DSG Workshop Program and Goals

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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?
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