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January 2020
Workshop – Visualizing Maps with Leaflet (Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD student in Dept. of History)
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,…
Find out more »Lecture – The Gamification of Public Discourse (C. Thi Nguyen, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy at Utah Valley University)
Social media makes public discourse more like a game. Is that a good or a bad thing? C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are good precisely…
Find out more »February 2020
Lecture – “We Speak with Alexa’s Voice, and That is Uncanny”: Voice Interface, The Contemporary Gothic, and the Ghostly History of Sound (Julia Panko, Asst. Prof. of English at Weber State University)
Voice user interfaces, smart speakers, and digital voice assistants have quickly risen to prominence in the contemporary media ecology. While critiques of these technologies have centered…
Find out more »Workshop – Decolonizing the Archive through Recovery and Remix: Scholarship and Teaching with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive-ECDA (Nicole Aljoe, Dir. of Africana Studies Program; Assoc. Prof. of English at Northeastern University)
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,…
Find out more »Workshop – 3D Scanning Techniques for Any Discipline (Nicholas Hebdon, Ph.D. Candidate in Paleontology)
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…
Find out more »March 2020
Workshop – 3D Printing & Material History: Historic Artifact Replication 101 (Megan Weiss, Digital Matters Graduate Fellow, Graduate Student in Dept. of History)
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…
Find out more »[Postponed] Lecture – Digital, Archival, Literary: Evolving Models for Digital Scholarship (Julia Flanders, Prof. of Practice in English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Library), Co-Sponsored with BYU Office of Digital Humanities
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2020 This presentation will consider our evolving conceptions of "digital text", through the lens of the 30-year history of the Women Writers Project. The…
Find out more »[Postponed] Lecture – The Worlds of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy: Digital Storytelling at the Disney Parks (Sasha Coles, Founder and Chief Historian, Enchanted Archives)
POSTPONED - When Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, in July 1955, Walt Disney told guests, “Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard…
Find out more »April 2020
[Postponed] Workshop – Introduction to Command Line (Jeremy Myntti, Head, Digital Library Services)
POSTPONED - Most computer users are used to graphical user interfaces (GUI) to run software using the keyboard and mouse, a touch screen, or speech recognition…
Find out more »[Postponed] Lecture – Back to Indigenous Futures with Indigenous Pacific Islands Seafaring Technology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Seas and Skies, and Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Computer Engineering and Design (Vicente M. Diaz, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
POSTPONED - Question: What can Indigenous Technology (IT) and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) involving Pacific Islander Seafaring capabilities/relationalities and computer engineered interactive, visual, and immersive technologies…
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[Postponed] Lecture – Back to Indigenous Futures with Indigenous Pacific Islands Seafaring Technology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Seas and Skies, and Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Computer Engineering and Design (Vicente M. Diaz, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
POSTPONED - Question: What can Indigenous Technology (IT) and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) involving Pacific Islander Seafaring capabilities/relationalities and computer engineered interactive, visual, and immersive technologies…
Find out more »Salt Lake City,UT84112
[Postponed] Workshop – Introduction to Command Line (Jeremy Myntti, Head, Digital Library Services)
POSTPONED - Most computer users are used to graphical user interfaces (GUI) to run software using the keyboard and mouse, a touch screen, or speech recognition…
Find out more »Salt Lake City,UT84112
[Postponed] Lecture – The Worlds of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy: Digital Storytelling at the Disney Parks (Sasha Coles, Founder and Chief Historian, Enchanted Archives)
POSTPONED - When Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, in July 1955, Walt Disney told guests, “Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard…
Find out more »Salt Lake City,UT84112
[Postponed] Lecture – Digital, Archival, Literary: Evolving Models for Digital Scholarship (Julia Flanders, Prof. of Practice in English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Library), Co-Sponsored with BYU Office of Digital Humanities
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2020 This presentation will consider our evolving conceptions of "digital text", through the lens of the 30-year history of the Women Writers Project. The…
Find out more »Salt Lake City,UT84112
Workshop – 3D Printing & Material History: Historic Artifact Replication 101 (Megan Weiss, Digital Matters Graduate Fellow, Graduate Student in Dept. of History)
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…
Find out more »Salt Lake City,UT84112
Workshop – 3D Scanning Techniques for Any Discipline (Nicholas Hebdon, Ph.D. Candidate in Paleontology)
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…
Find out more »Salt Lake City,UT84112
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