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Digital Scholarship Series
Digital Scholarship Series
Digital Scholarship Series
This series of virtual one-hour webinars are designed to cover selected introductory topics in digital scholarship. The programs will provide attendees with professional development skills to conduct research in the digital age and supply introductory training to areas that may not be covered in regular instruction and curricula. Topics include basics on digitization, text mining, copyright and data visualization. These workshops will also include time for discussion and questions. All are welcome to attend!
Sessions will take place at noon on Fridays via Microsoft Teams. Advanced registration required. Sessions will be recorded.
Contact Mary Lovin for more information.
FEB. 3, NOON - 1PM - INTRO TO ORCiD AND OAKS
Presenters: Yuening Zhang and Dave Elswick
ORCiD offers individual researchers a unique numerical identifier that distinguishes them from others with similar names, ensuring that their professional work is recognized. This session will cover registration for an ORCiD ID, adding biographical information and scholarly citations and using it for scholarly communication. This session also introduces Open Access Kent State, or OAKS, which is Kent State's institutional repository (IR). IRs collect, preserve and disseminate the research and creative output of an institution. Learn about contributing your work to OAKS and how that can help grow and preserve your research and creative endeavors.
ORCiD offers individual researchers a unique numerical identifier that distinguishes them from others with similar names, ensuring that their professional work is recognized. This session will cover registration for an ORCiD ID, adding biographical information and scholarly citations and using it for scholarly communication. This session also introduces Open Access Kent State, or OAKS, which is Kent State's institutional repository (IR). IRs collect, preserve and disseminate the research and creative output of an institution. Learn about contributing your work to OAKS and how that can help grow and preserve your research and creative endeavors.
Note: The recording link below is accessible to those with a Kent State University email address.
FEB. 10, NOON - 1PM - DIGITIZATION 101
Presenter: Virginia Dressler
This session will cover the basics of digitization, including benchmarks and best practices. However big or small your digital scholarship project may be, it’s important to have standards in place at the onset of the project. The session will also cover platform choice and long-term preservation issues for digital media, as well as some ideas for digital exhibits. This session will also include some basics on personal digital archiving, including some best practices on file organization and storage.
This session will cover the basics of digitization, including benchmarks and best practices. However big or small your digital scholarship project may be, it’s important to have standards in place at the onset of the project. The session will also cover platform choice and long-term preservation issues for digital media, as well as some ideas for digital exhibits. This session will also include some basics on personal digital archiving, including some best practices on file organization and storage.
Note: The recording link below is accessible to those with a Kent State University email address.
FEB. 17, NOON - 1PM - OPEN ACCESS AND PREDATORY PUBLISHERS
Presenters: Cindy Kristof and Sean Kennedy
In this session, participants will learn about the concept of Open Access (OA) and its positive impacts for scholarly communication. Creative Commons licensing and options for sharing and reuse of scholarship will be explained, as well as the topic of predatory publishers and how to spot them. We will review current efforts to support the OA movement through University Libraries including OA publishing avenues and resources provided through UL’s collections.
In this session, participants will learn about the concept of Open Access (OA) and its positive impacts for scholarly communication. Creative Commons licensing and options for sharing and reuse of scholarship will be explained, as well as the topic of predatory publishers and how to spot them. We will review current efforts to support the OA movement through University Libraries including OA publishing avenues and resources provided through UL’s collections.
Note: The recording link below is accessible to those with a Kent State University email address.
FEB. 24, NOON - 1:30PM - INTRO TO WEB SCRAPING USING R or PYTHON
Presenters: Kristin Yeager and Moira O’Neill (stat consulting GA)
In this session, we’ll give an overview of how web scraping works, talk about how to assess whether web scraping is right for your project (including ethical and copyright issues), and show a worked example of a few web scraping tasks that are possible using the R packages rvest and xml2 (and other scraping tools, such as Python). Prior familiarity with R or Python is helpful, but not required.
In this session, we’ll give an overview of how web scraping works, talk about how to assess whether web scraping is right for your project (including ethical and copyright issues), and show a worked example of a few web scraping tasks that are possible using the R packages rvest and xml2 (and other scraping tools, such as Python). Prior familiarity with R or Python is helpful, but not required.
MAR. 3, NOON - 1PM - DATA VISUALIZATION
Presenter: Michael Hawkins
In this session, participants will learn about various ways data visualization can help enhance research. The session will cover tools and services available to University students, faculty and staff.
In this session, participants will learn about various ways data visualization can help enhance research. The session will cover tools and services available to University students, faculty and staff.
Note: The recording link below is accessible to those with a Kent State University email address.
MAR. 10, NOON - 1PM - RIGHTS, RESHARING AND YOUR RESEARCH: NAVIGATING THE WORLD OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Presenters: Cindy Kristof and Michael Hawkins
Participants will learn about basic U.S. intellectual property laws, including copyright, patents and trademarks, and how they apply to your research, data, creations and inventions. Issues and options surrounding sharing of research results and data sets will be discussed, including implications of the 2022 OSTP memo on free, immediate and equitable access to federally funded research. Creative Commons licensing and the 5 R’s (retain, revise, reuse, remix, redistribute) will be explained.
Participants will learn about basic U.S. intellectual property laws, including copyright, patents and trademarks, and how they apply to your research, data, creations and inventions. Issues and options surrounding sharing of research results and data sets will be discussed, including implications of the 2022 OSTP memo on free, immediate and equitable access to federally funded research. Creative Commons licensing and the 5 R’s (retain, revise, reuse, remix, redistribute) will be explained.
MAR. 17, NOON - 1PM - RESEARCH METRICS: USES AND LIMITATIONS
Presenter: Yuening Zhang
In this session, you will learn the meanings of different types of research metrics: journal-level (such as the Journal Impact Factor and the Scimago Journal Rank), author level (such as the h-index) and article-level (such as citation counts) metrics. Altmetrics, alternatives to traditional citation-based metrics, will also be discussed. You will also learn limitations of research metrics and how to use them responsibly.
In this session, you will learn the meanings of different types of research metrics: journal-level (such as the Journal Impact Factor and the Scimago Journal Rank), author level (such as the h-index) and article-level (such as citation counts) metrics. Altmetrics, alternatives to traditional citation-based metrics, will also be discussed. You will also learn limitations of research metrics and how to use them responsibly.
APR. 14, NOON - 1PM - DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP SHOWCASE
Presenters: Joel Zika (VCD), Aviva Avnisan (School of Media and Journalism), Asantewa Sunni-Ali (Africana Studies) and Tyrese Benson (student, Africana Studies)
This session will highlight current digital scholarship projects at Kent State University. Each presenter will make a brief presentation, followed by an open Q&A.
This session will highlight current digital scholarship projects at Kent State University. Each presenter will make a brief presentation, followed by an open Q&A.
Presenters include:
Joel Zika, Ph.D., is an academic and experience designer from Melbourne Australia. For the last 15 years, he has studied, archived and evangelized the importance of the entertainment phenomenon known as the dark ride. The term refers to indoor amusement rides, such as ghost trains, haunted mansions and old mills which have been a key feature of fairgrounds and theme parks for more than a century.
Sadly, of the thousands of spooky rides which used to adorn amusement parks across the USA and the world, almost none are left. Little has been done to archive the impact of the dark ride on visual culture despite the popularity of other haunted media and horror movies.
Since 2015, Dr. Zika has used virtual reality to archive the remaining examples of the dark ride media format. This unique approach has led to rich media being collected from rides dating back to 1932, experiences which have never been shared beyond their darkened corridors.
Dr. Zika will discuss the importance of ride culture in society and the impact that archiving entertainment experiences can have on other media practitioners.
Sadly, of the thousands of spooky rides which used to adorn amusement parks across the USA and the world, almost none are left. Little has been done to archive the impact of the dark ride on visual culture despite the popularity of other haunted media and horror movies.
Since 2015, Dr. Zika has used virtual reality to archive the remaining examples of the dark ride media format. This unique approach has led to rich media being collected from rides dating back to 1932, experiences which have never been shared beyond their darkened corridors.
Dr. Zika will discuss the importance of ride culture in society and the impact that archiving entertainment experiences can have on other media practitioners.
Professor Aviva Avnisan (she/they) will speak about "Among Relatives: Indigenous Voices in the Cuyahoga Valley," an immersive installation that asks what we can learn from the rich and varied perspectives of Northeast Ohio’s Indigenous people as we grapple with the dark legacies of settler-colonialism, white supremacy and the human-caused climate catastrophe. The work transports viewers into a ghostly rendering of pre-contact Indigenous earthworks located within the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The rendering, derived from high-resolution 3D lidar scans, is complemented by an atmospheric soundscape algorithmically influenced by current weather conditions in the park. The soundscape includes field recordings created in the park as part of a scientific study, bird calls of species that citizen scientists have identified in the park, and, most importantly, the voices of Indigenous folks and scientists reflecting on their relationship to the diverse human and non-human communities of Northeast Ohio.
Asantewa Sunni-Ali
Title: Photo Ethnography and Talking Revolution in These Streets
This presentation explores select photographs and street interview videos collected for research and documentary film series, "Seedz of Revolution." Seedz examines, documents and celebrates the lived experiences and revolutionary practices of African descendants working in pursuit of individual and collective liberation.
Title: Photo Ethnography and Talking Revolution in These Streets
This presentation explores select photographs and street interview videos collected for research and documentary film series, "Seedz of Revolution." Seedz examines, documents and celebrates the lived experiences and revolutionary practices of African descendants working in pursuit of individual and collective liberation.
