Class 1: Who are we? What do we value?

PART 1 ORIENTATIONS

Class Website (20 minutes)

Values: Living Schedule of Topics, Collective Class Charter, Instructor Design Philosophy, Summary of Assignments

Home page: “Blog Community”

• Students Submit Assignments (Responses, Final Project Milestones) Peer Feedback/Comments, Introductions
• Instructor Outlines Class Meeting “Class #”
• Instructor Outlines Readings & Responses “Week # Readings & Responses”

Foundations: Communication Reminders, “Policies”, Assessment, Learning Resources

Projects: Information regarding final project

Who are we? (20 minutes)

Create WordPress accounts [Practice 1]

1. You should have received an invitation to create a WordPress account via email. Follow instructions to set up. (5 minutes)
2. Create a new blog post based off of my example introduction blog post. Feel free to slightly deviate from the template. (10 minutes)
3. Before publishing, make sure to do the following:
   • Add a featured image (upload an image, does not have to be a photo of you)
   • Select category ‘Introductions”
4. Once you are done, read the introductions of your classmates and add at least two comments.

Collective Class Charter (20 minutes)

Group work/Individual contributions to charter [Practice 2]

Link to class charter google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hvl0wTH00PJOB7TD8mYg556tc1E5bC5Npsd_4wQIZp8/edit

Important: Sign up for facilitation here by January 15

Reference Video of Part 1 Orientations

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PART 2 PRACTICES

The DH Landscape in 2024 (10 minutes)

What are the boundaries of DH?

ACH advocates for and supports all of our members in their digital humanities work. Digital humanities is a broad term encompassing a wide range of subject domains, methods, and communities of practice, including (but not limited to) computer-assisted research, pedagogy, and software; resource creation, curation, and engagement; physical computing; the use of digital technologies to write, publish, and review scholarship; and humanistic research into and about digital objects and culture. ACH recognizes that this work is inherently and inextricably sociopolitical, and thus advocates for social change through the use of computers and related technologies in the study of humanistic subjects.

Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2024

Link to Cindy Nguyen slides

Reverse Engineering the DH Project by Miriam Posner (0-8:46)

Layers

1. Sources
2. Processing
3. Presentation

Link to full video

Link to written”How Did They Make That?” disassembling of digital projects website to understand tools and techniques in production

In Class: Reverse Engineering DH Projects (40 minutes) [Practice 3]

In groups, use the sources/processing/presentation framework we discussed in class to discuss and identify each layer of the project. As a group complete the following blog post template linked below.

Identify

1. Sources
2. Processing
3. Presentation

What are the effect of all these choices? Instead of focusing on how much you like the project, try to focus on what the project conveys and the epistemological effects of the decisions the project team has made.

Group 1: “On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance” a Collections as Data and machine learning project, directed by Amanda Henley and Matthew Jansen — Link to Project Website // Link to Group Blog Post

Group 2: “Laenanuuinelanaala jelaia Urarina kainara kuina amiianena [The Urarina Digital Heritage Project]” a digital collection of Indigenous cultural heritage materials, developed by the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas — Link to Project Website // Link to Group Blog Post

Group 3: “In the Same Boats” a digital map exploring the travels of Afro-Atlantic intellectuals, directed by Kaiama L. Glover and Alex Gil – Link to Project Website // Link to Group Blog Post