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Revision as of 14:40, 19 February 2015
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 three levels of potential events.
- 1 hour informational.
- 1.5-3 hour practicum (touch something).
- Longer workshops like TEI, WWP: 2-3 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!
In the future:
- Regular series with recognizable/branded title?
Yearly Programming
- 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
- 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.
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)
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?