This interactive workshop helps graduate students develop strategies for writing strong research introductions for papers, articles, theses and dissertations. Through discussion and guided writing activities, participants will learn how to establish significance, identify relevant library and academic sources, engage prior scholarship and position their own research within disciplinary expectations. Build clarity, confidence and momentum in your long-term writing projects by …
UCF Libraries EventsOmeka Classic is a web publishing platform that can be used for content management, creating digital collections, teaching, and research. This workshop introduces Omeka Classic, and provides an overview of how to create items, build a collection, and develop a public site.
UCF Libraries EventsStarting out your research? Build research profiles depending on your future research agenda. It is the first step to help increase your research visibility. A few tips and tricks will be shared on how to harness the power of persistent ids (PIDs) to start your journey into the research world.
UCF Libraries EventsScanning documents is just the first step. Making documents truly usable requires accessibility. This workshop covers how to transform scanned materials into accessible PDFs and digital texts that work for everyone. You'll learn practical techniques including optical character recognition (OCR), proper tagging, and testing for screen reader compatibility. Whether you're digitizing archival materials or research documents, you'll gain hands-on skills to ensure your digitized …
UCF Libraries EventsWikidata, a multilingual knowledge base of structured linked data, can be leveraged to support and generate scholarly profiles. Participants will learn how contributing publications and identifiers to Wikidata strengthens the open knowledge ecosystem while extending the visibility of researchers and institutions across the web. This session will demonstrate how Wikidata can power faculty profiles and bibliographic visualizations, while offering participants an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with …
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