Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship 2017 Program Schedule Overview Four weeks set aside as an introduction to Digital Scholarship, three weeks dedicated to project management and development -- 20 hrs. per week -- 4 days/wk, 5 hrs/day (9am – 12pm, 1-3pm) -- afternoon sessions for hands on activities/modules, Thursdays dedicated to experiential learning. Program Goals: Train students in digital scholarship skills such as digital mapping, programming, data cleaning, and project management. Help students apply digital competencies by working on a local digital scholarship project Introduce students to potential digital scholarship and related career paths Help students to consider and build a professional online identity through Digital Bryn Mawr (internal) Develop a cohort of students with DS skills who can help support faculty/staff/student projects during the school year (internal) Identify challenges and opportunities of Digital Bryn Mawr for undergraduates Visitors Juliana Perry, Web Services (Physical Computing and Web Development) Zoe Seiden (Girls who Code) - Wed. June 14th. Camilla MacKay (Open Access & Copyright) Olivia Castello (Data) Evan McGonagill (College Women) Christiana Dobrzynski (Special Collections) Trips / Experiential Learning on Thursdays Wed. June 14th: Special Collections / College Archives / College Women (contacts: Evan McGonagill, Christiana Dobrzynski) Thur. June 15th: Next Fab (makerspace, recommended by Camilla) Thur. June 22nd: Hosting local meetup of DS students Thur. June 29th: Interactive Mechanics Thur. July 13th: Keystone DH Conference (Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philly) Week of July 24th: OSIsoft (developer of PI System for Data Vis.) Schedule Week 1 (June 12 – 16): Introduction to Digital Scholarship & Data Management Monday, June 12: Introductions AM Intro to program, schedule, expectations, tour of DMCL What is DS? Definitions, difficulties, differences, etc. Overview of DS Projects Text Analysis Data Vis. Network Analysis Spatial Analysis (3D Modeling & Mapping) Digital Exhibitions Framework for assessing and critiquing DS projects PM Get set up with Google Docs Digital Competencies self-assessment LILAC: Define Learning Contract (i.e. personal learning objectives) Domain of One’s Own FLOGS (failure logs) Tuesday, June 13: Web Development AM Intro to HTML / CSS Behind your web browser Writing a basic HTML page Domain of One’s Own Public HTML folders / Application structures (where to install plugins/themes/etc) PM Activity: Build a biographical website with linked pages & images Time for FLOGging? Wednesday, June 14: Data Management AM Quick demo of data viz Anatomy of Information (Olivia visits) 9:30-10:15 What is data and how can we work with it? Data formats (csv, json, txt, etc.) Collecting data Data Management module (Rachel) PM Discussion & Reflection on DM Module Careers in Web Design or Web Development (Zoe Seiden) 1:30-2:30pm (until 3:00 if going well) Thursday, June 15: Physical Computing AM Anatomy of Technology Opening the computer’s “black box” Physical Computing activity (Alicia) PM Meet at Bryn Mawr Station at 12:40pm (train to Suburban Station, 17 Bus from 17 & JFK) 2pm tour @ NextFab (2025 Washington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19146) For Week Two: Return to the College Women’s Project to determine what forms of data it provides for digital scholarship. Week 2 (June 19 – 23): Introduction to Spatial Analysis & Creating Accessible DS Projects Monday, June 19: Web Dev AM Team Check-in: Week 1 Reflections (30-60 min) Flogging Data Module Completion PM Introduction to Special Collections & the College Women’s Project (Christiana & Evan) Tuesday, June 20: Web Dev AM ADOOO Installing WordPress PM Goal: get websites live on web Wednesday, June 21: Accessibility AM Audience Inclusion, Access, Participation Defining the target group How engagement occurs – what is the audience interface? PM Intro to tools of access Wave (http://wave.webaim.org/) George Williams (1:30-3:00 PM) Guest speaker on creating digital access for diverse abilities Joined by ETS interns Thursday, June 22: Community of Scholarship Undergraduates in Digital Scholarship Meetup @ Bryn Mawr. 10am – 3pm Faculty & Staff DS project presentations and sharing Undergraduate sharing & problem solving Rooms: Dalton 300 For Week Three: Brainstorm how the various DS methods explored this week could be applied to the College Women’s Project Week 3 (June 26 – 30): Data Visualization, Design & Publishing DS Projects Monday, June 26: HTML/CSS Review AM Team Check-in: Week 2 Reflections LILAC Orientation with Katie (9:30am - 12:00pm) PM Return to HTML/CSS & professional websites Accessibility check? Tuesday, June 27: Data Visualization Part I - Basics AM Looking at some data visualization examples both inside and outside of academy Choosing the best digital tools for Data Visualization Raw D3 Tableau PM What a dataset looks like for Data Visualization Data Viz Module (Alicia) Wednesday, June 28: Data Visualization Part II - Design AM Review & Questions of Data Visualization Part I What makes “good” data visualization? Research question Audience needs Final publication format: print, electronic Design & Media Intro to web & user design What is the final product and how is it distributed? PM Design Module (Nathanael) Thursday, June 29: Drafting Project Goals & Field Trip AM What makes a good research question in Digital Scholarship? Project planning (deciding on research question, etc.) PM Field Trip: Interactive Mechanics (to arrive around 1:30, regional rail from Bryn Mawr @ 12:47pm to Jefferson, MFL to 2nd st.) For Week Four: Come up with a list of questions and projects that could be applied to the College Women Project Week 4 (July 3 – 7): Self-Study & Building a College Women Dataset Students may opt to self study pre-approved technologies during this time to receive their hours (e.g. to practice with data visualization tools) Students will begin creating a dataset for the CW project Thursday, July 6: User Testing Workshop at Haverford Week 5 (July 10 – 14): Project Management and Preparation Monday, July 10: Project Management Part I - Planning NOTE: Alicia will be organizing Keystone DH July 12-14 AM Team Check-in: Review of Digital Scholarship Methods and Tools Remaining questions & issues Project Management basics ( Juliana Perry visits) PM Project Management for College Women data viz project Goal Setting / Project charters Timeline Personnel/Resource management Develop schedule for following four weeks (build in an accessibility check?) Tuesday, July 11: Project Management Part II - Workshop & Review; Sharing & Publishing Digital Scholarship Projects AM Review of goals & charters Review of Timeline & Management Some Questions: How will the project as planned currently fit in or engage with existing College Women’s content? …. LILAC: Mid-Summer Reflection (Reflect on summer experience by answering several questions about your learning and personal growth) PM Copyright, Creative Commons, Open Access, Provenance, Privacy, & Terms of Service Legal-ese of the tools we use, and why we use them Common terminology (free, open-source, freemium…) Camilla guest visits Wednesday, July 12: FLEX DAY FLEX DAY am Keystone DH trip (~2-late pm) Thursday, July 13: Trip to Keystone DH Conference @ Chemical Heritage Foundation Conference ~9am-5pm Week 6 (July 17 – 21) Monday, July 17: LILAC Orientation with Katie (9:30am - 12:00pm) Project Time Team check-in Trip to Haverford DS Week 7(July 24 – 28) SketchUp Module (Elena) Carto Module (Andrew) Project Time Team check-in Trip to OSIsoft prototype feedback from LITS folks? LILAC Communications Blog Post Week 8 (July 31 – August 4) Project Time Wrap up & Reflections on Digital Competencies gained Presentation to LITS staff LILAC Presentation? (confirm date) Finishing Touches LILAC Final Evaluations (Student & Supervisor) & Reflection Paper (Final Deadline August 21) Fall Semester Follow-Up: LILAC @ Bryn Mawr and Beyond, Fri. Nov. 1st (Family Weekend): Create a presentation of 4 PowerPoint slides that will be printed. Slides address what you did, what you learned, and what you gained from the experience. Prepare a 2-3 minute oral pitch. Attend and share your experiences.