Course schedule: (PDF of syllabus)
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 26th
Introduction to the class & each other
Introduce your selfie!
Read: syllabus & course website & blog, “What is Digital Humanities?” (also on blog), & "The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0"
Thursday, August 28th
Situating the Digital Humanities
Class planning: units & real-world connections
Blog sign-ups
Read: Preface (p. x) and chapter 1: Digital Humanities Overview (p. 1),
Blog post 1: What is DH?
Unit 1: What in the digital humanities? Situate this
“Digital formats are ephemeral, vulnerable, and depend upon elaborate material infrastructures” (9).
Tuesday, September 2nd
Discussion: What is Digital Humanities?
What’s involved? Materials, processing, and presentation
In-class look at DH projects
Introduce Unit 1: DH project options/sign-ups
Read: Chapters 2: Data Modeling and Use (p. 19) and 3: Digitization (p.14)
Thursday, September 4th
Proposals/project sign-ups
Your project at first glance: purpose and audience
Blog post 2: Data & digitization
Tuesday, September 9th
Discussion: DH projects and purpose
Read: Chapters 4: Metadata, Markup, and data description (p. 52) & 5: Database design (p. 70)
Thursday, September 11th
In-depth project analysis: materials, process, presentation
Blog post 3: Metadata & databases
Tuesday, September 16th
Discussion: Significance of metadata and design in DH projects
DH project analysis presentations
Thesis workshop
Introduce Unit 2 & Project Gutenberg
Chapters 6: Information visualization (p. 86), “What is Distant Reading?” & “Problems of Scale”
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 18th
DH project analysis essay workshop
Read: Chapter 7: Data mining and analysis (p. 110), Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, and Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Blog post 4: Information visualization & distant reading
Tuesday, September 23rd
DH analysis essays due!
Discussion: Quantitative data/DH tools for literary analysis
Proposals/Project Gutenberg text sign-ups
Introduction to Voyant tools
Practice exercise
Thursday, September 25th
Scholar consultation in groups
Share findings, compare/contrast
Worktime
Read: Quantifying Literature
Blog post 5: Data mining & quantifying literature
Tuesday, September 30th
Voyant findings/preliminary presentations
Look at: UNH BFA exhibition websites & The Bremer W. Pond Collection
Read: Chapters 8: Mapping and GIS (p. 130) and 9: 3-dimensional and virtual models (p. 151)
Thursday, October 2nd
Discussion: Maps & VR
Virtual tourism, heritage
Introduce Unit 3 & curation project
Project teams: Department of Art & Art History & Milne Special Collections & Archives
Blog post 6: Maps & virtual spaces
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 7th
Distant reading analysis essays due
First meeting with clients for curation projects!
Thursday, October 9th
Project planning goals meetings & proposals
Materials collection (art team photo day!)
Tuesday, October 14th
Planning & materials
Meet with clients for planning/materials (Library & Art)
Thursday, October 16th
Materials
Art team to CatLab for WordPress day/library team photo day
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Collecting and organizing
Blog post 7: Digital curation team planning/materials
Tuesday, October 21st
Processing (in class)
Juxtapose tutorial for Library team
Preparing images, cataloguing, writing
Adding exhibit image, video, and text
Thursday, October 23rd
Presentation
Art team to CatLab for Web building/Library team with Kai
Exhibit website & Juxtapose now & thens
Blog post 8: Curation team processing/presentation
Tuesday, October 28th
Potential client meetings for final questions/revisions
Introduce Unit 4 & ME-diation
Interface ideas & platform options
Thursday, October 30th
Curation projects due for final review
Discussion: e-lit, what is it? & interface: purpose and design
Platform reviews
Assessing your materials/artifacts
Introduce mini-projects: Google MyMaps & Knightlab StoryMap for maps, Scene, Google Earth, & ThingLink for 360, & Twine for electronic literature
Read: Chapter 10: Interface (p. 172), My Body, a Wunderkammer by Shelley Jackson, Depression Quest by Zoe Quinn, &e-lit, what is it? by N. Katherine Hayles
Blog post 9: Interface & e-lit
Tuesday, November 4th
Last-minute curation project revisions/presentation preparation
Discussion: e-lit, what is it?, My Body & Depression Quest, & interface: purpose and design
Website analysis
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 6th
Final Presentations to clients!
Brainstorming, storyboarding, project planning
Team reflections due tonight!
Look at Google MyMaps & Knightlab StoryMap for next Thursday
Read: Chapters 11: Web presentation formats and networked resources (p. 193) and 12: Project design and intellectual property (p. 211)
Blog post 10: Web presentation & design
Tuesday, November 11th no class, Veteran's Day!
Thursday, November 13th
Discussion: Significance of website design and usability
Website proposals/plans
Map workshop
Download & look at Twine for Tuesday (ctrl click to open for Macs)
Tuesday, November 18th
Twine story workshop
Look at Scene, Google Earth, & ThingLink for Thursday
Thursday, November 20th
360 tour workshop
Tuesday, November 25th
Workshop/usability testing
Revision worktime
Happy Thanksgiving Break!
Tuesday, December 2nd
ME-diation presentations/workshop!
Thursday, December 4th
Last day of class!
ME-diation presentations/workshop!
Final website revisions/reflection due Monday, December 8th
Bonus blog: post your ME-diation to the blog! :)
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