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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Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship
Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship is 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 staff who wish to ... Continue reading →
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Discovery Series: Figures in the Sky Initiative
The Figures in the Sky Initiative (FITSI) is a digital public history project under development at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Wolbach Library. FITSI’s main goal is to connect people with resources to help them understand and appreciate different astronomical cultures, as well a... Continue reading →
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Digital Teaching Workshop: Tools for Assignments and Activities
The Digital Teaching Methods seminar provides a hands-on introduction to several approaches that have been used successfully at Harvard, all grounded in specific pedagogical examples and use cases. Whether you will be teaching with digital tools for the first time in the coming semester, or have alr... Continue reading →
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Dataverse Open Office Hours
Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 5.8. Demo of 5.8 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@dataver... Continue reading →
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East Asian Digital Scholarship Series: CrossAsia Integrated Textrepository Workshop
Speaker: Brent Hou-Ieong HO, East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) At the April meeting of the East Asian Digital Scholarship Series, Matthias Kaun, director of Berlin State Library’s East Asia Department, introduced the CrossAsia platform (https://crossasia.org) to... Continue reading →
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GIS Institute Summer 2021
GIS Institute Instructors: Scott Bell and Jill Kelly Registration Schedule: Application deadline: Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:59 pm (Late applications can join the waitlist.) Notification of acceptance: Friday, April 2, 2021 Registration fee due ($100 for Harvard affiliates and $3,150 for other... Continue reading →
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Cartography Workshop (spring 2021)
Location: Northwest Building B129 Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom See https://gis.harvard.edu/cartography-workshop for description and fees. How to Apply: For Harvard Affiliates, please submit your application by clicking the green 'HARVARD APPLY' button(HUID login required). For Non-Harvard applican... Continue reading →
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Would We Know Life If We Saw It?
Presentation Recording Over the last few decades, scientists have found thousands of planets beyond our own. Some of those planets might be habitable, and perhaps even inhabited already; but how can we tell? Clara Sousa-Silva (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard-Smithsonian) looks for signs of life on... Continue reading →
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Colonial North America at Harvard Library Symposium: Culminating a Multi-Year Digital Project at Harvard Library
Nearly a decade ago, Harvard Library embarked on a comprehensive digitization project of manuscript and archival materials relating to Colonial North America from across the Library's repositories. This project enabled thousands of items to be made widely available online. In celebration of the Libr... Continue reading →
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NEH Digital Humanities Grants Informational Session
Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Program Specialist for the Office of Digital Humanities - National Endowment for the Humanities, will be leading an information session about the process of applying for NEH-ODH grants, particularly the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants. Recent Harvard NEH-ODH grant recipie... 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.