On Monday, September 10, Publishing Without Walls is conducting a one-day digital scholarly publishing workshop. Conceived as a digital makerspace-meets-writers’ workshop, this event is geared toward scholars and advanced level graduate students who are interested in digital options for publishing their scholarship.
If you are curious about digital scholarly publishing generally; have an idea for a digital project but don’t know where to start; have used a digital publishing platform in the past but want to learn a new tool; or are aware of different digital publishing options but have no hands-on experience...
… then this is the place to get started!
At this workshop, you'll learn the basic functions of such digital publishing platforms as Omeka, Scalar, and Pressbooks, including the affordances and limitations of each tool, how to assess each tool’s fit for different scholarly purposes, and how to leverage basic publishing platforms to advance your own projects.
Please note that this is a hands-on workshop. Please plan to bring a laptop. If you are not able to bring a laptop, contact Megan Senseney ([email protected]) to make alternate arrangements.
Register at http://bit.ly/pww_umn by September 6, 2018. This event is free and open to all scholars affiliated with the University of Minnesota or institutions within the Humanities Without Walls consortium. Registration is required to prepare login credentials for participants in advance of the workshop.
Prerequisites: We assume scholars have identified digital materials that they want to work with (text, photographs, audio-visual materials, etc.) and are comfortable working online with browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. No prior experience with digital publishing tools is necessary, as this workshop is geared toward those just getting started in digital scholarly publishing. Content and discussions may be of interest to scholars with some intermediate experience with one or more tools, but the material may be too basic for scholars who have successfully completed projects using these (or similar) tools in the past.
Presenters:
Megan Senseney is a Research Scientist at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences. She is also the Humanities Without Walls Outreach Coordinator for the Publishing Without Walls project.
Maria Bonn is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences. She is working with the outreach and education team for Publishing Without Walls and is the lead investigator on PWW's research and evaluation efforts.
Janet Swatscheno is Digital Publishing Specialist, University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of the Publications working group for the Publishing Without Walls project.
Click here to view the planned workshop schedule.
The University of Illinois Library is leading the PWW initiative in partnership with the School of Information Sciences, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the African American Studies Department. PWW is generously funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information about our project, please visit: publishingwithoutwalls.illinois.edu. To receive information about forthcoming publications, future workshops, and project activities, sign up for our mailing list.