Come experiment and interact with data in new ways. This two-part workshop series, in partnership with the Council on Science and Technology and the CST Studio Lab, will provide an introduction to creative coding with p5.js, a Javascript library which is intended to “make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners.” Participants will work with CDH project data and library collection data as they learn the basics of p5.js and work towards a creative data visualization. Join us as we explore ways to experiment and create with data!

The first workshop will be at CDH, the second will be at CST Studio Lab.

No previous programming experience required. Bring a laptop.

Space is limited, RSVP to cdh-info@princeton.edu.

What's next for the Finding Aids? Session moderators Kelly Bolding and Faith Charlton (Rare Books and Special Collections)

To continue our discussion about PUL's systems and services, our next Collections as Data Reading Group session will delve into Princeton's Finding Aids site to investigate how Princeton's rich archival metadata can be used for computational research and analysis.

We will start with a special presentation by the PULFA 3.0 team, who will discuss the working group’s progress thus far and give some ideas about how Princeton's Finding Aids may evolve in the future. 

In this second of two workshops, participants will continue learning creative coding with p5.js and experimenting with data, working towards drawing custom shapes, animation, and sonifying data.

The first workshop will be at CDH, the second will be at CST Studio Lab.

Attendance at the first workshop or prior experience with p5.js is required.

Space is limited, RSVP to cdh-info@princeton.edu

What is the public digital humanities and why is everyone talking about it? How does the use of data expand the range of possible audiences (and partners) for current research in the humanities?

This workshop will provide a brief survey of the kinds of projects undertaken by practitioners in the public digital humanities today. We will explore common strategies for making our scholarship not just accessible but useful for a range of campus & community audiences.

Depending on participant interest, we may focus on resources for social media, podcasts, online exhibits, crowdsourcing, or more. Participants will develop new ideas for digital projects to share research with public audiences.

Unsolved Data Problems will introduce faculty and students in the computer and data sciences to the untapped research possibilities inherent in humanities data. A panel of Princeton faculty - Meredith Martin (English), Marina Rustow (History and Near Eastern Studies) and Dan Trueman (Music) - will discuss some of Princeton’s landmark digital humanities projects, and the challenges they’ve faced when transforming historical, multilingual and experimental source material into data and code.

Projects discussed include the Princeton Prosody Archive, the Princeton Geniza Lab, and bitKlavier. Jennifer Rexford and Brian Kernighan (Computer Science) will moderate the panel.

Help discover innovative algorithmic solutions to these unsolved computational problems. This panel will be of particular interest to researchers working in the fields of: computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, and audio/music engineering.

This event is collaboratively organized by the Center for Digital Humanities,  the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. 

 In 2108-2019, the the CDH Reading Group will partner with the Princeton University Library to explore the topic of "Collections as Data," and consider how Princeton’s library collections can be leveraged to support computationally-driven research and teaching. We invite members from the Princeton research community who play various roles in the creation, dissemination and use of library collections. Through short readings, discussions, presentations and hands-on activities, this group will identify ways that PUL collections are currently being exposed as data, and explore ways to better coordinate efforts to support and sustain cutting-edge data-driven scholarship at Princeton.

Data Conversations are informal exchanges among faculty and graduate students with DH experience that address broad questions concerning research data in the humanities and social sciences. They include topics like: defining “data” in your field; what not to do with your data; what to know before you go to an archive. Participants will speak from experience and provide discipline-specific perspectives for DH newcomers.

How do we ethically engage with physical (print) archives in the twenty first century? How do we access, create, and maintain archives for global change? In short, how do we build transcontinental bridges across cultures and institutions through a shared interested in archival data? “Building Bridges with Data” addresses these issues with a series of roundtable discussions around how archives — and archival data — allow for the creation of powerful cross-continental conversations. This symposium will invite conversations from renowned global scholars about sustainable methodologies and strategies for engaging with archives and material.

The event will consist of three panels on “accessing data,” “creating/rescuing data,” and “sustaining/maintaining data.”  

Speakers/Participants:

1. Alberto Manguel, Former Director of the National Library of Argentina
2. Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Librarian for Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, and Iberian Peninsular Studies, Princeton University
3. Gabrielle Winkler, Special Collections Assistant for the Latin American Ephemera Collection
4. Alex Gil, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Division, Columbia University Libraries
5. Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University
6. Luiza Wainer, Metadata Librarian, Spanish/Portuguese Specialty, Princeton University
7. Marcy Schwartz, Professor of Spanish, Rutgers University
8. Rubén Gallo, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain, Princeton University
9. Jessica Mack, Graduate Student  in Department of  History, Princeton University

In 2108-2019, the the CDH Reading Group will partner with the Princeton University Library to explore the topic of "Collections as Data," and consider how Princeton’s library collections can be leveraged to support computationally-driven research and teaching. We invite members from the Princeton research community who play various roles in the creation, dissemination and use of library collections. Through short readings, discussions, presentations and hands-on activities, this group will identify ways that PUL collections are currently being exposed as data, and explore ways to better coordinate efforts to support and sustain cutting-edge data-driven scholarship at Princeton.

The Just Data Lab: Reimagining and Retooling Data for Justice workshop is organized into three panels, each focusing on a different social arena - housing, policing, and education - that draw on data from the Eviction Lab, Mapping Police Violence, and the Baltimore Equity Toolkit and Powermapping, respectively. 

For each module, presenters will share a short presentation related to the theme (including a brief introduction of the data, discussion of existing literature, and a hands-on activity idea). Then respondents will kick off the workshop discussion by raising questions and reflecting on how the material can be used in classrooms and communities, including a new Princeton University class, and the syllabus, modules, and other resources will be available free online.

Organized by Ruha Benjamin, AfricanAmerican Studies and CDH Faculty Fellow.

This event is by-invitation only, but materials from the workshop will be made publicly available after the event. For information on the schedule and speakers see the Just Data Lab website: https://www.thejustdatalab.com/

Co-sponsored by the CDH, the Department of African American Studies and the University Center for Human Values

What insights, avenues for research, or new tools might we discover by experimenting with computational methods on material from library collections? In partnership with Princeton University Library, the CDH invites research software engineers and programmers for a one-day hackathon on the Latin America Ephemera collection, which includes around 12.2k published items. The library will provide dirty OCR text for the content, in addition to IIIF metadata and images that are already available. Exploration possibilities include named entity recognition, classification, automated image processing, machine learning, topic modeling, and data visualization/sonification/physicalization. High-performance computing resources will be available for use by participants, with assistance from Research Computing. Light breakfast, lunch, and afternoon refreshments will be provided.

RSVP is required for this event. Interested parties should contact CDH developer Nick Budak (nbudak@princeton.edu) for more information.

Information may want to be free but institutional researchers, including those at universities, operate under certain constraints having to do with privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. Who owns data generated under sponsored research? Under what conditions can it be shared? What are best practices for managing sensitive data, particularly that involving living people? How does Princeton manage data security? When should data not be open and how does this apply to decisions about licensing and publishing datasets? How does one obtain and work with existing datasets that are themselves under strictures including, but not limited to, copyright? Representatives from Princeton’s Office of the General Counsel will join us to consider questions related to these concerns and offer practical advice for managing legal aspects of data.

For our first meeting of the Spring semester, the Collections as Data Reading Group turn to the topic of services and systems at PUL, and how they support - or could better support - work with data-driven collections.  

We'll be joined by Esme Cowles, Software Development Manager at Digital Repository and Discovery Services (Library Information Technology, Imaging and Metadata Services) who will walk us through PUL's digital library infrastructure. 

The CDH invites you to attend an information session on funding opportunities this spring, including Dataset Curation Grants, Research Partnerships and more! CDH staff members will be available to discuss proposal drafts and review datasets. The session will be held on Wednesday, February 13, 4-5pm at the CDH (B Floor of Firestone Library).

Schedule a consultation to discuss your proposal with one of our staff, no fewer than 5 work days before the deadline.  

This event has been POSTPONED until Fall

This event is co-organized by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

What does it mean to bring digital humanities (DH) theories and methods into the classroom? What new possibilities for learning emerge when students are asked to engage humanities material as data, and use techniques such as network analysis, visualization, and text analysis? How do humanistic methods transform approaches to data science? Come hear insights from teachers from different humanities fields, social science and computer science who have used DH in their teaching and advising independent research.

Participants: 

Nora Benedict, CDH Postdoctoral Fellow

Brian Kernighan, Professor in the Department of Computer Science 

Brandon Stewart, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology 

Miranda Marraccini, PhD Candidate in the Department of English