Workshop Session #4: The city in the class, part B: digital humanities tools for crisis response, mobilization, and support

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1. NEH CARES DH WORKSHOPS Workshop Session #4: The city in the class, part B. Digital humanities tools for crisis response, mobilization, and support Dimitris C. Papadopoulos Ph.D NEH CARES Instructional Technologist dpapadopoulos@ccny.cuny.edu https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/dcpapadopoulos/
2. Where to start https://dhccny.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
3. 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
4. Session #4: digital humanities tools for crisis response, mobilization, and support • Remixing the archive • Mobilizing humanities • Tools for minimum resources
5. Some questions to consider • Are the interests, priorities, anxieties of our students reflected in our online class resources? • Success stories and/or failures: have students been able to document, reflect on, write about their own experiences? • Can the students really use/access/afford the tools we are asking them to use?
6. Remixing the archive
7. Remixing the archive Who owns /creates /presents /publishes the (digital) archive?
8. Remixing the archive • born-digital archives • re-mixed/re-created archives • crowdsourced archives • collaborative, bottom-up archives • indigenous archives / media
9. Remixing the archive List of: “Digital archives; digitized collections; DH projects that explicitly acknowledge and discuss archival silences in their content.” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YKndOKpUECMR_P 1ObBq3f8v_-YlfuGxC9qjlBD8C-dY/edit
10. Remixing the archive
11. Remixing the archive Digital archives and primary sources with teaching guides and materials • DPLA: https://dp.la/primary-source-sets • Europeana: https://www.europeana.eu/en • The British Library / Endangered Archives: https://eap.bl.uk/ • Teaching with Europeana: https://teachwitheuropeana.eun.org/ • Digital Library of the Caribbean: https://dloc.com/ • Black Digital Humanities Projects & Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZwucjyAAR7QiEZl238_hh RPXo5-UKXt2_KCrwPZkiQ/edit#
12. Remixing the archive Umbra Search: https://www.umbrasearch.org/ Whose Knowledge: https://whoseknowledge.org/
13. Remixing the archive Crowdsourcing archives • Transcription projects at the Smithsonian: https://transcription.si.edu/ • Transcribing correspondence: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/melissaagill/mut ual-muses • Transcribing texts: https://www.scribesofthecairogeniza.org/
14. Remixing the archive Documenting the crisis • DH and Covid 19: https://purduedayofdh.wordpress.com/dh-covid-19/ • Document your Story: COVID-19 Pandemic Project Archive: https://bsu.libwizard.com/f/c19ppa • Documenting COVID-19 Experiences at Michigan State University https://lib.msu.edu/branches/ua/covid19/ • Civic Duty and Connection in the Days of COVID-19 https://storycorps.org/civic-duty-and-connection-in-t he-days-of-covid-19/
15. Mobilizing humanities
16. Mobilizing humanities • Torn Apart / Separados project: https://xpmethod.columbia.edu/torn-apart/volu me/2/ • United Fronteras project: https://unitedfronteras.github.io/ • Hostile Terrain 94: A Moment of Global Remembrance: https://www.undocumentedmigrationproject.org/ video • Mapping Police Violence: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
17. Mobilizing humanities Mukurtu: “Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share, narrate, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. We are committed to maintaining an open, community-driven approach to Mukurtu’s continued development. Our first priority is to help build a platform that fosters relationships of respect and trust.” • Drupal-based • Open source • Hosting solution: Reclaim Hosting
18. Tools for minimum resources
19. Tools for minimum resources • Protonmail • Signal Email/messaging Search engines • Duckduckgo Security / privacy • Umbrella app • Tails (portable operating system) • Torbrowser Text editors • Libreoffice Writer • Abiword • Focus writer • Typora
20. Tools for minimum resources • https://www.privacytools.io/ • https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-prot est • “Minimal computing” group at Columbia University: https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/about/