Upcoming Events
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Advanced Data Cleaning for GIS
In this workshop, we will practice working through common problems that arise when preparing mapping data for spatial analysis. You will leave with strengthened foundational GIS skills. We will also provide example approaches to especially challenging GIS data problems. We will use the open source d... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping (Part 2 of 2)
This two-day workshop teaches participants how to automate the extraction of data from websites and other online repositories into a well-formatted, locally stored dataset, for later analysis. Web scraping tools make the process of collecting large amounts of online information more efficient, and h... Continue reading →
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Web Scraping (Part 1 of 2)
This two-day workshop teaches participants how to automate the extraction of data from websites and other online repositories into a well-formatted, locally stored dataset, for later analysis. Web scraping tools make the process of collecting large amounts of online information more efficient, and h... Continue reading →
Past Events
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Text Analysis in R with Quanteda
Are you interested in using natural language processing or text analysis in your research? R is one of the most recommended languages for TA/NLP, partly because of an ecosystem of libraries designed to tackle common tasks such as corpus creation, cleaning and preprocessing, modeling, analysis, prese... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Part 2)
In this workshop, you will get a sense of what is possible working with humanities data and understand how humanities scholars approach “data”. We will introduce multiple scenarios with different datasets to help you develop strategies for organizing and cleaning data. Tools may include OpenRefine, ... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Part 1)
In this workshop, you will get a sense of what is possible working with humanities data and understand how humanities scholars approach “data”. We will introduce multiple scenarios with different datasets to help you develop strategies for organizing and cleaning data. Tools may include OpenRefine, ... Continue reading →
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Digital Presentation for Academics
In this comprehensive workshop, participants will learn how to enhance their scholarly impact by learning: how to create better slides; which digital tools to use for different presentation tasks; how to create an interconnected digital scholarly presence. create compelling and impactful presentatio... Continue reading →
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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Part 2)
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship introduces participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This two-day seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potentia... Continue reading →
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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Part 1)
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship introduces participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This two-day seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potentia... Continue reading →
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Digital Storytelling with Scalar
Learn to use Scalar, an open source web publishing system available for Harvard affiliates. With Scalar, you can create non-linear, media-rich for the web on your own or with a collaborative team.... Continue reading →
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ArtTechPsyche VI
Art Technology Psyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts. For the 6th year, Harvard Library in collaboration with Academic Technology for the FAS invites you to participate in a day of immersive digital experiences, art exhibitions, technology demos, and visio... Continue reading →
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Working with Data (Spring 2023)
In this workshop, you will get a sense of what is possible working with humanities data and understand how humanities scholars approach “data”. We will introduce multiple scenarios with different datasets to help you develop strategies for organizing and cleaning data. Tools may include OpenRefine, ... Continue reading →
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Applying CAD to Geometrical Research in Art History: Gothic Cathedrals and Beyond
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software can serve as a powerful tool for research in art history, allowing scholars to discern the geometrical procedures that governed the creation of many artifacts whose production histories are not well recorded. This “reverse engineering” approach to the study of ar... Continue reading →
About the Harvard Discovery Series
The Harvard Discovery Series brought scholars on the frontiers of digital knowledge-making to a Harvard audience in an intimate and interactive setting. From an archaeologist reconstructing tombs in virtual reality, to scholars challenging power differentials through data feminism, to a quantum astrochemist using high-performance computing to search for life among the stars, these presentations of disparate topics demonstrated the unifying potential of digital methods and tools in scholarly and pedagogical pursuits. The series went online in 2020 and was sunset in 2022.