{"id":898,"date":"2013-06-07T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/?p=898"},"modified":"2013-06-09T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T20:14:00","slug":"curious-about-scalar-sign-up-for-a-webinar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/curious-about-scalar-sign-up-for-a-webinar\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious about Scalar?  Sign up for a webinar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on our recent Beta release, the Scalar development team will offering free online webinars to help new users and the curious learn the platform more easily. The &#8220;Intro&#8221; webinars will cover the basics of Scalar: fundamental concepts, a review of existing Scalar books, and a hands-on introduction to the main Scalar features such as paths, importing media and annotations. A series of intermediate workshops (dates TBA) will delve into more advanced topics including how to effectively use visualizations, annotating with media and an intro to creating custom appearances in Scalar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates and times for Intro webinars:<\/strong><br \/>\nFriday, June 14, 10am-12pm PST<br \/>\nThursday, July 11th, 10am-12pm PST<br \/>\nThursday, August 1st, 10am-12pm PST<br \/>\nThursday, August 15th, 10am-12pm PST<\/p>\n<p>Spaces are limited, so sign up now!\u00a0 To register for the online webinars, email micha c\u00e1rdenas, mmcarden at usc dot edu<\/p>\n<p>Scalar is a free,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/anvc\/scalar\" target=\"1\">open source<\/a>\u00a0authoring and publishing platform that\u2019s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble\u00a0<a title=\"Media support\" href=\"http:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/features\/media-support\/\" target=\"1\">media<\/a>\u00a0from multiple\u00a0<a title=\"Archive partners\" href=\"http:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/features\/archive-partners\/\" target=\"1\">sources<\/a>\u00a0and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on our recent Beta release, the Scalar development team will offering free online webinars to help new users and the curious learn the platform more easily. The &#8220;Intro&#8221; webinars will cover the basics of Scalar: fundamental concepts, a review of existing Scalar books, and a hands-on introduction to the main Scalar features such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11,27,28,32],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital-humanities","tag-digital-scholarship","tag-scalar","tag-scholarly-publishing","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalar.me\/anvc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}