Digital Tools for Humanities Research

Digital Tools for Humanities Research

Monday, November 2, 2015

Noon – 1:00 p.m.

Dresher Center Conference Room (216 PAHB)

Presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities

UMBC humanities faculty employ a variety of digital tools in their work. This session will introduce several of these tools and discuss how they can be used for humanities research across the disciplines. A light lunch will be provided.

Presentations:

Zotero and Scrivener

Meredith Oyen, History

Zotero is a free reference management software program that can be used both for research and for teaching. It is particularly useful for organizing, sorting, and sharing sources and projects between writing partners or groups. Scrivener is a writing platform particularly useful for organizing, drafting, and revising long-form writing in the humanities and social sciences. Dr. Oyen will demonstrate some of the advantages of using both with samples from her own work.

Adobe Premiere Pro, Excel, and Atlas.ti

Ed Larkey, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication 

Dr. Larkey works with digital tools in his cross-cultural comparative analyses of international television series. He is currently using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Microsoft Excel, Atlas,ti, MultiModal Analysis, and Cinemetrics to compile, correlate, and visualize quantitative and qualitative data related to temporal parameters on narrative structure, sequences, and content. The session will be of interest to faculty doing research in anthropology, cultural studies, ethnography, discourse analysis, and audiovisual analysis.

Questions: Rachel Brubaker (rbruba1@umbc.edu), Assistant Director, Dresher Center for the Humanities