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Speaker Series: Jeremy Boggs
Jeremy Boggs, last semester’s scholar-in-residence at the Scholars’ Lab, will give a talk at 2pm on Thursday, March 3. Boggs is Associate Director of Research at the Center for History & New Media...
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Workshop: Data Visualization
Workshop: An Introduction to VIDI Wednesday, March 9 at 10:00 a.m. – Noon in Alderman Library, Room 317 Aaron Presnall and Dante Chinni of The Jefferson Institute Presented by the Scholars’ Lab, SHANTI...
View ArticleUnsworth to speak at UVa
The UVa Digital Humanities Speaker Series presents: John Unsworth on “Idiosyncrasy at Scale: Data Curation in the Humanities” Friday, March 25 3:00pm (reception follows) South Lawn Auditorium (NAU 101)...
View ArticleMyron Gutmann on Data Access
The UVa Digital Humanities Speaker Series presents: Myron Gutmann on “Data Access for Research and Teaching in the Twenty-First Century” Friday, May 6 4:00pm (reception follows) Monroe Hall, Room 120...
View ArticleMyron Gutmann, “Data Access for Research and Teaching in the Twenty-First...
Data Access for Research and Teaching in the Twenty-First Century On May 6th, Myron Gutmann, Head of the NSF’s Social, Behavioral & Economics Directorate and Professor in the Department of History...
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International Open Access Week 2011
October 24 – 30 is International Open Access Week 2011. Now in its fifth year, International Open Access Week, sponsored by openaccessweek.org, is dedicated to educating scholars and university...
View ArticleThe Force of UX Design
I’ve had design on my mind for a couple of weeks now, mainly because thinking about how Prism is going to look is so much more pleasant to me than writing code (may Annie and Alex be praised for taking...
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DIY Aerial Photography
Pigeoncam Here in the Scholars’ Lab, we’ve been interested for some time in having the ability to take aerial photographs on a small scale. Many great uses exist for such techniques here at UVa. A...
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Meg Stewart to talk about the Fulbright Scholar program, Thursday, Jan 17
A Fulbright Scholar Talks About Participatory GIS, the Caribbean, Google Earth and How a Fulbright Could Be in Your Future Thursday, January 17 2:00 – 3:00pm Alderman Library, Room 421 Meg Stewart...
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Art in the Scholars’ Lab
The first time I walked into the Scholars’ Lab, I was amazed by the space. With the high ceilings, black-and-white tile floors, and the bold red wall, it looked like something out of a magazine, not a...
View ArticleThe Fellows are Coming! The Fellows are Coming!
As the fall term begins, we are delighted to welcome our 9 (!) SLab Fellows. Ranging across 5 disciplines from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Our Graduate Fellows in the Digital Humanities...
View ArticlePodcast: Kari Kraus on Humanistic Design
Finding Faultlines: An Approach to Humanistic Design Historically we know that many new technologies have inherited parts from prior technologies. The skateboard remediated the surfboard; the camera...
View ArticlePodcast: Jentery Sayers on Remaking the Past
Remaking Victorian Miniatures: The Speculative Stitches between 2D and 3D In both digital humanities and popular culture, there is a rapidly growing interest in big data. How not to read a million...
View ArticleMoving People/Linking Lives DH Symposium
I am pleased to announce that “Moving People, Linking Lives: An Interdisciplinary Symposium” will take place March 20-21, 2015 at the University of Virginia. Friday, March 20 events will take place in...
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Podcast: Thorny Staples on Managing Smithsonian Research Data
Managing the Record of Research at the Smithsonian Can institutions effectively manage cross-team digital research data in real time? Can it preserve that data so that it can be seamlessly presented in...
View ArticlePodcast: Rob Nelson on Topic Modeling in the Humanities
The Potential and Pitfalls of Topic Modeling for Humanities Research This talk will introduce the text-mining technique called topic modeling, briefly explaining what it is and how it’s done. It will...
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Podcast: Ben Wright and Joesph Locke on Creating American Yawp
Democratizing the Digital Humanities: The American Yawp as Case Study After a year-long collaboration, over 350 historians have produced a beta edition of The American Yawp, a free and online,...
View ArticleUVa Library Fall 2015 GIS Workshops
All sessions are one hour and assume attendees have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials with expert assistance. All sessions will be taught on...
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Spring 2017 UVa Library GIS Workshop Series
All sessions are one hour and assume participants have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials and expert assistance. All sessions will be taught on...
View ArticleFall 2017 UVa Library GIS Workshop Series
All sessions are one hour and assume participants have no previous experience using GIS. Sessions will be hands-on with step-by-step tutorials and expert assistance. All sessions will be held on...
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