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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Everything Digital
Do you wonder what digital tools might be useful for your research? Join us for an informal lunch session as we share recommendations and useful shortcuts to help you get off to a running start and make the most of your time at Harvard and overseas. This workshop will largely focus on technological ... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Hands-On Workshop for 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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ESRI StoryMaps Hands-on Workshop
Want to enhance your data and present your research in a polished and engaging format? Attend a hands-on workshop on ESRI’s StoryMaps and learn how to create stylish presentations, digital exhibitions, and compelling narratives with all types of media and data, cartographic and otherwise. Visit the ... Continue reading →
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Using Augmented Reality to Improve Physics Learning in Maker Spaces
Emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), have the potential to radically transform education by making invisible phenomena to become visible and accessible to novice learners. This talk discusses research projects at the intersection of makerspaces, physics education, and immersive tech... Continue reading →
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Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
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 →
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DSSG Office Hours, Fall 2019 (Wednesdays)
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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Scholarly Multimedia Publishing with Scalar
Interactive media form the cornerstone of the modern web. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them w... Continue reading →
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DSSG Office Hours, Fall 2019 (Thursdays)
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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Mirador 3
Harvard serves millions of digitized images via the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard and played a key role in developing Mirador, one of the most widely used IIIF image viewers. Mirador is part of Hollis Images, the Harvard Library Image Viewer, CURIOSity Digital Collec... Continue reading →
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Digital Futures Discovery Series: Envisioning Cultures in Virtual Reality
The Digital Scholarship Support Group and Cabot Science Library warmly invite you to the first talk in our 2019-2020 Digital Futures Discovery Series. This presentation will showcase a project in which four different Parisians from the same quarter were asked to document and share the stories of the... 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.