Bi-weekly on Fridays during Winter 2021, the UCR Library hosts casual community conversations on digital research, teaching, and publishing. These informal meetups are designed to facilitate collaborative learning and connection across all disciplines and departments at UCR. All UCR community members are welcome to attend, regardless of your prior experience with digital humanities or digital scholarship!

Each meeting will focus on a specific topic within digital scholarship (see the list below). This quarter we will explore example digital projects that analyze or showcase different kinds of data and research materials. Community members are invited to share their projects and experiences with related tools and participate in informal conversation about the topic of the week.

You may also be interested in the Maker Meetup series, happening on alternate Fridays from our DS Meetups!

All participants are expected to follow and uphold UC Riverside's Principles of Community.

Coordinators: Krystal Boehlert and Rachel Starry

List of meetup topics for Winter 2021:

• January 15: Working with Unstructured Text - We will evaluate DS projects that use unstructured text. We will also share tools & tips for organizing, creating, processing, analyzing, and publishing data sets made of text.
• January 29: Managing and Processing Image Collections - We will evaluate DS projects that use images. We will also share tools & tips for organizing, creating, processing, analyzing, and publishing data sets made of images.
• February 12: Social, Historical, Environmental, and other Kinds of Network Data - We will evaluate DS projects that use network data. We will also share tools & tips for organizing, creating, processing, analyzing, and publishing data sets made of network data.
• February 26: Studying Change over Time - We will evaluate DS projects that use historical data. We will also share tools & tips for organizing, creating, processing, analyzing, and publishing data sets made of historical data.
• March 12: Audio and Video Processing and Analysis - We will evaluate DS projects that use A/V materials. We will also share tools & tips for organizing, creating, processing, analyzing, and publishing data sets made of A/V materials.