Digital Scholarship workshops for spring 2019

The NC State University Libraries offers a variety of Digital Scholarship workshops for students, all of which require no prior experience. Participants can learn how to build a professional website, shoot and edit 360° video, create interactive maps, and do text encoding in XML. Digital Workshop titles this semester include “Creating a Scholarly Website,” “Tropy: Research Photo Management,” “Storytelling with GIS,” and much more.

The Digital Scholarship workshops for the spring 2019 semester are:

Creating a Scholarly Website
Friday, Mar. 22, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Have you ever wanted your own professional website but don’t know where to start? In this workshop, you will create a free website for professional use, with options for blogging, hosting syllabi, resumes or portfolios. You will learn three tools, including Jekyll, a static website generator, Markdown, for updating content, and Github Pages for freely hosting the site. At the end of the workshop, you should have your site up and running and know how to edit it for future use.

Understand and Build Your Scholarly Identity
Friday, Feb. 1, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Friday, Mar. 29, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
ITTC 1A/B (D. H. Hill Jr.)
It is increasingly necessary for researchers to have a professional presence online. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to establish and manage your scholarly identity to help you connect with colleagues, find collaborators, and expose your research to new audiences. You’ll also learn how to boost your scholarly impact using social media and alternative metrics that come with these new methods of knowledge communication and online ???

360° Video Creation Made Easy
Friday, Feb. 1, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Apr. 24, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Have you ever wanted to create 360° videos? In this workshop, you will learn how to engage, explore, and tell stories with immersive imagery using 360° videos. This introductory workshop will teach you how to storyboard videos, operate a Ricoh Theta 360° camera, and go over the workflow of planning, capturing, and editing 360° video, adding 360° metadata to published videos, and how to upload the video to YouTube for 360° viewing.

Digital Exhibit Mapping with Neatline
Thursday, Feb. 14, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Building off of our previous workshop offering, “Getting Started with Building Digital Exhibits in Omeka,” this workshop will provide tips and tricks for digital exhibit mapping with Neatline, a plugin that integrates mapping, narrative sequences, and timeline features into the online collections management and web publishing system, Omeka. Join us for this hands-on introduction to Neatline.

Tropy: Research Photo Management
Monday, Feb. 18, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Is your photo collection disorganized? Are you a historian interested in archival research and need to find a way to make sense of all your digital photos? Tropy is a free, open-source desktop application designed to help researchers organize and describe the photos they take in archives in intuitive and useful ways. In this workshop, you will learn best practices for handling rare materials in the Special Collections reading room, how to use Tropy to group photos of research materials, annotate images, add metadata, export them to other applications, and easily search your own digital collections of photos.

Storytelling with GIS
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
In this workshop, you will learn how to create a compelling story map using a combination of interactive ArcGIS Online maps, images, and text. Using Esri Story Maps, you will learn how to design a web-based map narrative with sample geographic data, text, and images. Together, we will take a look at several example story map application templates and build an interactive linear online map that tells a geographic story.

Introduction to XML and Text Encoding
Friday, Feb. 22, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
This introductory workshop on text encoding in XML will teach you the structure of XML and the principles of text encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative P5 Guidelines. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines makes it possible to create and publish digital scholarly editions by defining a standard XML vocabulary. In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of structuring a TEI document, how to record bibliographic metadata, and how to start creating transcriptions of manuscripts and other primary sources for digital humanities projects. No prior experience with XML or TEI is expected.

Bringing Historical Maps into GIS
Thursday, Feb. 28, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Friday, Apr. 19, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Interacting with historical maps in their proper geographic space allows for a more accurate representation of a particular place and the changes it has undergone over time. This workshop will provide you with the steps to align geographic data to a digitized historical illustrated map and create a georeferenced historical map. Participants will work with simple tools like Map Warper and MapBox to overlay the georeferenced historical map on top of a GIS modern basemap for use in an interactive web-mapping application.

Understanding Copyright and Fair Use in Archival Research
Monday, Mar. 4, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Researchers using archives and special collections face big questions when considering copyright and fair use. What kind of reuse is considered "publishing"? How do I know what materials I can use in my research and what I can publish? What does “fair use” mean, and what is an “orphan work?” When and how do I need to establish permission to publish with these types of sources? This workshop will answer these questions and more to provide a strong foundation for understanding how to move forward in selecting and using archival sources in your work.

Querying XML Data with XQuery
Friday, Mar. 8, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
This workshop will teach you how to manipulate and analyze data stored in XML files. You will learn the basics of XQuery, a language that allows you to search XML documents and ask questions about them, and be introduced to XSLT, which can transform XML documents into other formats such as HTML5, RSS, etc. Whether you are dealing with structured numerical data or complicated documents like TEI-encoded texts, these languages and techniques will help you get the information you want from an XML file, manipulate it, and make it available in a useful format.

Open Science for Graduate Students
Wednesday, Apr. 3, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
ITTC 1A/B (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Open Science for Grad Students will introduce early-career researchers to Open Science in an easy manner and with practical examples, focusing on how to implement Open Science into their research projects. The workshop proposes a bottom-up workflow and includes data management, data sharing, open source code sharing, involving the public in research, and sharing results with scientific colleagues and society. Grad Students, who are mainly trained to collect data, conduct research, and publish articles, are usually already familiar with tools and technologies for sharing. This workshop offers a clear roadmap on how to integrate such everyday skills and tools into procedures that lead to greater research efficiency and success as well as practically help early-career researchers become open scientists.

The Open Science Framework for Researchers
Tuesday, Apr. 9, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
There are many actions researchers can take to increase the openness and reproducibility of their research. The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free project-management platform and repository where researchers can collaborate within their research groups and choose components of their research and data for broader dissemination. This workshop will introduce some of the major challenges facing modern research and the ways in which the OSF can help address them.

Measuring Your Research Impact
Tuesday, Apr. 16, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
ITTC 2 (D. H. Hill Jr.)
As scholarly outputs continue to evolve and more scientific grant proposals require broader impact statements, it is important to gather evidence of how your research will have a greater impact upon society. This workshop will provide an introduction to broader impacts and how traditional and nontraditional scholarly metrics, such as Journal Impact Factor, h-index, Eigenfactor Score, and Altmetrics, are being used to measure research impact.

Public Humanities Data
Friday, Apr. 19, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
ITTC 1A/B (D. H. Hill Jr.)
Data aren't just for data scientists! Aligning with conversations in the digital humanities, this session will introduce the concept of humanities data, what role it plays in scholarly inquiry, and explore how, when, and why humanities data must be publicly accessible. Participants will discuss, argue, define, problematize, and leave the session with several resources to deepen their research and praxis (ex. public humanities data sets, data analysis tools, skills to develop, etc.).