Outline
Digital Project Planning
What is the goal of your Digital Scholarship project?
We will discuss Digital Humanities projects as Digital Scholarship Project
Learn what the components or layers of a Digital Humanities project are.
How do you find data to use to answer research questions?
Understand descriptive metadata and the rationale for its use
Digital Pedagogy
If you are involving students how does that affect your planning plan?
How do you incorporate Digital Pedagogy into a Digital Project?
3. RAFIA MIRZA
DIGITAL HUMANITIES LIBRARIAN
RAFIA@UTA.EDU
PEACE OSSOM WILLIAMSON
DIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH DATA SERVICES
PEACE@UTA.EDU
4. OUTLINE
• Digital Project Planning
• What is the goal of your Digital Scholarship project?
• We will discuss Digital Humanities projects as Digital
Scholarship Project
• Learn what the components or layers of a Digital
Humanities project are.
• How do you find data to use to answer research questions?
• Understand descriptive metadata and the rationale for its use
• Digital Pedagogy
• If you are involving students how does that affect your
planning plan?
• How do you incorporate Digital Pedagogy into a Digital
Project ?
5. WHAT IS A DIGITAL
SCHOLARSHIP/ DIGITAL
HUMANITIES PROJECT?
6. DIGITAL HUMANITIES
What is it?
“The Digital
Humanities are an
area of research,
teaching, and
creation concerned
with the intersection
of computing and the
disciplines of the
humanities.”
Text via wikipedia Image via Calvinius
7. DIGITAL HUMANITIES AKA…
Humanities Computing
(Around since the 1940s)
Digital Humanities (term
attributed to this text)
Humanistic computing
(HCI)
Digital Humanities Praxis
(dh praxis)
Computational Humanities
(More involved in creating
software)
Computational Turn
A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John
Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
8. RESOURCES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES @ THE UTA
LIBRARIES
http://libguides.uta.edu/digitalhumanities
9. DIGITAL HUMANITIES TOOLS
“What Digital Humanists mean by ‘Tools’
is extremely loose and inclusive: in
essence, it means any kind of application
or software that helps you get the job
done, whether gathering, processing, or
presenting your research. ”
- matthew milner
Link to Guide on Digital Humanities
Tools
12. LAYERS OF DH PROJECTS
1
• Sources
• You need digital data to do DH
2
• Processing or Manipulation
• What is done to the data (usually using some type of software or tool)
3
• Presentation
• DH projects live in the digital realm, online.
13. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO FOR EACH LAYER
OF YOUR DH PROJECT ?
1. Do you need to
access data or
create data?
• Digitization support
• Data Collection
2. Do you need to
do something to
the data to make it
machine readable?
• Software access
• DH tools
• Cleaning Data
3. Do you need to
get it online?
• Server access
• DoOO
• CMS
14. HOW DID THEY MAKE THAT DH PROJECT?
-MIRIAM POSNER
• Digital Humanities and the
Library: A Bibliography
• Projects
• How did they make that?
• “Many students tell me that
in order to get started with
digital humanities, they’d like
to have some idea of what
they might do and what
technical skills they might
need in order to do it. Here’s a
set of digital humanities
projects that might help you
to get a handle on the kinds of
tools and technologies
available for you to use.”
• How Did They Make That?
The Video!
17. PROJECT PLANNING
What is it that you want to project
to do?
Are you just experimenting with
a tool or methodology?
Answer a research question?
Serve a pedagogical purpose?
Plan backwards from there
21. Examples:
Audio
Oral history databases
Notes
Bibliographies
Geospatial
Place names in music,
poetry etc.
Textual
Digital corpus
DATA ARE MORE THAN NUMBERS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data
33. EXAMPLE OF STANDARDIZATION RULES
Image via Music Metadata Style Guide V. 2 by the Music Business Association’s Digital Supply Chain and Operations
Workgroup
36. “We thought this was an obvious
case of public data scraping so
that it would not be a legal
problem,” Kirkegaard wrote to
Fortune.
http://fortune.com/2016/05/18/okcupid-data-research/
37. Questions to ask
1. How to ensure the
right to consent for
individuals and
communities
2. How to preserve
privacy, security, and
ownership around
their data
38. confidentiality – protection of
information about a person
privacy – protection of the
person
https://www.abodo.com/blog/tolerance-in-america/
43. THE DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION
(DAVIS) WORKSHOP SERIES PROVIDES
STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF WITH
OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ABOUT DIGITAL
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR WORKING WITH
VARIOUS TYPES OF DATA.
47. WHAT IS OMEKA?
Omeka is a web publishing platform and a content
management system (CMS)
Omeka was developed specifically for scholarly content, with
particular emphasis on digital collections and exhibits.
Omeka has been used by many academic and cultural
institutions for its built-in features for cataloging and
presenting digital collections.
Developing content in Omeka is complemented by an
extensive list of descriptive metadata fields that conforms to
Dublin Core, a standard used by libraries, museums and
archives
This additional layer helps to establish proper source
attribution, standards for description and organization of
digital resources–all important aspects of scholarly work in
classroom settings but often overlooked in general blogging
platforms.
via Anthony Bushong and David Kim, Intro to Digital Humanities: What is Omeka?
OMEKA SUBJECT GUIDE
Privacy, reuse, etc. Copyright. Open web different than blackboard (fair use) Reuse : [copyright librarian] Rafia, Jody
However computing intersects with your disciplines is digital scholarship
Humanities Computing as Digital Humanities
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/3/000065/000065.html
The terminological change from "humanities computing" to "digital humanities" has been attributed to John Unsworth and Ray Siemens who, as editors of the monograph A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004), tried to prevent the field from being viewed as "mere digitization."[22]Consequently, the hybrid term has created an overlap between fields like rhetoric and composition, which use "the methods of contemporary humanities in studying digital objects,"[22] and digital humanities, which uses "digital technology in studying traditional humanities objects".[22] The use of computational systems and the study of computational media within the arts and humanities more generally has been termed the 'computational turn'.[23]
In 2006 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the federal granting agency for scholarships in the humanities, launched the Digital Humanities Initiative (renamed Office of Digital Humanities in 2008), which made widespread adoption of the term "digital humanities" all but irreversible in the United States.[24]
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijshc “'Social and humanistic computing' stands for holistic approaches to human/social-centric design of pervasive, ubiquitous systems, providing/supporting a new era of human/social experience going beyond traditional perceptions of the interaction of humans with IT/IS, exploiting social/humanistic research for the provision of high-tech services and human-centric systems promoting social sustainability development.”
“Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)
“his new 'computational turn' takes the methods and techniques from computer science to create new ways of distant and close readings of texts (e.g. Moretti).” https://sites.google.com/site/dmberry/
Spatial Turn http://spatial.scholarslab.org/spatial-turn/what-is-the-spatial-turn/
Talk to subject experts, read papers, and study accompanying documentation
“…As information has become increasingly digital, metadata is also used to describe digital data using metadata standards specific to a particular discipline.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
Data ethics
And gaps in data
This is not the result of a security breach. This is data placed openly online, publicly available. The data is indeed public—sort of. Some of it like bios, photos, age, gender, sexual orientation is easily accessible through basic Google searches. Answers to some 2,600 of the service’s most popular dating survey questions are restricted to people who are logged into the site and who have answered the same questions.
Real names and pictures were not included but could be easily investigated from their usernames or a combination of that with a birthday or a location.
These issues should be balanced with the need to create meaningful impact with a project or a story. As news stories incorporate more (personal) data than ever in their work, journalists face several challenges related to the responsible use of this data – sometimes without being aware of them
So, how was the OKCupid situation a privacy concern? people have a certain expectation of the final use of the information that they share. Once the receiver changes (a person reading a reply to their tweet versus Buzzfeed readers) or the transmission changes (clicking on a profile in OKCupid versus searching a data storehouse), it creates a perceived violation of privacy.
Getting informed consent is not easy (and is often impossible) in the kind of reporting, which heavily relies on social media.
Here is how you can begin to see patterns in data
What is a numerical way to describe data?
Frequency – how often a value exists (e.g., a name or gender) 50 women, 38 men, 2 other, 10 unknown
Rank from lowest to highest – list albums’ use of personal pronouns in order of high to low
Average - Measure of central tendency
Variability – how different or similar scores are to each other (range, standard deviation)