DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration:
An Experiment with the Colored Conventions Project
Subject to change based on class needs
Tuesday-Thursday
10am-12pm Lecture and discussion
130-300pm Hands on work
330-500pm 60 min: hands-on work/30 min: debrief and documentation
Friday
10am-12pm Hands on work
130-300pm Wrap Up/Prep for Show and Tell
330-500pm Show and Tell (group presentation)
#114: Goldstein Electronic Classroom
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900-1000am Check in and Coffee
1000-1045am Dream Lab Welcome
1045am-12pm – Morning Session
• Introductions
• Discussion: When to update, migrate, sunset?
• Lecture: How did we get here? Tour of CCP sites /
Where are we going? Overview of the week
1200-130pm – Lunch Break
12-1pm – Dream Lab Lunchtime Workshop (optional), 6th Floor Pavilion: Building a Simple Website with Eleventy and GitHub Codespaces
130-300pm – Afternoon Session I
• Lecture: Intro to Digital Publishing/WordPress
• Lecture: Accessibility, Usability, Discoverability
300-330pm – Coffee Break
330-500pm – Afternoon Session II
• Instruction: Intro to staging sites and work sprints
• Discussion: Debrief
500-630 – Opening event – unKeynote: Colleen Macklin and John Sharp from the PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab)
630-730 – Reception
900-1000am - Coffee
• Office hours (optional)
1000am-12pm – Morning Session
• Lecture & Discussion:
Centering the humanity in digital humanities
• Hands-on: Work sprint begins!
1200-130pm – Lunch Break
12-1pm – Dream Lab Lunchtime Workshop (optional), 6th Floor Pavilion: Three Extremely Simple DH Tools
130-300pm – Afternoon Session I
• Hands-on: Work sprint, cont
300-330pm – Coffee Break
330-500pm – Afternoon Session II
• Hands-on: Work sprint, cont.
• Discussion: Debrief & Document
515-700 – Ice cream social (optional)
900-1000am – Coffee
• Office hours (optional)
1000am-12pm – Morning Session
• Maintenance, Preservation, & Documentation
• Hands-on: Work sprint, cont.
1200-130pm – Lunch Break
12-1pm – Dream Lab Lunchtime Workshop (optional), 6th Floor Pavilion: A Brief Introduction to Omeka
130-300pm – Afternoon Session I
• Hands-on: Work sprint, cont.
300-330pm – Coffee Break
330-500pm – Afternoon Session II
• Hands-on: Work sprint, cont.
• Discussion: Debrief & Document
900-1000am – Coffee
• Office hours (optional)
1000am-12pm – Morning Session
• Hands-on: Work sprint, cont.
1200-130pm – Lunch Break
12-1pm – Dream Lab Lunchtime Workshop (optional), 6th Floor Pavilion: Light-Up "My Digital Humanities Is..." Bookmark
130-300pm – Afternoon Session I
• Activity: Project Summary Writing & Exchange
• Activity: Wrap Up / Assessment
• Prep for Show N Tell
300-330pm – Coffee Break
330-500pm – Show N Tell
• Class presentation
Text posted on Bluesky, May 23, 2025
🙌🏽 🙌🏽 to #DreamLab2025 crew who jumped in the deep end w/ me to experiment crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to out-of-box WordPress template w/ care, curiosity & determination! Completed 6 exhibits in 9 hours (avg 11 pgs/hr) ➕documentation! 🎉
IMAGES: L-R, clockwise: Class photo in front wall with slideshow projection; Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation; Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation with display of project documentation; DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration: An Experiment with the Colored Conventions Project. Photos by Lauren Cooper.