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DIGITAL PROJECT PLANNING & PEDAGOGY
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy GroupSeptember 30, 2106
RAFIA MIRZADIGITAL HUMANITIES LIBRARIANRAFIA@UTA.EDU
PEACE OSSOM WILLIAMSONDIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH DATA SERVICESPEACE@UTA.EDU
OUTLINE• Digital Project Planning
• What is the goal of your Digital Scholarship project?• We will discuss Digital Humanities projects as Digital
Scholarship Project • Learn what the components or layers of a Digital
Humanities project are.• How do you find data to use to answer research
questions?• Understand descriptive metadata and the rationale for its
use
• Digital Pedagogy • If you are involving students how does that affect
your planning plan?• How do you incorporate Digital Pedagogy into a Digital
Project ?
WHAT IS A DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP/ DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT?
DIGITAL HUMANITIESWhat is it?
“The Digital Humanities
are an area of research, teaching,
and creation concerned with the
intersection of computing and the disciplines of the
humanities.”Text via wikipedia Image via Calvinius
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AKA…Humanities Computing (Around since the 1940s)Digital Humanities (term attributed to this text) Humanistic computing (HCI)Digital Humanities Praxis (dh praxis)Computational Humanities (More involved in creating software)Computational Turn
A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
RESOURCES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES @ THE UTA LIBRARIES
http://libguides.uta.edu/digitalhumanities
DIGITAL HUMANITIES TOOLS“What Digital Humanists mean by
‘Tools’ is extremely loose and inclusive: in essence, it means any kind of application or software that helps you get the job done, whether
gathering, processing, or presenting your research. ”
- matthew milner
Link to Guide on Digital Humanities Tools
DIGITAL HUMANITIES TOOLS
LAYERS OF DH PROJECTS
1 •Sources•You need digital data to do DH
2 •Processing or Manipulation•What is done to the data (usually using some type of software or tool)
3 •Presentation•DH projects live in the digital realm, online.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO FOR EACH LAYER OF YOUR DH PROJECT ?
1. Do you need to access data or create data?• Digitization support• Data Collection
2. Do you need to do something to the data to make it machine readable?• Software access• DH tools• Cleaning Data
3. Do you need to get it online?• Server access• DoOO• CMS
HOW DID THEY MAKE THAT DH PROJECT?-MIRIAM POSNER• Digital Humanities and the L
ibrary: A Bibliography• Projects• How did they make that?• “Many students tell me that
in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of tools and technologies available for you to use.”
• How Did They Make That? The Video!
PROJECT PLANNING
PROJECT PLANNING
What is it that you want to project to do?Are you just experimenting with a tool or methodology?
Answer a research question?Serve a pedagogical purpose?
Plan backwards from there
DATA
What is data?
Examples: Audio
Oral history databases
Notes Bibliographies
Geospatial Place names in
music, poetry etc. Textual
Digital corpus
DATA ARE MORE THAN NUMBERS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data
What is data literacy?
the ability to read, create, utilize, communicate, and criticize data.
DATA LITERACY
1. investigate the source(s)
HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
2. research the context: know the data about the data (so meta!)
HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
METADATA
What is metadata?
Video via Timelapse: What is Metadata? By tortoisebutler
WHAT IS METADATA?
METADATA IS IN EVERYDAY LIFE
EXAMPLE OF STANDARDIZATION RULES
Image via Music Metadata Style Guide V. 2 by the Music Business Association’s Digital Supply Chain and Operations Workgroup
3. research who the data is about
HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
“We thought this was an obvious case of public data scraping so that it would not be a legal problem,” Kirkegaard wrote to Fortune.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/okcupid-data-research/
Questions to ask1. How to ensure the
right to consent for individuals and communities
2. How to preserve privacy, security, and ownership around their data
confidentiality – protection of information about a person
privacy – protection of the person
https://www.abodo.com/blog/tolerance-in-america/
4. highlight un/common data entries to gain rough insights
HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS
i.e., description of the data from a sample
QUICK DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
frequencyrank from lowest to highest
average (mean, median, mode)
variability
THE DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION (DAVIS) WORKSHOP SERIES PROVIDES STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ABOUT DIGITAL TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR WORKING WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF DATA.
DIGITAL PEDAGOGY
A VISUAL ARGUMENT: EMBEDDED OMEKA SUPPORT FOR ART HISTORY
WHAT IS OMEKA? Omeka is a web publishing platform and a content management
system (CMS) Omeka was developed specifically for scholarly content, with
particular emphasis on digital collections and exhibits. Omeka has been used by many academic and cultural
institutions for its built-in features for cataloging and presenting digital collections.
Developing content in Omeka is complemented by an extensive list of descriptive metadata fields that conforms to Dublin Core, a standard used by libraries, museums and archives
This additional layer helps to establish proper source attribution, standards for description and organization of digital resources–all important aspects of scholarly work in classroom settings but often overlooked in general blogging platforms.
via Anthony Bushong and David Kim, Intro to Digital Humanities: What is Omeka?
OMEKA SUBJECT GUIDE
QU
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Image via Dom Dada