ULS/iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop & Lecture Series - Spring 2016
Friday, April 8
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Aaron Brenner
Building a Digital Portfolio with WordPress
Digital portfolios are a great way to demonstrate your work and expertise, to proactively shape your online presence, and to reflect on aspects of your professional self that you’d like to further develop. In this workshop, using the freely-available WordPress platform, we’ll explore what makes a successful portfolio as well as some of the choices you’ll face when creating an online representation of yourself. You’ll leave with a personal site that you can continue to develop after the workshop.
Friday, April 1
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Nora Mattern
Telling Online Stories with Omeka (Advanced)
This session will build on the “Creating Digital Collections with Omeka” workshop and will experiment with creating digital online exhibits with Omeka collections. We’ll look at examples of Omeka exhibits, explore relevant Omeka plugins for exhibit creation, brainstorm goals and intended audiences for your digital stories, and begin to build! We encourage you to bring your in-progress Omeka collections to this activity-focused session.
Monday, March 28
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Dr. Andrew M. Cox, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield's Information School
Research Data Management and the Library & Information Professions
The growth of data intensive e-research combined with funder requirements in North America and Europe have led to a recognition of the importance of effective research data management (RDM). In response universities, as research institutions, have started to create new infrastructures of support for RDM. These demand both new skills from researchers, and new forms of support by libraries, archives, computing services and research administration. The workshop will create a space to think about the questions this raises, such as:
- What sorts of new tasks for librarians and archivists are required and what skills are needed to carry these roles out? What are the implications for the LIS professions?
- How far does this create new hybrid or even third space roles?
- How far will such support be supplied by outsourcing, shared services and technical solutions?
- And are these simply new services or do they represent a further advance of managerialism, and erosion of academic freedom?
Friday, March 25
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Barbara Page and Casey Monaghan, ULS Wikipedia Visiting Scholars
Wikipedia and how YOU can Contribute
As the 7th most visited website in the world, Wikipedia has typically become the first place students turn to for information on a topic of research. But who is creating all that content? While there are almost 27 million user accounts, only about 127,000 editors contribute on a regular basis to Wikipedia. This hands-on workshop will be led by the ULS Wikipedia Visiting Scholars who will be sharing tips and tricks on how you can be a successful Wikipedia editor. You are encouraged to bring ideas, topics and suggested articles to the workshop to get started.
To learn more about what the ULS Wikipedian Visiting Scholars have been doing for the ULS, you are welcome to attend their presentation on the same date from 10-11:30am in the Amy Knapp Room.
Friday, March 18
10:00 a.m. – Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Lauren Collister
Managing Qualitative Data from Online Communities
This workshop will guide participants through thinking about online communities and some of the sources of data for performing qualitative research, primarily digital ethnography. We will discuss sample communities and the data that can be gathered by a researcher about them. Participants will be encouraged to brainstorm about an online community familiar to them and data from multiple platforms or online locations used by community members.
Tuesday, March 15
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Stephen Griffin
New Models for Scholarly Communication
This talk will present alternative paths for expanding the scope and reach of digital scholarship and robust models of scholarly communication necessary for full reporting. Academic research libraries will play a key and expanded role in enabling digital scholarship and creating the supporting activities that sustain it. The overall goals are to increase research productivity and impact, and to give scholars a new type of intellectual freedom of expression.
Friday, March 4
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Wei Jeng
Getting Started with Network Visualization with Gephi
Gephi is an open-sourced, network analysis and visualization tool that can be used for projects in both academia and business. This interactive workshop will introduce Gephi to researchers and students, especially those who are from non-CS domains. Tasks include formatting the data for Gephi, importing data, determining visualization layouts, adjusting the graph, and exporting the final layouts.
Thursday, February 26
10:00 a.m. – Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Darryl Bishop & Jessica Benner
Introduction to Spatial Analysis
This workshop on spatial analysis will cover several exploratory spatial analyses and will provide a resource guide for more advanced types of analysis. In recent years, new tools called Geographic Information Systems or GIS have improved our capacity to perform many types of spatial analysis. In this workshop, you will practice what you learn in the first half of the session by executing some exploratory spatial analysis using GIS software. Datasets will be provided, however, feel free to bring your own personal data.
Friday, February 19
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Mike Bolam
Advanced Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
OpenRefine (formerly GoogleRefine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; extending it with web services; and linking it to databases. The session builds on material covered in the Introduction to OpenRefine workshop last year. We will review some of the basic capabilities, then explore advanced data operations, installing extensions, using GREL (General Refine Expression Language) for data manipulation, data reconciliation, and named entity recognition. Some experience with OpenRefine or GoogleRefine is expected.
Friday, Februrary 5
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
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Matt Burton
Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau
Tableau is a data visualization tool that is being used to help analyze data and illustrate the patterns and insights behind them. This interactive workshop will introduce researchers or students to Tableau Public, a free access version of Tableau.
Friday, January 29
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Nora Mattern
Creating Online Digital Collections with Omeka
This workshop will introduce participants to Omeka.net, a free, web-based tool that can be used to organize, describe, tell stories with, and share digital collections. Through hands-on exercises, we will navigate and explore the capabilities of Omeka.net. We encourage you to bring your own digital materials to play with during the session and to learn how you might curate them with Omeka!
ULS/iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop & Lecture Series - Fall 2015
Friday, November 20
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Ashley Taylor
Personal Digital Archiving: A Primer
Maintaining digital records is in
many ways very helpful; you can store thousands
of photographs, documents, spreadsheets,
videos, and much more with relative ease.
However, the “shoebox method” of just setting
and forgetting your records is no longer viableever
try getting old documents off of 20 year
old floppy discs? This workshop will begin with a
brief introduction to archival principles, including
arrangement, description, and preservation best
practices, followed by information on some
of the most common concerns with digital
records. The second half of the workshop will
be a hands-on open session; participants are
highly encouraged to bring a laptop with a
set of personal records that they would like to
preserve.
Friday, November 13
10 a.m. - Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Jessica Benner & Darryl Bishop
Introduction to Spatial Analysis
Many research projects and everyday activities include some aspect of location. Emerging from early studies in epidemiology and biology, among others, spatial analysis is now used in many fields of study from political science to history to engineering.
This workshop on spatial analysis will cover several
exploratory spatial analyses and will provide a
resource guide for more advanced types of analysis.
In recent years, new tools called Geographic
Information Systems or GIS have improved our
capacity to perform many types of spatial analysis.
In this workshop, you will practice what you learn
in the first half of the session by executing some
exploratory spatial analysis using GIS software.
Datasets will be provided, however, feel free to bring
your own personal data.
Thursday, October 15
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Sheila Corrall
The Open Movement in Higher Education
Open approaches have the potential to enhance research, learning, and knowledge exchange on a global scale. Examples in higher education and research now go beyond open source software, open access to research, and open educational resources, to initiatives with open infrastructure and open processes (such as open systems and open peer review). Open developments are gaining momentum from both bottom-up movements and top-down forces. Despite similar goals and evident connections, the various open approaches are typically pursued by separate communities, with relatively few efforts to think and work holistically, and potential benefits are not being realized.
This session will review the range and state of open activities in the higher education arena, explore common
factors for the different open domains, and define potential benefits for individuals and institutions of
adopting a more integrated approach to policy and practice. It will conclude by discussing the opportunities
and challenges presented by the open agenda for key stakeholder groups (including students, faculty,
administrators, and information specialists), encouraging participants to share ideas about the roles they
could play and practical steps they might take to promote and advance openness.
This talk will be offered as a part of Open Access Week @ Pitt. Learn more at openaccess.pitt.edu
Friday, October 2
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Berenika Webster
Bibliometrics, altmetrics and social networks to support your research career development
A practical session designed to provide
you with an introduction to tools and tips on how
to present impact of your research outputs. It will
discuss new tools designed to help researchers
manage their scholarly visibility and reputation and
approaches to presenting impact of your research
outputs using citations and other quantitative
measures of impact. Designed for early to midcareer
researchers.
Friday, September 18
10 a.m. - Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Wei Jeng
Introduction to Tableau: A Data Visualization Tool for Non-CS Researchers and Students
Tableau is a data visualization tool that is being used to help analyze data and illustrate the patterns and insights behind them. This interactive workshop will introduce researchers or students to Tableau Public, a free access version of Tableau.
Friday, September 25
10 a.m. - Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor — Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Mike Bolam
Introduction to OpenRefine
OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy tabular data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; extending it with web services; and linking it to databases. The workshop will introduce importing, exploring, sorting, faceting, analyzing and fixing your data.
ULS/iSchool Digital Scholarship Workshop & Lecture Series - Spring 2015
Friday, April 17
10 a.m .– Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Matt Burton, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, and Postdoctoral Researcher, University Library System
Transforming the Web into Data (with Python)
This workshop will introduce researchers to the methods and techniques of generating research data from the web. We will cover web scraping, APIs, and preparing the collected data for analysis. (Second Paragraph) Some working knowledge of programming and python is desired. Course materials and examples will be drawn from the book "Mining the Social Web, 2nd edition" by Matthew Russell.
Friday, April 10
10 a.m. – Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Nora Mattern, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences, and Postdoctoral Researcher, University Library System
An Introduction to Omeka
This interactive workshop will introduce students to Omeka, a tool that can be used to create online exhibits of digital objects, add contextual information to digital objects, and tell stories with a digital collection. This session will introduce the concept of a "content management system," consider the capabilities that Omeka offers, and spark discussion about how students might use this tool for organizing, enriching, and sharing digital materials. Do you have a collection of digital photographs that you would like to experiment with during the workshop? Feel free to your files along to learn how you might curate them with Omeka!
Friday, April 3
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Yu-Ru Lin, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Introduction to Data Science for the humanities and social sciences
Data science is a new field that attempts to discover potential insights residing in big data. Over the past few years, the use of big data has hugely impacted many industries and research areas. This talk will introduce data science for people who do not have computational background. The introduction will give a high level picture of data science, covering data science process and its powerful use in a wide range of domains, with a particular emphasis on the use of big data in the humanities and social sciences. Familiarity with basic data analysis concepts is preferred but not essential.
Friday, March 20
10:00 a.m - 11:30 a.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Wei Jeng, Doctoral Student, School of Information Sciences
Data Visualization Tools for Non-CS Researchers and Students
This workshop is designed to help non-CS researchers and students (especially social scientists and humanists) to discover more possibilities in their data and take full advantage of online data visualization tools.
Tool list:
Wednesday, March 4
10 a.m. – Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Mike Bolam, Metadata Librarian, University Library System
Introduction to OpenRefine
OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy tabular data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; extending it with web services; and linking it to databases. The workshop will introduce importing, exploring, sorting, faceting, analyzing and fixing your data.
Friday, February 27
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Amelia Acker, Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Building a Professional Digital Portfolio with Wordpress
Digital Portfolios are a great way to demonstrate the skills, projects, and expertise that you’ve developed while being a student at Pitt. Digital portfolios can be used to showcase your resumé, professional experience, internships, and digital projects that you have created; including evidence of you demonstrating applied skills and digital tools. Many undergraduates and masters students find that digital portfolios supplement their employment searches before graduating. In this workshop we will explore a range of professional digital portfolios for new graduates; cover free platforms for building a web presence; and then tour a range of Wordpress plugins that support multimedia publishing (including, slidedecks, downloadable pdfs, images, sound, and video). This spring workshop is for early career masters students and undergraduates who about to graduate to build a professional digital portfolio.
Friday, February 13
10 a.m. – Noon
Hillman Library, Ground Floor— Amy E. Knapp Room
RSVP/Register: click here
Jessica Benner, Doctoral Student, School of Information Sciences
Darryl Bishop, Library Specialist, University Library System
Introduction to Spatial Analysis
Many research projects and everyday activities include some aspect of location. Emerging from early studies in epidemiology and biology, among others, spatial analysis is now used in many fields of study from political science to history to engineering. This workshop on spatial analysis will cover several exploratory spatial analyses and will provide a resource guide for more advanced types of analysis. In recent years, new tools called Geographic Information Systems or GIS have improved our capacity to perform many types of spatial analysis. In this workshop, you will practice what you learn in the first half of the session by executing some exploratory spatial analysis using GIS software. Datasets will be provided, however, feel free to bring your own personal data.
