Blog Post – Due Tuesday, May 31
In your own words, define “digital scholarship” or “digital humanities.” Think about the many definitions of digital scholarship/humanities and how they can inform your definition. Why is it so challenging to define (or is it …)? What values do you wish to see embodied in your practice of digital scholarship? You will turn back to this definition throughout the summer.
Micro-Blogs
Normally you will get to choose what topics you write on for these blogs; however, for this week, please use the following two topics:
- Introduce yourself and why you were attracted to the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship.
- Provide a brief description of your proposed digital project and what research questions you are interested in answering.
Monday, May 23
9am-Noon: Welcome to the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship! (Library 014)
- Facilitators
- Digital Scholarship Working Group
- Readings and Assignments
- Spiro, Lisa. “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities.”
- Spiro, Lisa. “This is Why We Fight: Defining the Values of Digital Humanities.”
- Fellows will receive a paper copy of Digital_Humanities by Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp. An open access online edition is also available at MIT Press.
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Participate in digital scholarship activities as a part of a collaborative cohort to support digital scholarship initiatives at Gettysburg College and beyond
- Activities
- Introduction to the Digital Scholarship Working Group
- Take a tour of the library
- Meet Robin Wagner, Dean of the Library
- Group space in 006 and lockers
- Learn where to find information about the fellowship
- Review expectations of the fellowship (contract)
- Review the schedule
- Get introduced to Codecademy and Lynda.com
- Learn about Educational Technology support
- Review Defining Digital Humanities
- Discuss “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities” and “This is Why We Fight.”
Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)
1pm-4pm: Organizing Your Research (Library 014)
- Facilitators
- Janelle Wertzberger
- Readings and Assignments
- No homework to do in advance
- Program Learning Goals Supported:
- Participate in digital scholarship activities as a part of a collaborative cohort to support digital scholarship initiatives at Gettysburg College and beyond
- Activities
- Identify and explore strategies to organize your research
- I’ll mention some findings from this important research project: Project Information Literacy (PIL)
- Learn how to use a bibliographic manager (Zotero and/or RefWorks). Helpful links:
- Learn to Use RefWorks in 20 Minutes – RefWorks YouTube channel has tons of videos, but start with the “20 minutes” playlist
- Zotero Video Tour on the documentation page
- Start a research log/journal. Links for exploration and inspiration:
- Cornell Notes
- Keeping a Laboratory Notebook (4:15)
- How to Bullet Journal (4:11)
- An Introduction To Visual Note-Taking (2:08) and Book Margin Visual Note-Taking (7:05)
- Identify and explore strategies to organize your research
Tuesday, May 24
8:30am-9am: DSSF Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Metadata and Scanning (Special Collections & College Archives, 4th Floor)
- Facilitators: Special Collections Staff (Carolyn Sautter, Amy Lucadamo, Catherine Perry, Molly Reynolds)
- Readings and Assignments
- Theimer, Kate. “Archives in Context and as Context”
- Theimer, Kate. “A Distinction Worth Exploring: ‘Archives’ and ‘Digital Historical Representations'”
- Find a digital collection or a digital humanities website that you like and come prepared to share it with us. For inspiration try these sites:
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- To become familiar with Special Collections’ in-house digitization equipment and best practices
- To learn the basics of scanning using a flatbed scanner and utilize basic functions of Photoshop
- To become familiar with the vocabulary of metadata and how it is used to describe digital learning objects
- To build an appreciation for the structure and vision behind digital collections and digital humanities projects
- Activities
- Special Collections Tour
- Scanning / Digitization Overview
- Digital Collections discussion / Metadata Overview
- Additional Resources
Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)
1pm-2pm: Meet with the Mellon Summer Scholars (Library 014)
The Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows will meet with the Mellon Summer Scholars to introduce each other and their projects. Educational Technology will also be on-hand to introduce themselves. [Janelle and Clint are off campus at a meeting today.]
2pm-5pm: Research/Project Work
Today would be a good time to spend some additional time in Special Collections.
Wednesday, May 25
8:30am-9am: DSSF Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Sites and WordPress (Library 014, Public Session)
Gettysburg Sites provides a web server for students, faculty, and staff at Gettysburg College, allowing the creation of basic websites, as well as more advanced tools such as WordPress. Sharon Birch and Eric Remy from Educational Technology will lead a session on how to use Sites, as well as how to get started creating your own WordPress site.
- Facilitators
- Sharon Birch and Eric Remy
- Readings and Assignments
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Identify a range of possible digital scholarship tools to integrate into a public-facing digital scholarship project
- Activities
- Know the difference between WordPress.com and hosted WordPress
- Create a basic blog/website using the WordPress platform hosted on sites.gettysburg
- Navigate the WP Admin Dashboard
- Select themes, plugins, and other customizable elements of a WP site
- Manage photos, video, and links in a WordPress sites
- Understand some basics of the relationship between design and content
- Understand some basic concepts of HTML
Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (Specialty Dining)
1pm-5pm: Research/Project Work
For today and tomorrow, please start working on the HTML/CSS course at codecademy. You do not need to purchase a Pro license (unless you want to). If you are already comfortable with basic HTML and CSS, then you can bypass this.
Thursday, May 26
8:30am-9am: DSSF Check-In (Library 014)
We will have a quick check-in this morning, just to make sure you are on the right track.
9am-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Friday, May 27
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Elements of a Digital Scholarship Project and Sites Lab (Library 014, Public Session)
With Gettysburg Sites, we have a platform to house a digital scholarship project. However, what is digital, and what is scholarship, and how do the two intersect? How is a digital project different than a paper you would write for class, or a website that you create for yourself? We will review the different aspects of what makes up a digital project and prototype a small digital project using Sites.
- Facilitators
- R.C. Miessler, Catherine Perry, Eric Remy
- Readings and Assignments
- Burdick, et. al. “I. Humanities to Digital Humanities” in Digital_Humanities, 1-26.
- Burdick, et. al. “2. Emerging Methods and Genres” in Digital_Humanities, 27-60 (skim if you have to).
- Drucker, Johanna. “Analysis of DH Projects.”
- Find a digital project that you are interested in and identify different components of the project, such as digital assets, the type of structure it uses, how the information is displayed, and what services are offered
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Identify a range of possible digital scholarship tools to integrate into a public-facing digital scholarship project
- Activities
- Reading and digital project discussion
- Review components of a digital project
- Prototype a small digital project using a curated collection of 8-10 digital assets
Noon-1pm: Lunch (on your own)
1pm-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
