Our Digital Scholarship Services create a community of practice for research and creative activities, opening new possibilities by extending traditional methods of research and pedagogy through application of new technologies and digital media to advance the teaching and learning processes. This includes, but is not limited to, pedagogical digital projects, working with data (cleaning, management, visualization, and analysis), digital publishing, and more. Interested in staying up-to-date on digital scholarship at Binghamton? Sign-up to receive our newsletter and view past issues to learn more about our upcoming workshops, events, project highlights, and what's happening across the various digital scholarship communities on campus.
Digital Scholarship Services and Projects
Workshops and Trainings
The Binghamton Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI) is a training offered to faculty and graduate students who are interested in new technologies and integrated innovative computational methods with long-standing approaches to the study of literature, art, culture and society. It is co-organized by our Digital Scholarship Librarian, Amy Gay, and Art History professor, Nancy Um.
Schedule of Events for Spring 2023
Data Management Plans with the DMPTool
Date: Friday, January 27
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Learn about best practices and key concepts when putting together a data management plan for your research and grants. Data management plans are often required by grant funding institutions and are easy to put together using the DMP tool. Come learn about the DMP tool and ways to develop your research profiles, including ORCiD ids and the ORB's Expert Gallery, in this session.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
DearData Kick-off Event
Date: Thursday, February 9
Time: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Description: Dear Data combines data, art, and personal reflection into one exercise. Come join us to learn more about creating your own Dear Data postcard and the best practices for data management and visualization based on the original project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec.
Location: In-person (SL-209)
Registration: No registration necessary for this event.
Introduction to Wordpress
Date: Friday, February 10
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Come learn how to set up a Wordpress site to house student projects or your own research or professional site. We will cover both the administration and front-end side of Wordpress including: editing pages and posts, themes, adding users, and handling plug-ins. This will be a hands-on workshop.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
OpenRefine to Clean and Analyze Data
Date: Friday, February 17
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: OpenRefine is a free tool that makes cleaning and sorting your data fast and easy. This workshop will cover the best practices for cleaning data and how to use OpenRefine to sort and group data for analysis, look for potential duplicates within your data and combine them quickly, and clean up any missing, misspelled, or irregular data entries.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
DHRI Meet and Greet + Info Session
Date: Friday, February 24
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Description: Are you considering applying to or are curious about the Digital Humanities Research Institute? The DHRI is a week-long event with workshops, talks, and working sessions to learn about new tools and processes to utilize in your research including text analysis, visualization, digital publishing, and more! Come learn more about the DHRI and talk to us about the application process and what you’ll have to look forward to during this week-long workshop taking place over the summer. #BingDHRI
A light lunch will be provided.
Location: In-person (SL-209)
Registration: Please fill out our registration form for this event so we can plan accordingly with food.
How to select Creative Commons Licensing for your work
Date: Friday, March 10
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Do you know that you can easily attach a creative commons license to your research and class materials? Come learn about the benefits of putting creative commons licenses on your work, licensing options available, and the general best practices for keeping your intellectual property secure while still sharing it with others.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Personal Data Privacy Workshop
Date: Friday, March 17
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Concerned about your privacy on the web and if there are ways to reduce your digital footprint? What do those privacy messages mean when I'm navigating and using the web? How can I enable browser extensions and other tools to see who is tracking the websites I visit? Our Personal Data Privacy workshop will provide you with the tools and knowledge to review privacy settings, reduce tracking in your social media accounts, and give you the tools to better control your personal presence on the web.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Interactive Fiction with Twine
Date: Friday, March 24
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Twine is a free tool to write interactive, choice-based texts including stories, games, and even research projects. Come learn more about how the tool could be integrated into your own projects or classrooms and test out some of its features in this hands-on workshop.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Building Collections with OMEKA S
Date: Friday, March 31
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Omeka S gives you access to a digital publishing space built specifically for housing digital collections. Do you have a group of images, recordings, documents, or other research materials you would like to categorize and build an interactive site for as part of your, or your students, research? Come learn more about the best practices for metadata collection and web publishing while learning more about Omeka S as a publishing platform.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Meet the ORB!
Date: Friday, April 14
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Description: Come learn about Binghamton’s Open Digital Repository (The ORB) at this informational workshop covering how to submit your research or class materials, attaching scholar IDs and Creative Commons licenses to your work, and what types of metrics are available.
A light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Dear Data Write-in
Date: Friday, April 14
Time: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Description: Come draw, paint, and doodle while learning how to turn data into illustrations and designs! This event is part of a semester long project asking campus members to track their social media use for a week and create an illustration based off of their data.
Bring your week's worth of data if you have it, but no worries if you don't! Sample data can be provided for you to learn with.
To learn more about their events and how to participate with Dear Data Binghamton, visit their website.
Location: In-person (SL-209)
Registration: No registration necessary for this event.
Intro to Digital Storytelling using KnightLab Tools
Date: Tuesday, April 18
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Description: Are you interested in the topic of digital storytelling but are unsure where to get started? The KnightLab suite tools offer multiple options for beginners to learn digital storytelling using a variety of digital media content (videos, images, sound, etc). This can include mapping the journey of a group or telling someone’s life story or a historical event that can be told using a chronological timeline. Come learn about each of the tools available in the KnightLab suite and how it could be used for research and in the classroom. A light lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Introduction to Topic Modeling Text Analysis
Date: Friday, April 21
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Join us for a workshop led by Greg Hallenbeck from Digital & Data Studies on using Python to perform topic modeling with text files. Topic modeling is a way to find and describe underlying topics in collections of texts. For example, in a group of news articles, the topics might be politics, sports, and entertainment. But the amazing part of topic modeling is that we do not need to know beforehand any grouping of the documents or even what the topics are. This session is open to absolute beginners of topic modeling, with no prior experience in that or Python necessary to attend.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Text Analysis using HathiTrust Research Center
Date: Friday, April 28
Time: 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: HathiTrust’s Research Center allows researchers to create a large collection of data and analyze it using a variety of text analysis tools. Learn about how to create your own collection of textual data for analysis and what continued learning resources are available to you as HathiTrust members at this hands-on workshop.
Location: In-person (SL-209) and Zoom options available
Registration: Please fill out our registration form to attend this workshop.
Check out Library Created Resources section of the ORB to view past workshop content and other openly shared resources.
Digital Scholarship Center
With the needs of space, technology, and software increasing, the Libraries are building our first Digital Scholarship Center as part of Bartle Library’s third floor renovation.
While our new Center is in development, the Libraries have launched a pilot Digital Scholarship Center located in Science Library, Room 209. Our pilot Center offers space for collaborations, presentations, technology, and software to help view research data, projects, and pedagogy in new innovative ways. In Spring 2021, added as an extension of the Center, the Libraries will have a Recording Studio located on the main floor of Bartle Library.
Digital Scholarship Center Space Reservation Request
Schedule a Consultation
If you are interested in applying any of the above or learning how to get started with integrating digital scholarship into your projects, research, or courses, schedule a consultation with our Digital Scholarship team.
Amy Gay
Assistant Head of Digital Initiatives for Digital Scholarship
Libraries
