This course runs asynchronously online. Students should expect to spend 6-9 hours per week on work in this class. Please pace yourself! If you try to do it all at the end of the week you may run into problems.
➨ It may feel like you are doing more “homework” than in other classes; that is because the 3 hours you would normally spend in class youu are spending doing online work.
The usual weekly schedule for this course is as follows:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday night: Discussion Leaders post annotation questions to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Fridays at the end of a unit: Lab (practical homework) due
Saturday-Friday: work on projects and websites
You can do any of the work for this class before the due dates as long as all the links are posted and you’ve done the prep work.
Assignments may change or shift depending on class needs. Check the Canvas Modules and here for the most up-to-date schedule.
Some links to assignment descriptions are not yet live. They will be live in time for you to complete assignments.
Some lecture video links are not live on this site. They will all certainly be live on Canvas in time for you to complete assignments.
Unit A: What is Cultural Heritage Data?
Week 1 8/21-25
Note: this week diverges from the regular weekly schedule, since everything is new, and you’re just getting started.
Introduction to the Course: Do these assignments first on Monday and Tuesday!
- Introduction and Welcome! (10 min video)
- Videos on the Syllabus, Navigating the Course and Websites, and Grades and Grading (on Canvas)
- Read the syllabus (this whole website)! There is a syllabus assignment due by Friday (earn one Flexibility Token for being on time – a brief survey/poll)
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites: Do these assignments Tuesday-Friday
- Week 1 Themes and Issues Lecture video (13-15 min)
- Week 1 Assignments Intro video (5 min)
- Read & Annotate Introduction & Section 1 only of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Cultural Heritage
- Watch and annotate Video: Lecture “Cultural Heritage Present and Future” by Columba Stewart (the annual National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson lecture for 2019) ~47 minutes
- Go to the CCP project site
- Read the entire landing page (scroll all the way down)
- Read the “About the Conventions” page under the Conventions menu tab
- Read the “About” page
- (please always refer to it as the CCP and the conventions as “Black Conventions” on your websites and the student blog; thank you)
- Visit the SUCHO Project site
- Read the main page
- Watch the introductory video (also available on the main SUCHO page; 4.5 min)
- Visit the Gallery and Meme Wall
Private class blog assignments: Due Wednesday-Friday
- Wednesday noon Central time: Join the Private Student Discussion Blog (earn one Flexibility Token for being on time)
- Wednesday noon Central Write an introductory blog post (earn one Flexibility Token for being on time)
- Friday noon Central respond to at least 3 intro posts by other students on the blog (make a connection with the other person in some way)
- Don’t forget to do the syllabus assignment! (Due Friday noon)
Week 2 8/26-9/1
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations; Dear Data Jamboard
Friday noon: Lab due — GET STARTED BEFORE FRIDAY. This lab requires multiple steps. If you do not start before Friday you probably will not finish on time.
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once
- Week 2 Themes and Issues Lecture
- Week 2 Assignments Video
- Annotations: Christof Schöch, “Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities”
- Annotations: Risam, Introduction (bookmark it; you need to login to OU Libraries)
- Read+Jamboard: “Dear Data” Project Introduction
- Livingstone Online site (mentioned in Risam)
- Don’t know Dr. Livingstone? Click on “Life and Times” and then “Life and Times: An Overview”
- Visit one or two other pages, such as
- “Life and Times” and then “Southern Africans and the Advent of Colonialism”
- “Spectral Imaging” and then “The Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project: An Introduction”
- or two pages of your choice
- A page of Mary Shelley’s Draft of Frankenstein (encoded in TEI text encoding mentioned in Schöck — see the intro video)
- click on each of the four little buttons shown below & see what happens
Additional Assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads)
- Annotations: Amelia Acker and Tanya Clement, “Data Cultures, Culture as Data”
Unit A Lab Due Noon Friday Central Time
In this lab you will create your own website on OUCreate. GET STARTED EARLY.
Unit B: New Digital Worlds
Week 3 9/2-9/8
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
TUESDAY (bc Labor Day) 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Tuesday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Friday: No lab this week. 1) Get started on next week’s Lab and 2) sign up for consults about final projects 3) earn a token for Understanding Grades in this Class assignment on Canvas
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 3 Themes and Issues Lecture
- Week 3 Assignments Overview
- Trevor Owens, “What Do You Mean by Archive?”
- Risam, New Digital Worlds, chapter 1 pp. 23-25, 32-40, last paragraph on p. 46
- Risam chapter 2
- Websites (digital archives)
- INSTRUCTIONS:
- For each, read their landing page and “About” or description page
- If there is a way to search or browse, search or browse the items and think about issues in the readings and mentioned in the weekly video
- WEBSITES TO VISIT — UPDATED:
- INSTRUCTIONS:
- Additional assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads):
- sections of chapter 1 omitted above
- reading TBA
Labs & Projects
- Final Project milestone: Consults with Dr. S to brainstorm about project topics begin; sign up here to meet with me
- Get started on this unit’s Lab due next week
- Earn a Flexibility Token for completing the “Understanding Grades in this Course“ assignment (15 min)
Week 4 9/9-9/15
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Monday-Friday: Student project consults with professor
Friday: Lab due — GET STARTED BEFORE FRIDAY. This lab requires multiple steps. If you do not start before Friday you probably will not finish on time.
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 4 Themes and Issues Lecture
- Week 4 Assignments Overview
- Risam, chapters 3 and 5 undergrads skip pp. 116-122
- Additional Readings (optional for undergrads, required for grads)
- pp. 116-122 Risam
- Websites
- Visit Around DH in 80 Days and visit 3 or 4 projects in different parts of the world; reference them in your discussion responses
- TBA
- Additional assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads):
- TBA
Labs & Projects
- Unit B Lab due noon Friday Get started before Friday.
- Project consults continue; sign up here if you haven’t
Unit C: Cultural Heritage Preservation in Black Digital Humanities
Week 5 9/16-22
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Monday-Friday: Students meet with Dr. S to brainstorm final project ideas
Friday: No lab this week. Sign up for consults about final projects if you haven’t already
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 5 themes and questions
- Week 5 Assignments
- Kim Gallon, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities“
- NOTE: the important stuff for this class starts with “The field of Black studies is nearing its fiftieth birthday…”
- Amy Earhart, “Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon“
- EDITED: different websites than originally posted
- Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance
- Read the introduction and visit other aspects of the site
- Lynching in Texas (Note: the subject matter is difficult; there are some historical photographs. I did not see any graphic photos on the pages I visited but I can’t guarantee there aren’t any)
- visit site and explore some of the entries
- Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688Links to an external site.
- Explore the page of music — click around
- Click on the menu on the upper right (the three lines) and then click on Read and scroll down and read about the music
- Additional Assignments (required for grads, optional for undergrads):
- TBA
Labs & Projects
- Final Project milestone: Consults with Dr. S to brainstorm about project topics continue
- Get started on this unit’s Lab due in two weeks
Week 6 9/23-9/29
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Friday: No lab this week. 1) Get started on next week’s Lab and 2) work on items you and Dr. S discussed in your final projects consults
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 6 Themes and Questions
- Week 6 Assignments
- Midterm evaluation form on Canvas (Earn one token if done by Friday!)
- Nicole M. Brown et al., “Mechanized Margin to Digitized Center“
- Thoroughly explore the Black Press Research Collective (Home page, About page, and choose several pages under the Data visualizations and Multimedia menu tab)
- Thoroughly explore La Gazette Royale and read Review of project La Gazette Royale
- Visit the CCP again.
- Read Principles and Speakers Agreement under the About tab
- consider the landing page for Corpora (under the Conventions tab) and click through to explore the Corpora
- Visit the Black Homesteaders Project
- watch the video
- read the landing page
- click through to the primary documents
- OU’s own Dr. Eaton is director of Oklahoma Research for the project!!!
- Additional Assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads)
- “Slaves, Freedmen, Mulattos, Pardos, and Indigenous Peoples: The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese Empire” by Agata Błoch, Demival Vasques Filho, and Michał Bojanowski
Labs & Projects
- Final Project: work on items that you and Dr. S discussed in your consult meeting
- Get started on this unit’s Lab due next week
Week 7 9/30-10/5
Weekly overview (**changes to usual schedule due to Fall Holiday Friday!**):
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Monday-Thursday: Work on project proposals
Thursday: Lab due — GET STARTED BEFORE Thursday. This lab requires multiple steps. If you do not start before Thursday you probably will not finish on time.
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 7 themes and questions
- Assignments video
- Project Proposals Part 1: Expectations & Research (25-35 min; watch this week)
- Project Proposals Part 2: Proposal Structure, Documentation, and Licensing (optional this week, definitely watch next week)
- Amy Earhart, “Can We Trust the University? Digital Humanities Collaborations with Historically Exploited Cultural Communities“
- Return to the CCP
- read Introduction to the Conventions
- read at least two other exhibits
- visit the Digital Records page; click through and read some records (either search using key words or click on the red buttons for lists of conventions with records)
- Visit these crowdsourcing project hubs. How do they work? Who is consulted in each project’s creation? Who can access the projects? Who can contribute to them? Who is preserving them?
- Zooniverse (About tab, Build a Project tab, and explore projects)
- Library of Congress By the People (Home page, About page, explore some campaigns)
- Smithsonian Digital Volunteers (Home page, About page, explore projects)
- Papyri.info (Home page, About Epidoc page, Search Navigator if you know ancient Greek or Coptic — don’t panic if you can’t navigate; instead discuss what happened in your blog post)
- Additional Assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads) TBA
Unit Lab C Due **THURSDAY** 11:59 pm because of the Football game
Midterm Week Assignments
Week 8 10/7-13
Due Tuesday noon:
- Grade check-in
- Review your Grades page in Canvas. How many assignments have you completed successfully?
- Compare this to the goals and grading policy for the course.
- Complete the Grade check-in form on Canvas: we still have half a semester to go — you can do it! Let’s make a plan!
- Project proposals
- Watch Project Proposals Part 1 Video if you haven’t already (on expectations and research)
- Watch Project Proposals Part 2 Video (on proposal structure, documentation/citations, and licensing)
- Submit your proposal to Canvas
The following items are all due Friday Noon. Pace yourself–waiting until Thursday night to do all of them may not be the most successful choice 🙂 .
1. Refine your personal blog/website
- Establish a landing page and menu
- About page (if the information isn’t on your landing page)
- To submit: post the link to your site in the relevant assignment in Canvas
2. Critical-Analytical Reflection 1
- Posted to your website
- Submit link to post on Canvas
- Instructions TBA
3. Assignment catchup: follow the plan we created in the Grade check-in survey!
Unit D: Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Digitization
Week 9 10/14-20
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Friday: No lab this week. 1) Get started on next week’s Lab and 2) work on your final projects
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Video on themes and questions
- Video on assignments
- Defining Indigeneity Video
- Jennifer Guiliano and Carolyn Heitman, “Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data”
- “Introduction” to the “After the Return” Special Issue
- Visit Mukurtu including:
- the homepage
- the video What is a Digital Heritage Item?
- the video on Communities, Cultural Protocols, and Categories
- one or two projects in the Showcase
- consider how Mukurtu is similar to or different from Omeka — what does Mukurtu enable compared to Omeka?
- ,Additional Assignments: required for grad students, optional for undergrads
- Robert Leopold, “Articulating Culturally Sensitive Heritage Online“
Labs & Projects
- Final Project: follow through on the feedback Dr. S gave on your proposal
- Get started on this unit’s Lab due next week
Week 10 10/21-27
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Friday: Lab due — get started before Friday
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 10 Themes
- Assignment video
- Readings on Data Sovereignty
- CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (2pp)
- Read “The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation” (9.5 pp)
- Visit https://passamaquoddypeople.com/
- compare to the Library of Congress site on the same collection https://www.loc.gov/collections/ancestral-voices/about-this-collection/
- Native and Indigenous Video Games
- Read “The Next Chapter of Indigenous Representation in Video Games”
- Watch 1-2 min video previews of Never Alone, Mulaka, and The Raven and the Light (FYI the last one is horror based on historical tragedy/trauma)
- Download and play Indian Land Tenure game or Beneath Floes game
- Update: The “Beneath Floes” game has been taken down, but I have a zip file on Canvas. Open the zip file — you’ll see a folder containing a lot of files. Open the folder, then double-click on beneathfloes.html to start the game in your browser
- Play either:
- “Don’t Wake the Night” https://brujeriaatwerk.itch.io/dont-wake-the-night
- “Terra Nova” (it took me a minute to figure out how the controls work — scroll down for instructions; each pane has different controls; for the left (Terra) click on the left shift button to interact and then w and s to toggle between options for your responses)
- Additional assignment: required for grad students, optional for undergrads
Labs & Projects
- Unit D Lab due noon Friday. Get started early.
- Project work continues; follow up on feedback Dr. S provided on proposals
Unit E: Antiquities and 3D Cultural Heritage
Week 11 10/28-11/3
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
No lab this week. 1) Get started on next week’s Lab and 2) work on your final projects
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 11 Themes
- Week 11 Assignments
- Sullivan, Nieves, Snyder “Making the Model”
- Erik Champion, “The Role of 3d Models in Virtual Heritage Infrastructures” (login to https://library.ou.edu to access; click “DOWNLOAD”)
- Go to the Arc/k project website
- check out other projects
- Additional Assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads) TBA
Labs & Projects
- Final Project: follow through on the feedback Dr. S gave on your proposal
- Get started on this unit’s Lab due next week
Week 12 11/4-10
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Friday: Lab due — GET STARTED BEFORE FRIDAY. This lab requires multiple steps. If you do not start before Friday you probably will not finish on time.
Projects: keep working and sign up for the Second Milestone consult appointment
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 12 Themes and Issues
- Week 12 Assignments
- Khunti, “The Problem of Printing Palmyra“
- Project sites
- Palmyra (visit and explore some models)
- Palmyra as it Once Was
- Explore Athens3d
- Explore the 3d Rome Coliseum
- Visit the Roman Forum
- Visit the Giza Plateau
- Video on making 3d Rome watch about 25 min — be sure to watch the section on using sketchup and the following section on elevation/cartography)
- Additional Assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads)
- Dr. Rita Lucarelli (Egyptologist) lecture, “From the Museum back to the tomb” (watch through to the end of the formal slides ~ 56 minute mark; click on the gear symbol/settings to adjust playback speed to 1.25x or 1.5x normal speed if you prefer)
Unit E Lab Due Friday noon
Your next project milestone (consult with Dr. S) is NEXT WEEK. Sign up for the consult appointment!
Unit F: Social Engagement in the New Digital “Public Squares”
Week 13 11/11-17
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Thurs-Friday: No lab this week. 1) Get started on the unit’s Lab due in two weeks and 2) work on your final projects and sign up for your next consult meeting with Dr. S
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Week 13 Themes and Issues
- Assignments video
- Grade Check on Canvas (earn a token if done by Friday!)
- Henriette Roued-Cunliffe, “Forgotten History on Wikipedia” (9 pp + footnotes)
- Ben Marwick & Prema Smith, “World Heritage Sites on Wikipedia“ (22pp + footnotes)
- World Heritage Map (UNESCO) — explore
- ATHAR project on black market antiquities on social media
- Fully read and interact with the executive summary page for 2019 report
- OPTIONAL if you’re interested in this topic: Read pp. vi and 4-20 of report
- OPTIONAL play around with the map or the social network graph on the report page (added)
- Additional Assignment (required for grads, optional for undergrads)
- TBA
Labs & Projects
- Lab due in Week 15 but get started now!
- Your next project milestone (consult with Dr. S) is THIS WEEK and NEXT WEEK. Sign up for the consult appointment!
Week 14 11/18-26 THANKSGIVING WEEK
Project consults with Dr. S the previous Thurs/Friday and this Sunday-Tuesday. This consult is part of the second Milestone of the Project assignment and is required. Be sure to review the Project assignment page and work on your project before the meeting.
Continue work on your projects this week — no other assignments.
Week 15 11/26-12/1
Weekly overview:
Saturday-Thursday: watch videos, read readings, visit websites
Monday 11:59 pm: Discussion Leaders post to Hypothesis
Monday-Thursday 5 pm: Other students post Hypothesis annotations including responses to Discussion Leader questions; Discussion Leaders respond to student annotations
Friday: Lab due — GET STARTED BEFORE FRIDAY.
Weekly Readings, Videos, and Websites
Allow yourself plenty of time to complete the assignments. Good Hypothesis annotations may require reading /viewing items more than once.
- Video on Themes
- Video on assignments
- S. L. Ziegler, “Open Data in Cultural Heritage Institutions: Can We Be Better Than Data Brokers?”
- Additional websites & readings TBA on AI and cultural heritage
- Marika Cifor et al., Feminist Data Manifest-No
Unit F Lab Due Friday Noon
Semester Wrap-Up
Week 16 12/2-8
Weekly Assignments
- Projects due Wednesday (can be revised using the token system for next week)
- Work on Websites and Critical Analytical Reflection Posts
Week 17: 12/10-17 FINAL EXAM WEEK
Completion of Blog and Projects due this week
- Any final edits to projects due Monday 11:59 pm
- Critical Analytical Reflection 2 due Wednesday 5 pm
- Final updates to individual websites due Friday noon (no extensions!)
- Friday noon respond to projects or reflections on your peers’ sites
All coursework must be completed by noon the Friday of exam week.