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Getting Started with Digital Humanities: A Collaborative Workshop

Hello! I am Emily Friedman Associate Professor of English, Auburn University. Director, 18thConnect.org You can find me at @friede 2

Credits ❖ Bethany Nowviskie UVA Scholars Lab, Digital Library Federation at CLIR ❖ Kirstyn Leuner Stainforth Library Project ❖ Marie-Louise Coolahan Perdita Project 3

What we will do in this session: Outline Workshop Where to Go! Walkthrough of initial Learn from each other Options for hosting, questions you will want (as potential future disseminating, and to ask about your users!) what elements peer-reviewing your project (in order of to focus on, and digital projects. importance). “phase” the project. (including when ECRs might want to “go live” with their DH work) 4

1 Strategy Vision, purpose 5

2 Audience Who is this for? 6

3 Scope Deciding boundaries 7

4 Structure what elements need to be in place? 8

Examples of Elements ❖ Database ❖ Full text ❖ Images ❖ Visualizations (maps, graphs, charts) 9

5 Skeleton information design 10

wireframing & whiteboarding 11

16:9 12

16:9 4:3 13

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6 Surface aesthetics 15

7 Platform Where and how will you share your data? 16

Some Options: ❖ GitHub ❖ WordPress site ❖ Content Management Software (CMS) ❖ Custom-built from scratch website 17

8 Interoperability How do you want your work to be found? 18

Aggregation, not aggravation. Making digital Place your screenshot here resources more discoverable, regardless of size. 19

18thConnect. org 842,291 Peer-reviewed digital objects 59 Federated sites (including ECCO, Adam-Matthews, etc.) 20

metadata escribes other data 21

18thConnect.org and ARC uses RDF (Resource Description Framework) ❖ title ❖ text ❖ source ❖ image Examples of fields that ❖ subject ❖ fulltext 18thConnect/ARC incorporates from ❖ type ❖ language federated sites: ❖ discipline ❖ genre ❖ date 22

Thanks! Any questions? You can find me at @friede & inquiries@18thconnect.org 23

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