Fall is here and the second phase of the Developing Librarian training program has begun. We are scheduled to meet every other week (Tuesdays 9:30-11am) and will focus work and discussion on tools and methods appropriate to the digital humanities at Columbia.
Required Reading | Viewing:
Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Librarians
Miriam Posner, How Did They Make That
The major theme of the 2015 fall semester will be text.
Schedule:
September 8
Basic hardware in the DHC Computational Center (Bob)
September 22
Basic software in the DHC Computational Center (Bob)
October 6
Text Mining Hathitrust I: Creating a sub-corpus (Alex)
October 20
Text Mining Hathitrust II: Analyzing your sub-corpus (Alex)
November 3
Introduction to data cycle; Data Retrieval: Outwit (Alex & Bob)
November 17
Semi-Automatic Data Cleanup: Google Refine (Ben)
December 1
Manual Data Cleanup: EmEditor/Text Wrangler/Oxygen (Terry & Bob)
December 15
Intro to text analysis: Voyant Tools (Alex & Bob)
N.B. In the spring semester we will wrap up the data cycle and leave the curriculum open for new directions that come out of our encounters in the fall, hopefully exploring other media. We are also open to on-demand workshops on any tool or method of interest.
