Category Archives: spring17

These posts are from the Spring 2017 semester

Journal 2/7: Why platforms make good projects

When I went to the lighting talks on the first day of NYCDH Week, most projects were of the platform and tool building variety. I was very impressed by these projects, but it was Professor Brier accepting his award and discussing his work quantifying coal strikes had such an immediate effect on me. Clearly, I […]

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DH Week Workshop: Design-Based Thinking for Humanists

I think I would have loved this workshop, if Niko hadn’t gotten involved. I signed up for Design-Based Thinking for Humanists for my DH Week workshop assignment. It appealed to me because I am not a designer, but having recently employed one at work, I’ve learned how magical what they do is. I’d like to be […]

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Thoughts on Evaluation Criteria

I am sharing a set of evaluation criteria and questions. I feel like it is a very necessary caveat I am not coming from a place of authority or expertise. Instead, I’m going to share criteria highlighted in this week’s readings and last week’s discussion led by Dr. Rhody of a proposal’s format, content, considerations, […]

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A Six Point Criteria for Assessing Digital Projects

I want to suggest a six point method for evaluating digital projects: 1. Contribution to the humanities 2. Collaboration 3. Cross/interdisciplinary networks-within and beyond the academy 4. Content & design 5. Openness and reflection of the process 6. Adaptability, transformation, and sustainability First, the project must clearly articulate what the contribution and significance to the […]

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A digital memorial to lynching

Just today, I found a new project that covers many of the requirements I had previously outlined for a temporal and spatial representing of lynching in the U.S. Additional ideas I had, such as representing various associations between lynching and other phenomena remain worthwhile, but would require too much redundant effort to propose as a group project. Nevertheless, […]

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Project Proposal: ÑYC. Hispanic Culture in New York City

What It Is and Why It Happened An online platform that gathers, displays, and promotes events concerning Hispanic culture around the City of New York. There currently does not exist a digital platform where to find cultural activities related to Spanish-speaking countries and territories from both sides of the Atlantic. Of course, users can easily […]

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Project Proposal: Encoding as Close Reading

Please see the following link for my project proposal: https://github.com/tlewek/dh-praxis-16/blob/master/dh-praxis-proposal.md. Jojo has already, and graciously, provided some feedback (specifically, recommending that I include case uses), which I plan to incorporate during the revision process.

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Project Proposal Lite: Edit Swap

What is It? An online editing platform where users request edits for their papers and edit other user’s papers with an incentivized currency system.

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Zine Union Catalog: proposal by Jenna Freedman

Overview[1] For several years, zine librarians across North America have been collaborating to build a union catalog for zines. A “union catalog” is a resource where libraries can share cataloging and holdings information, the prime example being WorldCat, which has thousands of member libraries. A union catalog allows librarians to copy catalog records and facilitates […]

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  • Welcome to Digital Praxis 2016-2017

    Encouraging students think about the impact advancements in digital technology have on the future of scholarship from the moment they enter the Graduate Center, the Digital Praxis Seminar is a year-long sequence of two three-credit courses that familiarize students with a variety of digital tools and methods through lectures offered by high-profile scholars and technologists, hands-on workshops, and collaborative projects. Students enrolled in the two-course sequence will complete their first year at the GC having been introduced to a broad range of ways to critically evaluate and incorporate digital technologies in their academic research and teaching. In addition, they will have explored a particular area of digital scholarship and/or pedagogy of interest to them, produced a digital project in collaboration with fellow students, and established a digital portfolio that can be used to display their work. The two connected three-credit courses will be offered during the Fall and Spring semesters as MALS classes for master’s students and Interdisciplinary Studies courses for doctoral students.

    The syllabus for the course can be found at cuny.is/dps17.

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