Please post: Big Text Matters: Library workshops on Dec 7, 2020

[Jane Forgay]

Dear Arts Announce moderators,
We hope you will consider posting the following announcement of our upcoming workshops.

Best,
Jane Forgay, Liaison Librarian for History and Political Science
Lauren Doyle, Liaison Librarian for English Literature and Language
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Big Text Matters: Three Virtual Workshops using Digital Scholar Lab for Researchers & Teachers

December 7, 2020

Attend one, two, or all of these workshops hosted by the University of Waterloo Library relating to Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab<https://lib.uwaterloo.ca/web/research-databases/id/1593>.

Register<https://cengage.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-mqrzgoGNEQonOtKM3WssqlZEUrmZTK> once for one, two, or all three workshops.

Here’s the line up:

1. Creating a Corpus or Dipping your Toes into Digital Humanities Data​
                        Time: 1pm – 2:15 est ​
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      Practice using Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab (DSL) with experts on hand to guide you. Get comfortable with DSL’s search, build, clean, and analyse functions. Learn how to create and clean a content set.
      Presenters: Sarah Ketchley, Digital Humanities Specialist & Kevin Kohls, Gale Primary Sources Consultant ​
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2. Tool Training Deep Dive​
                        Time: 2:30-3:45 est ​
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      Practice using one or more of Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab’s analysis tools with experts on hand to guide you. We’ll take a deep dive into: Name Entity Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, and Topic Modeling. Familiarity with Digital Scholar Lab is an asset.
      Presenters: Sarah Ketchley, Digital Humanities Specialist  & Lindsey Gervais, Gale Digital Pedagogy Specialist
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3. Bringing it to the Classroom​
                        Time: 4-5:15 ​est
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      Learn how to integrate aspects of Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab and geographical positioning systems into your courses and within D2L’s Learn. This demo uses examples from Waterloo-owned primary sources from Gale.
      Presenters: Sarah Ketchley, digital humanities specialist and Lindsey Gervais, Gale digital pedagogy specialist

Register<https://cengage.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-mqrzgoGNEQonOtKM3WssqlZEUrmZTK> once for one, two, or all three workshops.
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 Questions? Contact:
Jane Forgay<mailto:jdforgay at uwaterloo.ca>, liaison librarian for History and Political Science
Lauren Doyle<mailto:l6doyle at uwaterloo.ca>, liaison librarian for English Literature and Language


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