Binghamton Digital Humanities Research Institute

Day 1: Monday, Aug. 9

Schedule

10-11 am Welcome to the 2021 DHRI, Curtis Kendrick, Dean, University Libraries

Introduction to the DHRI and its Participants (presentation link)

11-12 pm Foundations: Markup Languages and Data Foundations (presentation link)

12-1 pm LUNCH

1-3 pm Foundations: Command Line (presentation link)

3-4 pm Optional Session: GitHub (presentation link)

Installations for Day 2

Individual Consultations

Collaborative Notes

Access to Day 1 Collaborative Notes

Downloads

Visual Studio Code: Text Editor

It is recommended that you use VS Code as your text editor during the DHRI. If you already have a text editor installed on your machine, such as Atom or Sublime Text, you may use it instead, but your directions will be slightly different from the rest of the group. Note: Apple TextEdit is not a comparable substitute.

Navigate to https://code.visualstudio.com

For Mac Users:

Click the blue button that says 'Download Mac Universal: Stable Build'

If a window pops up that asks if you want to allow downloads from code.visualstudio.com, click 'Allow.'

Run the downloaded installer, by clicking on the Visual Studio Code Icon. Note, the installation package may be in your Downloads folder.

If your machine asks for confirmation that you wish to open it, click 'Open.'

For Windows Users:

Click the blue button that says "Download for Windows: Stable Build"

Run the .exe file that appears in the bottom left corner by clicking the ^ arrow to the right and opening (it also may automatically open)

Read through License Agreement and click I Accept the Agreement > click Next

On Select Destination Location, leave default and click Next

On Select Start Menu Folder, leave default and click Next

On Select Additional Tasks, make sure Add to PATH at the bottom is checked

If you would also like an icon on your Desktop, put a check in the top box that says "Create a Desktop Icon" > Click Next

Click Install

Git for Windows: To access the command line shell

Mac users do not need to download Git. Mac users will use the Terminal, which is pre-installed.

Navigate to https://git-scm.com/download/win

Download the "64-bit Git for Windows Setup"

For each setting, choose the default and according to the directions provided in the prompts

To confirm your download was successful:

Click on the Windows icon in the lower left corner and search for "git bash"
- Select and press Enter (or click on it). This will launch a Git Bash terminal
Type git --version
- Press Enter

Dataset

nypl_items.csv (for the AM and PM sessions):

Download the file as a .csv by navigating to the menu ribbon located within your browser window and selecting File > Download > Comma-Separated Values. Save it to your desktop.

Readings and Preparation

REQUIRED READINGS and PREPARATION for Monday, August 9 (please read before arriving at the session)

Meredith Broussard, "Introduction: Hello, World," Artificial Unintelligrance: How Computers Misunderstand the World (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018): 13-30. (link to PDF)
Ted Underwood, "Digital Humanities is a Semi-Normal Thing," Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matt Gold and Lauren Klein (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/ac5fc1c4-abcb-4a04-8a4b-fa5fe763220e#ch10
Karl Broman and Kara Woo, "Data Organization in Spreadsheets," The American Statistician 72:1 (2018): 2-10, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375989.

RECOMMENDED READINGS and PREPARATION

GitHub Guides, "Mastering Markdown,": https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

Most of the participants in the DHRI indicated that they are very comfortable working with Google Sheets and/or Excel. If you are not comfortable in either, it is suggested that you consult one or both of the following resources before the August 9 session. The first resource, by Heather Froelich, deals with Excel, and the second, by Nancy Um, takes up Google sheets.

Heather Froelich, "A Gentle Introduction to Excel and Spreadsheets for Humanities People," Heather Froelich (blog), June 17, 2021, https://hfroehli.ch/blog-2/.
- Read the post and the FAQs
- Download and review the powerpoint: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0fqqxxyum5o5woe/intro-to-spreadsheets-with-excel.pptx?dl=0
Nancy Um, "Spreadsheets for Humanities Scholars," a presentation delivered to the Binghamton Spatial Humanities Workshop, March 26, 2021.
- View the recorded session via Panopto: https://binghamton.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=37e0d268-27dd-4044-a858-acf70162fcb9
- Consult the presentation at http://bit.ly/Spreadsheets4HS

FURTHER READING

Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, Digital Humanities (Penguin, 2016). (link to PDF)
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI (Yale University Press, 2021), available as an e-book through the University Libraries.
Atlassian BitBucket's Git Tutorials:
- Learn Git: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/learn-git-with-bitbucket-cloud
- Getting Started (Setting up a Repository): https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/setting-up-a-repository
- Collaborating (Synching): https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/syncing
Openscapes Champions Lesson Series (Updated June 2021):
- Chapter 9 GitHub for Publishing: https://openscapes.github.io/series/github-pub.html
- Chapter 10 GitHub for Project Management: https://openscapes.github.io/series/github-issues.html#your-turn-create-comment-on-issues
Library Carpentry's "Introduction to Git": https://librarycarpentry.org/lc-git/
Alexy Zalgasky, "Why you should use GitHub: Lessons for the classroom and newsroom" (2015): https://www.storybench.org/use-github-lessons-classroom-newsroom/

Exit Ticket

Link to Exit Ticket for Day 1

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