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

This session will focus on the intersection between DH projects and social media. Special guest Jim McGrath will be visiting from Brown to talk about his experiences in DH and Social Media. Jim has his PhD from Northeastern, and was the Project Manager on Our Marathon. He was also a former staff member at the DSG!

• 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)