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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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 →
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Foundations Seminar: Digital Teaching Methods
Join the Digital Scholarship Support Group from 10am to 3pm on August 21st and 22nd for the Digital Teaching Methods seminar, a two–day 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 Method... Continue reading →
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Touch This Page: Making Sense of the Ways We Read
The Digital Futures Consortium at Harvard invites you to the final event in the 2018–19 Digital Futures Discovery Series, highlighting an experiential exhibition about the multisensory experiences of reading. What did the last book you read feel like? By putting 3D replicas of books for blind and lo... Continue reading →
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Story Maps: An Introduction
The Harvard Library Geospatial Working Group invites you to attend: Story Maps: An Introduction Presenter: Dani Brown, Geospatial Data Technical Assistant, Harvard Library, ITS When: Friday, April 19th, 2019, 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Where: Lamont Library, Room B-30 Want to enhance your data and present you... Continue reading →
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First Annual Boston Area Digital Scholarship Symposium
On April 10th, 2019, Harvard University will host the first annual Boston Area Digital Scholarship Symposium. This event will bring together scholars from the greater Boston area to share their work in digital scholarship. The focus of this year's symposium is "Institutional Models of Collaborative... Continue reading →
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Critically Engaging with Interactive Digital Narratives
As interactive and immersive narratives are increasingly incorporated into our academic experiences, we often miss that moment of critical awareness formerly framed by opening a book. Identifying an authorial presence and remaining mindful of that positionality in working with today’s interactive di... 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.