Schedule/Syllabus

Week 1 – What is Digital Scholarship?

Monday, 5/22

  • 9am-Noon: Welcome to #dssf17! (Library 014)
  • 1pm-4pm: An Introduction to Special Collections (Special Collections Reading Room)

Tuesday, 5/23

  • 9am-10am: Workshop: Using Zotero to Manage Your Research (Library 014, Public Session)

Wednesday, 5/24

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Sites and WordPress (Library 014, Public Session)
  • 1pm-3pm: Lab: Developing a Community of Practice (Library 014, Public Session)

Thursday, 5/25

  • Pennsylvania Library Association College & Research Division Spring Workshop (Bucknell University, pickup at summer housing at 6am, we will return to campus by 6pm)

Friday, 5/26

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Project Management (Library 014, Public Session) 

Week 2 – Digital Tools Bootcamp: Maps, Timelines, Images, and Sound

Tuesday, 5/30

  • 9am-11am: Workshop: An Introduction to Digital Tools and Projects (Library 014, Public Session)

Wednesday, 5/31

  • 9am-11am: Workshop: Mapping with Esri Story Maps and StoryMapJS (Library 014, Public Session)

Thursday, 6/1

  • 9am-11am: Workshop: Timelines with TimelineJS (Library 014, Public Session) 

Friday, 6/2

  • 9am-11am: Workshop: Images and Sound with JuxtaposeJS and SoundciteJS (Library 014, Public Session) 
  • 1pm-3pm: Bootcamp Wrap-Up and Lightning Round Presentations (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 3 – Project Planning: User Experience, Copyright, and Documentation

Monday, 6/5

  • 9am-Noon: Technical Writing Workshop (Library 014, Public Session)

Wednesday, 6/7

Friday, 6/9

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: User Experience, Writing for the Web, and Wireframing (Library 014, Public Session)
  • 1pm-3pm: Lab: Wireframing (if needed) (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 4 – Disseminating Knowledge: Publishing, Open Access, and Multimedia

Monday, 6/12

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Introduction to Scalar (Library 014, Public Session)
  • 1pm-3pm: Lab: Scalar (Library 014, Public Session)

Thursday, 6/15

  • 9am-Noon: Lab: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon (Library 014, Public Session)

Friday, 6/16

  • 9am-11am: Workshop: Audio Editing (Library 014, Public Session)
  • 11am-Noon: Lightning Round Presentations (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 5 – Discovery and  Metadata

Monday, 6/19

  • Rescheduling – TBD 9am-Noon: Workshop: Metadata and Structured Data (Library 014, Public Session)
  • Cancelled 1pm-3pm: Lab: Creating Metadata (Library 014, Public Session)

Tuesday, 6/20

  • PCLA Digital Liberal Arts Conference (Ursinus College)

Wednesday, 6/21

  • PCLA Digital Liberal Arts Conference (Ursinus College)

Friday, 6/23

  • 9am-Noon: Midpoint Evaluations (Library 018)

Week 6 – Data Management and Visualization

Monday, 6/26

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Data Management and Data Cleanup with Open Refine (Library 014, Public Session)

Wednesday, 6/28

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Data Visualization in Digital Scholarship with Tableau Public (Library 014, Public Session)

Friday, 6/30

  • 9am-11am: Flex Time/Make-Up Session (TBD)
  • 11am-Noon: Lightning Round Presentations (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 7 – Text Analysis and Network Analysis

Wednesday, 7/5

  • 1pm-4:30pm: Lab: 3D Printing (West Building)

Thursday, 7/6

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Text Analysis (Library 014, Public Session)

Friday, 7/7

  • Rescheduling 9am-Noon: Workshop: Network Analysis (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 8 – Evaluating and Presenting your Work

Monday, 7/10

  • 10am-Noon: Workshop: Creating an Elevator Speech (Library 014, Public Session)

Wednesday, 7/12

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: “Worst Presentation Ever!” Or, Presenting Your Scholarship (Library 014, Public Session)

Friday, 7/14

  • 9am-11am: Workshop: Assessing and Evaluating Digital Projects (Library 014, Public Session)
  • Moved to Friday 7/21 11am-Noon: Lightning Round Presentations (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 9 – Public History and Public Scholarship

Monday, 7/17

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Public History, Crowdsourcing, and Social Media (Library 014, Public Session) 

Wednesday, 7/19

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Games and Digital Scholarship (Library 014, Public Session)
  • 1pm-3pm: Lab: Game Day! (TBD, Public Session)

Friday, 7/21

  • 9am-11am: Flex Time/Make-Up Session (TBD)
  • 11am-Noon: Lightning Rounds (Library 014, Public Session)

Week 10 – Final Week!

Monday, 7/24

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Issues in Digital Scholarship (Library 014, Public Session)

Wednesday, 7/26

  • 9am-Noon: Workshop: Presentation Planning and Practice (Library 014)

Thursday, 7/27

  • 10am-Noon: Final Presentations (Library 018, Public Session)
  • 3pm-5pm:  Final Program Evaluation (Library 018)
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