Project UnconferenceArts and Humanities in the Digital Age

Concept

Define Concept● Using the Post-It notes provided, create the following categories:

○ Project aim(s)○ Research question(s)○ Digital collections/data○ Methods○ Evidence of current skills, knowledge and expertise○ Expected output(s)

Group Discussion● Within your group, discuss your concept● Other members of the group can feed back comments on:

○ Strengths of the project (e.g. research questions, solving a problem...)

○ Weaknesses of the project (e.g. data availability, scope and focus...)

○ How to address possible weaknesses

Revise Concept● Taking into account the risks identified, redraft the original concept using the

categories● Elect one member of your group to type up the concept in a new document

and shared electronically with the group (either by e-mail or using a cloud-based service, e.g. Google Docs)

Planning

Project Milestones● 28 January 2019 – identify data by the Data Preparation and Management

workshop, and bring a sample with you to the workshop● 11 February 2019 – apply what you have learned at the Data Preparation

and Management workshop to your data and bring it with you● 28 February 2019 – carry out preliminary analysis of your data using the

methods from the Python workshop; evaluate your progress so far● 11 March 2019 – carry out further analysis; reflect on what story you want to

tell with your data● 1 April 2019 – carry out analysis on your entire dataset; bring it with you● 3 May 2019 – present your final results and reflect on the research process

Team Roles and Responsibilities● Now that you have considered all of the tasks, you will need to think about how to

assign them● Discuss your current skills, knowledge and expertise and see who would be able

to carry out certain tasks immediately or in the near future (e.g. accessing a dataset)

● Consider who in the group might be able to undertake other tasks (e.g. creating a list of appropriate software that can be used to undertake analysis, or drafting an ethical approval document if the project might require it, or setting up a project website or blog)

● Note that some roles and responsibilities in the group may need to change over time, but ensure that you mark on your Post-It notes who will responsible at each milestone

Communication● As a group, agree on a minimum number of contact points over the period of

this programme and your milestones. Weekly contact is useful, even if only an e-mail exchange or Skype conversation. It doesn’t have to be in person

● Ensure that you each have a record of your group members’ contact details: full name, e-mail address, telephone number or Skype username

● Ensure that you are all aware of the project milestones and that these are in your diaries or online calendars

Introducing GitHub

Why GitHub?● GitHub is useful for recording your activities, writing, code, data and analysis

and acting as a repository for key files so that others can use them● GitHub is built around Version Control, which distinguishes it from Dropbox,

OneDrive, Google Drive and other online sharing platforms, allowing○ reversion of changes○ multiple in-progress versions

● There are different levels of privacy settings, but the default setting is public● You can utilise (or clone in GitHub-speak) other creators' materials

Built on Git

GitHub in use - by us

GitHub in use - Stylo

'Conventional' course code management:https://github.com/computationalstylistics/stylo

So much more:https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

GitHub in use – over to you

Register for an account at GitHub: https://github.com/

Install desktop GitHub: https://desktop.github.com/

Try it online: https://github.com/

GitHub in use

GitHub in use

GitHub in use

Resources

Omeka - https://omeka.net (online exhibits, image collections etc.)ImageJ - https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/ (image analysis)Open Street Map - https://www.openstreetmap.org/ (maps)Tropy - https://tropy.org/ (image annotation)Nodegoat - http://nodegoat.net/ (network analysis and visualisation)Open Refine - http://openrefine.org/ (data cleaning)Tableau Public - https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/ (visualisation)Voyant - https://voyant-tools.org/ (text analysis)Slack - https://slack.com/ (collaboration platform)Zotero - https://www.zotero.org/ (bibliographic management)

DiRT Directory - http://dirtdirectory.org/ (digital tools directory)TAPoR - http://tapor.ca/home (digital tools directory focusing on working with text, including social media)