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Join colleagues this Monday, April 17, for an in-person information session, catered lunch and workshop on how the International Image Interoperability Framework expands faculty research capabilities. Facilitated by Loyola University of Maryland Associate Professor of Philosophy, Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D., who will share the potential for IIIF in research, using examples… Read More

First session: Friday, March 24, 11:00 AM-noon CDT in the Science and Engineering Library Seminar Room (SC 3211). Registration for Zoom or in-person: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdumurDMpGNwU2dGQPwVDN_4RMdI_02k_ Second session (same content): Friday, March 31, 11:00 AM-noon CDT in the Eskind Biomedical Library Training Room (EBL lower level). Registration for Zoom or in-person:… Read More

The Digital Scholarship and Communications office is thrilled to welcome everyone back to a new semester and a new year. This Spring, DiSC has a slate of workshops spanning topics from basic to advanced GIS trainings, network and bibliometric analysis. As always, we continue to hold sessions introducing students and… Read More

The 2022 Free and Open Source Software for GIS users meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee Nov. 31–Dec. 2, is being hosted at Vanderbilt University at the Digital Commons. Co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Libraries Office of Digital Scholarship and Communications and the Vanderbilt Institute of Spatial Research, it’s an opportunity for FOSS… Read More

Join us on GIS Day 2022, Wednesday, November 16 1–2 p.m., Central Library, Room 418A – Getting Started with ArcGIS Online StoryMaps – Learn to make a StoryMap, see examples, and get resources. 2–3 p.m., Library Lawn* – Geophysics on the Lawn – Ground Penetrating Radar Demo *If inclement weather,… Read More

Join your friends at Central Library next Thursday for ice cream and an orientation to the libraries! Meet subject librarians and learn about the many services the libraries have to offer that will help you research smarter and faster. When you visit you can enter a raffle for Beats Studio… Read More

Welcome back for the start of the new academic year! We in the Digital Scholarship and Communications office hope that your summer was fruitful and that you are recharged and ready to explore emerging topics in digital scholarship with us. This Fall, DiSC is pleased to offer a series… Read More

A notebook environment is an increasingly popular way to develop and share code. This workshop will introduce two of the most popular types of notebooks: Jupyter and Colab. We will briefly discuss the literate programming paradigm, then examine the main features that are common to both platforms. In the process,… Read More

How can we establish the truth when the images and videos around us may be lying? Associate University Librarian for Research and Digital Strategy Cliff Anderson will discuss Deepfakes: Facing the Challenge of Synthetic Media on Sunday, April 10, 1:00–3:00 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema as a part of the… Read More

Are you aware that the mixing of quantitative and qualitative research analysis methods offers power and flexibility that sometimes is not possible through simply focusing on one or the other?  It is a research methodology that is adaptable to diverse settings, including those that involve teaching and learning in digital… Read More