEI standard during this hands-on workshop. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Build an Academic Website
Thursday, May 17, 3 p.m.
This ninety-minute workshop will enable absolute beginners to create a free, professional-looking website in which to present research and teaching—no coding required! Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
Publishing EAD Documents as PDFs, or, An Introduction to XSL-FO for Archivists
Monday, May 21, 2 p.m.
Using EAD finding aids as an example this ninety-minute workshop will show participants how to format and convert an XML document to PDF, either for posting to the Web or for printing. Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
XML/TEI/EAD Lab Session
Friday, June 1, 1:30 p.m.
Spend some more time with hands on exercises to practice XML, TEI, or EAD in this two-hour lab session. We’ll have some exercises prepared but you can also bring your own documents for marking up.Meet in the Research Library Research Commons Classroom, room 11630F.
