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.) Boston DH and GLAM community. National, for 2-3 day workshops.

Process

Three levels of potential events: 1 hour informational. 1.5-3 hour practicum (touch something). Longer workshops like TEI, WWP: 2-3 days.

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: Calendar entry on Podio. Syndicated to DSG site that is pushed to library site. At least one DSG-er signs up to be the reporter for big events, commits to writing 2-3 paragraph blog report.

After event, add number of attendees to Podio placeholder.

Generic post-survey in Podio and pushed to DSG website where we save responses for ever and ever.

Lunch for undergrad workshops.

Regular series with branded title?

Yearly Goals

1 largish external speaker? In conjunction with NULab.

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

Possible summer DH event run by graduate students: DSINE (DSI New England.)

Open Access Week?

Semesterly Goals

1 undergrad event (can be lightweight hands-on into to new fun tool/project)

1 perennial topics for grad students: intro to text analysis, personal data management. (These have a higher planning/execution cost on DSG grad students and staff.)

1 aimed at library staff, NU or external. (These have a higher planning/execution cost on DSG grad students and staff.)

1-2 DissCo: largely managed by graduate students.

WWP recurring (weekly internal) -- any others that are public? Markup reading group.

DH Office Hours recurring (weekly) -- informal test bed for new workshop topics.

As needed on project basis: e.g.WordPress for DRS Project Toolkit accepted proposals.

Questions for DSG staff:

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. Are there larger events that require Jen's help, if so they need more planning.

Is this schedule too ambitious?

Where does Open Access Week fall -- do these events happen in the DSG, are they handled through the library?

Potential topics

Drop-in salons

Work on programming languages (Python, others)

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 library staff audience)

What can I legally re-use for academic work? Last week in February is Fair Use Week. (aimed at faculty) Business analytics/feedback analysis? 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.

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, 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)

Publishing platforms.