Introduction to Digital Scholarship & Web Development
June 3-7
Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri
“Brünhilde”, Adolph Edward Weidhaas (1936), from Library of Congress, ppmsca 51533
Resources of Interest
Monday
June 3, 2024
9:00 AM Welcome (Carpenter Library DMCL)
- Introductions
- Icebreaker/team-building activity
9:30 AM What is Digital Scholarship (Alice)
- Slides: Digital Scholarship
- Timeline JS/Storymaps activity using LoC Free to Reuse sets
10:30 AM Program Overview
- Syllabus
- Discuss program expectations
- Timesheet Procedures
- Setting SMART Goals
11:30 AM Installations & Account Set-up
- Microsoft Teams
- Text editor: Visual Studio Code - (see this VS Code tutorial for how to set up)
- Command line setup
- Mac users: install xcode select using these instructions
- PC users: download and install git for windows. Use the default settings.
- Optional: install GitHub Desktop
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:15 PM Project Management Workshop (Canaday 315)
- With DTI Interns
2:45 PM DSSF-DTI Meet-and-Greet (Canaday Staff Lounge, 1st Floor)
3:30 PM Writting with Markdown & VS Code (Alice)
- Markdown Guide
- DSSF Log site - see editing instructions
- GitHub repo for Log site: BMC-EAST/dssf-2024-log
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Tuesday
June 4, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM Command Line (Alice)
11:00 AM Computing Videos
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Working with Git & GitHub (Alice)
2:30 PM Introduction to the Germantown Y Project (Sean)
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Wednesday
June 5, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM HTML Workshop (Sean)
10:30 AM Accessibility Workshop (Guild Conference Room)
- Accessibility basics slides
- Accessibility basics tip sheet: a simple reference for accessibility best practices!
- DigiTech accessibility slides: these slides include information about UX and WCAG, as well as material about universal design
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Staff Picnic & Awards, Sunken Garden
2:00 PM CSS Workshop (Sean)
3:30 PM HTML/CSS Sandbox
4:30 PM Reflections
- Fill out a feedback form about the accessibility basics lesson that you attended today. (You are the user testers for this lesson!)
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Thursday
June 6, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM Web Design (Cameron)
- Slides: Web Design
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Web Deployment (Alice)
3:00 PM Web Design Sandbox
Options:
- Continue working on your wireframe
- Follow GitHub Pages tutorial and set up a Jekyll site
- Start developing your website based on the wireframe you shared
4:15 PM Introductions with Liv Raddatz
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Friday
June 7, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM Review Previous DSSF Projects
- 2017: Visualizing College Women
- 2018: Bryn Mawr History of Women in Science
- 2019: Journeyways to the West
- 2020: ‘24 ‘31 Students Study Race
- 2021: Text Mining The College News
- 2022: Critical Web Design Toolkit
- 2023: The Reactor Room
10:00 AM Site Building
10:30 AM Demos
5 min: Present your wireframe and current website (it doesn’t need to be finished or perfect!)
- Note one element that you are particularly proud of
- Note one “tricky” element that still needs some work (what feedback or assistance would be helpful?)
5 min: Basic feedback from the group
- Let the presenter know what’s exciting about their work
- Volunteer to help with something during the workshop session
11:30 AM Workshopping
- Work in small or large groups to troubleshoot the “tricky” elements from the demos
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Site Building, Informal Workshopping
- 1-on-1 meetings from 1:00 - 3:00 pm (Alice)
- Reading: Picon, Antoine. “Nineteenth-century Urban Cartography and the Scientific Ideal: The Case of Paris.” Osiris 2nd series, Vol. 18, Science and the City (2023), pp. 135-149. Link to reading on OneDrive
4:30 PM Reflections & Weekly Forecast
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve next week?