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Event Series

Upcoming Events

  • 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 →

  • 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 →

  • 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

  • Identifying 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 visualization, digital editing or web publishing. Libra... Continue reading →

  • Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Summer 2020)

    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 →

  • [Postponed] IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase

    Given the global health concerns surrounding Covid-19, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the IIIF Annual Conference, scheduled to take place in Boston from June 1-4, 2020. We will communicate as soon as we can about when we expect to be able to hold this event safely. In the meantime, ... Continue reading →

  • Tidying Data with Google Sheets, OpenRefine, and Python (Remote Delivery)

    [This workshop will be delivered via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic] In his paper "Tidy Data," Hadley Wickham riffs on Tolstoy: "Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way." When we spend 75% of our "analysis" time cleaning and preprocessing data, i... Continue reading →

  • Scalar in the Classroom (Remote Delivery)

    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 →

  • [Postponed] ArtTechPsyche VI

    Postponed: this event has been postponed due to university guidelines on the coronavirus. Don't worry - ArtTechPsyche will return next year. Now in its sixth year, ArtTechPsyche celebrates human expression at the intersection of technology and the arts through numerous immersive digital experiences,... Continue reading →

  • [Postponed] Text Analysis in R with Quanteda

    Postponed: this event has been postponed due to university guidelines on the coronavirus. We will be rescheduling the talk for later in the semester, in a format yet to be determined (virtual or in-person). Are you interested in using natural language processing or text analysis in your research? R ... Continue reading →

  • The Hedera Project: Reading that Fits

    Postponed: this event has been postponed due to university guidelines on the coronavirus. We will be rescheduling the talk for later in the semester, in a format yet to be determined (virtual or in-person). Hedera is an online language learning environment inspired by research on how people acquire ... Continue reading →

  • Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop for Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Spring 2020)

    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 →

  • Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Spring 2020)

    Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship is a two-day seminar designed to introduce participants to the core stages of digital scholarship’s research workflow: the acquisition, manipulation, analysis, and presentation of data. This seminar is intended to serve as a springboard for faculty, students, and ... 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.