Please join us for a workshop on fundamentals of digital humanities project management! ...

Please join us for a presentation and discussion of “Expressive Paper,” a pilot workshop series on using zines and expressive paper forms in a digital humanities context. These workshops used simple paper construction—zines, pamphlets, flexagons—to explore community information-sharing and ways of representing knowledge. The goal of the series was to prompt “critical making” questions about how information can take material form, and how shared practices of composition can provoke experimentation and improvisation. In this Office Hours session, we’ll share examples from the project library, including physical items, metadata examples, and documentation, and we’ll invite discussion of questions including how to use zine-making in different project and teaching contexts, and how to represent complex objects like zines in digital form. We’ll also invite participants to assemble and bind their own tiny zine collection. ...

Are you interviewing people in your neighborhood, family, or friends for a project? Have you thought about where and how the interviews will be presented online? Oral histories are living documents and they deserve platforms as intentional as the people who contributed to them. Whether you are working with stories for a neighborhood project, a family archive, or a larger research initiative, you will leave this workshop with practical skills to bring your interviews online with care and purpose. Participants will discuss transcripts, audio and video formats, indexing an interview, and the kind of materials that might make an oral history more accessible and meaningful to the audience. This hands-on virtual workshop will present examples of curated oral histories using Omeka S, a free and open-source tool used by museums, libraries, and community organizations to publish and preserve digital collections. No prior experience with Omeka S or other tools is required.  ...

Join Shireen Zaineb, Digital Projects Archivist, and Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, for an introductory workshop on metadata and data ethics! This presentation will equip attendees with foundational metadata principles and guidelines for creating and assessing inclusive and reparative metadata. ...