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    Spaces and Workshops in the Digital Scholarship Centre

    by Guest Author February 22, 2023
    written by Guest Author
    In the fall of 2019, just before the pandemic disruptions began, the library opened a new area on the 2nd floor of Cameron Library called the Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC). The mission of the DSC is to advance research and learning using technology. The DSC is an official research centre and supports the University community by providing expertise, tools and space for the use of technology.  After working on an appointment basis during pandemic closures, the DSC has once again fully opened. To celebrate, we asked our DSC student assistants to write a few posts featuring the DSC and its services.

    By Sean Lis
    Sean is a student assistant at the Digital Scholarship Centre and a graduate student in the Digital Humanities.


    If you’ve ever been on Cameron Library’s second floor, you’ll have doubtlessly encountered the glowing sign and glass walls of the Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC). If the doors are open, come take a look and maybe chat with staff; take it from me, the DSC is the place to be! Whether you need a quiet place to study, a place to synergize your research collaborations, or are simply looking to expand your tech literacy in our many workshops, the DSC has you covered; come and see!

    As the mandate of the DSC is to advance research and learning in technology, we have a number of spaces that can be used for research meetings, small events and class instruction. These spaces are ideal for special lectures or hands-on workshops. 

    The main floor area – with its touch table, couches, remotely-connectable TVs, and the gentle hums of the 3D printers – is a wonderful spot to collaborate with others on research, and class projects. You are welcome to use these spaces during the DSC’s operational hours. The area is a quiet conversation zone, you can bring a coffee or drink in a closed container, but we ask that you do not eat in the space, as there is a lot of technology around. 

    The DSC Visualization or “Vis” Lab

    For workshops, events and classes we have two large spaces. The Vis lab has a 7.3m x 1.4m display visualization wall, and is the premier spot in the DSC to host your seminars or show off your work in its full glory on 12 HD screens. Equipped with a rotating ceiling camera, it can accommodate an online audience if its 40-person capacity isn’t enough!

    The DSC Multipurpose Room

    If you need a room for a hands-on workshop there is also the Multipurpose Room. There are multiple screens and it has modular furniture to rearrange to suit your needs, and its 4 large screens make the whole wall your digital canvas to paint with all your display needs. The MP Room can seat 24 people with tables, and more with audience-only seating. It also has a wall camera and built-in microphones to accommodate those who can’t be there in person. To book the large classrooms, you can make a booking request: just head to the DSC Website’s Space Booking Page. These rooms must be booked at least 24 hours in advance and we recommend you also book a time to come and test out the screens, cameras etc., in advance so everything goes smoothly during your event.

    Workshops
    A large part of the DSC mandate is to advance digital literacy and learning in technology. In addition to providing space for workshops, our knowledgeable staff provides free learning opportunities throughout the year. Interested in expanding your skills in digital media production, data management, software use, and/or making? Of course, you are! Serendipitously, our wonderful staff here at the DSC host many workshops where you can learn the skills needed to bring your work to the next level using technology. Join us for our Digital Scholarship Tools series, where you can learn the ins and outs of tools that can streamline your data gathering, processing and publishing workflows. Have you ever wanted to preserve your programming work without worrying about version control? Our workshop on Docker can help with that, as well as teach you new ways of sharing your code without worrying about operating system conflicts, and all the other benefits of creating a virtual server. Want to learn an efficient way to clean and organize a structured dataset? Then our workshop on OpenRefine is just the thing you need.

    Our Research Communication series can teach you new and interesting ways to present your research findings and expand your visual communication skills by learning more about photography, photo-editing, video and more. These skills extend beyond academics!

    As you can see, the Digital Scholarship Centre has many opportunities to grow your digital literacy, expand your tech skills, and collaborate in your research. During winter term our doors are open Monday to Friday from 9am-5pm, so if you’re so inclined, come check us out, we really don’t mind!

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  • Stitching the Curve: An Update

    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce July 28, 2020

    It has now been well over five months since a group of us University of Alberta Library staff began a data physicalization project to stitch Covid-19 data in Canada. It’s a project that we called “Stitching the Curve”. This is a little update on this data physicalization project’s progress.  To quickly recap the project, members of our team have all selected provinces to either knit or crochet. Our colleague and fellow knitter,…

  • Physical Computing

    by Guest Author June 8, 2020
    by Guest Author June 8, 2020

    By Abbie Schenk Imagine a programming workshop: students sitting behind monitors and laptops, quietly  typing line after line of code to make their computers spit out words, solve math problems, and manipulate pixels on those same screens. Their education is almost entirely contained to the virtual realm.  But a different form of computer science education has emerged in the last few years: physical computing. “A recent growth area in computer science education…

  • Data Physicalization

    by Guest Author May 13, 2020
    by Guest Author May 13, 2020

    Written By Abbie Schenk When we think of data visualizations, we often think of charts, maps and other forms of expressing data in digital ways. But humans have visualized data for thousands of years, long before computer screens were invented. Some of the earliest data visualizations go back to 5500 BC when Mesopotamians used clay tokens to visualize data. Today, representing data in a physical manner is called data physicalization. The Digital…

  • LET US INTRODUCE YOU TO… ERIN O’NEIL, OUR WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE!

    by Kate Cawthorn May 11, 2020
    by Kate Cawthorn May 11, 2020

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Library, this is ours… In early March I had the opportunity to interview Erin O’Neil about her role as the University of Alberta Library’s first Wikipedian in Residence from February until August of 2020. This interview was recorded prior to University of Alberta Library closing our physical locations temporarily due to COVID-19. Because of the temporary closures, Erin…

  • Stitching the Curve: A UAlberta Library Data-driven Making Project

    by Hanne Pearce April 23, 2020
    by Hanne Pearce April 23, 2020

    University of Alberta Library staff share a great passion for information and we are always looking for new ways we can engage with it and make it more approachable for ourselves and our community. In March, when the COVID-19 crisis brought a sudden change to all our lives, some library staff with yarncraft inclinations had an idea to start a unique making project. The “Stitching the Curve” project seeks to capture the…

  • Gender and Sexuality in Primary Sources

    by Emily Zheng April 9, 2020
    by Emily Zheng April 9, 2020

    Last month, in honour of Pride Week 2020, we got together at the Digital Scholarship Centre to talk about Gender & Sexuality Primary Resource collections. Now that most of us are hunkering down to do research at home, we wanted to share those collections online! In the last few decades, research into LGBTQ2S+ studies have grown exponentially. As a result, there are growing numbers of projects which aim to collect materials that…

  • New in the Internet Archive: UAlberta’s Growing Digital Collection

    by Emily Zheng January 27, 2020
    by Emily Zheng January 27, 2020

    Written by Sarah Severson Did you know that the University of Alberta Library has a huge collection of digitized items, many of them dating back a century or more? 2019 has been a busy year for the University of Alberta Library’s digitization program and has seen us add almost 22,000 new items to our Internet Archive collection. For several years, we have partnered with Internet Archive as our digitization partner, and this…

  • Let us introduce you to… Sean!

    by Eva Romanick November 7, 2019
    by Eva Romanick November 7, 2019

    Staff profiles tell the story of an organization. Here at the University of Alberta Library, this is ours… Meet Sean Luyk!Sean Luyk is our Digital Projects Librarian, working on the 2nd floor of Cameron Library. You have an interesting title of Digital Projects Librarian. What kind of projects does a Digital Projects Librarian do? In my role, I’m responsible for our media archiving service (ERA A+V). This involves working with our users to archive…

  • Cameron Library Staff @ The Shack Makerspace this July

    by Sonya Leung July 1, 2018
    by Sonya Leung July 1, 2018

    This July you will see some familiar faces in the Faculty of Science and the Physics Department’s Science Hardware Space: The Shack* (The Shack) as the Cameron Library Public Service Assistants (PSAs) will be covering The Shack’s staff vacation leaves. The Shack is located at L2-136 in the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Building – pop by and say “Hello!” The open hours are Monday to Friday 1:30 – 3:30 PM for the…

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