Slack Thread #Bibliography- We've gotten the ball rolling with readings we think are pretty seminal. What are some that you have found of use in your work?Identify one or more journal articles on Africana Digital Humanities. As part of an evolving bib post an annotated bib of one or more sources beyond what we've included. In essence, tell the group why we ADH folks can't work with out it. Feel welcome to share your own work also.
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LIVE MEET UP @ ZOOM
May 28, 4 - 5 pm
VOICE THREAD #1
Through Voice Thread tell us about your work (research interest), what you hope to gain from participating in Africana DHi, and/or share your web info.
TECH
Each week we will include technical skills you may be interested in. This week we'll start with Command Line, working with the excellent step-by-step lesson plan from the CUNY Grad Center. Some of you may remember ancient versions of the command line, back in the day before computers had graphical interfaces (remember those DOS commands?). To complete this lesson, you need to have installed Visual Studio Code (VS).
Intro to Command Line -- I suggest bookmarking this link, which is also posted on the Institute home page. When you first open up, you'll see a list of files. Scroll down a bit and you'll see the beginning of the lesson.
The command line is not difficult to use but can feel like a foreign language. Understanding how it works gives you more access to a greater variety of computing tools and programs (Read the Intro and Chapter 1 to Meredith Broussard's book to set your mind at ease and understand this approach a bit more).
Step-by-step instructions are provided for both Mac and Windows users. As you get into the lesson, you will see that Windows users should install a particular version of the command line tool, which I believe is a UNIX tool that works more effectively with Visual Studio Code than the non-Unix Windows command line. There is a link to do so embedded in the lesson, along with step-by-step instructions. Be in touch if that installation generates bumps.
Also, as you get into the lesson, you'll run into one command that looks like "-1". It is the letter "l", for line.
I suggest doing this lesson in a couple of short sessions of half-hour to 45 minutes rather than sitting down all at once. Post to the Week 2 channel if you are having trouble or questions. We can figure it out, and it is easy for me to post a short instructional/troubleshooting videos for a specific area.
Also, has anyone used the command line before? For what purpose? Please share how you've used it in the Week 2 channel, so that all of us begin to get a deeper understanding of how and why it is used.
If you are feeling overwhelmed, don't worry -- just absorb what you can. I was in your shoes a year ago, and now am facilitating this Institute! I definitely have a long ways to go myself, but have realized, in putting this together, that I've actually learned tremendous amount over the past year.
NOTE: The end of the Command Line unit refers to GitHub as the next lesson in the workshop. All of our lessons are using GitHub, so you'll soon have a sense of what it looks like. We are going to skip the actual GitHub unit, but if anyone is interested in exploring Git, please take a look at all of their lesson offerings in this section.
GitHub is a sharing platform that is widely used in the tech industry to exchange and update code, and keep track of changes, and for collaborative digtial humanities projects that span departments and institutions. It's sort of like "Track Changes" on massive steroids.
Slack Thread #Bibliography- We've gotten the ball rolling with readings we think are pretty seminal. What are some that you have found of use in your work?Identify one or more journal articles on Africana Digital Humanities. As part of an evolving bib post an annotated bib of one or more sources beyond what we've included. In essence, tell the group why we ADH folks can't work with out it. Feel welcome to share your own work also.
Voice Thread Post Preparing your final presentation, What are your next DH steps (e.g. vision, institute,) ? 5 min. or less
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Live Workshop Session 1, June 3, 2:15-3:15 pm
Bryan Carter- Digital Storytelling
Erika Gault- Text Analysis
Reading resources for Session 1:
In between Live Session 1 and 2 we'll test, together, via Slack a number of tools we've suggested and you've suggested. Through our collaborative knowledge we'll work through your project ideas to locate appropriate tools and next steps!
Live Workshop Session 2, June 7, 8:30-9:30 am
Be prepared to discuss for June 7th Broadcast: What tools, approaches were used? What tools did you try? What hangups, challenges, and roadblocks did you encounter? What did you like? What might you improve or change in relating to your own project?
TECH
Let's begin with a disclaimer. WE WON'T GET TO ALL OF THIS. Text analysis and machine learning require considerable study all on their own. I want to introduce you to some of the options we'll talk about in the live session. I encourage you to try one or (if you're fairly advanced and would like a greater challenge) both. As mentioned last week, both of these lesson are taken from the CUNY DHRI curriculum I (Erika) participated in last year. Its step by step approach provides a helpful introduction. As well, we'll be here to assist you every step of the way.
Click the following for Text Analysis
Click here for Machine Learning
Other Lessons of Interest (though not required)
Voice Thread Post Preparing your final presentation, What are your next DH steps (e.g. vision, institute,) ? 5 min. or less
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Final Live Session, June 11 @ 2:45-3:45
Participants will present their final projects and/or outline their vision for continued Africana Digital Humanities work past the Institute in three minute presentations.
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