Note: The usual weekly schedule for this course is as follows:
Friday night before: unit and weekly introductory videos published. Any other weekly material marked TBA posted. View intro videos before you do the readings.
Tuesday: Discussion leaders post discussion posts about the readings on the student blog
Thursday: Everyone else posts responses on the student blog
Friday: Dr. S. will post a summary video most weeks. On the Fridays at the end of a unit “Labs and Building Blocks” assignments are due.
All students should do the assignments listed, except for anything under an “Additional Assignments” bullet point. “Additional Assignments” are optional for undergraduates and required for graduate students.
You can do any of the work for this class before the due dates as long as all the links are posted and you’ve done the prep work.
Assignments may change or shift depending on class needs. Check back here each week for the most up-to-date schedule.
Extra note: I still need to add milestone assignments for the project. Those will be added soon have been added as of 8/31!
Unit A: What is Cultural Heritage Data?
Week 1 8/23-28
Note: this week diverges from the weekly schedule, since everything is new, and you’re just getting started.
Introductory Video(s)
- Introduction and Welcome! (10 min)
- Navigating the Course and Websites (17 min)
- Grades and Grading (14 min)
- Special message from Snoop Dogg
- Week 1 Themes and Issues Lecture (13 min)
- Week 1 Assignment Intro (4.5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Read the syllabus (this whole website)! There is a syllabus assignment due by Friday (earn one token for being on time – a very brief survey/poll- should take 5 min)
- Introduction & Section 1 only of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Cultural Heritage
- Lecture “Cultural Heritage Present and Future” by Columba Stewart (the annual National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson lecture for 2019) ~47 minutes
- Go to the CCP
- Read the entire landing page (scroll all the way down)
- Read the “About the Conventions” page under the Conventions menu tab
- Read the “About” page
- (please always refer to it as the CCP and the conventions as “Black Conventions” on your websites and the student blog; thank you)
- Go to the World Shakespeare Bibliography and the Folger Shakespeare Library
- Read both landing pages entirely
- Read the About page of the WSB
- Read the Online Resources page of the FSL (click around if you like!)
Week’s Assignments: Getting to know each other
- Tuesday noon Central time: Join the Private Student Discussion Blog (earn one token for being on time)
- Write an introductory blog post by noon Wednesday (earn one token for being on time)
- By Friday noon
- respond to discussion questions on private student blog
- respond to at least 3 intro posts by other students on the blog (make a connection with the other person in some way)
- Don’t forget to do the syllabus assignment!
Weekly Summary Video
TBA
Week 2 8/30-9/3
Introductory Video(s)
- Week 2 Themes and Issues Lecture (26 min)
- Week 2 Assignments Review (5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Christof Schöch, “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities”
- Risam, Introduction
- “Dear Data” Project Introduction
- Websites
- Livingstone Online (mentioned in Risam)
- Don’t know Dr. Livingstone? Click on “Life and Times” and then “Life and Times: An Overview”
- Visit one or two other pages, such as
- “Life and Times” and then “Southern Africans and the Advent of Colonialism”
- “Spectral Imaging” and then “The Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project: An Introduction”
- A page of Mary Shelley’s Draft of Frankenstein (encoded in TEI text encoding mentioned in Schöck — see the intro video)
- click on each of the four little buttons shown below & see what happens
- Livingstone Online (mentioned in Risam)
- EDITED to add: Additional Recommended Assignments (required for grads)
- Amelia Acker and Tanya Clement, “Data Cultures, Culture as Data” (Introduction to a special journal issue) (read online or download pdf and read offline)
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Labs & Building Blocks Due Friday 11:59 pm Central Time
- Register your own domain on OUCreate
- Set up your skeleton website on OUCreate
Summary Video
- TBA
Unit B: New Digital Worlds
Week 3 9/6-9/10
Introductory Videos
- Week 3 Themes and Issues Lecture (20 min)
- Week 3 Assignments Overview (5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Trevor Owens, “What Do You Mean by Archive?”
- Risam, New Digital Worlds, chapter 1 pp. 23-25, 32-40, last paragraph on p. 46
- Risam chapter 2
- Websites (digital archives)
- INSTRUCTIONS:
- For each, read their landing page and “About” or description page
- If there is a way to search or browse, search or browse the items and think about issues in the readings and mentioned in the weekly video
- WEBSITES TO VISIT:
- Papers of the Revolutionary War Department
- Early Caribbean Digital Archives
- “Our Marathon” (mostly “born digital” – an archive of digital artifacts rather than historical objects that have been digitized)
- Indigenous Digital Archive
- Additional websites (optional for undergrads, required for grads): browse through
- INSTRUCTIONS:
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Labs & Projects
- Final Project milestone: Consults about project topics begin; sign up here
- Get started on this unit’s Labs and Building Blocks due at the end of the unit
Summary Video
TBA
Week 4 9/13-9/17
Introductory Videos
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Risam, chapters 3 and 5 undergrads skip pp. 116-122
- Additional Readings (optional for undergrads, required for grads)
- pp. 116-122 Risam
- Websites
- Visit Around DH in 80 Days and visit 3 or 4 projects in different parts of the world; reference them in your discussion responses if at all possible
- Swift-Speare algorithmic predictive text poetry
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Summary Video
TBA
Labs & Projects
- Unit B Lab/Building Block due 11:59 pm Friday: Class creates a “digital archive of archives”
- Project consults continue; sign up here
Unit C: Cultural Heritage Preservation in Black Digital Humanities
Week 5 9/20-24
Introductory Videos
- Week 5 themes and questions (21 min)
- Week 5 Assignments (2.5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Kim Gallon, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities“
- NOTE: the important stuff for this class starts with “The field of Black studies is nearing its fiftieth birthday…”
- Amy Earhart, “Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon“
- Transatlantic Slave Database (now called Slave Voyages)
- Read entire landing page and watch intro video
- Visit and read the About page and the Understanding the Database pages under the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American menus
- Visit anything else you are interested in on the site
- Visit Freedom on the Move (Fugitive Slave Ad database)
- Read entire landing page and watch intro video
- Click on “Access the Database” and then read sample ads that display below or run a search
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Week 6 9/27-10/1
Intro Video(s)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Nicole M. Brown et al., “Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center“
- Thoroughly explore the Black Press Research Collective (Home page, About page, and choose several pages under the Datavisualizations and Multimedia menu tab)
- Thoroughly explore La Gazette Royale and read Review of project La Gazette Royale
- Visit the CCP again.
- Read Principles and Speakers Agreement under the About tab
- consider the landing page for Corpora (under the Conventions tab) and click through to explore the Corpora
- Visit the Black Homesteaders Project
- watch the video
- read the landing page
- click through to the primary documents
- OU’s own Dr. Eaton is director of Oklahoma Research for the project!!!
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Week 7 10/4-10/8
Introductory Videos
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Amy Earhart, “Can We Trust the University? Digital Humanities Collaborations with Historically Exploited Cultural Communities“
- Return to the CCP
- read Introduction to the Conventions
- read at least two other exhibits
- visit the Digital Records page; click through and read some records (either search using key words or click on the red buttons for lists of conventions with records)
- Visit these crowdsourcing project hubs. How do they work? Who is consulted in each project’s creation? Who can access the projects? Who can contribute to them? Who is preserving them?
- Zooniverse (About tab, Build a Project tab, and explore projects)
- Library of Congress By the People (Home page, About page, explore some campaigns)
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers (Home page, About page, explore projects)
- Papyri.info (Home page, About Epidoc page, Search Navigator if you know ancient Greek or Coptic — don’t panic if you can’t navigate; instead discuss what happened in your blog post)
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Unit Lab/Building Block Due **THURSDAY** 11:59 pm
Midterm Assignments
Week 8 10/11-15
Personal Website/blog Assignment
- Landing page and menu established
- At least one blog post(s) on Units A-C due Wednesday 11:59 pm Central Time
- Comment on fellow students’ posts by Friday 11:59 pm (list of student sites will be on the private blog)
Project proposals due
- check the grading guidelines to see if you want/need to do a project
Unit D: Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Digitization
Week 9 10/18-22
Introductory Video
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Defining Indigeneity Video
- Jennifer Guiliano and Carolyn Heitman, “Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data”
- “Introduction” to the “After the Return” Special Issue
- Visit Mukurtu including:
- the homepage
- the video What is a Digital Heritage Item?
- the video on Communities, Cultural Protocols, and Categories
- one or two projects in the Showcase
- consider how Mukurtu is similar to or different from Omeka — what does Mukurtu enable compared to Omeka?
- Additional Assignments: grad students
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later
FRIDAY: revisions to Incomplete Unit posts and to website design submitted by today do not require Token exchanges and if you still need to make more revisions after this one you have plenty of time for that before the end of the semester. Unit A/B/C post revisions and website design revisions can be submitted up til the end of the semester, but you may not be able to get feedback and revise multiple times by the time the semester ends.
Week 10 10/25-29
Introductory Video
- Week 10 Themes (37 min)
- Assignment video (6.5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Readings on Data Sovereignty
- CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (2pp)
- Read “The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation” (9.5 pp)
- Visit https://passamaquoddypeople.com/
- compare to the Library of Congress site on the same collection https://www.loc.gov/collections/ancestral-voices/about-this-collection/
- Native and Indigenous Video Games
- Read “The Next Chapter of Indigenous Representation in Video Games”
- Watch 1-2 min video previews of Never Alone, Mulaka, and The Raven and the Light (FYI the last one is horror based on historical tragedy/trauma)
- Download and play Indian Land Tenure game or Beneath Floes game
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Labs & Building Blocks Due Friday 11:59 pm Central Time
NEW! Unit D Wrap-up Video
Unit E: Antiquities and 3D Cultural Heritage
Week 11 11/1-5
Introductory Video
- Week 11 Themes (24.5 min)
- Week 11 Assignments (7.5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Sullivan, Nieves, Snyder “Making the Model”
- Erik Champion, “The Role of 3d Models in Virtual Heritage Infrastructures” (login to https://library.ou.edu to access)
- Go to the Arc/k project website and read/explore: Mission and Process (watch the photogrammetry video)
- check out other projects
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Week 12 11/8-12
Introductory Video
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Khunti, “The Problem of Printing Palmyra“
- Project sites
- Palmyra
- Palmyra as it Once Was (check out some models)
- Explore Athens3d
- Explore the 3d Rome Coliseum
- Visit the Roman Forum
- Visit the Giza Plateau
- Additional Assignments
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Unit Lab/Building Block on 3D Modeling Due Friday 11:59 pm
Unit E Summary Video
Unit F: Social Engagement in the New Digital “Public Squares”
Week 13 11/15-19
Introductory Video(s)
- Week 13 Themes and Issues (28 min)
- Assignments (5 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, “Forgotten History on Wikipedia” (9 pp + footnotes)
- Ben Marwick & Prema Smith, “World Heritage Sites on Wikipedia“ (22pp + footnotes)
- World Heritage Map (UNESCO) — explore
- ATHAR project on black market antiquities on social media
- Fully read and interact with the executive summary page for 2019 report
- OPTIONAL if you’re interested in this topic: Read pp. vi and 4-20 of report
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Lab/Building Block due in Week 15 but you can get started now!
Week 14 11/22-26 THANKSGIVING WEEK
Project status reports and consults with professor due this week
Grades
- Please check your grades in Canvas. Do you have any incomplete assignments?
- You can revise and resubmit for new evaluation any Incomplete assignments or you can start from scratch and write a new one. Exchange tokens to redo or revise/resubmit
Work on personal websites/blogs
- Start work on your posts for Units D-F. The assignment is the same as for Units A-C, only this time on Units D-F.
- Unsure what to do? Come see me in Zoom hours.
- Unsure how many to write or what your grade is? Come see me in Zoom hours.
Week 15 11/29-12/3
Introductory Video(s)
- Video on Themes (27 min -watch in chunks if you need to!)
- Video on assignments (4 min)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
- On artificial Intelligence generated art: “Positive Implications of Deep Fake Technology in the Arts and Culture”
- Charlie Snell, “Alien Dreams” (read as much as you can — some of it is technical, but you can get the gist)
- Pinscreen Apps using deepfake AI technology
- Womba Art App using deepfake AI technology
- Marika Cifor et al., Feminist Data Manifest-No
- Safiya Noble on Algorithms
Discussion
- Discussion Leader Posts on Private Student Blog (Due Tuesday noon Central Time; Leaders listed on Canvas)
- Discussion Responses (Due on Private Student Blog Thursday noon Central Time) from everyone else; Discussion Leaders should respond to responses later)
Summary Video
- TBA
Unit Lab/Building Block Due Friday 11:59 pm
Semester Wrap-Up
Week 16 12/6-10 FINAL EXAM PREPARATION WEEK
Introductory Video(s)
Weekly Assignments
- Projects due Tuesday
- Work on Websites
- Unit posts due Friday (extensions using the token system ok BUT if your post is turned in after Tuesday probably there is no chance for revisions, so make it worth it!)
Week 17: 12/13-17 FINAL EXAM WEEK
Introductory Video(s) TBA
Completion of Blog and Projects due this week
- Any final edits to projects due Monday
- Critical Analytical Reflections due Wednesday (only 1 12 hr extension (1 token) possible)
- Final updates to individual websites due Friday (no extensions!)
- Friday noon respond to Unit posts, projects, or reflections on your peers’ sites (no extensions!)
All coursework must be completed by Friday of exam week.