Introducing DH Collections

Seminar and Workshop Framing

How has DH intersected with the rise of digital collections? How do we create digital collections in DH and what are some of the challenges to working publicly with these materials?

Contextual Materials

• Risam, Roopika, and Alex Gil. “Introduction: The Questions of Minimal Computing.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 016, no. 2 (2022). http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/16/2/000646/000646.html.
• Christen, Kimberly. “Does Information Really Want to Be Free? Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Question of Openness.” International Journal of Communication 6 (November 30, 2012). https://apo.org.au/node/265091.
• Berry, Dorothy. “The House Archives Built.” Up//Root, June 22, 2021. https://www.uproot.space/features/the-house-archives-built.

Applied Materials

• Skim Gonzalez, Aston. “Colored Conventions Project.” Journal of American History 107, no. 4 (March 1, 2021): 1060–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa568 and explore Colored Conventions Project, https://coloredconventions.org/ co-directed by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey. Center for Black Digital Research, Penn State University.
• Explore at least one of the models on Lib-Static https://lib-static.github.io/models/

Curated Additional Materials (optional but recommended if familiar with assigned materials)

• Clement, Tanya, Ben Brumfield, and Sara Brumfield. “The AudiAnnotate Project: Four Case Studies in Publishing Annotations for Audio and Video.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 016, no. 2 (June 25, 2022).
• Fenlon, Katrina Simone. “Sustaining Digital Humanities Collections: Challenges and Community-Centred Strategies.” International Journal of Digital Curation 15, no. 1 (1970): 13. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.725.
• Cooper, Allison, Fernando Nascimento, and David Francis. “Exploring Film Language with a Digital Analysis Tool: The Case of Kinolab.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 015, no. 1 (March 5, 2021).
• Caines, Autumm, and Sarah Silverman. “Back Doors, Trap Doors, and Fourth-Party Deals: How You End up with Harmful Academic Surveillance Technology on Your Campus without Even Knowing.” The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, December 10, 2021. https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p.
• Terras, Melissa. “Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities.” In A New Companion to Digital Humanities, 420–38. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118680605.ch29.
• Tarnoff, Ben. “The Data Is Ours!” Logic(s) Magazine, April 1, 2018. https://logicmag.io/scale/the-data-is-ours/.
• Alles Torrent, Susanna, Alexander Gil Fuentes, and Terence Catapano. “Ed v1.0.2,” 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-wgzr-1384.
• Cox, Jordana, and Lauren Tilton. “The Digital Public Humanities: Giving New Arguments and New Ways to Argue.” Review of Communication 19, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 127–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2019.1598569.

Workshop Assignments (to be completed prior to class)

• [] Complete one of the web technologies assignments available here

Workshop Resources

• Amanda Visconti, Brandon Walsh, and Scholars’ Lab Community, “Running a Collaborative Research Website and Blog with Jekyll and GitHub,” Programming Historian 9 (2020), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0090.
• Amanda Visconti, “Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages,” Programming Historian 5 (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0048.
• Jonathan Reeve, “Installing Omeka,” Programming Historian 5 (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0052.
• Miriam Posner and Megan R. Brett, “Creating an Omeka Exhibit,” Programming Historian 5 (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0049.
• Minimal Computing Special Interest Group of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, “Resources” https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/resources/