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Digital project planning and pedagogy
The document outlines a digital project planning guide focused on digital humanities and scholarship, detailing essential components like data sourcing, processing, and presentation. It emphasizes the importance of metadata, data literacy, and engaging students through digital pedagogy in research projects. Additionally, it provides resources and examples for effectively utilizing digital humanities tools and platforms such as Omeka.
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- 1. This work islicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
- 2. DIGITAL PROJECT PLANNING &PEDAGOGY Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy Group September 30, 2106
- 3. RAFIA MIRZA DIGITAL HUMANITIESLIBRARIAN [email protected] PEACE OSSOM WILLIAMSON DIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH DATA SERVICES [email protected]
- 4. OUTLINE • Digital ProjectPlanning • What is the goal of your Digital Scholarship project? • We will discuss Digital Humanities projects as Digital Scholarship Project • Learn what the components or layers of a Digital Humanities project are. • How do you find data to use to answer research questions? • Understand descriptive metadata and the rationale for its use • Digital Pedagogy • If you are involving students how does that affect your planning plan? • How do you incorporate Digital Pedagogy into a Digital Project ?
- 5. WHAT IS ADIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP/ DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT?
- 6. DIGITAL HUMANITIES What isit? “The Digital Humanities are an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities.” Text via wikipedia Image via Calvinius
- 7. DIGITAL HUMANITIES AKA… HumanitiesComputing (Around since the 1940s) Digital Humanities (term attributed to this text) Humanistic computing (HCI) Digital Humanities Praxis (dh praxis) Computational Humanities (More involved in creating software) Computational Turn A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- 8. RESOURCES IN DIGITALHUMANITIES @ THE UTA LIBRARIES http://libguides.uta.edu/digitalhumanities
- 9. DIGITAL HUMANITIES TOOLS “WhatDigital Humanists mean by ‘Tools’ is extremely loose and inclusive: in essence, it means any kind of application or software that helps you get the job done, whether gathering, processing, or presenting your research. ” - matthew milner Link to Guide on Digital Humanities Tools
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- 12. LAYERS OF DHPROJECTS 1 • Sources • You need digital data to do DH 2 • Processing or Manipulation • What is done to the data (usually using some type of software or tool) 3 • Presentation • DH projects live in the digital realm, online.
- 13. WHAT DO YOUNEED TO DO FOR EACH LAYER OF YOUR DH PROJECT ? 1. Do you need to access data or create data? • Digitization support • Data Collection 2. Do you need to do something to the data to make it machine readable? • Software access • DH tools • Cleaning Data 3. Do you need to get it online? • Server access • DoOO • CMS
- 14. HOW DID THEYMAKE THAT DH PROJECT? -MIRIAM POSNER • Digital Humanities and the Library: A Bibliography • Projects • How did they make that? • “Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of tools and technologies available for you to use.” • How Did They Make That? The Video!
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- 17. PROJECT PLANNING What isit that you want to project to do? Are you just experimenting with a tool or methodology? Answer a research question? Serve a pedagogical purpose? Plan backwards from there
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- 21. Examples: Audio Oralhistory databases Notes Bibliographies Geospatial Place names in music, poetry etc. Textual Digital corpus DATA ARE MORE THAN NUMBERS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data
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- 23. the ability to read,create, utilize, communicate, and criticize data. DATA LITERACY
- 24. 1. investigate the source(s) HOWTO UNDERSTAND DATA
- 25. 2. research the context:know the data about the data (so meta!) HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
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- 28. Video via Timelapse:What is Metadata? By tortoisebutler
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- 30. METADATA IS INEVERYDAY LIFE
- 31. METADATA IS INEVERYDAY LIFE
- 32. WHAT ARE METADATASTANDARDS?
- 33. EXAMPLE OF STANDARDIZATIONRULES Image via Music Metadata Style Guide V. 2 by the Music Business Association’s Digital Supply Chain and Operations Workgroup
- 34. 3. research who thedata is about HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
- 36. “We thought thiswas an obvious case of public data scraping so that it would not be a legal problem,” Kirkegaard wrote to Fortune. http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/okcupid-data-research/
- 37. Questions to ask 1.How to ensure the right to consent for individuals and communities 2. How to preserve privacy, security, and ownership around their data
- 38. confidentiality – protectionof information about a person privacy – protection of the person https://www.abodo.com/blog/tolerance-in-america/
- 40. 4. highlight un/common data entriesto gain rough insights HOW TO UNDERSTAND DATA
- 41. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS i.e., description ofthe data from a sample
- 42. QUICK DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS frequency rankfrom lowest to highest average (mean, median, mode) variability
- 43. THE DATA ANALYSISAND VISUALIZATION (DAVIS) WORKSHOP SERIES PROVIDES STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ABOUT DIGITAL TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR WORKING WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF DATA.
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- 46. A VISUAL ARGUMENT:EMBEDDED OMEKA SUPPORT FOR ART HISTORY
- 47. WHAT IS OMEKA? Omeka is a web publishing platform and a content management system (CMS) Omeka was developed specifically for scholarly content, with particular emphasis on digital collections and exhibits. Omeka has been used by many academic and cultural institutions for its built-in features for cataloging and presenting digital collections. Developing content in Omeka is complemented by an extensive list of descriptive metadata fields that conforms to Dublin Core, a standard used by libraries, museums and archives This additional layer helps to establish proper source attribution, standards for description and organization of digital resources–all important aspects of scholarly work in classroom settings but often overlooked in general blogging platforms. via Anthony Bushong and David Kim, Intro to Digital Humanities: What is Omeka? OMEKA SUBJECT GUIDE
- 48. QUESTIONS? Image viaDom Dada
Editor's Notes
- #5 Privacy, reuse, etc. Copyright. Open web different than blackboard (fair use) Reuse : [copyright librarian] Rafia, Jody
- #7 However computing intersects with your disciplines is digital scholarship
- #8 Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23] In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24] http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.” “Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) “his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/ Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
- #25 Talk to subject experts, read papers, and study accompanying documentation
- #30 “…As information has become increasingly digital, metadata is also used to describe digital data using metadata standards specific to a particular discipline.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
- #35 Data ethics And gaps in data
- #36 This is not the result of a security breach. This is data placed openly online, publicly available. The data is indeed public—sort of. Some of it like bios, photos, age, gender, sexual orientation is easily accessible through basic Google searches. Answers to some 2,600 of the service’s most popular dating survey questions are restricted to people who are logged into the site and who have answered the same questions. Real names and pictures were not included but could be easily investigated from their usernames or a combination of that with a birthday or a location.
- #38 These issues should be balanced with the need to create meaningful impact with a project or a story. As news stories incorporate more (personal) data than ever in their work, journalists face several challenges related to the responsible use of this data – sometimes without being aware of them
- #39 So, how was the OKCupid situation a privacy concern? people have a certain expectation of the final use of the information that they share. Once the receiver changes (a person reading a reply to their tweet versus Buzzfeed readers) or the transmission changes (clicking on a profile in OKCupid versus searching a data storehouse), it creates a perceived violation of privacy. Getting informed consent is not easy (and is often impossible) in the kind of reporting, which heavily relies on social media.
- #41 Here is how you can begin to see patterns in data
- #42 What is a numerical way to describe data?
- #43 Frequency – how often a value exists (e.g., a name or gender) 50 women, 38 men, 2 other, 10 unknown Rank from lowest to highest – list albums’ use of personal pronouns in order of high to low Average - Measure of central tendency Variability – how different or similar scores are to each other (range, standard deviation)