Big text analysis: three workshops using Digital Scholar Lab (DSL) for researchers and teachers

Workshop #1
1:00 to 2:15 pm
Creating a Corpus or Dipping your Toes into Digital Humanities Data
Get comfortable with Digital Scholar Lab’s search , build, clean, and analyse functions.
Presenters: Sarah Ketchley, digital humanities specialist and Kevin Kohls, Gale primary sources consultant.

Workshop #2
2:30 to 3:45 pm
Tool Training Deep Dive
A deep dive into: name entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling. Familiarity with Digital Scholar Lab an asset.
Presenters: Sarah Ketchley, digital humanities specialist and Lindsey Gervais, Gale digital pedagogy specialist.

Workshop #3
4:00 to 5:15 pm
Bringing it to the Classroom 
Learn how to integrate aspects of Digital Scholar Lab and geographical positioning systems into your courses and within D2L’s Learn. Examples will use Gale primary sources.
Presenters: Sarah Ketchley, digital humanities specialist and Lindsey Gervais, Gale digital pedagogy specialist.

PLEASE NOTE: All workshops require a computer with strong internet connectivity.

Questions? Contact:
Jane Forgay, liaison librarian for History and Political Science
Lauren Doyle, liaison librarian for English Literature and Language