GCDI Spaces
GC Digital Scholarship Lab
The GC Digital Scholarship Lab (at the Graduate Center, CUNY) is a collaborative research space whose project-based work centers on the use of technology in scholarship and pedagogy. We focus particularly on the creation of collaboratively produced, community-based, public-facing, open-source software platforms for scholarly communication. Specific projects include Commons In A Box, DH Box, Debates in the Digital Humanities, Manifold Scholarship, ImagePlot, Selfiecity and Social Paper.
New Media Lab
Under the direction of Andrea Vasquez, the New Media Lab works with Graduate Center and CUNY faculty and doctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines to conceive and create groundbreaking multimedia projects based on student and faculty scholarly research. With ongoing support from CUNY, the New Media Lab has become a dynamic environment in which projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other private and public sources demonstrate new approaches and methods of merging digital media, scholarship, and learning.
The CUNY Center for Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization
As part of the CUNY 2020 Big Data Consortium*, The Graduate Center will establish a new Center for Digital Scholarship and Data Visualization that will foster coordination with the public and private sectors. The purpose of the Center is three-fold. First, the Center will create new knowledge and develop new visualization techniques and software based on its partnerships with leading cultural institutions. Second, the GC will capitalize on the knowledge and techniques at the Center and will share them through both degree and non-degree teaching of methods, such as the new MA Program in Digital Humanities and MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization.” Third, in consultation with partners such as Microsoft Research, Tableau Software, and Alteryx Software, the Center will look to develop big data visualization consultancy services to private and public sector enterprises.
Around the GC
Quantitative Research Consulting Center
The Quantitative Research Consulting Center (QRCC) provides the GC Community with resources and support for statistical analysis in quantitative and empirical research. Specifically, they offer help with project/research planning, data analysis, statistical programming and writing to members of all levels of programs at the Graduate Center (MA and PhD students, Post-docs, Faculty).
CUNY Mapping Service
Part of the Center for Urban Research, the CUNY Mapping Service, directed by Steve Romalewski, “engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.” Romalewski and his team of four build online applications that connect to powerful databases to create interactive maps.
The Teaching and Learning Center
The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) at the CUNY Graduate Center “creates and connects opportunities for GC students to grow as educators and scholars within the nation’s largest public urban university system”. In this endeavor, the TLC compiles and creates resources and guides, creates opportunities for graduate student instructors to mingle and collaborate, and provides an opportunity for critical, public, pedagogy-focused reflection on their blog, Visible Pedagogy.
