Schedule

1.1 Introductions

• Introductions
• Syllabus
• Digital Making 101

LAB:Digital Creation: SketchUp and 3D basics

1.2   What are the Digital Humanities? Who are the Digital Humanists?

Read:

• Burdick et al. “One: Humanities to Digital Humanities,” in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 1-26.
• Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23, 2015.
• Moya Z. Bailey, All the Digital Humanists Are White, All the Nerds Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave

Taking Control of the Digital: 

• Tech tools and you
• Your digital identity
• Your digital data
• Under the Hood: Course website and WordPress basics

LAB:Blogging 101 and Defining Your Place in DH

2.1    Digital Humanities Projects 101

Guest Presentation on Cartography and Collaboration: Multivalent Perspectives on the Vercelli Map
Helen Davies, Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado -Colorado Springs
Heather Wacha, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow,  University of Wisconsin

Read:

• Burdick et al. “The Project as Basic Unit” (124-125) and “Project-Based Scholarship” (130-131) in Digital_Humanities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012), 124-125.

Watch:

• Miriam Posner, How Did They Make That

Explore:

• Virtual Mappa

LAB: Analyzing DH Projects

2.2    Web Development Fundamentals

Read:

• Matt Kirschenbaum, Hello Worlds: Why Humanities Students Should Learn to Program
• Evan Donahue, A “Hello World” Apart (why humanities students should NOT learn to program)

Lab: Under the hood: HTML/CSS/JavaScript and Programming 101 

• DevTools: inspecting the web

LAB: HTML/CSS/JavaScript 101

Attend (if able):

• Traveling through Time and Place: The Vercelli Map in Context, Heather Wacha and Helen Davies, Thursday, January 14th, 2021, 4:00 – 5:00 pm

3.1  Humanities Data and Your Computer

Guest presentation by Pilot Irwin on navigating your server space in cPanel

Read:

• Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities by Christof Schöch
• Stephen Marche, Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities
• Scott Selisker and Holger Syme, In Defense of Data: Responses to Stephen Marche’s “Literature is not Data”

Lab: Data structures

• Setting up your own server, cPanel 101
• Content Management Systems

ASSIGNMENT: Data, Databases, and Your Own Server Space

3.2  Databases, Metadata, Linked Data

Read:

• Tidy Data for the Humanities by Matt Lincoln
• Christine L. Borgman, “The Digital Future Is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 003, no. 4 (March 20, 2010).
• Albert Meroño-Peñuela, “Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: Accessing Historical and Musical Linked Data,” Journal of Catalan Intellectual History 1, no. 11 (October 1, 2017): 144–49, https://doi.org/10.1515/jocih-2016-0013.

Lab: Metadata and Classification

• Collecting Data, Where and How
• Cleaning Data

ASSIGNMENT: Gathering Data and Metadata

4.1 Data Viz 101

Guest lecture by Lin Winton, Director of the Quantitative Resource Center at Carleton College

Read:

• Edward Tufte, “Escaping Flatland” and “Narratives of Space and Time” in Envisioning Information (1990): 12–35, 97-119.

Lab: Basic Data Viz principles

4.2 Text Analysis and Network Analysis

Read:

• Scott Weingart, Demystifying Networks, Parts I & I

• Voyant Tools

Lab: Network Analysis

5.1  GIS/Mapping 101

Read:

• Jo Guldi, What is the Spatial Turn? (read the introduction and at least one disciplinary section of interest)
• Anne Kelly Knowles, “GIS and History,” in Anne Kelley Knowles, ed., Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship (2008): 1–20.

Lab: DH Mapping Projects and Historical Mapping

• QGIS/ArcGIS
• Georeferencer/MapWarper

ASSIGNMENT: Spatial Humanities 101

5.2  Web Mapping 101

Read:

• Alan McConchie and Beth Schechter, Anatomy of a Webmap (use arrows to advance or go back)

ASSIGNMENT: WebMapping 101

• JavaScript APIs
• ArcGIS Online

6.1 Immersive Environments and 3D Simulation

Read:

• David J. Bodenhamer, Beyond GIS: Geospatial Technologies and the Future of History
• Diane Favro, “Se Non È Vero, È Ben Trovato (If Not True, It Is Well Conceived): Digital Immersive Reconstructions of Historical Environments,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 71, no. 3 (2012): 273–77.

Lab: Virtual Museum

• Making models
• Finding models
• Visualizing models

6.2 Analog to Digital and Back: 3D Printing and Fabrication

Explore: 

• Ed Triplett, The Book of Fortresses

Read:

• Papadopoulos, Costas, and Susan Schreibman. “Towards 3D Scholarly Editions: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 013, no. 1 (June 11, 2019).

Lab: 3D Printing / making the digital physical 

• SketchUp Cleaning
• NetFabb
• Shapeways and the Maker Space

7.1 Midterm Exam

MIDTERM EXAM INSTRUCTIONS

7.2 Picking a Topic for Final Project

8.1 Final Project Update and Work Session

LAB: Final Project Work

8.2 DA&H Across Campus

9.1 Group Project Work

Prepare:

• Your final project materials
• Your complete bibliography of sources

9.2 Tutorial Assignments

Everyone will give a brief description of the tool or technique they wrote a tutorial for, and we will each work through 3 of our peers’ tutorials in class, leaving feedback as comments.