Schedule

Assignment: (Due by the start of the first meeting):

Read:

• Amanda Visconti, "A Digital Humanities What, Why, & How," 2016
• Daniel Allington et al., "Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities," 2016

Tuesday, July 6: Introductions

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel, Jen Grayburn, Joanna DiPasquale, Becky Fried, Rachel Leach

Topics:

• Introduce Ourselves
• Introduce Summer IDEaS
• Introduce Digital Humanities / Digital Scholarship

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Wednesday, July 7: Establishing Your Digital Professional Identity:
Creating a Personal Website + Blog with GitHub Pages, Markdown, YAML, and Jekyll

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel, Joanna DiPasquale, Rachel Leach

Topics:

• Creating a Personal Website + Blog: What + Why
• Creating a Personal Website + Blog: How

Assignment:

Build:

• Complete your Professional / Academic Website!

Blog:

• Write your first blog post! As you do so, practice / play around with markdown.
  • How familiar / comfortable are you with digital + open scholarship? Have you:
  • Written / created scholarship for audiences outside of your classroom? (E.g. Blogged, published work, etc.)
  • Digitally analyzed / visualized data?
  • Done other digital and / or public scholarship?
  • What excites / concerns you about digital + open scholarship? What aspects of DH do you want / not want to learn? Why?

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Thursday, July 8: Digital Scholarly Edition

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Topics:

• Go over and plan our DSE project
• Look at DSEs for evaluation + inspiration

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog (Due Monday):

Choose a diary section for your digital edition. Read it. As you do so, start to plan your project.
Then, blog about your project plan by describing what you want to do in your digital edition.

• Why is this section interesting to you / why will it interest others?
• How will you illuminate this section for others?
• What scholarly apparatus do you want to include?
• How will you contextualize it? How will you layout the diaries? etc.

Friday, July 9: Check In & Coffee + Chat (Optional)

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Potential Topics:

• Watch Party? Coded Bias (movie)
• Listening Party? Technology and Race with Ruha Benjamin (podcast)
• Safiya Noble, "Missed Connections," 2012
• Catherine D'Ignazio + Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism (excerpt), 2020
• Sean Michael Morris, A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitin," 2017
• Britt Paris, et al., "Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students’ Data", 2021

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog:

• Reflect on Week 1 by sharing any or all of the following:
• your reactions to Pearson, the topics we've covered, etc.
• your experiences / thoughts / questions / struggles as you work
• interesting insights / findings / sources / facts
• whatever helps your learning / project

Monday, July 12: Manifold + (Un)Copyright

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Jen Grayburn, Adam Mazel, Becky Fried

Topics:

• Publishing and Sharing Your Work
• Publishing and Sharing Others' Work
• Publishing and Sharing Work via Manifold

Assignment:

Build:

• Apply what you learned about Manifold and Copyright! Create an open digital edition in Manifold by finding a brief text of your choice that is in the Public Domain and creating a markdown version of it. Ingest this file as a single text in our Manifold draft project with any relevant and openly licensed resources and cover images you can find.

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog:

1. For your edition, choose copyright / license / anonymity / pseudonym / etc., and explain why
2. Prep for Library Research
• What do you want to contextualize / annotate?
• What sources or types of sources will help you do that?
• What do you hope to find at Schaffer or another library?
• How do you plan to find it?

Tuesday, July 13: Library Research

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Lindsay Bush, Adam Mazel

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog:

• Blog about your library research:
• Try to find at least one source(s) that is relevant to your project. Share what you found / didn't find, if & where you struggled, and how your source illuminates the Diary entry / Pearson's context.

Wednesday, July 14: Digitization

Location: Preservation Lab (Schaffer Library, room 319)
Instructor(s): Becky Fried, Rachel Leach, Adam Mazel

Topics:

• How to digitize physical materials
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Adobe Acrobat
• ABBYY FineReader
• Tesseract

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog:

• Prep for Archival Research
• What do you want to contextualize / annotate? (if it has evolved since you last wrote about it)
• What historical primary sources do you hope to find in Union's archives & special collections? Why? How will they help?

Thursday, July 15: Archives and Special Collections Research

Location: Special Collections and Archives (Schaffer Library, room 335)
Instructor(s): Matthew Golebiewski, Adam Mazel

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog:

• Blog about your archival research:
• (Try to) find at least one archival source(s) that is relevant to your project. Then, digitize it using what you learned in yesterday's instruction, and save it on your computer using helpful file naming. Share what you found / didn't find, if & where you struggled, and how your source illuminates the Diary entry / Pearson's context.

Friday, July 16: Check In & Coffee + Chat (Optional)

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Potential Topics:

• Watch Party? Coded Bias (movie)
• Listening Party? Technology and Race with Ruha Benjamin (podcast)
• Safiya Noble, "Missed Connections," 2012
• Catherine D'Ignazio + Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism (excerpt), 2020
• Sean Michael Morris, A Guide for Resisting EdTech: the Case against Turnitin," 2017
• Britt Paris, et al., "Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students’ Data", 2021

Assignment:

Read:

• Ted Underwood, "Where to start with text mining," 2012
• ---. "Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text," 2015
• Katherine Bowers, "DSC #6: Voyant’s Big Day," 2020

Blog:

• Reflect on Week 2 by sharing any or all of the following:
• your reactions to Pearson, the topics we've covered, etc.
• what you want to do / explore in your digital edition (if your direction changed)
• your experiences / thoughts / questions / struggles as you work
• interesting insights / findings / sources / facts
• whatever helps your learning / project

Monday, July 19: Computational Text Analysis (CTA): Key Word in Context (KWIC) with Voyant

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Assignment:

Blog:

• Use Voyant to analyze Pearson's Diary. Find and discuss at least one significant insight / trend, etc. Share your insight(s), method(s), struggles, and visualizations.
• Reflect on Voyant / method(s):
• Is this tool and its techniques helpful / not helpful?
• What questions is it good / not good for answering?

Read:

• Adrienne LaFrance, The Six Main Arcs in Storytelling, as Identified by an A.I.", 2016
• ---. "The 200 Happiest Words in Literature", 2016

Tuesday, July 20: CTA: Sentiment Analysis & Opinion Mining with Lexos and Tableau

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Assignment:

Read:

• David M. Blei, "Probabilistic Topic Models", 2012
• Ted Underwood, Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough", 2012
• Cameron Blevins, "Topic Modeling Martha Ballard's Diary", 2010

Blog:

• Analyze the sentiments / mine the opinions of Pearson's Diary. Find and discuss at least one significant insight / trend, etc. Share your insight(s), method(s), struggles, and visualizations.
• Reflect on tool / method(s):
• Is Lexos / Tableau (etc.) + sentiment analysis helpful / not helpful?
• What questions is it good / not good for answering?

Wednesday, July 21: CTA: Topic Modeling with the Topic Modeling Tool

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Assignment:

Read:

• The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1, Ed. Harold C. Martin, 2004: As much as you can

Blog:

• Topic model Pearson's Diary. Find and discuss at least one significant insight / trend, etc. Share your insight(s), method(s), struggles, and visualizations.
• Reflect on the TMT/ topic modeling:
• Is the TMT, Tableau, etc. and topic modeling helpful / not helpful?
• What questions is it good / not good for answering?

Thursday, July 22:

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Assignment:

Blog:

• Propose your digital edition project:
  • Description: What do you want to do?
  • Rationale: Why do you want to do that? Why is that worth doing?
  • Audience: Who cares? Who are you creating this for? How do you plan to reach / interest them?
  • Process / Timeline: How do you plan to do it? Sketch out a daily plan for your remaining weeks.
  • Anticipated Problems, if any: Are there any potential problems? How will you address them?

Friday, July 23: Project Planning + Project Lifecycle + Creating a Work Plan

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Joanna DiPasquale, Adam Mazel

Topics:

• Creating your work plan:
• What are your research goals for each week?
• How will you accomplish them? What will you do each day?

Assignment:

Blog:

• Reflect on Week 3 by sharing any or all of the following:
• your reactions to Pearson, the topics we've covered, etc.
• what you want to do / explore in your digital edition
• your experiences / thoughts / questions / struggles as you work
• interesting insights / findings / sources / facts
• whatever helps your learning / project

Monday, July 26: Archival Research

Location: Schenectady County Historical Society
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Tuesday, July 27: Independent Research

Wednesday, July 28: Group Work

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 29: Independent Research

Friday, July 30: Check In + Independent Research

Location: Zoom
Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Assignment:

Blog:

1. Share a (partially) completed aspect of your project.
2. Reflect on the experience of creating that aspect. Share your week's accomplishments / struggles / questions / changes of direction / etc.
3. Plan Week 5 by outlining your work plan:
• What are your research goals for the week?
• How will you accomplish them? What will you do each day?
• What questions do you have?

Monday, August 2: Independent Research

Tuesday, August 3: Group Work

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday, August 4: Independent Research

Thursday, August 5: Independent Research

Friday, August 6: Check In + Independent Research

Location: Zoom
Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Assignment:

Blog:

1. Share a (partially) completed aspect of your project.
2. Reflect on the experience of creating that aspect. Share your week's accomplishments / struggles / questions / changes of direction / etc.
3. Plan Week 6 by outlining your work plan:
• What are your research goals for the week?
• How will you accomplish them? What will you do each day?
• What questions do you have?

Monday, August 9: Independent Research (Eight-Weekers) | Finish Project (Six-Weekers)

Tuesday, August 10: Group Work

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206) / Zoom
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Wednesday, August 11: Independent Research (Eight-Weekers) | Finish Project (Six-Weekers)

Thursday, August 12: Independent Research (Eight-Weekers) | Finish Project (Six-Weekers)

Assignment (Six-Weekers):

Blog:

• End-of-Project Self-Reflection
• Reflect on where you started and where you are at:
• (Why) are digital scholarly editions worthwhile or unhelpful projects for students' learning / careers?
• Has doing digital and open scholarship changed how you think about / will do scholarship? Why / why not? How?
• Has doing digital and open scholarship changed how you think about digital media? Why / why not? How?
• What have you learned? What did you wish you learned?
• (Why) is DH a legit / problematic field?

Friday, August 13: Conclusion (Six-Weekers) + Plan Project Showcase

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Assignment (Eight-Weekers):

Blog:

1. Share a (partially) completed aspect of your project.
2. Reflect on the experience of creating that aspect. Share your week's accomplishments / struggles / questions / changes of direction / etc.
3. Plan Week 7 by outlining your work plan:
• What are your research goals for the week?
• How will you accomplish them? What will you do each day?
• What questions do you have?

Monday, August 16: Independent Research (Eight-Weekers)

Tuesday, August 17: Independent Research

Wednesday, August 18: Group Work

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 19: Independent Research

Friday, August 20: Check In + Independent Research

Location: Zoom
Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Assignment:

Blog:

1. Share a (partially) completed aspect of your project.
2. Reflect on the experience of creating that aspect. Share your week's accomplishments / struggles / questions / changes of direction / etc.
3. Plan Week 8 by outlining your work plan:
• How will you finish on time?
• What questions do you have?

Monday, August 23: Check In + Finish Project

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel

Topics:

• Peer Review of Eight-Weeker Project(s)?

Tuesday, August 24: Finish Project

Wednesday, August 25: Group Work

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Time: 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 26: Finish Project

Assignment:

Blog:

• End-of-Project Self-Reflection
• Reflect on where you started and where you are at:
• (Why) are digital scholarly editions worthwhile or unhelpful projects for students' learning / careers?
• Has doing digital and open scholarship changed how you think about / will do scholarship? Why / why not? How?
• Has doing digital and open scholarship changed how you think about digital media? Why / why not? How?
• What have you learned? What did you wish you learned?
• (Why) is DH a legit / problematic field?

Friday, August 27: Conclusion (Eight-Weekers)

Location: ConnectIT Lab (Schaffer Library, room 206)
Instructor(s): Adam Mazel