Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned

241 Pages·2023·4.43 MB·English

by  Laura Estill, Jennifer Guiliano

Digital Humanities Workshops
Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned is the first volume to focus
explicitly on the most common and accessible kind of training in digital humanities
(DH): workshops.
Drawing together the experiences and expertise of dozens of scholars and
practitioners from a variety of disciplines and geographical contexts, the chapters
in this collection examine the development, deployment, and assessment of a
workshop or workshop series. In the first section, “Where?”, the authors seek to
situate digital humanities workshops within local, regional, and national contexts.
The second section, “Who?”, guides readers through questions of audience in
relation to digital humanities workshops. In the third and final section, “How?”,
authors explore the mechanics of such workshops. Taken together, the chapters in
this volume answer the important question: why are digital humanities workshops
so important and what is their present and future role?
Digital Humanities Workshops: Lessons Learned examines a range of digital
humanities workshops and highlights audiences, resources, and impact. This
volume will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students, as well
as professionals working in the DH field.
Laura Estill is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Associate
Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Jennifer Guiliano is a white academic living and working on the lands of the
Myaamia/Miami, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Wea, and Shawnee peoples. She
currently holds a position as Associate Professor in the Department of History and
affiliated faculty in both Native American and Indigenous Studies and American
Studies at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Founding Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan, Lorna Hughes and
Harold Short
Current Series Editors: Lorna Hughes, Nirmala Menon, Andrew
Prescott, Isabel Galina Russell, Harold Short and Ray Siemens
Digital technologies are increasingly important to arts and humanities research,
expanding the horizons of research methods in all aspects of data capture,
investigation, analysis, modelling, presentation and dissemination. This important
series covers a wide range of disciplines with each volume focusing on a particular
area, identifying the ways in which technology impacts on specific subjects. The
aim is to provide an authoritative reflection of the ‘state of the art’ in technology-
enhanced research methods. The series is critical reading for those already engaged
in the digital humanities, and of wider interest to all arts and humanities scholars.
The following list includes only the most-recent titles to publish within the
series. A list of the full catalogue of titles is available at: https://www.routledge.
com/Digital-Research-in-the-Arts-and-Humanities/book-series/DRAH
Transformative Digital Humanities
Challenges and Opportunities
Edited by Mary McAleer Balkun and Marta Mestrovic Deyrup
Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
Edited by Benjamin Albritton, Georgia Henley and Elaine Treharne
Access and Control in Digital Humanities
Edited by Shane Hawkins
Information and Knowledge Organisation in Digital Humanities
Global Perspectives
Edited by Koraljka Golub and Ying-Hsang Liu
Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past
Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange
Edited by Anna Collar
Digital Humanities Workshops
Lessons Learned
Edited by Laura Estill and Jennifer Guiliano
Digital Humanities Workshops
Lessons Learned
Edited by Laura Estill
and Jennifer Guiliano
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003301097
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Contents
Acknowledgments viii
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Contributors xi
Introduction 1
JENNIFER GUILIANO AND LAURA ESTILL
PART I
Where 9
1 The Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI):
Community Training Toward Open Social Scholarship 11
RAY SIEMENS, ALYSSA ARBUCKLE, AND RANDA EL KHATIB
2 Helping Humanists Hack: A Tale of Program Coordination,
Classroom Support, Adaptive Pedagogy, and Python 24
BRYAN TARPLEY, NANCY SUMPTER, AND KAYLEY HART
3 From Curiosity to Importance: DH Workshops
for Teachers/Researchers 39
MIRIAM PEÑA-PIMENTEL
 4   Digital  Humanities  Workshops  in  India:  Effective  
Organizing Pedagogies and Sustainable Contributions
to Academia 48
JUSTY JOSEPH, KAVIARASU P, JYOTHI JUSTIN,
AND NIRMALA MENON
vi Contents
5 Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Humanities
Training in South Africa: Moving Beyond the Silos 56
ANELDA VAN DER WALT, JUAN STEYN, ANGELIQUE TRUSLER,
AND MENNO VAN ZAANEN
6 Data, Tools, Platforms, Cooperative Platforms,
and Thematically Linked Data 67
CHAO-LIN LIU
PART II
Who 75
7 Views Through Student Lenses: How Workshops
With Student Research Assistants Can Enhance
a Lab’s Research Programme 77
PAUL MILLAR, MAGGIE BLACKWOOD, GEOFFREY FORD,
DAVIDE GARELLO, DORIAN GHOSH, NATALIE LOOYER,
DONALD MATHESON, CALEB MIDDENDORF,
KASPAR MIDDENDORF, LAURA MOIR, CLEMENCY MONTELLE,
EMANUEL STOAKES, CHRISTOPHER THOMSON, AND MENGJUN YU
8 Remodeling the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop 92
JOHN RUSSELL, MARIA ISABEL MAZA, LAUREN M. CENCI,
AND CLAIRE M.L. BOURNE
9 Building Community and Collaboration Through the Digital
Humanities Toolbox Series 98
SARAH SIMPKIN AND JADA WATSON
10 “Push That Button and See What Happens”: Addressing
Technology Anxiety in Library Digital Scholarship Pedagogy 106
GESINA A. PHILLIPS, DOMINIC BORDELON,
AND TYRICA TERRY KAPRAL
11 Workshops in Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities:
Towards Building Relationships With Critical University
and Community Movements 117
KUSH PATEL, ASHLEY CARANTO MORFORD, AND ARUN JACOB
12 Creating More Inclusive Spaces for African American
Studies and Ethnic Studies in Digital Humanities Workshops 128
JEANNETTE EILEEN JONES, TONY FRAZIER, CLAIRE JIMÉNEZ,
AND SARITA B. GARCIA
Contents vii
PART III
How 143
13 A Design Justice Approach to Creating Equitable
Workshops 145
ELIZABETH GRUMBACH AND SPENCER D.C. KERALIS
14 The UX of DH Workshops 162
BETH RUSSELL AND DAVID JOSEPH WRISLEY
15   Scaffolding  Collaboration:  Workshop  Designs  for  Digital  
Humanities Projects 172
MIA RIDGE AND EILEEN J. MANCHESTER
16   Critically  Reflective  and  Lighthearted:  The  Keys  to  
Learning Digital Heritage Skills 188
PAKHEE KUMAR AND HENRIETTE ROUED
17 Transitioning Synchronous Workshops Into Asynchronous
Digital Resources: A Case Study of Project Management
and DevDH.org 198
JENNIFER GUILIANO AND SIMON APPLEFORD
18 Tools in a Workshop: Facilitating DH Learning and
Teaching Through a Shared Virtual Desktop Environment 208
CLAUS-MICHAEL SCHLESINGER, MALTE GÄCKLE-HECKELEN,
AND FABIENNE BURKARD
Index 219
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Constance Crompton and Andie Silva as well as the
volume’s reviewers for their thoughtful feedback on earlier stages of this work.
Thanks also to the Canada Research Chairs program (Social Sciences and Humani-
ties Research Council of Canada) for co-funding the open access publication of
this volume. Thanks to Danielle Phillips (undergraduate student, St. Francis Xavier
University) for her work as a research assistant on this book.
This volume is open access and we encourage people to share it and use its
contents with credit.
Figures
1.1 A general typology of digital humanities training options,
originally presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference 13
5.1 A schematic representation of the draft DH and
CSS stakeholder map workflow 63
5.2 The initial six mentorship tracks of ESCALATOR’S
Digital Champions Initiative 63
6.1 A possible mechanism to link data and tools while protecting
proprietary rights 71
12.1 Homepage for the Research Institute in Digital Ethnic
Studies (UNL) 131
14.1 A tweet by @DJWrisley showing a map of the 300+ registered
participants for the remote 2021 NYU Abu Dhabi Winter
Institute in Digital Humanities 169
15.1 Visual depiction of the nested relationship between workshops,
activities, and scaffolds 178