Blog Post – Due Tuesday, July 5
As digital humanities practitioners at a small liberal arts college, it’s important to be aware of criticism of digital humanities work, as well as negative perceptions of liberal arts schools. Read the following article:
“Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities” By Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, David Golumbia
Given what you have learned so far about digital humanities and digital scholarship, what is your reaction to this article? Do you agree with the authors, disagree, or somewhere in between? Make sure you are acquainted with the concept of neoliberalism. The article “The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market” by William Deresiewicz may provide some additional context. Once you’ve read the article and formulated some thoughts, check out some responses. Feel free to incorporate their arguments into yours, or refute them.
Monday, June 27
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Mid-Point Check-In
Today, we will discuss the feedback from the mid-point check-in as a group. Individual meetings will be scheduled to follow up.
Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)
1pm-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Tuesday, June 28
All Day: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Wednesday, June 29
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Introduction to XML and Markup (Library 014)
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a way to encode text in a way that is both human and machine readable; it allows text to be stored, transported, described, and reused across a variety of applications (think of it as metadata for text that lives in the same document). This week, we will work with XML in a few ways, creating XML documents on paper, then looking at digital applications.
- Facilitators
- R.C. Miessler
- Readings and Assignments
- “A Gentle Introduction to XML.”
- Birnbaum, David. “What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care?”
- Meloni, Julie. “A Pleasant Little Chat About XML.”
- “XML Essentials.”
- Send song lyrics or a poem to R.C.
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Identify a range of possible digital scholarship tools to integrate into a public-facing digital scholarship project
- Activities
- Reading discussion
- XML markup activity on paper
- Review of XML document examples
Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (Specialty Dining)
1pm-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Thursday, June 30
All Day: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Friday, July 1
8:30am-9am: Check-In
9am-Noon: Encoding the Letters of Jack Peirs (Library 014)
Today, we will look at transcriptions of letters from Jack Peirs to see how we can add XML markup to encode them. We will need to think about a schema to use, then apply our tags.
- Facilitators
- R.C. Miessler
- Readings and Assignments
- “A Very Gentle Introduction to the TEI Markup Language.”
- Review the Digital Mitford Letters project
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Use collections/materials/artifacts to explore a research question best interpreted through a digital scholarship lens
- Activities
- Review the letter transcripts
- Develop a possible schema for XML markup
- Encode the letters using a schema
