Week 4 – Timelines, Mapping, and More

Blog Post due by Friday, June 23:

Required Prompt: By the end of this week, we will have covered a majority 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 19th

Readings:

Basics of Mapping for the Digital Humanities (you don’t need to do the geo-coding exercise)

Humanizing Maps: An Interview with Johanna Drucker

Building a Thoreau Timeline

Wiseman, Andrew. “When Maps Lie.” (optional)

Pick a project from this list of DH GIS Projects and analyze the project using our evaluation criteria.

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM DSC

• Check in: be prepared to give us a 5 minute (or so) summary of your progress through Week 3.
• Timeline JS
• Storymap JS
• Timemapper
• ESRI Story Maps

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM

• Open work time to create something with one of the tools we’ve covered so far – you  will share these with the group in informal presentations on Wednesday afternoon. This could be work-in-progress for your final product or a chance to experiment and get feedback from your peers.

Tuesday, June 20th

Readings:

Miriam Posner’s  Network Analysis Glossary

Resources:

Miriam Posner’s tutorial on Creating a Network Graph with Gephi

Martin Grandjean’s Gephi tutorial

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

• Open work time

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM DSC

• Networks and other fun stuff with Diane Jakacki
  • Google Fusion Tables
  • Palladio
  • Gephi
• Project Examples
  • Mapping the Republic of Letters
  • Quantifying Kissinger

Wednesday, June 21st

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Library Lab

• Workday Wednesday

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM DSC

• Informal presentations — we’ll share and discuss what you created in Monday afternoon’s open work session.

Thursday, June 22nd

• Field trip to Bryn Mawr College for a digital scholarship summer programs meet-up. Meet at the picnic tables in front of Academic West at 7 AM.
  • 10-11 Welcome & meet-and-greet activities
    11-12 Lightning round presentations
    12-1:15 Lunch
    1:15-2:45 Breakout sessions for feedback (including a session for program organizers)
    2:45-3:00 Closing remarks

Friday, June 23rd

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM DSC

• Post trip discussion