Upcoming Events
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Digital Presentation for Academics
In this 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. We'll go over graphic design principles and how to create... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations
Are you interested in using data visualizations to explore your data or as part of your research output, but unsure of where to start? Are you already using data viz, but want to learn to create more effective presentations with different applications or programming languages? Consider attending Vis... Continue reading →
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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
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 serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potential of digital sch... Continue reading →
Past Events
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Medieval Texts and Modern Podcasts: Lessons in Digital Media Pedagogy
Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series With increasing demands for remote learning and digitally-inflected pedagogy, how can educators deploy various types of online media in our teaching and scholarship? This virtual session will feature two scholars of Japan introducing how they ... Continue reading →
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Long Live the Digital Scholarship Project!
Presenters: Peter Bol, Harvard University, China Biographical Database Grace Fong, McGill University, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project Helen Hardacre, Harvard University, Constitutional Revision Research Project It is difficult to ... Continue reading →
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Digital Scholarship Office Hours
Do you have a digital scholarship project in mind but need some guidance on getting started with the research process? Drop in during Office Hours with questions and DSSG members will suggest tools, methodologies, and approaches that can benefit your work, and try to connect you with relevant resour... Continue reading →
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Data Visualization: Reasons, Not Rules
For a long time data visualization has been taught as a craft that is based on strict rules (“don't use pie charts!”, “bar graphs should always have a 0 baseline!”) This talk explains that this strategy is both limiting and misguided. Decision-making in visualization should instead rely on the notio... Continue reading →
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Foundations Seminar: Digital Teaching Methods - Tools for Assignments and Activities (Fall 2020)
Join the Digital Scholarship Support Group for Digital Teaching Methods: Tools for Assignments and Activities, an event in the DSSG's Foundations Series that focuses on the thoughtful integration of digital tools and methods in teaching and learning. The Digital Teaching Methods seminar provides a h... Continue reading →
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Dataverse Open Office Hours
Weekly virtual office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 5.0. Demo of 5.0 will begin promptly at 11am. Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support... Continue reading →
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Digital Scholarship Office Hours
Do you have a digital scholarship project in mind but need some guidance on getting started with the research process? Drop in during Office Hours with questions and DSSG members will suggest tools, methodologies, and approaches that can benefit your work, and try to connect you with relevant resour... Continue reading →
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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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Scalar in the Classroom
Introducing multimedia assignments into a class for the first time can seem intimidating. In this workshop, we will help you remediate an existing assignment in Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed to make it easy for authors and instructors to create born-digital s... Continue reading →
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Supporting Digital Scholarship at Harvard
As demand for Digital scholarship (DS) projects grows more frequent across the disciplines, librarians are increasingly fielding requests for support for such projects. Even “traditional” research now often involves digital methods such as data wrangling, data visualization, digital editing or web p... 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.