Past Events
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Foundations Seminar: Fundamentals of Digital Scholarship (Spring 2021)
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 seminar serves as a springboard for faculty, students, and staff who wish to explore the potential of dig... Continue reading →
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Visual Eloquence: A Participatory Workshop on Creating Effective Data Visualizations (Spring 2021)
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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Plant Biology Education in Virtual Reality
Watch the presentation VRPlants is a team of staff and students from the North Carolina State University Libraries and Department of Plant & Microbial Biology that is developing virtual reality educational experiences dealing with plant biology and natural sciences. VRPlants has published two VR app... Continue reading →
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February IIIF Online Training
Interested in diving into IIIF? Check out this external workshop from the IIIF Consortium. Special price for Harvard affiliates, as Harvard is a IIIF Consortium member. The course will cover: No prior knowledge of IIIF is required and the core sessions should be easily accessible to those with confi... Continue reading →
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Basic Introduction to GIS (spring 2021)
Location: Northwest Building B129 Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom See https://gis.harvard.edu/introduction-gis 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 applicants, ... Continue reading →
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Storytelling in Action: The GRX Immersive Labs Way
Presentation Recording The Harvard Online Discovery Series kicks off 2021 with a special tribute in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King featuring VR filmmakers Alton Glass and Paris McCoy from GRX Immersive Labs. In the Storytelling in Action: The GRX Immersive Labs Way session, participants will have t... Continue reading →
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Datafest 2021
A Data Science Bootcamp for better research, on 19-22 January 2021, Held Remotely. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/datafest2021 The format will include workshops in these categories: We will update with the detailed schedule when available. Register... Continue reading →
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GIS Institute Winter 2021
This is a virtual class without in-person attendance. Virtual classroom access links are emailed to all accepted students prior to January 5th. GIS Institute Instructors: Scott Bell and Jill Kelly Registration Schedule: Application deadline: Friday, October 23, 2020, 11:59 pm (Late application... Continue reading →
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Foundations Seminar: Digital Teaching Methods - Tools for Assignments and Activities (Winter 2021)
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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Data Literacy and Digital Humanities Lecture Series
The lecture series on „Data Literacy and Digital Humanities“ is an integral part of the lecture series “Digital Humanities – Theorie und Methodik”, which was founded in the Wintersemester 2014/15 by Elisabeth Burr with the aim to fill the term “Digital Humanities” with meaning by presenting the broa... 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.