Digital Scholarship Services in @PittLibraries at the University of Pittsburgh. Digital project consultations, skills-based workshops, and hands-on digitization
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Did you know that in 1969 Pitt was taken to Federal Court for discriminating against female faculty?
Want to learn more? @PittLibraries hosts archival materials on the local history of the women’s rights movement.
NOW Collection: digital.library.pitt.edu/col…
🗺️💻 Machines Reading Maps: The Future of Historical Cartography as Data.
@rumseymapcenter at Stanford.
📍In person and online.
📅 April 20th, 2023
🧑🤝🧑Open to Everyone.
events.stanford.edu/event/MR…
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Tomorrow: @anetv will discuss Textual Speculations: How Generative AI Predicts the Next Word
This talk traces how prediction has operated in generative AI and other historical attempts to automate writing
📅 Wed., April 19
⏰ 1 pm ET
📍 Posvar 3911
🖥 pitt.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
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Check out Gephi Lite!
📣 We are proud to announce Gephi Lite 🎉
It is a free and open-source web application to visualize and explore networks. It is a lighter version of Gephi, on the web.
You can try it here:
gephi.org/gephi-lite
Don't miss our online workshop on the basics of 3D scanning and model editing!
Register for "Introduction to 3D Scanning" (April 5, 2023, 1:00pm - 2:30pm) at:
pitt.libcal.com/event/104008…
#3dmodeling
Curious about how to incorporate oral history into your research and/or public-facing projects?
Don't miss the in-person workshop "Intro to Oral History" (03/30)!
Registration: pitt.libcal.com/calendar/tod…
Apply for next year's DSS Graduate Student Assistantship!
GSAs gain experience in the skills of contemporary digital scholarship while they are embedded in the unit's work and develop their own projects.
(deadline Mar 31)
library.pitt.edu/dss-gsa
🤓Apply for our Summer Internship!
(open to all Pitt grad students)
With this student appointment, you can gain experience in the skills of contemporary digital scholarship through project-based work and participation in the unit's operation.
Visit: library.pitt.edu/dss-summer-…
The @WHCPitt offers a one-semester internship (Digital Atlas Design Internship) for undergrads interested in global history. This internship is perfect for students wanting to create a project using spatial history, GIS, or digital tools and methods.
worldhistory.pitt.edu/educat…
How can we 'read' the real lives of the past from seemingly bland numerical data?
The statistics of the @uscensusbureau are a rich trove of research material and information for data scientists and everyday people! You just need to learn how to read them.
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@DSSatPitt #LoveDataWeek is an annual time for libraries to showcase, discuss, and celebrate working with data. 2023 is the @PittTweet Year of Emotional Well-Being, so we're emphasizing healthy learning and professional development! Get the details at lovedatapgh.io
Effective data visualization is vital for communicating your research and making an impact!
In this workshop, participants will learn conceptual practices, rules of thumb, and the basics of Tableau Public (a free data visualization tool).
Registration: pitt.libcal.com/calendar/tod…
This workshop will introduce the field of Digital Humanities (DH). Participants will leave with a working knowledge of DH and resources for teaching, learning, and engaging in the field.
TH Jan 19th. 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Registration: pitt.libcal.com/calendar/tod…
3 online workshops to start your semester
Command Line Crash Course
Jan 17 1-3 pm
pitt.libcal.com/calendar/tod…
Computing Resources and Infrastructure for Research at Pitt
Jan 18 12:30-1 pm
pitt.libcal.com/calendar/tod…
Intro to Digital Humanities
Jan 19 12-1:30 pm
pitt.libcal.com/calendar/tod…
Welcome back!
While settling for the Spring Semester, don't forget to put the @LoveDataWeek (Feb. 10-17) on your calendar.
We’re offering accessible workshops, artistic expressions with data, informative talks, and social mixers about data work. Lineup coming soon!
Choosing your classes for the Spring Semester?
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This map shows how far you can travel from each station in Europe in less than 5 hours!
👉🏼 chronotrains-eu.vercel.app
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This has come up in my world a lot recently. But many don’t realize this about the region (and in part how unlike most elsewhere in the nation we are).
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How can we use weather records to better understand climate history?
A new #ODHFunded project will develop a prototype for sharing historical climate data.
The Digital Humanities Advancement Grant offers up to $75k for early-stage research:
neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-h…
ALT hand-written historical chart showing meteorological data. From David Rittenhouse, Meteorological observations, volume 2, 1792-1805..
Doubts about copyright for your thesis or dissertation?
Sign up for this workshop on copyright issues, including your rights as a user of others' work, the permissions you need to gain, and your own rights over your work.
Nov. 29. 3-4 pm
Registration: library.pitt.edu/lauren-coll…
