Workshop Session #2: Beyond the text: teaching with digital archives, collections, and multimodal materials in class

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1. NEH CARES DH WORKSHOPS SESSION #2: BEYOND THE TEXT. WORKING WITH MULTIMODAL CONTENT Dimitris C. Papadopoulos Ph.D NEH CARES Instructional Technologist dpapadopoulos@ccny.cuny.edu https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/dcpapadopoulos/
2. Overview of Workshops Session #1: Working with texts Session #2: Working with multimodal content Session #3: mapping and teaching with urban and spatial data Session #4: digital humanities tools for crisis response, mobilization, and support
3. Where to start https://dhccny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
4. Session #2: Working with texts. tools for remote and collaborative text annotation, analysis, editing and publishing • Embedding media: Wordpress / CUNY Commons • Exploring data • Structuring data: Dublin Core and metadata standards • Omeka S
5. Some questions to consider • How often do you work with visual/non-textual combined media in your classes?
6. Some questions to consider • What kind of media do you mostly use (e.g. Youtube videos, social media content, maps)?
7. Some questions to consider • What do you find to be the biggest barrier, difficulty or challenge in integrating different media types in class content?
8. Structuring our data Tidying up and structuring our data in a way that is "machine readable" and can be converted to different formats and linked to other datasets and collections is critical in building a sustainable dh project for research or teaching. Properly formatting and structuring data tends to be a time-consuming (often underestimated) task of dh projects.
9. Structuring our data The Dublin Core Metadata Terms developed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is a vocabulary of fifteen properties used in resource description: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-c ore/dces/ Some of the most widely used tools and platforms for digital collections management use the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set as the core, "minimum" set of descriptive fields for items and resources.
10. Dublin Core Metadata Terms
11. Platforms for collections and multimodal content Scalar
12. Platforms for collections and multimodal content • authoring and publishing platform • long-form, born-digital scholarship • allows users to assemble media from multiple sources • semantic web authoring
13. Platforms for collections and multimodal content • Supports single site • Uses Dublin Core • Item > Collection • Supports different media (images, video, documents) • Expandable with plugins • Supports multiple sites • Uses pool of resources • Uses multiple vocabularies • Item > Multiple item sets • Supports different media (images, video, documents) • Expandable with plugins
14. Some takeaways • Know your data. Encourage students to download, use, explore, visualize datasets to reveal relations, geographies, timelines, trajectories.
15. Some takeaways • Structure you data. Encourage students to get familiar with metadata standards, describing/documenting items, archives, collections
16. Some takeaways • Review cases and examples of using text analysis and tools in class (online, hybrid or on campus)
17. Some takeaways • Allow students to test, play, experiment, tell their own stories