Blog Post due by Friday, June 21st:
Required Prompt: By the end of this week, we will have covered all of the digital tools and methods that we’ll be learning about this summer. Write about some (~2-3) of the tools or methods you will be using in your project, and why you chose those. How can they help you answer your research question(s)?
Monday, June 17th
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (HMH 113)
- Discussion and critique of digital storytelling projects
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- De-stress with a special visit from Granite (Jill’s dog) – outside the library
- Independent work time
Tuesday, June 18th
Readings:
Rockwell, Geoffrey and Stefan Sinclair. “The Measured Words: How Computers Analyze Text” from Hermeneutica.
Now Analyze That! Comparing the Discourse on Race
Optional:
Rybicki, Jan, Maciej Eder, and David L. Hoover, “Computational Stylistics and Text Analysis,” from Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research, pp 123-44.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (HMH 006)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (HMH 006)
- Peer-to-peer discussion/editing of Week 3 blog post (intro text for your sites)
- Introduction to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
- Lesbian and Gay Liberation of Canada project video with Connie Crompton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan
For tomorrow: Register and download 30-day trial license for Oxygen. Take a look at one of the TEI projects listed and analyze the project using our evaluation criteria. If you have time, try reading your assigned James Merrill Linn letter. We will be transcribing them tomorrow so it will be good if you are familiar with the content.
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Projects:
- Women’s Writers Project
- Map of Early Modern London
- Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts
- Livingston Online
- Great Parchment Book
Wednesday, June 19th
Reading:
Flanders, Julia, Syd Bauman, and Sarah Connell, “Text Encoding,” from Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research edited by Constance Crompton, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens. pp. 104-22
Optional: Bruno, Debra, “The National Archives has billions of handwritten documents. With cursive skills declining, how will we read them?” from The Washington Post, June 17, 2019.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (HMH 113)
- TEI: Overview
- Transcription of James Merrill Linn letters
- How to Read 18th Century British-American Writing
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (HMH 113)
- Guest Speaker: Katie Faull, Professor of German and Humanities (presentation slides)
Thursday, June 20th
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (HMH 113)
- Visit and Tour of University Archives and Special Collections
- TEI: The Basics
1:00 – 3:00 PM (HMH 006)
- TEI: Final Thoughts
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Science Quad near Brawley Memorial (Rain location: International Commons, Coleman Hall)
- Weekly ice cream social for student researchers and mentors
Friday, June 21st
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (HMH 113)
- Research Day
- Individual student check-ins