DSG Workshop Program and Goals

Goals

• Public awareness of DSG projects and methodologies.
• Help attendees with particular tools or skills.

Audiences

• NU community (undergrad, grad, faculty).
• Regional: Boston/New England DH and GLAM community.
• National and international, for 2-3 day workshops.

Process

There are several types of potential events. They may be open to the public, or only open to certain groups.

• Presentation/panel/demonstration (formal, usually 1-1.5 hours)
• Working group (informal, hack on a thing together, DH writing sessions, usually 1 hour)
• Discussion group (informal, includes encoding reading groups or DH Office Hours, usually 1 hour)
• Practicum (formal, hands-on, leave with new skills, usually 1.5-3 hours).
• Extended workshops (TEI, WWP: 1 or more days)

There are two modes of events: formal and informal. Formal might require agenda, larger publicity. Informal skill-share might often come from DH Office hours or DissCo.

Ideal process:

• Create calendar entry on Podio.
• Which is automatically syndicated to DSG calendar and then pushed to library site.
• At least one DSG-er signs up to be the reporter for "bigger" events, and commits to writing 2-3 paragraph blog report.
• After event, add number of attendees to Podio placeholder.
• After event, send participants to our generic post-event survey (to be developed). This could be in Podio, to capture responses there, and surfaced on the DSG website.
• When possible and appropriate, provide lunch or snacks! Library events office uses Sweet Tomatoes in Curry Center: order takeout, pick up at certain time. Count 2-3 slices per person.

In the future:

• Regular series with recognizable/branded title?

Yearly Programming

• 1 conference proposal writing session approximately 3 weeks before Digital Humanities/ADHO conference proposals due -- generally start of October?

• 1 largish external speaker -- in conjunction with NULab?

• 2 bookend get-to-know you events: September kickoff and April/May end-of-year wrap-up. Late afternoon pizza and potluck might work best.

• 1 Wikipedia editing party.

• Summer DH event run by graduate students: DSINE (DSI New England.)

• Open Access Week events.

Semesterly Goals

• 1 undergrad event. (Lightweight hands-on into to new fun tool/project)

• 1 "perennial topics" for grad students: intro to text analysis, personal data management. (More extensive planning/execution required of DSG grad students and staff.)

• 1 aimed at library/archives audience, NU-only or external. (More extensive planning/execution required of DSG grad students and staff.)

• 1-2 DissCo events: largely managed by graduate students.

• Weekly DH Office Hours -- open to the public, informal test bed for new workshop topics.

• Additional workshops as needed on project basis: e.g.WordPress for DRS Project Toolkit accepted proposals.

Potential topics

Drop-in salons

• Work on programming languages (Python, others)
• Regular expressions
• Could be internal only, or open to the public

1 hour informational

• programming languages overview
• data management
• WordPress drop in prior to DRS Project Toolkit deadline
• OJS: “so you want to publish an open access journal…” Aimed at faculty, lunchtime brown bag.
• What is Network Science? (Or Omeka, Voyant, topic modeling, text analysis?) What can you do with these new tools and your administrative data? For a more library staff audience:
• What can I legally re-use for academic work? Last week in February is Fair Use Week. (More aimed at faculty.)
• Business analytics/feedback analysis? Could include other staff on campus. Non-research oriented use of new methods/tools.
  • New data visualization person is a part of this: help with administrative data analysis.
• Publishing platforms/ a look behind the curtain of publishing a journal.

1.5 - 3 hour practicum

• regular expressions (WWP interest in this, targeted at grad students with concrete project need)
• XPath
• Schematron
• digital archives and video games (aimed at undergrad)
• Wikipedia and advanced Wikipedia (and the WWP)
• archiving personal data, data management ("Entire History of You" version aimed at undergrads)
• Twitter archiving (aimed at undergrad)
• text analysis with Voyant (i.e., easy text analysis for everyone)
• DH teaching tools
• OJS
• Blogging with WordPress, widgets
• Omeka
• Data analysis for administrative units
• project contributory/hands-on events where people pitch in to help out with a project and learn a skill

2-3 day workshops

• TEI and WWP, possibly TAPAS or ECDA.
• Summer DH event run by graduate students: DSINE (DSI New England.)

External speakers

• DH-ish book talks (as part of library's Author Talks series?), e.g. new Debates in the Digital Humanities or Raw Data is an Oxymoron.

• Many wonderful local options (Dan Cohen, John Unsworth, more)

DRS Training Series

Program 1 - Introduction to the DRS (1 hour)

Initial programs will only be open to Library Staff. Later programs will be offered to Northeastern Faculty, Staff, and Students

This program will serve as a general overview of the DRS as a tool. It will cover the history of the DRS (briefly), its intended uses and functionality, and what it can help users to accomplish in their own work. Two or three current projects will be reviewed as examples of how the DRS is being used in the NU community. There will also be a demonstration of the site, including interface features, uploading and downloading content, and My DRS. This program will either be held in a room with computers, or laptops will be provided, and participants will be encouraged to bring their own technology. Participants will be encouraged to follow along on their own machines.

Program 2 - DRS Training - Discovering materials in the DRS (1 hour)

Initial programs will only be open to Library Staff. Later programs will be offered to Northeastern Faculty, Staff, and Students

During this hour-long program Library staff will learn about:

• Interface features
• The DRS community and collection structure
• The difference between managed and unmanaged content
• Discovering content by searching and browsing
• Accessing content (Downloads, Download Queues, Sets)

Program 3 - DRS Training - Getting materials into the DRS (1 hour)

Initial programs will only be open to Library Staff. Later programs will be offered to Northeastern Faculty, Staff, and Students

During this hour-long program Library staff will learn about:

• Uploading single files (accepted files types, upload form, required metadata, etc.)
• Setting access rights
• Uploading multiple files
• Bulk ingestion for large projects

Program 4 - From IRis to the DRS (1 hour)

Open to Northeastern Faculty, Staff, and Students

This session is designed to help current users of the Library's institutional repository, IRis, learn about the Digital Repository Service. The DRS will replace IRis as our repository for theses, dissertations, research publications, faculty presentations, and other University materials starting in July 2014. This session will discuss the differences between the two systems, and how IRis users can transition to the DRS. It will also offer one-on-one support for changes to migrated objects.

Copyright Training Series

(Note: Some of these topics are not directly connected to the DSG, but have intersections)

Program 1 - Introduction to Copyright and Fair Use in Academic Contexts

Program 2 - Copyright and Fair Use for Digitization Projects (1 hour)

Program 3 - Copyright and Fair Use in Audio and Video Projects (1 hour)

Program 4 - Copyright and Fair Use in Online Teaching (1 hour)

Program 5 - Copyright and Fair Use in Your Dissertation or Master's Thesis (1 hour)

...What else?

Questions for DSG staff

• Is this schedule too ambitious, or not ambitious enough?
• Are there goals for the TEI/WWP regarding paid workshops? E.g., "Hold one 2-3 day TEI workshop per semester."
• Are there goals for TAPAS or the ECDA?
• What rises to the level of long-term planning, so that Jen/library puts out very large publicity push? We can publicize ourselves at any time via: DSG twitter, Snell twitter, blog post on lib website home page, often rotating feature. If there are larger events that require Jen's help, they need more planning.
• Where does Open Access Week fall -- do these events happen in the DSG, are they handled through the library? Does that matter?
• The DSG also hosts many regular working meetings (WWP, DHQ, etc.) that are largely internal. Though may have special topics, and be open to larger audiences, such as the markup reading group or regular expressions workshop. Are these open and counted as "events" within this plan?