Blog Post – Due Monday, June 6
This week, we will head to Lafayette College to talk to their Digital Humanities Summer Scholars. Community is an important aspect of digital scholarship work, since no one is an expert in all things, and the interconnectedness of the digital world allows us to collaborate across traditional boundaries of time and space. Use at least one of your micro-blogs to talk about the idea of collaboration. Your primary blog post should be your project charter/timeline (see below).
Project Charter and Timeline
Design a project charter for your digital project using the guidelines at the Project Charter page. This will be a living document, of sorts; as you research your topic and think about ways to present and visualize your project, things may change. However, getting a good basis for your project is important.
Monday, May 30
Memorial Day
Tuesday, May 31
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Project Management and Documentation (Library 014, Public Session)
Project management and documenting your processes is an important part of developing a digital project. Today, we will discuss how to create a project charter, begin a timeline for your project, and look at ways to document the creation of your project so others can see how it was made.
- Facilitators
- R.C. Miessler
- Readings and Assignments
- Appleford, Simon, and Jennifer Guiliano. “Best Practice Principles of Designing Your First Digital Project.” (slides and podcast)
- Burdick, et.al. Pages 124-125 and 130-131 in Digital_Humanities.
- Posner, Miriam. “DH Project Management: The Very, Very Basics.”
- Wawrick, Claire. “Documentation and the Users of Digital Resources in the Humanities.”
- Optional: Appleford, Simon, and Jennifer Guiliano. “Building Your First Work Plan.” (slides and podcast)
- 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
- Produce documentation and a realistic project timeline to manage, record and track project development
- Activities
- Understand elements of a project charter
- Identify tools useful for project management
- Discover ways of documenting a digital project
Noon-1pm: Lunch (on your own)
1pm-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Fellows may continue working on their project charters if they choose.
Wednesday, June 1
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)
9am-Noon: Copyright for Digital Scholars (Library 014, Public Session)
So you found a great image or document online and want to use it in your project … but can you? Today, we’ll look at how copyright law affects digital projects, and how the idea of “fair use” can be leveraged to include the content of others. We will also discuss a recent digital project with some copyright challenges, and ways to help others use your projects once you’ve created them.
- Facilitators
- Ronalee Ciocco, Amy Lucadamo, R.C. Miessler
- Readings and Assignments
- Gardiner, Eileen, and Ronald G. Musto. “Meta-Issues 2: Copyright, Other Rights, Digital Rights Management, Open Access.” In The Digital Humanities: A Primer for Students and Scholars, 146-165.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (Password protected)
- 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
- Discussion of copyright law and fair use
- Review of copyright case studies
- Discussion of challenges faced by HIST-301 class in obtaining rights for materials
- Review of Creative Commons and other open culture licenses
Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (Penn Hall Lyceum)
1pm-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Thursday, June 2
8:30am-5pm: Research/Project Work (on your own)
Friday, June 3
Field trip to Lafayette College – Meet at the greenhouse in Constitution Lot at 7am. Look over last year’s Lafayette College Digital Humanities Summer Scholars projects before we go. There will also be a reading, TBD. Come prepared to talk a bit about your project.
