The UVA Library is hosting a number of events as part of Endangered Data Week 2018 (February 26–March 2), a collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions, (1) to shed light on public … Continue reading
Want to know the best methods in research? How to compile and analyze data? The Library has the answers you’re looking for! Go to the events calendar on the Library’s homepage and register for any of the workshops being offered … Continue reading
On Friday, April 7, at 9:00 a.m. in Nau Hall, Room 101, UVA’s Center for the Study of Data and Knowledge (CSDK) kicks off its conference, “DH + DS: The Machine as Horizon of Interpretation.” The keynote speaker will be … Continue reading
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released videos of its Fall 2016 membership meeting. UVA Dean of Libraries John Unsworth—part of the Executive Management Group of the Hathi Trust Research Center (HTRC)—was one of the featured speakers in a … Continue reading
In March 2014 Will Rourk, Information Visualization Specialist for the University Library, jumped at an opportunity to scan 3D images of a chemical hearth, part of a Jefferson-era chemistry lab exposed by renovations to the Rotunda. Rourk’s instinct was to … Continue reading
On March 15 (the “Ides of March!”), from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Alderman 421, Sarah Bond, associate editor of Pleiades, a “community-built gazetteer” of ancient places, will guide an interactive event: “Linking the Ancient World: A Pleiades Workshop,” … Continue reading
For three days beginning March 18 the Brown Science and Engineering Library in Clark Hall will play host to this year’s American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest, a competition between teams of students who will spend the weekend extracting insight from … Continue reading
The Intellectual Crossroads group, a part of the Library’s Academic Engagement area, has announced a new fellowship program open to all UVA students. The Student Digital Humanities Fellowships will accept applications this November, offering a $1000 stipend to each of … Continue reading
Interested in learning how technology is transforming instruction in higher education? Want to find out what the Library is doing to make it happen at U.Va.? Ask the six Library representatives at the Poster Sessions of the Teaching with Technology Fair … Continue reading
DataQ is now up and running. A collaborative knowledge-base of research data questions and answers curated for and by the library community, the DataQ platform lets the research community ask and search for answers to questions related to research data … Continue reading
