# October 1st Class Notes (Intro)

## DIGH 5000 First Class

Keeping everything in small text files

Get a reference manager now

The tech stuff will come when you want to analyze a problem

Notes from Shawn can be found here: http://j.mp/dhcu-notes

*DH Hype Cycle*

2006: DH first coined

2013: DH reaches crest of curse

2017: DH is going to ruin academia! attitude

2019: hype has worn off, backlash is exhausted, we can figure out what good it can be used for

*Some words from the board*

Power, streaming, tools, politics, semiotics, games, engagement, accessibility, silences, post-colonial DH, who gets to speak?, narrative development

The labour of this class that the world will see will be outward facing work

Project: Landscape of DH in Ottawa

Want to know what this landscape looks like/create representation for it

A map metaphorically or literally

Topic to talk about in class: Primer textbook from two years ago for a starting point

*Quotes I like from whatisdigitalhumanities*

“DH breaks open opportunities to ask and research new questions in humanities, stimulates novel approaches and visualizations of humanities work, and gives us a chance to make more effective relevant interventions to broader publics. Kristin Koptiuch”

“The Digital Humanities are an umbrella discipline for humanities scholars and educators who adopt digital technology as the environment for the curation, organization, production and dissemination of their scholarship and as a platform for their teaching, with the objective to enable sharper focus on the qualitative evaluation of information that is at the core of humanistic inquiry. Silvia Stoyanova”

*Tools*

https://voyant-tools.org/ (Get raw data from github)

What is the word ‘media’ doing in these quotes?

*Steps for Github*

1. Github

2. Fork github.com/hepplerj/whatisdigitalhumanities

3. Edit index.html

Stuff with meta: gets ingested by google, library search engines, this is what we are changing

Script and link define the inner activity: how to go and get that bit of random information and display it on the screen

Style: how stuff is gonna look
Grab…: how the quote is actually pulled

4. Setting>Github pages>master branch

.md is important. 'md' means 'markdown' ,- just a text file with a bit of semantic signs in it, eg:

# heading 1

## heading 2
**This is bold**
*This is italics*

Top 3 topics: Social Media, Multimodality, Text Analysis

December 3: Reschedule class

My topic: Social Media

## When will it be done?
**Oct 15**: Shawn with Code

**Oct 29**: Yoshi with Archives/Databases

**Nov 12**: Jenna with Telling Stories

**Nov 26**: Victoria with Sound

**Dec 3** (reschedule)

**Jan 7**: Akash with Computational Study of Popular Music

**Jan 21**: Ashleigh with Social Media

**Feb 4**: Nick with Computational Creativity

**Fed 25**: Sarah with Digital Environment Humanities

**March 10**: Sabrina with Public Humanities

Final 3 days in reserve for final project and troubleshooting

Hypothesis: The more yellow, the more annonotations there are
This tool helps us read collaboratively as a group