Whether you’re interested in working with images in your writing or creating more visually striking text documents, the tools available to users of InDesign can be valuable and transformative once learned. In this collaborative workshop space, we will explore how inventive forms and visual distortions...
What does “privacy” mean in the Digital Age? Does it exist or is it a myth, constructed by those who profess to protect and store it? This workshop addresses questions concerning digital privacy, access, accessibility, and authority and teaches users practical tools applied in the...
Interested in automatically pulling data from a web site instead of manually cutting and pasting? Are you a historian interested in census data? Are you a communication scholar interested in pulling key words from presidential speeches and inserting them into a structured database? Learn how...
Digital publishing, e-publishing, open-access publishing. . . If you are a scholar or researcher, then chances are good that you’ve encountered these terms before. Probably in all their crossover and uncertainty, too! It can be challenging to figure out what digital publishing entails, how it...
Increasingly, early career arts researchers and practitioners are expected to secure grant funding for their scholarship. The funding landscape is quite competitive and can be challenging to navigate. Without specific training from a mentor, it can be difficult to understand the numerous funding agencies and...
Digital Matters is hosting a Gale Digital Scholar Lab training on Thursday, November 7 from 10 am -12 pm in Protospace. Digital Scholar Lab allows users to create content sets using Gale database content and then analyze those content sets with various out-of-the-box DH tools for text...
“Documenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content. Documenting the Now has a...
Starting Fall 2019 semester, Digital Matters has open lab hours on Fridays (9am-6pm). Every Friday this semester, Digital Matters staff will be available for group collaboration and helping with individual projects. DM staff will have no meetings scheduled on Fridays and are looking forward to...
In this workshop, we’ll learn to use Leaflet, “the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps,” to visualize basic digital maps. “Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance, and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins,...
The workshop will begin with a brief introduction to the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA)—an open-access, free, interactive scholarly database housed at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts under the auspices of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. The ECDA has two primary related, overarching...
In this workshop, we will introduce the basics concepts and workflow for producing 3D models using photogrammetry. Photogrammetry is a technique for recreating a real-world object in 3D from photographs. We will walk through the basic workflow of taking the photographs, using the Meshroom photogrammetric software, and...
In this workshop, Digital Matters Spring fellow Megan Weiss will share some of her experience in the benefits and pitfalls of historic object replication. Learn some 3D printing basics and as well as how you can recreate surfaces, weights, and aesthetics of historical objects with...