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Unit 1 - Data in the Arts and Humanities
Unit 2 - Textual
Unit 3 - Spatial
Unit 4 - Image
Unit 5 - Towards Digital Project Work
Digital Arts and Humanities: innovation, creativity & contexts
| Time/Date | Reading/Material | Activity |
| Tues, 29 Aug (3:35PM-6:15PM) | -Drucker, ch 1, 1-18. -Loudon, “Creativity Can Be the Bridge”, The Conversation, 16 October 2018 -Rogers, So You want to make a DH Website |
Lab on Web Publishing Alternatives: Github Pages, Google Sites, Hypotheses, NYU Web Hosting (WordPress), Notion, Vercel, NYU WP, Humanities Commons. |
| Thurs, 31 Aug (3:35PM-4:50PM) | -Schneider, “Why Digital Humanities”, Politics East Asia, 4 November 2013. -Sneha, “Mapping Digital Humanities in India” CIS Bangalore, 2016, 5-14, 52-57. -Kidd, “Nobody Cares about your blog!” 2022. |
discussion |
Making and Project-Based Thinking
| Time/Date | Reading/Material | Activity |
| Tues, 5 Sept 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Berry/Fagerjord, “On the Way to Computational Thinking,” Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in the Digital Age, 2017, 40-59. -Humanities Data Fundamentals |
Lab: -Working on our own blogs / pushing material to them using [GitHub Desktop] -Introduction to RStudio and [Posit.cloud] (formerly RStudio.cloud) |
| Thurs, 7 Sept 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Posner, “How Did They Make That” 2014. -Chachra, “Why I am Not a Maker” The Atlantic, 23 January 2015. Full text here -The Making and Knowing Project |
discussion |
Digital Literacy Narrative Instructions here Due Date 14 Sept, 20% final grade (in phases).
Data and Metadata in the Arts and Humanities 1
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 12 Feb 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Broman/Woo “Data Organization in Spreadsheets”, The American Statistician, 24 April 2018. -Drucker, ch 2 (19-33) & ch 4 (52-69) -terms: metadata, API, discoverability, federated database, IIIF |
-Lab slides in drive -Notebook: Cultural Heritage By the Numbers (posit.cloud) |
| Thurs, 14 Feb 3:35PM-4:50PM | Continuation of the Notebooks -De Bastion/Mukku, Data and the Global South, 2020. |
discussion |
ASSIGNMENT 1 here Due Date 2 October, 20% final grade.
Textual Bodies
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 19 Sept 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 7, 110-120. -Clark et al, “What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus” Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2022 |
Lab: Text Mining: Easy to Less Easy -Google NGram Viewer -Bookworm -Voyant -AntConc (download in advance of session) |
| Thurs, 21 Sept 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Miller, “Using GPT on Library Collections”, 2023. -Barton, “Experiments Using chatGPT With Archival Collections -Distant Reading: A Conversation with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu |
discussion |
Text as Data
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 21 Feb 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 6, 86-109. -Text as Data podcast -Hardfork, Generative AI is here : who should control it? (podcast) -From The Page, Experiments Using ChatGPT with Archival Collections |
Lab -Notebook: -AntConc (download in advance of session) -Deconstructing the Word Cloud -Identifying Most Distinctive Words in Three (Sets of) Texts: Working with Two Genres: Children’s Literature and Science Fiction |
ASSIGNMENT 2: Exploring Textual Data from a Custom Corpus. Instructions Due November 6, 20% final grade.
Spatial Horizons
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 3 Oct 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 8, 130-150 |
Exploring Spatial Projects -An Introduction to UMap -Kepler -Maps as Data |
| Thurs, 5 Oct 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Brunn / Lodge Mapping Across Academia (in drive, pick one chapter and find a few key points) -Wrisley, “Spatial Humanities”, Porphyra 22(2014): 96-107. |
Signup for discussion of a spatial project |
Map Visualization
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Tues, 7 Mar 3:35PM-6:15PM | Lab: Work on Assignment 2 submitting your preliminary visuals to Google Space | |
| Thurs, 9 Mar 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Krupar, “Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice”, Georgetown Agenda Journal of International Affairs 16.2(2015): 91-101. -Exploring Humanitarian OSM |
- Submit a Google Space response about HOSM |
No class 19-25 October. Have a great fall break!
Image Collections
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| Thurs, 26 October | -WCMA digital project -Selfie City -Photogrammar -MoMA photography |
discussion |
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision #1 : instructions here, Due Date 15 November, 10% final grade.
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| 31 Oct | -Vox, “Why I am Obsessed With these Cheap Paintings of Paris” -Drimmer, “How AI is Hijacking Art History” The Conversation, 1 Nov 2021. |
In class exploration: -Learning about Orange Data Mining |
| 2 Nov | Come by for Nodegoat workshop (A6-009) | Learning about Implementing a Data Model |
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| 7 Nov | Download Orange Data Mining -Looking for Patterns in Image Collections with IMJ |
Lab: Cluster assignment -“How We Teach Computers to Understand Pictures” (Li) |
| 9 Nov | Prepare a few ideas about how you would use what you are learning in IM-UH 1511 in the community related to -how it can be used to understand the past -career opportunities you might see -if project-based learning is valuable to you / understood by others |
Public History Conversation with Professor Thomas Cauvin, room A6-004 |
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| 14 Nov | Classification of Image Datasets with Orange | build a dataset of your own with 5 “similar” images in 5 folders |
| 16 Nov | -Arnold/Tilton, “Distant Viewing: Analyzing Large Visual Corpora” DSH 2019: 1-19 |
discussion of the article & different forms of audio visual DH |
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| 21 Nov | Browse the book: Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images -Check out the WIDH2024 course on Image Analysis |
-Discussion of topics of interest to you -Building an image corpus for Assignment 4 |
| 23 Nov | -Working with Individual Corpora -Presenting the Unproject |
WORK ON REMAINING ASSIGNMENTS & UNPROJECT
WORK ON REMAINING ASSIGNMENTS & UNPROJECT
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
| 12 Dec | none | in-class presentations of our “unprojects” |
| 14 Dec | none | wrap up |