Readings
- Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy (New York: A Book Apart, 2011).
- Mitchell Whitelaw, “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2015), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/1/000205/000205.html
- Cooper Hewitt Labs, “Object Concordances – What Is the Simplest Thing to Match Like with Like?,” Cooper Hewitt Labs Blog, May 29, 2015, http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2015/object-concordances/
- College Art Association, “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in the Visual Arts” (College Art Association, February 2015), http://www.collegeart.org/fair-use/best-practices
Activities
Morning
- Discussion of readings
- Digital Methods: Conceptualizing effective digital projects and considering how software structure shapes arguments.
- Hands-on Session: Small group discussion of the sites reviewed
- Hands-on Session: Crit Room Appraisal of digital art history projects
Afternoon
- Hands-on Session: Install Omeka
- Hands-on Session: Building digital narratives with Omeka exhibit builder
- Hands-on Session: Building digital narratives with Scalar
Homework
- Please take a few minutes to fill out a midweek survey: http://arthistory2015.doingdh.org/midterm-survey-1/
Sites & Tools
- Omeka: http://omeka.org
- Omeka user guide: http://omeka.org/codex/Documentation
- Scalar: http://scalar.usc.edu/
- Scalar user guide: http://scalar.usc.edu/scalar/
- Scalar Tutorial: What is Scalar?
- Guglemann Collection, 3D Browser: http://www.mathiasbernhard.ch/gugelmann/
- Adding Plugins with the Omeka Plugins Guide
Extra Material
Zotero Folder – Day 3 – Building Digital Collections – Extra Material