(Proposal from Dawn Childress).
I would like to explore ways of building local community, capacity, and infrastructure around DH to generate ideas, build competencies, and determine what is needed to support DH work in scholarship and classrooms. We are working now on building such a community at my institution and, while we’ve had a great start with a surprising amount of enthusiasm, we’re still working out what our next steps should be. For example, how do we keep the momentum going? What do we need to get humanists working together (and learning together)? What are good “beginner” projects and methods to get folks interested and serve as examples? How do we determine what tools/methods should be supported to meet the needs of the majority? What are some solutions to hosting/customization problems? How do we maintain the focus on scholarship in DH projects? Lots of questions — let’s get together and discuss!
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I would be interested in this session. I think many institutions, including KU, are just at this community-building level. I’m interested looking at programs such as the Praxis Network, focused on graduate training, and MITH’s DH Incubator program, focused on training librarians, or other models to build capacity, expertise and community.
Recently a >”software carpentry” bootcamp and was very well attended–about 50 people, mostly grad students from KU and K-State, gathered for two days to learn coding and version control. It was targeted towards science students and most of the participants were from fields like evolutionary ecology and biology, but I really liked the stated purpose of the sessions and would love to see something like this for humanities students become part of the general curriculum: “to help scientists and engineers become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing, and task automation.”
Also, I really like Miriam Posner’s recent post, How did they make that?. Her examples could serve as the basis for a very useful series of workshops!