Unit 1: Intro to DH, London, and Sherlock Holmes
Week 1:
Aug. 24: Introduction
Aug. 27: What is DH? And Blog Set-up
Patricia Cohen,“Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html?_r=0
Due by end of class: introductory post on class blog (name, major, year, interests)
Week 2:
Aug. 31: Victorian London
“The Victorian Age: A Summary”
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/review/summary.htm)
Online Assignment #1: Researching Victorian London Due 8/31 by 8am
Explore Lee Jackson’s “The Victorian Dictionary” (http://www.victorianlondon.org/index-2012.htm), choose one entry, and write a blog post on what you learned about the Victorian era. Be specific and include a few quotations.
Sept. 3: Sherlock Holmes Stories
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/pdf/holmes_01.pdf
“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”
http://ignisart.com/camdenhouse/canon/blue.htm
Week 3:
Sept. 7: No Class (Labor Day Break)
Sept. 10: More Sherlock Holmes
“Man With the Twisted Lip”
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/endsandbeginnings/twistedlip.pdf
Unit 2: Digital Archives and Editions
Week 4:
Sept. 14: Introduction to Archives
Jerome McGann, “Radiant Textuality”
http://people.virginia.edu/~erc6cb/mcgann-1996-radiant-textuality.pdf
Rossetti Archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/
Sept. 17: Archives & Presentations
Choose 1 of the following projects for the presentation:
“Old Bailey Online”
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
“Nineteenth-Century Disability: Cultures & Contexts”
http://www.nineteenthcenturydisability.org/
“Songs of the Victorians”
http://www.songsofthevictorians.com
“Sherlockian.Net”
http://www.sherlockian.net
Due: Presentations on Archives
Week 5:
Sept. 21: Introduction to Omeka
Miriam Posner, “Up and Running with Omeka”
http://miriamposner.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Up-and-Running-with-Omeka2.pdf
“Omeka Showcase”
http://info.omeka.net/showcase/
“Omeka”
https://www.omeka.net/
Online Assignment #2: Omeka Archive
- Due 9/21 by 9:30am: Accept the Omeka invitation, create an account, and bring three digital items for inclusion in a Holmes archive.
- Due 9/25 by 8pm: Finish adding your items and collections, and write a 300-word essay incorporating some of the objects for an exhibit (See instructions under the “Assignment” tab).
Sept. 24: Editions (No Class; Online Assignment)
“Livingstone’s 18711 Field Diary: Multispectral Critical Edition”
http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/index.htm
Week 6:
Sept. 28: Book Traces Lab, Meet in STL18
Jennifer Howard, “Book Lovers Record Traces of 19th-Century Readers”
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/book-lovers-record-traces-of-19th-century-readers/52415
Alexis Madrigal, “What is a Book?”
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/what-is-a-book/361876/
“Book Traces”
http://www.booktraces.org/
Online Assignment #3: Book Traces Due 9/30 by 8pm
Find one 19th century book with marginalia in the library and enter it into “Book Traces.” Write a blog post about the marginalia you found and why it’s important.
Oct. 1: Juxta Editions Lab
Online Assignment 4: Juxta Editions Due 10/4 by 10am
Using Juxta Editions, make a digital edition of a Sherlock Holmes story. NOTE: You do not need to write a 300-word blog post.
Unit 3: Visualizations and Videos
Week 7:
Oct. 5: Introduction to Visualizations
Nathan Yau, Visualize This (Chapter 1, “Telling Stories with Data”)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=CB9XRIv9oigC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP5
Oct. 8: Google Ngrams
Ted Underwood, “How Not to Do Things with Words”
http://tedunderwood.com/2012/08/25/how-not-to-do-things-with-words/
Patricia Cohen, “Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/books/04victorian.html?pagewanted=all
Google Ngrams Viewer
https://books.google.com/ngrams/
Online Assignment 5: Google Ngrams Due 10/8 by 8am
Choose two or three words you’d like to compare across the 19th century, research them, graph them in Ngrams (including screenshots), and write a 300-word blog post about what the graph and your research tell you about your words over time. Include information about the settings you selected and what difference those settings make.
Week 8:
Oct. 12: Fall Break (No Class)
Oct. 15: Introduction to video editing (Guest Lecturer, Melissa Rock)
WeVideo
https://www.wevideo.com/
Sample Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6KdHEQKnQZU17P1vFXc0vBRKmfxHZ5OS
Make a WeVideo account and bring 10-15 pictures and a 150-300 word script for your video.
Week 9:
Oct. 19: Work on videos (No Class)
Oct. 22: Presentations of videos
Submit your introductory video to the class blog.
Week 10:
Oct. 26: Class cancelled (assignment moved to Oct. 29)
Oct. 29th: Google Fusion Tables
Google Fusion Tables
http://tables.googlelabs.com/
Sample Blog Post: Alexandra Fontanez, “Visualizing Popular Sitcoms of the ’90s”
http://sherlockholmeslondondh.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/visualizing-popular-sitcoms-of-the-90s/
Make a Google Spreadsheet and then create a “default card” image, pie chart, bar chart, map, and network visualization of that data. Post a link to the spreadsheet and include screenshots of all the visualizations on the class blog. NOTE: You do not need to write a 300-word blog post.
Oct. 29:
Unit 4: GIS
Week 11:
Nov. 2: Introduction to digital mapping
Jenna Hammerich, “Humanities gone Spatial”
http://now.uiowa.edu/2013/09/humanities-gone-spatial
“The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”
https://www.mapbox.com/tutorial-sherlock/
Nov. 5: GIS Presentations: Choose 1 from the list below
“Charles Booth Online Archive”
http://goo.gl/JgRmhL
Locating London
http://www.locatinglondon.org/
“London Gallery Project”
http://learn.bowdoin.edu/fletcher/london-gallery/index.html
Questions: What makes a successful mapping project? How easy is it to use the sites and read the maps?
Week 12:
Nov. 9: Mapping Holmes
Sample Blog Post: Alexis Moody, “Fenchurch Street”
http://sherlockholmeslondondh.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/fenchurch-street/
Online Assignment 8: Victorian London Locations Due 11/8 by 8pm
Choose one spot (not Baker Street) mentioned in a Holmes story. Do a search for your street on Victorian Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zs2aHyi7W8Ek.kggHTef2F49I&hl=en) and then zoom in and take a screenshot. Then use a combination of the following sites to learn about the area you have chosen: “Historical Eye” (http://www.historicaleye.com/thenandnow1.html), the “Old Bailey Online” (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/London-life19th.jsp),“Charles Booth Online Archive” (http://goo.gl/JgRmhL), “Locating London” (http://www.locatinglondon.org/), and “British Histories” (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/). Write a blog post about what you’ve learned about the area (include 3-4 specific details about it) and its importance to the Holmes story. Include screenshots.
Nov. 12: Mapping Holmes Part 2
Mapbox
https://www.mapbox.com/education/
Google Maps
https://www.google.com/maps
Online Assignment 9: Mapping Holmes Stories
- Due 11/12 by 8am: Choose two locations from the same Holmes story, and submit the story title, longitude, latitude, description of the event, and a chapter number to the Google spreadsheet.
- Due 11/12 by 8pm: Embed completed Mapbox and Google Maps of Holmes stories to the class website.
Week 13:
Nov. 16: Discussion of DH Projects and Tour of 3D Printing Lab.
Nov. 19: Final Projects
Week 14:
Nov. 23-26: No Class (Thanksgiving)
Week 15:
Nov. 30: Final Projects
Dec. 3: Final Project
Week 16:
Dec. 7: Final Projects
Final Exam:
Dec. 14: Presentations of Final Projects, 10:15am-12:15pm
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