Readings
- Tim Sherratt, “It’s all about the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power and People,” Discontents (December 1, 2011). http://discontents.com.au/its-all-about-the-stuff-collections-interfaces-power-and-people/
- Paige Morgan, “How to Get your Digital Humanities Project off the Ground” (June 5, 2015). http://www.paigemorgan.net/how-to-get-a-digital-humanities-project-off-the-ground/
- Digital History Review @every3minutes from JAH, http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/102/4/1278.full
- Optional Resources (Zotero library)
Activities
Morning (9:00am to 12:00pm)
- Discuss the Readings
- Digital Methods: Search techniques
- 10:30 Break (15 minutes)
- Hands-on: Scavenger Hunt
- Hands-on: Annotation with ThingLink (Demo) and Hypothes.is and here is our group. Jeremy Dean, who is the Director of Education at Hypothes.is, is giving a webinar on web annotation in the history classroom on Tuesday, May 31 that you might want to attend.
Lunch (12:00 to 1:00pm)
Afternoon (1:00pm to 4:00pm)
- Digital Methods: Introduction to Metadata
- Digital Methods: Content management and considering how software structure shapes arguments
- Digital Methods: Comparing common content management systems (Scalar, Omeka, WordPress)
- 2:15 Break (15 minutes)
- Hands-on: Install Omeka (Reclaim Documentation)
- Extending Omeka with Plugins
- Discussion: Teaching Applications