Digital Matters – RIG – “Century of Black Mormons” Database

The Digital Matters Faculty Learning Community would like to announce an upcoming talk by Paul Reeve (Professor of History) and Anna Neatrour (Digital Initiatives Librarian). Their talk, “Century of Black Mormons: A Public History Partnership,” will take place on Tuesday December 4th from 2:30 to...

Digital Matters Workshop – Introduction to Digital Exhibits with OmekaS

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Introduction to Digital Exhibits with OmekaS Presenter: Anna Neatrour, Digital Initiatives Librarian Omeka is a content management system (CMS) specifically built for digital exhibits, it is widely used by the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) Community. It also has great documentation and projects to draw upon...

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Formal Distortion: Reshaping Your Writing with InDesign

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

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...

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Lightning Talks – Spring 2019 Graduate Fellow and Faculty Grantees Projects

Please join us on April 15th in Digital Matters to hear our Spring 2019 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects. Jace Brittain, DM Graduate Fellow, PhD candidate in Creative Writing, A Mountain Pine Script: on Bark Beetles, Illegibility, and Artistic Approaches to Climate...

Workshop – Privacy in the Digital Age: Managing Personal Space in a Sea of Information

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

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...

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Digital Matters Workshop: Introduction to Web Scraping

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

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...