Updated Feb 5
Thursday 1/23 The Ghosts of Digital History Past
- “Real Names” Are an Abuse of Power
- The Pasts and Futures of Digital History
- Valley of the Shadow
- Do Digital Natives Exist? (video autoplays)
Due:
Tuesday 1/27 Research workshop with Jesus, History Reference Librarian
- Skim An Historical Sketch of the State Normal College at Albany
- Skim the Chronological History of the University at Albany, with attention to the pre-1870 history
- Select one chapter from Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web
- Some Tips for WordPress Beginners
- Creating Your Web Presence
Graduate students:
Thursday 1/29 Research workshop with Jesus, History Reference Librarian
- Skim and bookmark The Normal School Company, the Papers Index, and the Normal School Company History, all products of a 1999 UAlbany graduate seminar on digital history and the Civil War (click all the links!)
- Skim the Milne School Digital Collections and the finding aids for the University’s archival material on University administration and faculty/alumni
- Select one chapter from Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web
- Is Google Knowledge? (video autoplays)
Graduate students:
- “The Digital Humanities Moment” in Debates in the Digital Humanities
Tuesday 2/3
NO READINGS
Thursday 2/5
NO READINGS we will be catching up and getting back to speed today
PhD students:
- Take a look through The Historian’s Macroscope and think about if any of the methods discussed would work for a project in your dissertation field. You don’t have to read the whole thing and you don’t have to settle on a project, but start thinking about the kinds of sources available in your field and some possible final projects for this course.
Tuesday 2/10 Theory and Silence
- Think Talk Make Do: Power and the Digital Humanities
- Don’t Circle the Wagons
- On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack”
- Where are the Individuals in Data-Driven Narratives?
- The Digital Early Republic
Graduate students:
- More Hack, Less Yack?: Modularity, Theory and Habitus in the Digital Humanities
- The Dark Side of the Digital
- Digital Humanities as a Historical “Refuge” from Race, Class and Gender?
- Room for Everyone at the DH Table?
- The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings [PDF in Dropbox]
- Michel Trouillot 1-31 [PDF in Dropbox]
Due:
- Post about your general interests for the final project and some possible sources available in the finding aids for the University’s archival material on University administration and faculty/alumni. This doesn’t have to be very specific or profound–I just want a sense of what you’re interested in so that I can help point you towards things as we move forward in class. For example, in 1921 the Normal School cafeteria served more than two tons of sweet potatoes at faculty/student luncheons and teas–why? And why did the school newspaper write about it?
Thursday 2/12 Networks and Dataviz
- How to Lie with Data Visualization
- Social Media and Academic Surveillance: The Ethics of Digital Bodies
- Demystifying Networks
- Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
- Following Up on Paul Revere
- Mapping the Republic of Letters (click around in this, it’s not self-explanatory at first)
- CSS and Webdesign as Fashion (NSFW and a little vulgar, video autoplays)
Graduate students:
PhD students:
- Look through the student projects from HIST696 at GMU and write a review of one or several related to your dissertation area (in method or topic)
Homework for the weekend:
- Choose one of the sample datasets in RAW and make at least three visualizations of the same data set. Try playing around with different dimensions for the same chart type. Post about what difference chart type and dimensions make to your data visualization. Embed all three charts in your post.
Tuesday 2/17 Workshop Day
- Select one (ugrad) or two (grad) chapters from Debates in the Digital Humanities
Thursday 2/19 Workshop Day
- Select one (ugrad) or two (grad) chapters from Writing History in the Digital Age
Tuesday 2/24 Omeka and Copyright
We’ll go over Omeka in class; the homework will be due on Thursday after we’ve worked with Omeka in class on Tuesday.
- Life on the Outside
- So You Want to Reuse Digital Heritage Content
- Creative Commons Copyright
- Stanford’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
- Fair Use Checklist [PDF]
- Omeka in the Classroom [May need to be on the university network or login with NetID through library website first]
- Omeka Items
- The Importance of Filling out the Dublin Core Description Field
- Omeka Collections and Exhibits
- Creating an Omeka Exhibit
- Digitisation’s Most Wanted
Homework:
(We did these in class)
- Create a collection in Omeka with your username (collections will only be visible from the admin side) and set it to public
- Create and complete a spreadsheet of your data in Google Drive and share with Dr. Kane, or save a csv file into the shared Dropbox folder
- If we have time on Tuesday 3/3, Dr. Kane will run a geocoding demo with your data and auto populate the collections in class
Thursday 2/26 Maps
Update 2/25: Read through these, but we’ll discuss them Tuesday 3/3
- Neatline
- Neatline and Vizualization as Interpretation
- What is Spatial History?
- Western Railroads and Eastern Capital
- HistoryPin
- Albany Postcard Project
- Albany The Way It Was
- University at Albany Digital Collections
- UAlbany Campus Buildings Historical Tour
- Flickr Commons, “Albany” search
Tuesday 3/3 Maps
Make sure to look through the links above for 2/26. If you’re interested in using images for your final project exhibit, start identifying photos available through the links above for 2/26.
- From Paper Maps to the Web
- Getting Started With Palladio
Thursday 3/5 Maps
- Choose one chapter from Debates in the Digital Humanities
Tuesday 3/10 Workshop Day
- Choose one chapter from Debates in the Digital Humanities
Thursday 3/12 Workshop Day
- Choose one chapter from Debates in the Digital Humanities
Due:
- Final project proposal. See the final project guidelines for the requirements for your degree program.
Tuesday 3/17 Spring Break
Thursday 3/19 Spring Break
Tuesday 3/24 Text Mining
- Accessing Treasure Troves of Data
- Movie NGrams
- Bookworm
- Historic Newspaper NGrams
- Mining the Dispatch
- NYT Chronicle
- Big, Smart, Clean, Messy: Data in the Humanities
- Voyant and the basics
- Comparing Corpora in Voyant
Thursday 3/26 Text Mining
- Where to Start With Text Mining
- Guided Tour to Topic Modeling
- Topic modeling made just simple enough
- Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction
Tuesday 3/31 Omeka and History in the Public Eye
Due:
- Review and explore at least two (undergrads) or four (grads) other Omeka sites from the list provided.
- Posts this week should thoughtfully critique your chosen sites–what do they do well, what audience are they aimed at, do they serve that audience well, is there anything that could make them more user friendly
- Suggest at least one change we could make to our Omeka site. Explain what change you would make and why. We’ll discuss these in class and vote on which to implement.
Thursday 4/2 Building a Twitterbot and History in the Public Eye
- Reading Digital Sources
- It’s History, Not a Viral Feed
- A Protest Bot So Specific You Can’t Mistake it For Bullshit
- Slave Sales on Twitter
- Every3Minutes
Tuesday 4/7 Advanced Text Mining
- Quantifying Kissenger
- Mental Maps of Texts
- Text Mining the Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Visualizing 27 Years of the Humanist List
- Some Assembly Required
- Topic Modeling Martha Ballard’s Diary
- Corpus Linguistics for Historians
Thursday 4/9 Workshop Day
Tuesday 4/14 Cool Junk Week
For this week, please read the following and select one group of sites from Interactive Text, Physical Computing or 3D Printing. Blog posts this week should summarize what each technology is and offer some creative thinking on how history projects in this class or in other contexts might be extended. Be prepared to summarize and discuss in class.
- Where to Start?
- How to get a Digital Humanities Project off the Ground
- You Got the Documents, Now What?
- About Open Exhibits
Interactive Text
Physical Computing
- Arudino.cc
- Arudinos Provide Interactive Exhibits for About $30
- New Media Art, Design, and the Arduino Microcontroller: A Malleable Tool
3D Printing
- Please Feel the Museum
- Harvard’s 3D-Printing Archaeologists Fix Ancient Archaeologists
- Smithsonian x 3D
- 3D Scanning, Hacking, and Printing in Art Museums, for the Masses
Thursday 4/16 History, Games and Public History
- Privileging Form Over Content
- Being Historical: How Strategy Games are Changing Popular History
- Historical Games – Why Mechanics Must Be Both Good and Accurate (video autoplays)
- Surviving History: The Fever!
- Pox and the City
- Pox and the City: Designing a Social History Game
- History as it Can Be Played: A New Public History?
Tuesday 4/21 Workshop Day
Thursday 4/23 Workshop Day
Tuesday 4/28 Workshop Day
- Test all sites in ProtoFluid
Thursday 4/30 Presentations
Tuesday 5/5 Presentations
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