DHRN Presentation on LIS640 Digital Humanities Project Toolkit

Presentation to University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Humanities Research Network on the course LIS640 Digital Humanities Project Toolkit, developed and taught by Bronwen Masemann at SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison. Includes thoughts on course design, teaching technology skills, and plans for improvement.

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1. DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT TOOLKIT LIS640 at SLIS in Spring 2016 Bronwen Masemann
2. 3 ▪Types of Students ▪Course Themes ▪Successes from Spring 2015 ▪Challenges from Spring 2015 ▪Ideas for Spring 2016 ▪Challenges from Spring 2015 ▪Questions for You
3. 3 Types of Students 1. Students in SLIS MA Program 2. Graduate Students from other Departments 3. Juniors and Seniors (including Digital Studies Certificate students)
4. 3 COURSE THEMES
5. How we do DH
6. How we do DH definitions, community, grant-writing, project management
7. What we do with text
8. What we do with text digitization, scraping, metadata, markup, topic analysis, preservation
9. How we communicate about what we do
10. How we communicate about what we do Mapping, visualization, grant-writing, project management
11. 3 Successes from Spring 2015
12. Partnership: TEI for MAPP (Modernist Archives Publishing Project)
14. I quickly realized that I had far too many questions that needed further examination and rumination . . . after doing the basic tagging I went through the comments, did the necessary research, and made decisions on them one by one. (Zoe Stachel)
15. I would not consider TEI Lite to be sufficient for encoding this text. Also . . . I would have liked to address [other aspects] such as several places where E.M. Forster switches from relating histories or mythologies to discussing his own experiences, that I couldn’t find a way to make distinct within TEI Lite." (Elizabeth Nelson)
16. You start to get the nagging feeling that no matter how much you’ve already marked up, there’s always more to be done." (Andrew Wilk)
17. “How Did They Make That?” Presentations and Blog Posts
18. An Active Classroom Community
19. 3 CHALLENGES
20. Teaching Technology: Maintaining focus, supporting exploration Flickr @lwsdm CC licence
21. Doing things with data Which tool? Which language? Flickr @lachlan CC licence
22. Project Planning and Grant Writing It’s Hard to Start from Scratch Flickr @cardijo CC licence
23. 3 IDEAS FOR SPRING 2016
24. Programming Historian: More Focus, Better Process, More Product (and Python!)
25. Programming Historian: More Focus, Better Process, More Product (and Python!)
26. More Connection, More Reflection: Event reports, personal toolkit inventories, “Ask a Researcher!”
27. Focus on Sustainability: Grants for Revitalizing or Recovering Existing Projects
28. 3 QUESTIONS FOR YOU
29. 1. Do you have any questions for me? 2. Do you want to partner with LIS640 students? 3. Would you like to talk to the class about your research? I’m happy to talk further one-on-one! Bronwen Masemann masemann@wisc.edu @BronwenJM SLIS Library (4th floor, H.C.White)