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Scalar Webinars: Announcing Our Fall Schedule
posted by CAA — Sep 17, 2013
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture sent the following email on September 16, 2013.
Scalar Webinars: Announcing Our Fall Schedule
To follow up on our recent Beta release, the Scalar development team will be offering a series of free online webinars this Fall.
Our “Introduction to Scalar” webinars will cover basic features of the platform: a review of existing Scalar books and a hands-on introduction to paths, tags, annotations and importing media. Our “Intermediate Scalar” webinars will delve into more advanced topics including the effective use of visualizations, annotating with media and a primer on customizing appearances in Scalar. Finally, one advanced webinar will cover Scalar’s RDF-based API as well as Scalar’s theme engine for programmers who wish to utilize the platform’s internal components when creating interfaces.
Our Fall schedule will include five dates:
- Introduction to Scalar – September 26, 10am-12pm (PST)
- Intermediate Scalar – October 17, 10am-12pm (PST)
- Introduction to Scalar – November 14, 4pm-6pm (PST)
- Advanced Scalar/API – November 21, 10am-12pm (PST)
- Intermediate Scalar – December 12, 4pm-6pm (PST)
Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.