The DH Bootcamp is designed to introduce faculty and staff members to the community of practice that is Digital Humanities. This six-session series will feature discussion, technical training, and opportunity to workshop teaching and research ideas.
Outcomes:
- Participants will learn foundational competencies for digital research methods in the humanities.
- Participants will be oriented to the people, technologies, and other support available for conducting DH projects and teaching at W&L.
- In our first session, we'll spend some time unpacking the many definitions of Digital Humanities.
- In preparation, take a look a A Short Guide to the Digital_Humanities and be prepared to talk about the place of DH in your own discipline.
- You might also want to peruse the Debates in Digital Humanities and see what strikes your fancy. There are three editions and I always recommend checking out Bethany Nowviskie and Roopika Risam.
- Agenda:
- Introductions + icebreaker
- Overview of the series
- Discussion
- Questions:
- What were your perceptions of DH in grad school? Why did you want to join this bootcamp? How do you see DH fitting into your teaching and research?
- What are your reactions to the Short Guide to DH? Was anything new? Unexpected? What parts seem difficult for you and your situation?
- What resonated with you from Debates in DH?
- How does your discipline react or incorporate DH? How does that affect your own approach?
- In this tech-y session, we'll learn the basics of building a website, including on campus options. You'll learn why plain text matters and why DH-ers love GitHub. We’ll also talk about accessibility requirements for publishing on the Web.
- In preparation, please do the following:
- Download Sublime Text. It will sometimes ask you for a donation but you don't have to pay to use this software.
- Create an account on Github.com. Send me your username so I can add you to this repository.
- Agenda:
- Icebreaker: what's your earliest memory of the internet?
- HTML + CSS tutorial
- GitHub tutorial and publishing
- Other website options
- Campus options
- Accessibility
- Resources:
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In the second part of our tech-y session, we'll dive into data. You'll learn what "data modeling" means in the humanities and how to construct your own data set. We’ll discuss the ways to address bias in data.
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In this session, you'll try your hand at doing something with your data. In addition to analysis methods like text analysis and network analysis, we'll explore tools for visualizing data in graph and chart form.
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Agenda:
- Icebreaker
- Quick case study tour through: network analysis, mapping, digital editions, text analysis, and data visualization.
- Sandbox time:
- Voyant
- Lexos
- AntConc
- Corpus Analysis with Antconc tutorial
- Gephi for network analysis. Also, Palladio or Network Navigator
- ArcGIS Online for mapping or ArcGIS StoryMaps
- Google Sheets
- Raw Graphs
- Natural Language Processing for Humanists
- Data sources could be Project Gutenberg or W&L Data or the Coeducation Report (see original document).
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This session will focus on ways to integrate DH into the classroom. We'll draw on the lessons learned from both faculty and Academic Technologies staff. You'll come away with a solid understanding of the resources and support available to you at W&L.
- To start, think of an assignment or project or class that you think might benefit from some DH pedagogy. We'll workshop at the end.
- Why use DH in the classroom?
- Project-based learning
- Emphasis on process and methods, not just content
- Transferrable skills
- Public scholarship
- Audience
- Intellectual property
- Challenges
- Lots of moving parts!
- Collaboration
- Grading
- Intellectual property
- Best practices
- Structure and scaffolding
- Collaboration
- Well-timed training and asynchronous training materials
- Options
- Tool-based (Voyant, ArcGIS) or method based (text, timelines, mapping)
- Data-driven
- Digital exhibits & archives
- Case studies:
- Resources
In our final meeting, we'll discuss how to take your project to the next level. We'll hear from Wendy Lovell about the grants landscape, as well as cover topics like project management and sustainability.
Agenda:
- Icebreaker:
- Grant funding in DH
- NEH - Office of Digital Humanities and Preservation and Access (HCRR)
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Associated Colleges of the South
- ACLS Digital Extension Grants
- Internal sources: Lenfest grants, Summer Research Scholars, Dean of the College Teacher-Scholar Cohorts, maybe an equipment fund?
- Training
- Project development and sustainability
- Thank you! I'd appreciate your feedback through this form: https://forms.gle/rDQkN6LzyfZXZ7oz8