Graduate College Events

 

 

May

Digital Gower and the Virtual Library
Presented by: Dr. Eve Salisbury, Department of English
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2:30-4
Location: Waldo Library, Classroom A
Dr. Salisbury will discuss and demo the "The Gower Project," a multi-site collaborative enterprise providing access to manuscripts, editions, sources, and links advancing the study of 14th-century poet John Gower. Dr. Salisbury will also discuss her involvement with the online publication Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media.
Please RSVP for the workshop and talks you plan to attend.   Sign up at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitalscholarship
Please bring questions and ideas about how to apply these tools and models to your own research, and plan to stay to talk to our presenters and experts!

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June

 

The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Publishing
Presented by: Dr. Kenneth Steuer, Department of History
Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2:30-4
Location: Waldo Library, Classroom A
Dr. Steuer will describe working with the American Historical Association’s Gutenberg-e digital publishing initiative at Columbia University, his collaborative work with Indiana University and various United Nations Archives Collections in Geneva and his current digital archive.


Please RSVP for the workshop and talks you plan to attend.   Sign up at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitalscholarship
Please bring questions and ideas about how to apply these tools and models to your own research, and plan to stay to talk to our presenters and experts!

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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Governorship of the Río de la Plata and other projects: Digital Manuscripts and Images
Presented by: Dr. Pablo Pastrana-Perez, Department of Spanish and Sheila Bair, University Libraries
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2:30-4
Location: Waldo Library, Classroom A
Dr. Pastrana-Pérez will present his project on Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and will discuss how to bring archival materials from the sixteenth century in manuscript form to a modern reader, and the transition from parchment or paper to the computer screen. Pastrana-Pérez is an associate professor of Spanish and works primarily with medieval and early-modern texts. Professor Bair will discuss her work with metadata and TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) using WMU Libraries’ Civil War Diaries digital collection.  Dr. Bair has served on a number of national working groups on standardizing and optimizing searching on the web.

Please RSVP for the workshop and talks you plan to attend.   Sign up at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitalscholarship
Please bring questions and ideas about how to apply these tools and models to your own research, and plan to stay to talk to our presenters and experts!

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Models and Resources for Digital Scholarship: Tools offered by Waldo Library and Beyond
Presented by: University Libraries Digital Experts
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2:30-5pm
Location: Waldo Library, Classroom A
A chance to start planning your own digital project! Learn about tools and methods like data-mining, metadata, mapping, the WMU digitization center, and Scholarworks.

Please RSVP for the workshop and talks you plan to attend.   Sign up at:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/digitalscholarship
Please bring questions and ideas about how to apply these tools and models to your own research, and plan to stay to talk to our presenters and experts!