During week 4 we have an exceptional opportunity to participate in the coinciding Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (WIDH) and NYCDH Week.
The WIDH was founded at NYU Abu Dhabi last year and had programming that stretched over 4 days. This year is will be run remotely and will consist of ten different single two-hour course sessions.
There are a few courses that will address our course's topic of maps, but in general, the offer is very broad and represents a cross section of ways in which university teaching and research intersect with problems of the digital.
By this point, you should already have signed up for one of the sessions offered by Abu Dhabi or New York. Note that the WIDH is run in accordance with our Code of Conduct.
There will be no class this week.
After the session that you attended, please drop us a note in chat with a brief description of the session you attended and your immediate reaction. This will count as Quick Writing #5. You can include in your quick writing links about the subject, wikipedia articles, etc. Give us a few sentence summary of the main points of the session and let us know how you might use it in your life, career or studies.
Watch: a webinar about Armchair Mapping using OSM, the "Wikipedia of maps"
Explore:
Visualizing Wikipedia edits: http://rcmap.hatnote.com/#en
Maps as "live" objects: https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/
OSM map features
Read: Conflict-of-interest editing in Wikipedia
For the next class exercise you will be using your OSM account that you signed up for to work in UMap.
In your blog 2, please give us a description of the session you attended. For the privacy of those who are attending, please don't take a screenshot including faces for your blog. Include other visuals that are representative of the work you did as well as links to relevant resources. This should be around 750 words.
You will want to address these issues:
(1) what was the main topic of the session?
(2) how many attended the session and what was the means of delivery?
(3) how familiar were you with the topic before attending? what new topics did you learn about?
(4) did the session related to issues that arise in your other courses or capstone research at NYUAD?
(5) what links and resources would be helpful for someone reading your blog post who might be interested and would like to follow up?
Alternative assignment: If you signed up on time for the HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) Colonialism in Open Map Data event, you can attend and write your blog about what you learned from it.