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ANNOUNCING SCALAR 2.6 — AND LENSES!

September 7, 2021

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Scalar 2.6, featuring Lenses — a whole
new way to explore relationships between content in Scalar projects. Lenses
allow you to dynamically search and visualize Scalar content in a wide variety
of ways. For example, a lens can map all pages that are geo-tagged to within 100
miles of Tokyo, diagram all of the media items tagged “post-structuralism”, or
draw a word cloud of the contents of every page the reader visited in the last
week. Lenses can be embedded in a page using the Lens widget, and the content
they return can be exported as CSV files. Any user can create new private lenses
in any Scalar book, opening up new possibilities for research in Scalar
publications.

The impetus behind Lenses came from scholars Kate McDonald (UC Santa Barbara)
and David Ambaras (North Carolina State University) as part of their Bodies and
Structures project, which they describe as “a platform for researching and
teaching spatial histories of Japan, its empire, and the larger worlds of which
they were a part.” Seeing the potential for an expanded suite of visualization
features to unlock new avenues of research, McDonald and Ambaras collaborated
with Scalar team members Craig Dietrich and Erik Loyer to conceive the Lenses
concept, which ultimately received funding in the form of a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.

To see Lenses in action, check out this Twitter thread showing various examples
in the USC Libraries project Mirrors and Mass: Wayne Thom’s Southern California.
For more details about Lenses and how they work, visit the Scalar documentation.

We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with Lenses!

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THE SCALAR SUMMER INSTITUTE IS COMING!

May 28, 2021

Join the Scalar team for a USC Libraries Scalar Summer Institute this July
12-16, 2021. This free, five-day workshop is designed for librarians and others
who wish to support the use of Scalar for born-digital scholarship and
cutting-edge, collections-based digital pedagogy on their campus as well as
those who wish to develop their own projects showcasing institutional
collections.

Get more info and apply here.

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SCALAR WEBINARS

June 23, 2020

The Ahmanson Lab at USC Libraries is offering a series of free Scalar webinars
this summer.

Introduction to Scalar: July 7, 11am-1pm (PT) – CLOSED/FULL

This webinar will cover basic features of the platform; a review of select
Scalar projects and use cases; and a hands-on introduction to media,
annotations, paths, and tags.

Intermediate Scalar: August 4, 11am-1pm (PT) – CLOSED/FULL

This webinar will delve into more advanced topics including the effective use of
structure, metadata, widgets, and layouts.

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