Linked Open Data Fundamentals
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 (America/Halifax) | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Linked Open Data (LOD) refers to a set of standards and practices that allow data to contribute to the Semantic Web. This introduction will cover how LOD works in theory and practice. It will provide an overview of various projects and tools for using and making it, with an emphasis on cultural data and on the suite of tools offered by the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS). It will also touch on scholarly perspectives on LOD and the challenges and opportunities such data poses for humanities scholars as far as modelling, context, nuance, and honouring difference and specificity are concerned.

This workshop is suitable for anyone desiring an introduction to LOD and the Semantic Web, as well as anyone who is interested in an overview of what LINCS does, considering working with LINCS tools, or would like to know more about preparing data for publication through LINCS.

Led by Kim Martin and Sarah Roger

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Ontologies and Vocabularies
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
This workshop dives into the Semantic Web with its possibilities for humanities research through exploring ontologies and vocabularies for Linked Open Data (LOD): providing an introduction to how they function in relation to data structure and creation, and how they impact data publication, querying, and visualization.

An understanding of the complementary roles played by OWL ontologies and SKOS vocabularies will lead into discussion of how to support critical approaches such as feminism, critical race, and Indigenous studies through ontology and vocabulary choices. Recognizing that ontologies and vocabularies both mobilize and constrain data, we will discuss how to evaluate the suitability of particular ontologies and vocabularies for particular approaches to research. Examples will draw on and also extend beyond the ontologies and tools offered by the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS).

This workshop is suitable for anyone who is looking for a conceptual introduction to ontologies and vocabularies, and assumes familiarity with the core concepts of LOD.

Led by Susan Brown, Alliyya Mo, and Deb Stacey

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Data Cleaning and Reconciliation with OpenRefine
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
OpenRefine is a free and easy-to-learn tool for changing and augmenting data. It has many uses, including cleaning and reconciling structured data (e.g., spreadsheets) in preparation for creating Linked Open Data (LOD). This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to OpenRefine. Using sample data provided in the workshops, participants will be taught how to clean and reconcile. You do not need to have your own structured data to participate.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who is either new to OpenRefine or who is new to using it for cleaning, reconciling, and augmenting structured data. It is especially recommended for anyone who is interested in creating LOD with LINCS and would like a taster of the preliminary steps in the process.

Led by Natalie Hervieux and Sarah Roger

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Playing with LINCS APIs
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
The Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS) has developed several Application fProgramming Interfaces (APIs) that enable developers to access LINCS datasets and tools. In this workshop, we will provide an overview of how LINCS data is modelled as Linked Open Data (LOD), and introduce participants to the LINCS authority service, LINCS API, and the Linked Data Enhancement API. These APIs allow developers to access LINCS services that can reconcile entities, perform named entity recognition (NER), clean and massage RDF data for researcher datasets, and look up entities and their properties in the LINCS datasets.

We will provide an overview of the available functionality and how to use it using example requests sent with Postman and cURL to the APIs. We will also look at a real-world implementation in the form of the LINCS Context Explorer, which is also available as a library for embedding within websites, demonstrating how linked data can enrich websites without modifying the underlying data.

This workshop is suitable for developers, researchers, and students with advanced technical skills who are interested in utilizing LINCS tools, and who know how to use APIs and understand the basics of LOD. We will canvas registrants in advance to discover their interests, and view this as an opportunity for connecting collaboratively with developers interested in leveraging linked data within their web environments.

Led by Alliyya Mo and Kim Martin

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

ResearchSpace: An Overview
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
This workshop will provide an overview of the ResearchSpace environment for linked data. ResearchSpace is a web-based tool for the storage, review, publication, and discovery of Linked Open Data. It allows users to search, browse, visualize, and edit existing LOD stored in the LINCS triplestore. LINCS has adapted ResearchSpace as a publishing platform to support users who want to explore LINCS’s datasets and researchers whose data is published with LINCS. Hands-on work will focus on creating knowledge maps and semantic narratives, and on editing and enhancing data within ResearchSpace

This workshop is suitable for those who would like an introduction to ResearchSpace and for those involved in LINCS projects who would like some hands-on time with some of its more advanced functionalities.

Led by Robin Bergart and Zach Schoenberger

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Respectful Terminologies
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
Lead by the co-leads the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance’s Respectful Terminology Platform Project, this workshop will introduce the work of the RTPP which brings together community projects with a similar goal of respectful terminology for all, and to discuss needs and goals of a national, Indigenous-led platform for respectful terminologies.[full description coming soon]

Instructors: Stacy Allison–Cassin and Camille Callison

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Editing and Publishing in TEI with LEAF-Writer
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
LEAF-Writer is a free web-based semantic editor that supports text encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative and linked open data annotation without users having to learn complex encoding. LEAF-Writer supports all the core functionalities of an XML editor including tagging and adding attributes, validation, and error feedback within a stylesheet-based what-you-see-is-what-you-get interface that can show or hide the tags. Workshop participants will get hands-on experience with LEAF-Writer’s extensive capabilities, choosing among TEI customizations that best support their work in diplomatic and/or semantic markup, adding inline scholarly notes and glosses, and even creating annotations – tagging named entities and associating them with recognized authorities like VIAF and Getty – that do double duty as in-text identifiers and potential contributions to the Semantic Web. The workshop will conclude with an overview of new LEAF and LINCS tools that will allow scholars to publish Linked Open Data created through LEAF-Writer to the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship.

LEAF-Writer runs in both a standalone version that is open to all, and is also a crucial component of the Linked Editing Academic Framework – Virtual Research Environment. This workshop will use the open LEAF-Writer Commons that uses Github for document storage and collaboration.

Led by Diane Jakacki

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

ResearchSpace Consultations
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
This is an opportunity for researchers who have data within LINCS, or prospective LINCS projects, to consult with LINCS developers and UX specialists about how their data works or will work in ResearchSpace. Possibilities for consultation include tuning search pages, reviewing how their data interacts with the entity summary pages, planning how in-progress datasets will appear, and reviewing other functionality as it pertains to the specificities of their data.

This workshop is suitable for current or prospective LINCS researchers.

Led by Robin Bergart, Jordan Lum, and Zach Schoenberger

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Crafting Feminist Futures: Working with Archival Images
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
In this workshop we will work with visual artifacts, translating ideas contained in earlier protest items into the digital vernacular of memes that are so predominant in the present. By exploring different acts of translation between digital and the martial objects of feminist protest we will develop a stronger sense of the affective and rhetorical force of feminist visual culture and develop new tools and methods for advancing feminist critique in visual form for our future research and activism work.

Led by Shana MacDonald

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Crafting Feminist Futures: Materializing Memes
2024-05-08 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
In this workshop we will work with a digital repository of feminist memes and translate them into material form. By exploring these different acts of translation between digital and the martial objects of feminist protest we will as a group develop a stronger sense of the affective and rhetorical force of feminist visual culture and develop new tools and methods for advancing feminist critique in visual form for our future research and activism work.

Led Shana MacDonald

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Introduction to Bibliometrics
2024-05-09 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
This bilingual workshop provides a practical introduction to bibliometrics, covering fundamental concepts and practical applications of publication and citation analysis in the context of research evaluation and science of science studies. Participants will gain hands-on skills in interpreting bibliometric indicators and in collecting, cleaning and analyzing bibliographic metadata from Web of Science and OpenAlex, using VOSviewer and Excel. Ethical issues, such as biases of databases and indicators, as well as responsible research assessment, will be addressed.

Led by Stefanie Haustein

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Working effectively and responsibly with Matching Translation and GenAI
2024-05-09 08:00 - 17:00 | University of Ottawa, 50 University Private, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
In this bilingual workshop, we’ll work hands-on with machine translation and generative AI tools to discuss some of the important issues related to their use. We’ll explore good and not-so-good applications, identify common challenges and try out measures to help us overcome them, discuss possible short- and long-term impacts of using these tools, and explore some strategies for using MT and genAI to maximize benefits and minimize risks.

Led by Elizabeth Marshman

This is a Forward Linking (LINCS)-DHSITE workshop.

Humanités numériques : visualisation de données
2024-05-13 00:00 - 23:59
13 mai 2024 et 17 mai 2024

Atelier sur la sémiologie graphique et l’utilisation d’outils de visualisation.

Les ateliers sont admissibles au certificat si aucun crédit curriculaire n’a été obtenu.

Approaching Media Archaeology from a Digital Humanities Perspective: Introduction, Tools, and Techniques
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May 2024

This workshop enables participants to examine the ways in which media archeology works as an effective research methodology for Digital Humanities (DH) scholarship. Extending from DH scholars such as Alan Liu (2012; 2013) and Matthew Kirschenbaum (2013), this course examines how media archeology is crucial to reckoning with the historical and ongoing targeting of marginalized and vulnerable individuals and populations, in particular those who are racialized and gendered, and sourcing what Ezikiel Dixon-Roman calls “hauntings” (2017) of technical progress, funding, data practices and other historical trajectories within contemporary media technologies.

As outlined by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, media archaeology is cross-disciplinary and nomadic, and its nimbleness and tolerance for multi-pronged analysis allow for a greater understanding of digital media’s “interactivity, navigability, and digital representation and transmission” (3; 2012). Media archeologies thus enable DH scholars to engage in inter-/cross-disciplinary conversations with scholars in science and technology studies, philosophy of science, DH and other disciplines. This course is intended for a wide audience interested in learning about media archeology as a digital humanities method to approach questions of knowledge and power. We welcome undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to explore techniques of analyses that integrate digital humanities tools with historical research.

Instructors: Arun Jacob and Paula Sanchez Nuñez de Villavicencio

Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May 2024

This modular workshop offers both a conceptual overview of Linked Open Data (LOD), a set of standards and practices that allow data to contribute to the Semantic Web, and a series of modules that will introduce participants to working with LOD, from workflows for data cleaning, creation, and publication to interacting with LOD through various interfaces for browsing, querying, and visualization. An initial introduction will cover how LOD works in theory and practice, and provide an overview of various projects and interactive tools. This introduction will be followed by modular sessions focused on various aspects of LOD creation and use, many featuring tools and workflows supported or hosted by the Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship. The modular sessions will allow participants to focus on areas of interest or need, including ones related specifically to creating LOD from structured data (spreadsheets/databases), XML including TEI, and natural language, led by members of the LINCS team.

Those desiring a broad introduction to LOD and the Semantic Web, as well as those wishing to work with LINCS tools or preparing data for publication through LINCS, will benefit from this workshop. Sample data will be provided for those without their own datasets. If you plan to bring your own data, please be in touch with instructors in advance. Attention will be given throughout to scholarly perspectives on Linked Open Data and the challenges and opportunities it poses for humanities scholars as far as modeling, context, nuance, and honouring difference and specificity are concerned.

Topics include: Introduction to LOD fundamentals, projects, and tools; ontologies and vocabularies; data preparation, cleanup, and reconciliation; getting going with the SPARQL query language; exploring, refining, and creating data in ResearchSpace; exporting LOD to other tools; structured data conversion with X3ML; from TEI to LOD with XTriples and the LEAF-Writer XML editor; and how LINCS can create LOD from content in the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory and other instances of LEAF (The Linked Editing Academic Environment).

Instructors: Members of the LINCS Team

Introduction to Python Data Analysis
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May 2024

This course introduces students to core concepts in Python programming, data creation, and data analysis. The course assumes no prior programming or Python knowledge. Students will be introduced to the Python programming language and will use Python to collect, curate, and analyze data. They will create data structures, use programming libraries to manipulate and work with data, and develop their own functions. Students will learn to use APIs to connect their programs to external libraries and data sources and will engage in distant reading of social media.

Instructor: Paul Barrett

Uncovering Hidden Trends & Patterns Using Data Visualization
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May 2024

Effective data visualization can make information consumable, convey important concepts and ideas and even make your arguments more persuasive. In this workshop we’ll examine the data visualization lifecycle. Learn to gather, create, clean, process, visualize, and share complex data: from numerical to text to network.

In this four-part workshop we will cover:

Finding and Getting Data – Learn how to find existing data, and strategies for creating your own.

Cleaning and Processing Data – Understand the process of identifying and fixing dirty data.

Visualizing Data – Use best practices to design, create, and refine data visualizations.

This workshop will have engaging demonstrations and participants will have a chance to practice with data and hands-on exercises related to the Digital Humanities. Participants will be required to bring their own laptop and software installation instructions will be provided prior to the workshop. At the end of the workshop, participants will be comfortable with using various tools to harvest, clean, and visualize. Core tools will include OpenRefine, Exploratory.io, Tableau, Voyant and Gephi.

Instructor: Jennifer Marvin

Text Analysis with Computation and Large Language Models
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May 2024

This workshop will introduce students to the possibilities of analyzing text using computationally focused methods. This includes classic computational text analysis such as topic modelling, sentiment analysis, and word embedding. All of this and more available to everyone via open-source Python Libraries. However what is different is that this class will also delve into a new emergent area: analysis using large language models (LLM). Much is being said presently about LLMs and for better or for worse they are becoming a part of daily life for answering questions and attempting to automate certain tasks. What is novel is a research focused possibility to use LLM for something known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). With RAG an LLM is pre-seeded with a corpus of documents that it will refer to when generating responses. It is possible then to make natural language inquiries against the corpus in order to generate insights. There are limitations to this however as LLMs are notorious for drifting from the truth, but it is worth exploring the capabilities of such systems.

This class will provide learners an opportunity to walk through a complete analysis of a dataset using all of these computational methods to see the full gamut of what is possible. As a concluding activity participants will be encouraged to scaffold their own dataset into this developed framework to see what research insights they can produce.

Instructors: Tim Ribaric and John Fink

Simple 3D Animation for Digital Humanities
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May 2024

One of the most engaging ways to represent multidimensional phenomena — from the tiniest handheld objects to the largest edifices of the built environment and beyond — is through 3D animation. In this course, we will find 3D humanities data and put them in 3D motion to explain humanities concepts. We will focus on the process, workflow, navigation, basic coding, sensitivity, and problem-solving skills that are valuable for telling many kinds of stories in many kinds of humanities contexts.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Navigate a virtual 3D CAD (computer-aided design) interface, model and animate 3D geometry, lights, cameras, and surfaces, acquire and prepare real-world data to build 3D environments, discuss the conceptual and spatiotemporal limits of using 3D data, and develop awareness for the cultural considerations and biases that underlie 3D tools and productions.

Instructor: Ar Ducao

A Safer Internet for All: Self-Care and Community Care in Online Spaces
2024-05-14 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 14th-17th May

What is digital violence? How do our online communities replicate and amplify the complex racialized, gendered, and intersectional power dynamics of our offline communities? What are strategies for prevention and response? Digital violence has intensified since the beginning of the global pandemic. This array of harmful behavior includes (but isn’t limited to) sharing intimate images without consent; doxing; hijacking online events; impersonation; and cyberstalking. Digital violence impacts all communities, but new adults most commonly experience online abuse. This course will focus on you and your online communities. You will identify what online privacy protection is relevant and necessary to you. Your culminating project will then ask you to engage in the practice of visionary fiction to envision your ideal online community. What practices of care make an online community safe and inviting for people who are most vulnerable when participating? Our time together will inspire, empower, and energize us to create and participate in online communities characterized by strong cultures of consent and liberated participation in online spaces.

Instructor: Chelcie Juliet Rowell

Getting Started (Technical)
2024-05-23 00:00 - 23:59 | LEMDO
This month we are focusing on getting started on a LEMDO edition. In this technical webinar, LEMDO Project Manager, Navarra Houldin, will guide new editors through the process of being set up in the LEMDO Subversion repository. LEMDO Director Janelle Jenstad will be present to support editors in breakout rooms and to answer questions.

Intro to Video Editing with iMovie or Microsoft ClipChamp
2024-05-23 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Victoria Libraries, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Are you a UVic student, faculty, or staff member and want to learn more about video editing? If so, then this hands-on workshop will give you an introduction to video editing using either iMovie or Microsoft Video Editor. Once you’ve completed this session you’ll create and edit a video including:

Create a New Project

Import video from an SD card

Trim & Split video clips

Insert transitions/cards between clips

Create Title and Credits

Mute or adjust the audio volume in video clips

Video Export and publishing options

Advanced learning outcomes for participants who want to do more:

Import audio

Make a slow-motion video clip

Crop a video clip

Create a green screen video (iMovie only)

Instructors: Dani K. Johnson and Rich McCue

Humanités numériques: fondements disciplinaires (École d'été sur les Humanités numériques)
2024-05-27 00:00 - 23:59
27 mai 2024 – 1 juin 2024

Approches théoriques basées sur les fondements disciplinaires au cœur des humanités numériques.

Les ateliers sont admissibles au certificat si aucun crédit curriculaire n’a été obtenu.

Transcription with Whisper.ai and Microsoft 365
2024-05-27 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Victoria Libraries, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Why use transcription services?

Automated transcription services can help save time in qualitative research. While there are many options available, Microsoft 365, Whisper Transciption, and Zoom are services that are free for UVic students and faculty. When choosing transcription services to use, one should also take into account the pros, cons, and research ethics considerations that are specific to each service.

Learning Objectives

Describe the benefits and use cases for transcribing audio with Microsoft 365, Whisper.ai, and Zoom compared to other transcription technologies

Setup (if necessary) and open Microsoft Word 365 in a web browser on your computer (not the installed Word application)

Setup (if necessary) and open Whisper Transcription on your computer

Describe the benefits and use cases for transcribing audio with Whisper.ai compared to other transcription technologies

Transcribe an audio file

Export transcription in two or more different formats

Instructor: Rich McCue

Humanités numériques: langages de programmation
2024-06-03 00:00 - 23:59
3 juin 2024 et 7 juin 2024

Atelier sur les concepts fondamentaux d’un langage de programmation en explorant son application aux sciences humaines

Les ateliers sont admissibles au certificat si aucun crédit curriculaire n’a été obtenu.

[Foundations] Text Encoding Fundamentals and their Application
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Canada
For those new to the field, this is an introduction to the theory and practice of encoding electronic texts for the humanities. This workshop is designed for individuals who are contemplating embarking on a text-encoding project, or for those who would like to better understand the philosophy, theory, and practicalities of encoding in XML (Extensible Markup Language) using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. No prior experience with XML is assumed, but the course will move quickly through the basics. During the course we will provide online space for the practical application of project planning and technical knowledge acquired throughout the week.Related Materials: earlier syllabus and supporting materials (large document); instructor biographies

This is a hands-on course. Consider this offering in complement with, and / or to be built on by: Advanced TEI Concepts / TEI Customization; Code the X-Files using the XML Family of Languages; Digital Documentation and Imaging for Humanists; Conceptualising and Creating a Digital Documentary Edition; A Collaborative Approach to XSLT; Geographical Information Systems in the Digital Humanities; Making Connections: The Semantic Web for Humanities Scholars; Designing Digital Publications and more!

[Foundations] Introduction to Computation for Literary Studies
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Canada
This course demystifies, and offers a survey of, the computational tools and techniques being used for literary studies. Aimed at novice and DH-curious scholars and practitioners, participants gain familiarity with fundamental concepts and methods so that they can better appreciate the potential of computer-assisted critical techniques. Classes are divided between discussions of key theoretical considerations and practical instruction in a selection of tools. Participants are exposed to macro-analytical techniques like most frequent word analysis, collocation, stylometry, topic modelling, digital mapping, and network analysis, gaining experience with environments like Voyant, R, Carto, Palladio, and Gephi. The course also details best practices relating to the preparation and management of digital corpora. Having completed this course, participants will have a better understanding of how computational methods can be used to produce quantitative data for use in the support of literary studies. More advanced expertise can subsequently be developed at any one of a number of DHSI offerings dedicated to particular methods.

This course combines lecture, seminar, and hands-on activities. Consider this offering in complement with, and / or to be built on by: Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities; Stylometry with R: Computer-Assisted Analysis of Literary Texts; Fundamentals of Programming/Coding for Human(s|ists); Understanding Topic Modeling; Data Mining For Digital Humanists; and more!

[Foundations] Race, Social Justice and DH: Applied Theories and Methods
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Canada
Over the past five years we have seen a proliferation of academic job advertisements, publications, and discussions demonstrating ways in which race and social justice can be engaged in digital humanities scholarship. Interest by students and local communities in technological advancements through Web 2.0, social media, and mobile phones are permitting new forms of research and practice. #transformDH, #DHpoco, #femDH, and #BlackLivesMatter have helped to challenge the all-white discourse, often dominated by scholars in the disciplines of English and history, that is too often found in digital humanities. What happens to students in digital humanities methods classes who bring non-traditional bodies into this world? There have been discussions how to insure that syllabi and materials for digital humanities classes are inclusive – specifically, how an introductory DH methods class keeps race, social justice, and inclusivity as cornerstones in their pedagogy. The traditional divides witnessed in the tech world will only be replicated in the world of both undergraduate and graduate DH courses without attention to race, social justice, etc. This week-long class will show how, through an interdisciplinary intersectional and CRT framework, both race and social justice can be central to any DH teaching, pedagogy, and practice. The course will pay special attention to queer theory, critical ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, WOC/Black feminism, Indigenous studies, and disability studies as they currently help to reshape digital humanities teaching and methods across our university/college classrooms.

This course combines lecture, seminar, and hands-on activities. Consider this offering to build on: Fundamentals of Coding / Programming for Human(s|ists); Web Development / Project Prototyping for Beginners with Ruby on Rails. Consider this offering in complement with and / or to be built on by: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication; Digital Humanities with a Global Outlook; Digital Indigeneity; Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements; Queer Digital Humanities; Surveillance and the Critical Digital Humanities; Anti-Colonial DH Pedagogy; and more.

[Foundations] Intersectional Feminist Digital Humanities: Theoretical, Social, and Material Engagements
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Canada
Although there is a deep history of feminist engagement with technology, projects like FemTechNet argue that such history is often hidden and feminist thinkers are frequently siloed. In order to address this, the seminar will offer a set of background readings to help make visible the history of feminist engagement with technology, as well as facilitate small-scale exploratory collaboration during the seminar. Our reading selections bring a variety of feminist technology critiques in Media Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Science and Technology Studies, and related fields into conversation with work in Digital Humanities. Each session is organized by a keyword – a term that is central to feminist theoretical and practical engagements with technology – and will begin with a discussion of that term in light of our readings. The remainder of each session will be spent learning about and tinkering with Processing, a programming tool that will allow participants to engage in their own critical making processes.

Pushing against instrumentalist assumptions regarding the value and efficacy of certain digital tools, we will be asking participants to think hard about the affordances and constraints of digital technologies. While we will be engaging with a wide range of tools/systems in our readings and discussions, we anticipate that the more hands-on engagement with Processing will help participants think about operations of interface, input, output, and mediation. In addition to the expanded theoretical framework, participants can expect to come away with a new set of pedagogical models using Processing that they can adapt and use for teaching at their own institutions.

This course combines lecture, seminar, and hands-on activities. Consider this offering to build on: Fundamentals of Coding / Programming for Human(s|ists); Web Development / Project Prototyping for Beginners with Ruby on Rails. Consider this offering in complement with and / or to be built on by: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication; Digital Humanities with a Global Outlook; Digital Indigeneity; and more.

[Foundations] DH for Chairs and Deans
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-07 23:59 | Canada
Intended for university administrators who seek an understanding of the Digital Humanities that is both broad and deep, this offering establishes a cohort that [1] meets as a group for three dedicated sessions before the first day of DHSI (on the Sunday beforehand) and several dedicated session midweek to survey and discuss pragmatic DH basics and chief administrative issues related to supporting DH and those who practice it at their institution, [2] allows those enrolled to audit (as non-participatory observers, able to go from class to class) any and all of the DHSI courses, and [3] individually engages in consultation and targeted discussion with the instructors, who are the first three chairs of the international Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO), speakers and consultants contributing to the course, and others in the group outside of course time during the institute.

This is a seminar style / audit-oriented course. Consider this offering in complement with, and / or to be built on by: Scholarscapes, Augmented Dissemination via Digital Methods; Models for DH at Liberal Arts Colleges (& 4 Yr Institutions); Out-of-the-Box Text Analysis for the Digital Humanities; Digital Pedagogy Integration in the Curriculum; Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Research and Public Engagement; Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCShop); Professionalizing the Early Career Digital Humanist: Strategies and Skills; and more!
