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GC Digital Initiatives is searching for new doctoral students to join our GC Digital Fellows program. I’m enormously proud of this team of fellows and the work that they do, and we’re excited to have new members join the team. Each new cohort helps shape and grow our programming to the benefit of a GC-wide digital scholarship community.

Please…[Read more]

Dear DARC comrades, 

The next virtual open meeting of the Digital Archive Research Collective, on the topic of “Remote Access,” is coming up on November 12, at 11:00 am. This meeting will offer an open forum for you to share  what you have been working on and the archival matters and/or concerns that have been on your mind lately. If you have…[Read more]

Join CUNY students, faculty, and staff and share your digital humanities project, research, or questions.

What: 6th Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks.

When: Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Where: Virtual Zoom Meeting

Present your digital humanities work at CUNY DHI during a 3-minute /…[Read more]

Dear all,

below is the schedule for our working group open meetings. Please, save the dates!

– Tuesday, October 13, 11am-12pm – Talking to People in Archives: A Conversation About Human Access

– Thursday, November 12, 11am-12pm 

– Thursday, November 19, 3pm-4:30pm (watch-party – Folger event on Race & Archives)

– Thursday, December…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

On September 9th, The Digital Fellows will be hosting an online Open House event to give students and faculty an opportunity to learn about the ways that we can assist them with developing research projects that include digital technologies. Unfortunately, being in virtual mode, we won’t be able to offer our usual share of food and…[Read more]

Have a digital project and think you might want to use Omeka or are you actively using Omeka and want to further enhance your skills, then this event might be for you.

During this pilot slideshare, we will:

• Review what a content management systems (CMS).
• Help distinguish why Omeka is different than WordPress, Drupal and other CMS’s.

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Note: The following email was sent to all EOs and APOs at the Graduate Center on Monday, March 16. 

Dear Colleagues,

As the university transitions to remote instruction, research, and work, GC Digital Initiatives staff is available for consultations on a wide range of topics related to technology. We invite GC faculty, students, and staff…[Read more]

Since 2013, GC Digital Initiatives has highlighted student research, teaching, and digital projects across the Graduate Center at the Digital Showcase. To accommodate the growing number of student, faculty, and staff digital projects, we are extending this event to include an interactive Digital Showcase Project Gallery–an opportunity for m…[Read more]

Colleagues and friends!

Please, let us know the dates and time you’d be available to meet! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnZ75KR6TQI2x0Cbk9GH3wrduEv__xOYIauHrK4pDf2qSuvQ/viewform

Best,

The DARC Team

Dear all,

a quick note from the Digital Archive Research Collective (DARC) Team to share with you some exciting news!

For once, our workshop series has kicked off last week with two exciting event. Last Tuesday, we had a full house for Mary Rizzo’s talk, “The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits,” followed the next…[Read more]

Betwyll is a social reading app, developed by an Italian startup in 2016. It relies on interactivity and participation by allowing people to read and comment on texts with brief messages (140 characters long). On Betwyll, people read a text and comment on it by publishing messages that are shared with the other users. Betwyll is designed for…[Read more]

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the first meeting for the Digital Archive Research Collective (DARC).

DARC is an initiative spearheaded by the GC Digital Fellows, offering support to the emergent community of students, faculty, and staff who are working on digital archival projects throughout The Graduate Center. Our meeting is an…[Read more]

Hello all,

This spring, the GC Digital Fellows will officially be launching the R Users’ Group (i.e., RUG), a place for newbies and experts alike to learn and work together on projects using the statistical programming language, R.

Do you want to learn the best practices for creating a reproducible workflow but don’t know where to begin? S…[Read more]

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the Spring calendar for the Python Users’ Group (PUG for short).

The Python Users’ Group (PUG for short) is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming language, where we learn, work, chat, snack and have the occasional beer. It is an…[Read more]

You are cordially invited to join the students in Methods of Text Analysis for their final class, which will include an open convening of 2 roundtable discussions, each addressing the course’s centralizing question: “Can there be a feminist text analysis?”

When? 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Where? Room 5307 at The Graduate Center

Each roundtable will…[Read more]

Come present your digital projects, ongoing digital humanities work, or research questions at the Fifth Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks event.

When: Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM with reception to follow

Who: All CUNY Students, Faculty, and Staff

Where: The Martin E. Segal Theatre, The…[Read more]