Blog Post – Due Friday, July 29
Think back to your first week and the definition of digital scholarship/digital humanities you wrote. How has your definition changed? Does your final project reflect your initial definition, or has it changed? What advice would you give the next cohort of Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows, given your experience?
Monday, July 25
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Issues in Digital Scholarship (Library 014, Public Session)
As broadly as digital scholarship can be defined, there are many issues that should be addressed by those who call themselves digital scholars. How do digital scholars include marginalized groups in the conversation? Are there ways to address the wide berth of technological proficiency in digital scholarship? And what happens when the project is “done?” There are many questions, and hopefully we can think of ways to further the conversation.
- Facilitators
- R.C. Miessler
- Readings and Assignments
- Bailey, Moya Z. “All the Digital Humanists are White, All of the Nerds are Men, but Some of Us are Brave.”
- Johnston, Leslie. “Digital Humanities and Digital Preservation.”
- McPherson, Tara. “Why are the Digital Humanities so White? Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation.”
- Schocket, Andy. “Embracing Emphemerality in the Digital Humanities.”
- Wikipedia. “Digital dark age.”
- Review the Howard University DH Initiative
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Reflect upon the process of creating and managing a digital scholarship project to record and evaluate individual progress and identify challenges and best practices for other digital scholars
- Activities
- Reading discussion
Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)
1pm-5pm: Presentation Prep/Project Work (on your own)
Tuesday, July 26
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-5pm: Presentation Prep/Project Work (on your own)
Wednesday
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Documentation Wrap-Up (Library 014)
After the project is over, what’s next? As we discussed in earlier weeks, documentation is important for other digital scholars to understand how projects are built so the scholarly work can continue. Is your project a “black box?” Or can someone else come along and recreate it or expand upon it with the documentation you provide? Today we’ll take a look at the projects and get a sense of how someone outside the cohort would see them.
- Facilitators
- R.C. Miessler
- Readings and Assignments
- None!
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Produce documentation and a realistic project timeline to manage, record and track project development
- Activities
- Review project documentation/about pages
Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (Specialty Dining)
1pm-5pm Presentation Prep/Project Work (on your own)
Thursday
10am-11am: Final Presentations (Library 018, Public Session)
Friday, July 29
9am-Noon: Assessment, Feedback, and Final Thoughts (Library 014)
Our last session! Today we will provide feedback about the final projects and presentations, and talk about what’s next for this cohort of the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship.
- Facilitators
- Digital Scholarship Working Group
- Readings and Assignments
- None!
- Program Learning Goals Supported
- Reflect upon the process of creating and managing a digital scholarship project to record and evaluate individual progress and identify challenges and best practices for other digital scholars
- Communicate personal experience as a Digital Scholarship Fellow to demonstrate the value and opportunities provided by digital scholarship
- Activities
- Provide feedback on project presentations
- Perform final assessment exercise
- Review next steps: Ongoing project work, Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, Fall 2016 digital project opportunities, and beyond
- Final thoughts from everyone
