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Project Unconference

Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age

Concept

Define Concept

• Using the Post-It notes provided, create the following categories:

○ Project aim(s) ○ Research question(s) ○ Digital collections/data ○ Methods ○ Evidence of current skills, knowledge and expertise ○ Expected output(s)

Group Discussion

• Within your group, discuss your concept
• Other members of the group can feed back comments on:

○ Strengths of the project (e.g. research questions, solving a problem...) ○ Weaknesses of the project (e.g. data availability, scope and focus...) ○ How to address possible weaknesses

Revise Concept

• Taking into account the risks identified, redraft the original concept using the

categories

• Elect one member of your group to type up the concept in a new document

and shared electronically with the group (either by e-mail or using a cloud- based service, e.g. Google Docs)

Planning

Project Milestones

• 28 January 2019 – identify data by the Data Preparation and Management

workshop, and bring a sample with you to the workshop

• 11 February 2019 – apply what you have learned at the Data Preparation

and Management workshop to your data and bring it with you

• 28 February 2019 – carry out preliminary analysis of your data using the

methods from the Python workshop; evaluate your progress so far

• 11 March 2019 – carry out further analysis; reflect on what story you want to

tell with your data

• 1 April 2019 – carry out analysis on your entire dataset; bring it with you
• 3 May 2019 – present your final results and reflect on the research process

Team Roles and Responsibilities

• Now that you have considered all of the tasks, you will need to think about how to

assign them

• Discuss your current skills, knowledge and expertise and see who would be able

to carry out certain tasks immediately or in the near future (e.g. accessing a dataset)

• Consider who in the group might be able to undertake other tasks (e.g. creating a

list of appropriate software that can be used to undertake analysis, or drafting an ethical approval document if the project might require it, or setting up a project website or blog)

• Note that some roles and responsibilities in the group may need to change over

time, but ensure that you mark on your Post-It notes who will responsible at each milestone

Communication

• As a group, agree on a minimum number of contact points over the period of

this programme and your milestones. Weekly contact is useful, even if only an e-mail exchange or Skype conversation. It doesn’t have to be in person

• Ensure that you each have a record of your group members’ contact details:

full name, e-mail address, telephone number or Skype username

• Ensure that you are all aware of the project milestones and that these are in

your diaries or online calendars

Introducing GitHub

Why GitHub?

• GitHub is useful for recording your activities, writing, code, data and analysis

and acting as a repository for key files so that others can use them

• GitHub is built around Version Control, which distinguishes it from Dropbox,

OneDrive, Google Drive and other online sharing platforms, allowing

○ reversion of changes ○ multiple in-progress versions

• There are different levels of privacy settings, but the default setting is public
• You can utilise (or clone in GitHub-speak) other creators' materials

Built on Git

GitHub in use - by us

GitHub in use - Stylo 'Conventional' course code management: https://github.com/computationalstylistics/stylo So much more: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

GitHub in use – over to you

Register for an account at GitHub: https://github.com/ Install desktop GitHub: https://desktop.github.com/ Try it online: https://github.com/

GitHub in use

GitHub in use

GitHub in use

Resources

Omeka - https://omeka.net (online exhibits, image collections etc.) ImageJ - https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/ (image analysis) Open Street Map - https://www.openstreetmap.org/ (maps) Tropy - https://tropy.org/ (image annotation) Nodegoat - http://nodegoat.net/ (network analysis and visualisation) Open Refine - http://openrefine.org/ (data cleaning) Tableau Public - https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/ (visualisation) Voyant - https://voyant-tools.org/ (text analysis) Slack - https://slack.com/ (collaboration platform) Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ (bibliographic management) DiRT Directory - http://dirtdirectory.org/ (digital tools directory) TAPoR - http://tapor.ca/home (digital tools directory focusing on working with text, including social media)