workshops

#Scholarly Communications ##Workshop Series (Spring 2014) ####11 a.m. on Fridays in Room 418a, Central Library The purpose of these workshops is to introduce students, faculty, and staff members at Vanderbilt University to new tools and techniques in the field of scholarly communications and digital scholarship. All are welcome! No need to RSVP. If you have questions, please contact clifford.anderson@vanderbilt.edu.

###Introduction to ####Friday, January 16

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###Introduction to ####Friday, January 23

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###Introduction to Makerspaces ####Friday, January 30 Sara Sterkenburg

• Makerspaces are community labs that bring people together to create, invent, and learn. But what exactly goes on in them? Is it true that makers can pick locks or make pianos out of bananas? What on earth do they have to do with libraries? Come find out! In this workshop we’ll talk all about the maker movement and introduce you to technologies such as Arduino, 3D printers, and more. We’ll even build our own art bots!

###Bringing Historical Maps into the Digital Age ####Friday, February 6 Lindsey Fox

• ArcGIS, Mapbox, and Tilemill are three GIS technologies that can help you make and serve out a beautiful map (historic or otherwise). In this workshop we will cover the basics of georeferencing a map of your choosing, bring it in to Tilemill for styling, and upload your it to Mapbox. By the end of this short class, you will be able to georeference and serve out a map on your own!

###Introduction to Managing Your Online Scholarly Presence ####Friday, February 13 Ed Warga

• Social media has been making an impact on all our lives including how we work and maintain a professional network. This workshop offers some ideas for managing your online presence as a researcher with researcher profiles, researcher IDs, and article level altmetrics. We will discuss options for researcher profiles like Google Scholar, Academia.edu, Researchgate, and Vivo; get started with researcher IDs to help link online content to an individual researcher; and explore how altmetrics allow you to identify important work by tracking citations and mentions of work in blogs, twitter, and other social networks.

###Introduction to ####Friday, February 20

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###Introduction to Pandoc: A Universal Document Converter ####Friday, February 27 Ramona Romero

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###Introduction to Open Source Statistical Analysis with R ####Friday, March 13 Cliff Anderson

• R is an open source programming for statistical analysis. In this session, we'll show you how to get started with R. Learn how to load data into R and to plot simple graphs. We'll also introduce you to RStudio, a free integrated development environment (IDE) for R. You won't leave as an R expert, but you'll learn enough to get started on your data analysis journey.

###Introduction to Data Cleaning and Preservation ####Friday, March 20 Morgan Daniels

• Cleaning and preserving a dataset makes it more available for long-term use and sharing with interested colleagues (and can help you meet funding agency requirements for data management!) In this session, we'll explore the tool OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/), and use it to work with a sample dataset. We'll also talk about simple ways to preserve your research data.

###How to Build a Free Website with GitHub Pages ####Friday, March 27 Cliff Anderson

• Did you know it's possible to host a website freely using your GitHub repository? We'll show you how to use GitHub Pages to create a static HTML website with all the benefits of version control. We'll also take a look at Jekyll, a tool for generating websites from Markdown. By the end, you'll be ready to roll your own website for coursework or scholarly projects.

###How Many Degree of Kevin Bacon? An Introduction to Network Analysis ####Friday, April 3

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###Introduction to creating digital collections ####Friday, April 10 Ed Warga

• In this workshop participants will learn how to build digital exhibits using the Omeka content management system. Omeka can be used for a variety of projects including digital archives, exhibits, and collections; digital humanities projects; course sites; and student projects.

  This workshop offers:

  • examples of digital collections built on the Omeka platform
  • hands on experience building a digital collection in Omeka
  • ideas for web hosting

  For a look at what can be done in Omeka, see the showcase of websites, and join us to learn how to get started with Omeka.