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Introduction to the Digital Liberal ArtsMDST 3703 / 7703

Fall 2010

Business

• Did everyone get a grade and quiz?– See the Gradebook and Drop Box tools in Collab

• Meetings– Still a couple left – will email you for a time

• Poll– See Resources in Collab

Review

• Thematic research collections– A new digital genre—neither books nor libraries– Collocated collections of thematically related

material– Incomplete (open-ended)– Good ones possess contextual mass

• Focus shifts from simple content delivery to activities (related to scholarly primitives)– “What can I do with it?” as important as “What’s in

it?”– Each site makes an improvement in this space

What are some examples of improvements, from VOS to

Rossetti and Blake?

"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse.“

-- Henry Ford

Overview

• Exercise from Tuesday• Working with images

Collections

Activities

The Stack of ScholarshipDiscovering Annotating Comparing Referring Sampling Illustrating Representing

Exercise

• Compare Rossetti and Blake archives in terms of the primitives and the stack of scholarship– What devices and techniques are used to support each

aspect of scholarship?– Are the sites functional as research portals?

• Break up into 4 groups / 15 minutes– Group A: Scholarly Primitives in Rossetti– Group B: Scholarly Primitives in Blake– Group C: Comparing for Comparison– Group D: Comparing for Contextual Mass

• Assign a scribe and a reporter– Scribe writes post and tags with 09-28 Exercise

Basic Method to integrating content into your site

• Create Posts for content lexia– Evidence (images)– Secondary Sources (Zotero)

• Use Pages for your synthetic content• Insert content (e.g. an image) into Posts• Add metadata using inline content, tags,

categories, and custom fields*• Enable widgets to display tags and categories (if

necessary)

WordPress Plugins

• I know some of you can’t see certain plugins– Zotero widget, My Page Order, Video tags– We know what is causing this but cannot fix it right

away• Some to enable– RB Internal Links– WP Footnotes– Custom Field List Widget– Embed Object– SlideShare Requires account– Wordpress Media Flickr Requires account– Apture Requires account

Adding images to posts and pages

• Form pairs and follow the SHANTI Knowledge Base tutorial– https

://wiki.shanti.virginia.edu/display/KB/SHANTI+Knowledge+Base

– Or get there from the SHANTI Portal (shanti.virginia.edu)

Using PowerPoint as an image editor

• Insert image• Enable editor• Set transparent color• Crop• Move and arrange• Save as a group • Save as an image

1. Select image2. Item appears

Cropping

Recoloring

Set transparent color