Schedule
Introductions all around
“When I'm asked, I like to say that digital humanities is just one method
for doing
humanistic inquiry.” -Brian Croxall (from Whatisdigitalhumanties.com)
Tuesday, August 30th
Introduction to the class & each other
Show your selfie
Read: syllabus & course website & blog, “What is Digital Humanities?” (on blog), & “The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0”
Thursday, September 1st
Situating the Digital Humanities
Class planning: units & real-world connections
Read: Preface (p. x) and chapter 1: Digital Humanities Overview (p. 1),
Blog post
Unit 1: What in the digital humanities? Situate this
“Digital formats are ephemeral, vulnerable, and depend upon elaborate material infrastructures” (9).
Tuesday, September 6th
Discussion: What is Digital Humanities?
What’s involved? Materials, processing, and presentation
In-class look at DH projects
Introduce project 1: DH project options/sign-ups
Read: Chapters 2: Data Modeling and Use (p. 19) and 3: Digitization (p.34)
Thursday, September 8th
Proposals/project sign-ups
Your project at first glance: purpose and audience
Blog post
Tuesday, September 13th
Discussion: DH projects and purpose
Read: Chapters 4: Metadata, Markup, and data description (p. 52) and 5: Database design (p. 70)
Thursday, September 15th
In-depth project analysis: materials, process, presentation
Blog post
Tuesday, September 20th
Discussion: Significance of metadata and design in DH projects
DH project analysis presentations
Chapters 6: Information visualization (p. 86), “Problems of Scale” &“What is Distant Reading?”
Unit 2: Data mining & visualization: Analyze that
“Digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe,” -Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
Thursday, September 22nd
Essays due
Introduce Unit 2 & Project Gutenberg (Poe & Wharton)
Read: Chapter 7: Data mining and analysis (p. 110), Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow, blog post
Tuesday, September 27th
Discussion: Quantitative data/DH tools for literary analysis
Proposals/Project Gutenberg story sign-ups
Introduction to Voyant tools
Practice exercise
Thursday, September 29th
Scholar consultation in groups
Share findings, compare/contrast
Worktime
Blog post
Tuesday, October 4th
Voyant findings/preliminary presentations
Maine Sound & Story, VR tours, &Museum L-A website
Read: chapters 8: Mapping and GIS (p. 130) and 9: Three-dimensional and virtual models (p. 151)
Thursday, October 6th
Discussion: audio & VR (& maps)
Virtual tourism, heritage
Introduce Unit 3 & curation project
Project teams: audio database & 360 tour
(Try Matterport)
Blog post
Unit 3: Curate it/put it into practice
“I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show,
and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.” -Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Tuesday, October 11th
Final analysis essays due
Meet with Rachel F. from Museum L-A
Thursday, October 13th
Project planning goals meetings & proposals
Blog post
Tuesday, October 18th
Meet with Rachel F. from Museum L-A with team proposals/planning
Thursday, October 20th
Materials
Collecting, digitizing audio and 360 images
Potential Art Museum Visit
Tuesday, October 25th
Processing
Creating oral history files, searchable key words
Adding exhibit image, video, and comments
Thursday, October 27th
Presentation
Adding artifacts to the new WordPress site
Introduce Unit 4
Interface ideas and platform options
Blog post
Tuesday, November 1st
Assessing your materials/artifacts
Maps & timelines
Look at Scene, Google Earth, & ThingLink for 360
Thursday, November 3rd
Museum L-A projects due for final review
e-lit, Twine
Read: Chapter 10: Interface (p. 172), My Body, a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson & Depression Quest by Zoe Quinn
Team reflections due Friday!
Blog post
Tuesday, November 8th
VOTE! No class, Friday schedule
Unit 4: ME-diate: interface & web presentation
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality
as well as a creature of fiction.” –Donna Haraway
Thursday, November 10th
Discussion: Interface: purpose and design
Platform reviews
Read: Chapters 11: Web presentation formats and networked resources (p. 193) and 12: Project design and intellectual property (p. 211), blog post
Tuesday, November 15th
Final Presentations to Rachel F.
Discussion: Significance of website design and usability
Website analysis
Brainstorming, storyboarding, project planning
(revisit Interface & Presentation pgs. 178 & 198 for design, tips, preparing)
Look at Google MyMaps & Knightlab StoryMap for Thursday
Thursday, November 17th
Map/timeline workshop
Download & look at Twine for Tuesday (ctrl click to open for Macs)
Website proposals/plans (by Monday night)
Tuesday, November 22nd
Story workshop
Look at
Scene & ThingLink for Tuesday
Thursday, November 24th No class! Happy Thanksgiving!
Tuesday, November 29th
360 viewing party/workshop
Thursday, December 1st
Revision worktime
Workshop/usability testing
Tuesday, December 6th
ME-diation presentations!
Thursday, December 8th
ME-diation presentations!
Final website revisions/reflection due Thursday, December 15th