Week 1: Introduction to Digital Scholarship

June 1-5

Monday, June 1

9:00 AM - Welcome

• Introductions and ice-breaker
• Fellowship overview
• Communication platforms

10:30 AM - ‘24 ‘31 Students Study Race Project

Project overview by Vanessa Davies

12:00 PM – Lunch break

1:00 PM — Community expectations

• What concerns do team members have about the project and the summer?
• How can we maintain a supportive team?

Microsoft Teams

• DSSF Channel for curriculum-related stuff

• 24-31 Channel for project-related stuff

2:30 PM — What is Digital Scholarship?

Slides

• Choose one of the project examples and reflect: who is its audience? Is it making an argument? What kinds of strategies does it use? Are they effective? Post your reflections to the DSSF channel on Teams.

On your own

• Watch How Computers Work videos and take notes
• Send Andrea your profile photo and a short bio to appear on the DS website
• Familiarize yourself with project materials - take notes and develop questions

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Tuesday, June 2

9:00 AM – Check-in

• Icebreaker
• Fill out timesheets

On your own:

1. Read project materials for tomorrow’s discussion:
   • Eugene Corbie, The Crisis, 1924
   • College News, April 9, 1924
   • College News, April 16, 1924
   • College News, April 29, 1931
   • College News, May 6, 1931
2. Command line - start working through one of these two tutorials:
   • Introduction to the command line (LinkedIn Learning tutorial)
   • Command Line for scholars
   • If you have extra time, play Terminus

12:00 PM – Lunch break

1:00 PM - Computational thinking

• Discussion: how computers work videos
• Command line review

3:00 PM – Design Thinking Workshop

Led by Jenny Spohrer (with Educational Technology interns)

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Wednesday, June 3

9:00 AM - Check-in

Teams calendar

10:30 AM - ‘24 ‘31 Discussion

Led by Vanessa Davies

• Teams outlook event

12:00 PM - Lunch

1:00 PM – Introduction to BMC Archives

Allison Mills, College Archivist

3:00 PM - On your own

1. Research - locate 1-2 resources from the college archives that might have relevant info & post them to teams.
2. Add your ideas to the project brainstorming document.
3. Fill out questionaire
4. Reflections on today: what was most interesting to you? What challenges did you encounter engaging with the archival materials?

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Thursday, June 4

Priorities today

• Choose CMS for our exhibition
• Develop the project charter

AM: digital exhibition platforms

• CMS = Content management system
  • Database for organizing and publishing media & text resources and metadata
  • Examples: moodle, wordpress, Drupal, grav
• What kind of CMS do we need?
  • Open source: can be installed (or is already installed) on the DS server
  • Customizable: we are able to design and build the right system for our content and project
  • Support for media metadata
  • Easy to embed external resources (data viz, maps, etc.)
  • Multiple user accounts possible
• Common CMSs for digital exhibitions
  • Omeka
    • Tutorial: Introduction to Omeka
  • Scalar
    • Tutorial: Digital Exhibitions with Scalar
  • Wordpress
• Alternative to a CMS: Wax, a static website generator designed for exhibits
• What will we do with our platform
  1. Add media resources (documents, images, audio) and metadata
  2. Organize media resources into ‘collections’, galleries, and other interactive displays
  3. Embed data visualizations, maps, and other external content
  4. Build text essays that feature media resources
  5. Customize the design of our site (using html, css, and javascript)

12:00 PM - Lunch

1:30 PM - Project Management Workshop

Jenny Spohrer

• Zoom link in calendar invite

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Friday, June 5

9:00 AM - Check-in

11:00 AM - 24-31 Project Kickoff Meeting

• Review charter
• Mini-project plans

12:00 PM - Lunch

PM - one-on-one meetings with Alice

3:00 PM - Digital Competencies

Nathalia Santos

• Zoom link in calendar