Project 2
Analysis of a Project | DHM280 Spr2024
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This writing project asks you to review a digital project that represents best practices in the field of DH. Build your growing understanding of work in DH by analyzing and reviewing a digital project in Digital Humanities. Your analysis will examine a project to identify its goals, its data, its tools, the methods used, its values, and its results. The end result of your review of a project is to evaluate the project as reflecting best practices in the field of DH. You will produce a website/page, a slideshow, and a short half-page report.
This project is best undertaken by a team of 4-5, although larger teams may be able to succeed and smaller teams are permitted. Due 4/9 presented in class.
Required Content Elements
Your webpage should consist of 11 sections
- (1) Clearly identify the context and goal for this thing, Project 2, that you are doing
- (2) Introduce and Overview Selected Project
- Summary overview of project
- Project details: Who, where, when, what
- Detailed description & analysis of project
- (3) Data in this project:
- input data and sources (WHAT the data is and WHERE it is from)
- What does the project start with?
- output data and formats
- What’s the end result?
- Connection to DH Best Practices: Documentation
- input data and sources (WHAT the data is and WHERE it is from)
- (4) Goals for the project (what it aims to achieve)
- What, specifically, are they trying to accomplish?
- Include audience for each goal
- Link these goals to DH goals for evaluation purposes
- Assess Documentation through this section
- (5) Technologies/Tools used in project
- Summary overview of tools used (2-4)
- Detailed description of one tool used and significance
- Assess Documentation through this section
- (6) Methods used in project
- Overview of steps taken with data and tools between input and results
- Detailed description and analysis of critical step(s)
- Assess Documentation through this section
- (7) Research Values from project that align with DH values
- 2 required
- Description of each value and how it affects project
- (8) Scholarship from project or that reflects project
- (9) Project results (if complete), or anticipated results
- (10) Evaluation of project
- (11) team
Schedule
Project 2 is due at classtime 4/9. Here are the dates and deadlines for the project’s process elements:
3/5 Project Assignment released.
3/7 Discussion of assignment in class
Final assignment Project 2 released
3/19 Invention due in shared drive (Team Name & members, Project)
319-3/22 Conferences 1: Planning
3/22 Teams closed to new members
3/26 Draft 1 due sections 2,3,4,5,6 by classtime
3/26 Peer Review 1: draft feedback in class
3/26-27 Initial Team Assessment due
3/25-29 Conferences 2 draft review
4/2 Draft 2 due (full draft) by classtime
4/2 Peer review 2: draft feedback in class
4/1-5 Conferences 3
4/9 Project 2 Due
4/9 presentation of slideshow in class
4/9-10 Team Assessment due
Finding an appropriate project:
Digital Publishing
- Unghosting Apparitional Histories (bit.ly/unghosting)
Digital Archives
- Bracero Archive (braceroarchive.org)
- dc1968 (dc1968project.com)
Digital Companions
- Becoming Richard Pryor (bit.ly/pryor-peoria)
Social Media
- Documenting the Now (docnow.io)
Text Analysis
- Viral Texts (viraltexts.org)
Text Mining
- Quantifying Kissinger (quantifyingkissinger.com)
Large Scale Visualization
- On Broadway (on-broadway.nyc)
Mapping
- Borderlands Archives Cartography (bacartography.org)
- Baldwin’s Paris (baldwinsparis.com)
Networks
- Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (bit.ly/6-d-bacon)
- Linked Jazz (linkedjazz.org/network)
Photographs/History
Photogrammar https://photogrammar.org
Activism
Listening to Puerto Rico https://listeningtopuertorico.org/
Teams
You may work on the same team as project 1 or form a new team. I can help you find a new/different team if you’d like. Students may choose to work alone on Project 2.
Grades
Your project will be graded according to (a) qualitative content (50%); (b) collaboration (20%); (c) slides and report (10%); and (d) your engagement in the process (20%). A team will share a grade on each component.