Pixelating

Marc Stoeckle

The “British Columbia and Canada Through Arriving Eyes” project run by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, intends to identify key materials describing German immigrants’ experiences of British Columbia and Western Canada.

This will include German and English material relating to immigrants with a German, Austrian or Swiss background, which immigrated ca. 1850-present to Western Canada.

Link to the blog, and link to the website.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Joey Lee (MSc), Mozilla Science Fellow. Twitter: @leejoeyk

“Web Maps for the Digital Humanities” will be a friendly workshop on building interactive maps for the web. The goal of the workshop is to get you started in building your own interactive web maps to help you explore your geographic data. Please bring your laptop, enthusiasm and curiosity! We encourage people with all skill levels to join, especially beginners.

Requirements: Please bring a laptop if you’d like to build a map. Otherwise, just come and hang out.

Link for the tutorial.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda

Schuyler Lindberg and Krista Parham

Run powerful queries, perform advanced analysis, and build custom views, apps, and widgets with full access to the Open Collections’ metadata and transcripts.

Presentation available here.

Koerner Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new DH drop-in/incubator space in Koerner Library, Room 153. Every Thursday from 12 – 2 p.m., UBC scholars can drop by to attend Pixelating: A Digital Humanities Mixer. The Mixer is an opportunity for DH scholars across campus to meet colleagues, talk tools, brainstorm ideas and network with others who use digital tools to explore and visualize their research. Scholars may also drop by to work on a project while in the company of like-minded researchers.

Find out more at the Pixelating launch party on February 4th from 12 – 2 p.m. Coffee and cake will be served from 12 – 1, followed by a webinar Tales from the Library Basement: Doing Digital Humanities in College and University Libraries.

Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham