July 12: Finding, Describing, Organizing, and Analyzing Sources

Instructors: Sharon Leon and Sheila Brennan

Readings

Baker, James. “Preserving Your Research Data.” The Programming Historian, April 30, 2014. http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/preserving-your-research-data.
Rosenzweig, Roy. “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era.” The American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 735–62. https://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/links/pdf/introduction/0.6b.pdf.
Sherratt, Tim. “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (March 9, 2012). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/its-all-about-the-stuff-by-tim-sherratt/.

Discuss readings
Survey major digital history collections–where to find good CC/public domain items
- http://history2016.doingdh.org/week-1-tuesday/digital-collections/
Digital Methods: Search, discovery, and storage
Research and file management
- http://history2016.doingdh.org/week-1-tuesday/finding-and-protecting-your-data/
Hands-on Session: Install Zotero

Hands-on Session: Tin Eye, reverse image searching
Hands-on Session: Scavenger Hunt for digital sources, and deep exploration of digital repositories
Break
Close reading of digital sources
Hands-on Session: Annotating sources with Hypothes.is
Demo: ThingLink
Hands-on: Visual comparisons with Juxtapose

Brief review of digital history project, using Journal of American History review criteria: http://jah.oah.org/submit/digital-history-reviews/. Spend no more than 15-20 minutes on your site.

“Everything on Paper Will be Used Against Me”: Quantifying Kissinger http://blog.quantifyingkissinger.com (Cebula, Corrigan)
Plateau Peoples’ Project, http://plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu/ (Cowan, Cullen)
O Say Can you See, Early Washington, DC, Law, and Family: http://earlywashingtondc.org/ (Deathridge, Gevinson)
The Spread of US Slavery, 1790-1860, http://lincolnmullen.com/blog/the-spread-of-american-slavery/ (Dunn, Gagnon)
Remembering Lincoln, http://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/ (Gordon, Giesberg)
Educating Harlem, http://educatingharlem.cdrs.columbia.edu/omeka/ (Hartog, Heutsche)
National Parks: America’s Best Idea, http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/ (Jorsch, Janis)
@every3minutes, https://twitter.com/every3minutes ( Kryder-Reid, Morris)
Emigrant City, http://emigrantcity.nypl.org/#/ ( Neem, Parr)
Performing Archive, Curtis + the “Vanishing Race”: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/performingarchive/index (Prince, Reeve)
Mapping Occupation, http://mappingoccupation.org/ (Rogers, Ridner)
Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/ ( Silkey, Wynn)