events

Download a PDF schedule! Zotero in 30 MinutesTuesday, October 4, 2:00-2:30 DSC Media Lounge了解我们ing Zotero, one of the most well-known free, open source citation management tools, to organize your research. Track and gather all of your research in one place and automatically format citations and bibliographies—bring your laptop to get started right away.DH Open Office HoursWednesday, October 5, 12:30-1:30 DSC Media LoungeUnderstanding copyright and fair use in the Digital Humanities will be the focus of this week’s regularly scheduled DH Open Office Hours.Citizen Science in Action with ZooniverseThursday, October 6, 4:00-7:00 DSC Media LoungeWant to see how easy it is to contribute to citizen science research? Drop in for a hack-a-thon style session and work with us on a Zooniverse project! No prior experience is necessary. We’ll provide guidance (and pizza!), just bring a laptop or tablet to participate.More info available here! Refreshments will be served. Wikipedia Edit-a-thonWednesday, October 12, 4:00-7:00 DSC Media LoungeJoin us to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of under-represented groups in Massachusetts and U.S. history. This hack-a-thon style session will focus on editing and updating Wikipedia pages in a group setting. You do not need any prior experience with Wikipedia to participate. We’ll provide guidance, just bring a laptop or tablet to participate.Refreshments will be served. Managing Your Research Output for STEM Graduate StudentsThursday, October 13, 11:00-12:00 422 SLLearn how and why to share your conference posters, presentation slides, codebase, and other products of your graduate research. Bring your questions about author rights, copyright, theses/dissertations, and anything else relevant to managing your output! We’ll provide info on resources available for you at the Library and elsewhere on campus.DSG/NULab Fall Welcome EventMonday, October 17, 3:00-6:30 90 SLJoin the DSG and NULab at 3:00 for a keynote by Dan Cohen, Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America. This event will also feature lightning talks by Northeastern students, staff, and faculty about their recent work in digital scholarship, from 4:00-5:15. It will end with an informal reception where you can continue the conversation with area colleagues. Because space is limited, please register atbit.ly/DSGNULab2016by October 10.Refreshments will be served. Decoding the DragonWednesday, October 19, 12:00-2:00 DSC Seminar SpaceLearn to read Northeastern University’s only medieval manuscript with faculty member Erika Boeckeler. Write Gothic letters with quills, tweet using medieval texting (akaabbreviationes), get a parchment souvenir and a Gothic henna tattoo. Level up through activities to become a “scribe” and contribute original research that will integrate into the manuscript’s website. We’ll provide guidance (and pizza!), just bring a laptop or tablet to participate.Refreshments will be served. Sourcing Multimedia for Your CourseThursday, October 20, 10:30-12:00 140 SL互联网提供了各种各样的公共领域和Creative Commons images, movies, and documents that may be used to support teaching and learning. Learn strategies for finding relevant media and crediting the media appropriately.Hosted by Academic Technology Services Creating Interactive Open Educational ResourcesFriday, October 21, 1:00-3:00 140 SLThis course will show you the basics of using Storyline to create interactive educational resources. You’ll learn how to incorporate open source multimedia, create your own text, audio, and image content, and create interactive features. Finally, we’ll discuss options for publishing on the web and posting to open educational resource aggregator sites.Hosted by Academic Technology Services Storing and Sharing Files Using the Digital Repository ServiceMonday, October 24, 2:00-3:00 DSC Media Lounge你是know the library can help you preserve your project and research materials, while also making those materials accessible on the web? This session will introduce faculty, staff, and students to the Digital Repository Service, the library’s trusted resource for storing digital materials created or acquired by the Northeastern community.Data Management Plans and the DRSTuesday, October 25, 12:30-1:30 DSC Media LoungeHow can you effectively share and preserve research data while fulfilling grant requirements? This session will describe the library’s support for research data management, including the DMPTool as an option to generate data management plans, and the Digital Repository Service as an option for preserving and sharing research data.Refreshments will be served. Film Screening & Discussion: The Internet’s Own BoyTuesday, October 25, 4:00-6:00 90 SLJoin us for a screening of a special one-hour edit of this documentary about programmer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. An audience-guided discussion will follow the film.Refreshments will be served. Archival Collections Transcribe-a-thonWednesday, October 26, 4:00-7:00 DSC Media LoungeDigitized collections of manuscripts and ephemera need help from human eyes to be more useful to readers and researchers. We’ll highlight several major archives where anyone can participate in transcribing digitized materials online and get you started on some of these fascinating projects, which range from historical restaurant menus to explorers’ logbooks to anthropologists’ field notes. Drop in at any point during the session and bring a laptop or tablet to participate.More info available here! Refreshments will be served. Hypothes.is in 30 MinutesFriday, October 28, 11:00-11:30 DSC Media LoungeWe’ll go over the basics of how to use this open-source annotation tool in your research and teaching! For more information and to sign up for an account in advance, visithypothes.is.