DH Open Office Hours

General Notes

For the Fall semester, the plan is to have one session a week, lasting one hour. Preferably the DSC Media Lounge when it's available. They will be on Wednesdays from 1 PM - 2 PM. Each session will have a focus, but projects and student discussion will always take priority. There will be discussion questions to help at each section.

Outreach

Idea of an "Open Office Hours Roadshow" component where, once a semester, we do a version of Office Hours in a room in a particular department (Holmes Hall in English / History, etc.)

We're trying to be more exclusive of CAMD, so we'll be having a series of Open Office Hours dedicated to things like social science and journalism.

We also eventually hope to have some resource people in to do Q&As about things like GIS and data viz.

Schedule

Fall 2015

Sept 16th: Welcome to DH! This session will focus on and into to Northeastern's DH scene.

• What do you want from the DH community?
• What experience do you have with DH?
• Do you have any project plans?

September 23rd: DH Tools This session will focus on the tools commonly used in DH projects.

• Do you have a particular favorite tools or platform? Why do you like it?
• What tools would you like to learn to use, or resources you would like to have available to you?
• What do current DH tools lack?

September 30th: DH and Social Media

• What are the positives and negatives of crowdsourcing information, IE Infinite Ulysses and similar projects?
• What strategies are effective for getting more participation in a crowdsourced project?
• What does social media offer to DH that was missing in traditional academia?

October 7th: DH and Open Access Questions to come.

October 14th: No hours because of event.

Archive

Spring 2015

• Topics
• Departments with Presence
• Discussion Leaders
• Guest Speakers

Paul Fyfe (NC State)