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VUVR Competition


VUVR allows the Villanova community to explore virtual reality and augmented reality as a medium for compelling interactive experiences that educate. The competition is open to students, staff, and faculty of the University, with a grand prize of $1,000.

Learn more about the competition rules and how to participate here.

2024 Competition Schedule Overview:

  • Registration Deadline: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024 11:59 p.m.
  • Virtual Workshop: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Falvey Room 205
  • Optional Virtual Workshop: Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., Falvey Room 205
  • Deadline to Submit Semifinal: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by 11:59 p.m.
  • Final Round: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., Falvey 205
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Falvey’s Data Visualization Competition: Working Session with Michael Posner, PhD


Are you interested in submitting to Falvey’s Data Visualization Competition but feeling unsure about your data visualization skills? Do you have a draft that’s almost ready to go, but need some help with the final touches? Come to our working session and receive one on one guidance to improve your visualization and chances of winning! Michael Posner, Professor of Statistics and Data Science and Director of the Center for Statistics and Data Science Education, will be there to offer advice and give coding support for those using R.

Feel free to bring your laptop or use one of the DSL’s workstations! Please register in advance by using this QR code and feel free to drop in any time during the 3-hour working session! Register here or with the QR above!


 

 


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Digital Scholarship Lab’s Summer Hours

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The Digital Scholarship Lab will have reduced hours for summer starting on Monday, May 15. The Lab is open by reservation-only during the following days and times, except during Villanova holidays and closures:

Mondays: Closed
Tuesdays: Closed
Wednesdays: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Thursdays: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fridays: Closed

The Digital Scholarship Lab is designed to support Villanova faculty, students, and staff who are working on creating digital projects and/or are experimenting with digital media, digital humanities, and data-intensive research and teaching. The Lab offers an expanded range of software covering a variety of digital methods and tasks, including but not limited to geospatial mapping, data visualization, text and data mining, and multimodal publishing.

Please visit the Digital Scholarship Lab webpage to learn more about software, technology equipment loan offerings

If you need assistance with a digital project you are working on or have questions about specific software, you are encouraged schedule a consultation.

Contact us at digitalscholarship@villanova.edu or reach out to Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian at erica.hayes@villanova.edu to schedule a consultation.


 


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Foto Friday: The [Will D.] Cat’s Meow

Will D. Cat. Photo courtesy of Shawn Proctor, Communication & Marketing Program Manager.

Will D. Cat. Photo courtesy of Shawn Proctor, Communication & Marketing Program Manager.


Will D. Cat stopped by Falvey Library to check out the new Digital Scholarship Lab!

Located in Room 218A (second floor of Falvey), the Digital Scholarship Lab is designed to support Villanova faculty, students, and staff who are working on creating digital projects and/or are interested in learning more about digital media, digital humanities, or data-intensive research and teaching. The Lab offers an expanded range of software covering a variety of digital methods and tasks, including GIS mapping, data visualization, text analysis, multimodal publishing, and more.

The Digital Scholarship Lab also offers a digital media technology loan program, where the Villanova community can check out DSLR cameras, 360-degree cameras, and podcasting equipment from the Lab for up to 1 week, with no renewals. The Lab is open by reservation-only during the following days and times: Mondays–Tuesdays, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Wednesday–Fridays, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

More info: https://library.villanova.edu/digital-scholarship/lab

Contact: digitalscholarship@villanova.edu


 


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Cat in the Stax: Spotify Wrapped and the Digital Humanities

By Ethan Shea

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Last Wednesday was a big day for people who love to overshare.

That’s right, it’s Spotify Wrapped season! For the uninitiated (and Apple Music listeners), Spotify Wrapped is an annual recap of listening habits that Spotify sends to every user at the end of the year. This time around, there was greater focus on what your music reveals about your personality. Spotify wants the raw numbers we receive to teach us something about ourselves.

As much as I enjoy analyzing my annually released statistics, there’s something deeply personal about these numbers. How is this possible? What does my 58,293 minutes of music streaming say about me? Presumably a lot according to this article.

Everyone is much more than a collection of numbers, but focusing on data is helpful even in the humanities. For me, the overwhelming interest in Spotify Wrapped feels similar to the growing interest in the digital humanities.

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The digital humanities, according to Falvey’s Digital Scholarship/Digital Humanities Subject Guide, “is an area of research, collaboration, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing, digital technologies, and humanities scholarship.”

Just as Spotify attempts to reveal information about our complex personalities through listening data, the digital humanities provides a new perspective of subjective literary texts. For example, what does it mean that James Joyce uses the capitalized word “National” in Ulysses eleven times but the same word in lowercase twenty times? With statistics provided by the digital humanities,  readers have even more questions to ponder!

If you would like to learn more about the digital humanities, in addition to our subject guide, you can find the Digital Scholarship Lab in Room 218A at Falvey. The Lab is open by reservation-only, so make sure to book a visiting time in advance!


Headshot of Ethan SheaEthan Shea is a graduate student in the English Department at Villanova University and Graduate Assistant at Falvey Library.


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Visit the New Digital Scholarship Lab at the Open House Sept. 14

Falvey Memorial Library is proud to announce the opening of a brand new Digital Scholarship Lab on Wednesday, September 14, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The lab is located on the second floor of the library in Room 218A. Stop by to learn more about the Digital Scholarship Lab and our services, or visit our website at https://library.villanova.edu/digital-scholarship. Digital Scholarship Lab

Designed to support Villanova faculty, students, and staff who are working on creating digital projects and/or are experimenting with digital media, digital humanities, and data-intensive research and teaching, the Digital Scholarship Lab offers an expanded range of software covering a variety of digital methods and tasks, including but not limited to geospatial mapping, data visualization, text and data mining, and multimodal publishing.

The Digital Scholarship Lab is equipped with 4 PC workstations, 1 high-performance Mac Pro workstation, 1 large Epson flatbed scanner, 2 display monitors, 1 meeting table, and 3 Mac and 3 PC laptops that can be connected to docking stations and monitors in the Lab.

Additionally, the Digital Scholarship Lab will offer a new digital media technology loan program, where Villanova faculty, students, and staff will be able to check out DSLR cameras, 360-degree cameras, and podcasting equipment from the Digital Scholarship Lab for up to 1-week with no renewals, and can be picked up at the first floor service desk. Please see our full list of available software and our digital media technology loans for more information.

The Digital Scholarship Lab is open by reservation-only during the following days and times, except for Villanova Holidays and closures:

  • Wednesdays: 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  • Thursdays: 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  • Fridays: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Specific workstations, laptops, and the Epson flatbed scanner are reservable and may only be used in the Digital Scholarship Lab. Please see our booking reservations or contact us at digitalscholarship@villanova.edu for more information. The space may be used for digital scholarship sponsored events and workshops, but may not be used for regular class meetings.


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Digital Research Methods & Scholarly Publishing Demo & Discussion Series

By Regina Duffy

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Interested in digital scholarship and scholarly communication? Join us this fall semester as Falvey Memorial Library offers several opportunities for you to learn more about digital tools, pedagogy, scholarly publishing, copyright, and more!

Throughout the semester, Falvey’s Digital Scholarship Program will host community conversations on digital scholarship tools as well as research and publishing topics. These informal virtual meetups are designed to facilitate collaborative learning and connection across all disciplines and departments at Villanova University.

Each meeting will begin with a 20-30 minute introduction to a digital scholarship or scholarly communication tool or reading (check out the list below), with the rest of the hour dedicated to informal chatting and related discussions.

All Villanova community members are welcome to attend, regardless of their prior experience with digital scholarship or scholarly communication! Feel free to stop by to join the conversation and meet other faculty members, students, and Villanova staff who share an interest in digital research methods, digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and the unique challenges we all are facing in our current remote environment. Workshops are sponsored by Falvey Memorial Library, are ACS-approved, and will be hosted by either Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, or Sarah Wipperman, Scholarly Communication Librarian.


Fall 2020 Digital Research Methods & Scholarly Publishing Demo & Discussion Workshops:

Choosing Creative Commons Licenses: Friday, Sept. 4, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Sarah Wipperman, Scholarly Communication Librarian, will discuss copyright licensing and how to share your work on your own terms.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.

Map Warper and Story Map JS: Friday, Sept. 18, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, will provide a demo of Map Warper and Story Map JS and lead a discussion on how to bring historical maps into GIS in order to tell your own geographic story.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.

SPARC Author Addendum: Friday, Oct. 2, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Sarah Wipperman, Scholarly Communication Librarian, will discuss retaining more rights when you publish your scholarly research.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.

Voyant Tools: Friday, Oct. 16, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, will discuss Voyant Tools, a web-based text analysis and visualization tool.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.

AntConc: Friday, Oct. 30, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, will speak on analyzing a collection of texts with AntConc’s concordance tool.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.

CRediT: Friday, Nov. 6, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Sarah Wipperman, Scholarly Communication Librarian, will talk about how to credit collaborators with various roles on your scholarly projects.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.

Hypothes.is: Friday, Nov. 20, 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, will give a demo of Hypothes.is and lead a discussion on annotating online readings, collaboratively.
PLEASE REGISTER HERE. Once registered, you will be sent a link to this Zoom meeting.


Please be sure to register for the events you are interested in. Once you register, you will receive the appropriate Zoom link(s) so that you can attend the events.

 


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Regina Duffy is Communication and Marketing Program Manager at Falvey Memorial Library.

 

 


 


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Digital Scholarship Lab Open for Virtual Consultations

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Scheduled to open Spring 2021, the Digital Scholarship Lab will support the exploration and use of digital methods and tools. The lab will provide consultation space, software and hardware designed to cultivate experimentation and inspire researchers to investigate new opportunities for engaging in digital scholarship. Want to learn how to get started? Visit the Digital Scholarship Lab.

Due to COVID-19, digital scholarship consultations are currently being held remotely Monday through Friday, over the phone or Zoom. To arrange an appointment, contact Erica Hayes, digital scholarship librarian.


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Coming to Falvey: Digital Scholarship Lab

By Shawn Proctor

The University will soon have access to a new Digital Scholarship Lab at Falvey Memorial Library, which will promote the use of digital technology and cultivate experimentation, collaboration, and discovery of digital tools and methods to enhance Villanova’s research community.

Located on the second floor of the Library near the Learning Commons, the Digital Scholarship Lab will provide consultation space, workshops, training, and technical equipment and software for a variety of activities, including but not limited to GIS mapping, text and data mining, data visualization, digital publishing, and creating digital exhibits.

“We are committed to learning digital tools in collaboration with faculty, students, and staff through trial, error, and experimentation. Acting as a connector, this new lab will bring together community members interested in learning these new technologies, so they can apply them to their teaching and research,” says Erica Y. Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian.

The Digital Scholarship Lab is expected to be completed by mid-April.

For more information about the lab or digital scholarship, contact Erica Hayes at erica.hayes@villanova.edu or call 610-519-5391.

 


Shawn Proctor

Shawn Proctor, MFA, is a Communication and Marketing Program Manager at Falvey Memorial Library.

 

 



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