Readings

• “Before and After Students ‘Get It’: Threshold Concepts,” Teaching Commons (Nov. 6, 2013) https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/teaching-talk/and-after-students-get-it-threshold-concepts Estimated Read Time: 9 minutes
• Lisa Spiro, “Defining Digital Social Sciences,” April 9, 2014, dh+lib,  http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2014/04/09/defining-digital-social-sciences/   
  Estimate Read time = 7 minutes
• Lauren F. Klein, Matthew K. Gold, “Digital Humanities: The Expanded Field,” Debates in Digital Humanities 2016 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016) http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates?id=2   Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
• “What is Digital Humanities?” http://whatisdigitalhumanities.com/

Suggested Reading:

• Christine Wolff,  Alisa B. Rod,  Roger C. Schonfeld,”Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015” (Ithaka S+R, April 4, 2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.277685    ♦ Estimate Read time = 1 hour

Morning Session

• Introductions
• Threshold Concepts
• Definitions of Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship
  • Overview of a range of projects
  • Sample Critique

Afternoon Session

• Managing Digital Resources:
  • Zotero: http://zotero.org/
  • Installation tutorial
  • Library of Congress Digital Format Recommendations: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/sustainability.html
  • Reclaim Hosting: http://reclaimhosting.com/
    • Resource: Getting Starting with Reclaim (when you’re ready)
• Web Publishing Platforms: Let goals drive choices
  • WordPress: http://wordpress.com | Support: https://en.support.wordpress.com/
    • Blogging for Historians:
      https://bloggingforhistorians.wordpress.com/guide-to-blogging-main-index/uses-of-blogs-for-historians/
    • Marquette University History Department: https://marquettehistorians.wordpress.com/
  • Omeka: http://omeka.net/ | Support: http://info.omeka.net
    • Resource: https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/up-and-running-with-omeka
    • Resource: https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/creating-an-omeka-exhibit
    • Student projects:
      The Josephine Long Wishar Collections: Mother, Home, and Heaven,
      College of Wooster: http://www.ohio5.org/motherhomeheaven/exhibits
    • Student projects: Project 550, University of Illinois: http://project500.omeka.net/
    • Student projects: Stark & Subtle Divisions: A Collaborative History of Segregation in Boston, UMass-Boston: https://bosdesca.omeka.net/
  • Scalar: http://scalar.usc.edu/scalar/ |
    • Student projects: Food Networks: Media, Technology, Sustainability: Syllabus and projects
      Anita Chan, Univ of Illinois: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/uiuc-food-networks/index