Digital Humanities Workshops

Front matter

Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

DIGITAL HUMANITIES WORKSHOPS LESSONS LEARNED

Laura Estill and Jennifer Guiliano

PART II Who 75

7 Views Through Student Lenses: How Workshops With Student Research Assistants Can Enhance a Lab’s Research Programme 77 PAUL MILLAR, MAGGIE BLACKWOOD, GEOFFREY FORD, DAVIDE GARELLO, DORIAN GHOSH, NATALIE LOOYER, DONALD MATHESON, CALEB MIDDENDORF, KASPAR MIDDENDORF, LAURA MOIR, CLEMENCY MONTELLE, EMANUEL STOAKES, CHRISTOPHER THOMSON, AND MENGJUN YU

8 Remodeling the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Workshop 92 JOHN RUSSELL, MARIA ISABEL MAZA, LAUREN M. CENCI, AND CLAIRE M.L. BOURNE

9 Building Community and Collaboration Through the Digital Humanities Toolbox Series 98 SARAH SIMPKIN AND JADA WATSON

10 “Push That Button and See What Happens”: Addressing Technology Anxiety in Library Digital Scholarship Pedagogy 106 GESINA A. PHILLIPS, DOMINIC BORDELON, AND TYRICA TERRY KAPRAL

11 Workshops in Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities: Towards Building Relationships With Critical University and Community Movements 117 KUSH PATEL, ASHLEY CARANTO MORFORD, AND ARUN JACOB

12 Creating More Inclusive Spaces for African American Studies and Ethnic Studies in Digital Humanities Workshops 128 JEANNETTE EILEEN JONES, TONY FRAZIER, CLAIRE JIMÉNEZ, AND SARITA B. GARCIA

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PART II How 143

13 A Design Justice Approach to Creating Equitable Workshops 145 ELIZABETH GRUMBACH AND SPENCER D.C. KERALIS

14 The UX of DH Workshops 162 BETH RUSSELL AND DAVID JOSEPH WRISLEY

15 Scaffolding Collaboration: Workshop Designs for Digital Humanities Projects 172 MIA RIDGE AND EILEEN J. MANCHESTER

16 Critically Reflective and Lighthearted: The Keys to Learning Digital Heritage Skills 188 PAKHEE KUMAR AND HENRIETTE ROUED

17 Transitioning Synchronous Workshops Into Asynchronous Digital Resources: A Case Study of Project Management and DevDH.org 198 JENNIFER GUILIANO AND SIMON APPLEFORD

18 Tools in a Workshop: Facilitating DH Learning and Teaching Through a Shared Virtual Desktop Environment 208 CLAUS-MICHAEL SCHLESINGER, MALTE GACKLE-HECKELEN, AND FABIENNE BURKARD

Index 219

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Constance Crompton and Andie Silva as well as the volume’s reviewers for their thoughtful feedback on earlier stages of this work. Thanks also to the Canada Research Chairs program (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) for co-funding the open access publication of this volume. Thanks to Danielle Phillips (undergraduate student, St. Francis Xavier University) for her work as a research assistant on this book.

This volume is open access and we encourage people to share it and use its contents with credit.

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A general typology of digital humanities training options, originally presented at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference A schematic representation of the draft DH and

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The initial six mentorship tracks of ESCALATOR”S

Digital Champions Initiative

A possible mechanism to link data and tools while protecting proprietary rights

Homepage for the Research Institute in Digital Ethnic

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A tweet by @DJWrisley showing a map of the 300+ registered participants for the remote 2021 NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities

Visual depiction of the nested relationship between workshops, activities, and scaffolds

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Description of the workshops

Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies Week 6 Schedule Features of DH projects well-suited for structured workshops Workshops, activities, and scaffolds used at the Machine Learning + Libraries Summit

Activities and scaffolds used in the 2021 Library of Congress summer intern design sprint

Activities and scaffolds used at the Living with Machines design workshop

Workshops, activities, and scaffolds used for the Collective Wisdom project

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Contributors

Simon Appleford is an associate professor of history at Creighton University. His research focuses on the intersections of digital humanities, visual culture, and 20th-century U.S. cultural history. He is Project Director of the Digital Maximilian — Bodmer and, together with Jennifer Guiliano, is the co-author of DevDH.org, an online resource for digital humanities project development.

Alyssa Arbuckle is the Associate Director of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria, where she is Operational Lead for the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership, and the Cofacilitator of the Connection cluster. She is a member of the Directorial Group and the Operational Team for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSD. Alyssa also holds an Interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Victoria, where her dissertation focused on open social scholarship and its implementation. You can learn more about her work at alyssaarbuckle.com.

Maggie Blackwood (she/her) is currently working towards a master of linguistics at the University of Canterbury. Her research is focused on socio-phonetic analysis of kindergarteners’ vowel productions. She has recently worked as a research assistant for the UC QuakeBox: Take 2 project.

Dominic Bordelon is Research Data Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh Library System. He supports researchers in working with, organizing, and sharing data as well as with introductory coding instruction.

Claire M.L. Bourne (she/her) is an associate professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. She regularly publishes articles and book chapters on Shakespeare, book history, early modern drama, and textual editing.

Fabienne Burkard (she/her) is a student in the Digital Humanities Master’s program at the University of Stuttgart and a student assistant for DH2go onboarding support, research, and development.

Lauren M. Cenci (she/her) holds a MA in English with a focus on early modern literature from the Pennsylvania State University.

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Randa El Khatib is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is the Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and the Editor of Early Modern Digital Review. You can learn more about her work at randaelkhatib.com.

Laura Estill is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and an associate professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Geoffrey Ford is a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Canterbury. Geoff has been a researcher with the Arts Digital Lab since 2018 and has taught in the digital humanities program since 2019. He has published on NZ politics and is currently researching discourse about lethal autonomous weapons.

Tony Frazier (he/him) is currently a Fellow at National Humanities Center for the 2021—2022 academic year. Dr. Frazier is an associate professor of history at North Carolina Central University. Professor Frazier was a 2021 participant in the ACLS-Mellon funded Digital Ethnic Studies Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Malte Gackle-Heckelen was educated as a social scientist and came to the digital humanities for his PhD. Aside from teaching digital humanities and co-developing DH2go, he researches superhero comics via network analysis for his PhD.

Sarita B. Garcia is a junior developer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Now part of the developer team, Sarita first joined the CDRH as a graduate research assistant in history in 2017. She worked on multiple projects, including Cartas a la Familia and The Nebraska-Latino Heritage Collection. Sarita received her Bachelor of Arts in August of 2017 from Texas A&M University-Kingsville, and her Master of Arts in History in 2019 from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also earned a graduate certificate in digital humanities in 2019, and actively uses her training in history and digital inquiry to teach, train and learn.

Davide Garello (he/him) has a BA Honors in media and communications from the University of Canterbury. He is interested in how our personal experience, knowledge, and interests shape the way we interact in the digital sphere. Davide was a research assistant for the Canterbury Earthquake Narratives — The Experience of Re-telling project.

Dorian Ghosh (they/their) is doing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Canterbury, majoring in English and cultural studies. They were a research assistant for the Canterbury Earthquake Narratives — The Experience of Re-telling project, recruiting participants and transcribing responses. Their research interests are in queer theory and queer linguistics.

Elizabeth Grumbach is the Program Manager for Digital Humanities and Research for the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, an organization committed to exploring co-creative and participatory strategies for ethical technological innovation, at Arizona State University. Her current research and scholarly

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Jennifer Guiliano is a white academic living and working on the lands of the Myaamia/Miami, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Wea, and Shawnee peoples. She currently holds a position as associate professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty in both Native American and Indigenous Studies and American Studies at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Kayley Hart (she/her) is the Program Coordinator at the Center of Digital Humanities Research and Project Manager of The Feminist Controversy in England at Texas A&M University. She earned a master of arts degree in English from Texas A&M in May 2021.

Arun Jacob is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, working in the media, technology, and culture concentration. Arun’s work unites media genealogy, intersectional feminist media studies and critical university studies to explore how contemporary university data management techniques and information management systems shape our sociocultural relations, experiences, and knowledge.

Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer who grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. She is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories (Johns Hopkins Press, 2019) and the novel What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central, 2023). She received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and her PhD in English with specializations in Ethnic Studies and Digital Humanities from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2020, Jiménez co-founded the Puerto Rican Literature Project, a digital archive. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in Remezcla, Afro- Hispanic Review, PANK, The Rumpus, and Eater, among other publications.

Jeannette Eileen Jones (she/her) is the Carl A. Happold Associate Professor of History and Ethnic Studies and the Director of Nineteenth Century Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL. She is Director of the collaborative digital project To Enter Africa from America: The United States, Africa, and the New Imperialism, 1862—1919 and co-convener of New Storytellers: The Digital Ethnic Studies Summer Institute.

Justy Joseph is a doctoral student at the Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. Her areas of research interest are digital humanities, partition literature, and cognitive theory, and she has done her master of philosophy in select Canadian literature exploring the areas of cognitive geography and cognitive bias.

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Jyothi Justin is a PhD scholar with the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at IIT Indore, India. She hails from an English and comparative literature background. Her current research focuses on the intersections of digital cartography and literary studies (feminist geocriticism) in the independent, postcolonial India.

Tyrica Terry Kapral is the Humanities Data Librarian in the Digital Scholarship Services unit of the University of Pittsburgh Library System. In this role, she supports scholars using digital, data-centered, and computational methods for research and learning in the humanities.

Spencer D.C. Keralis is a scholar librarian whose research explores the ethics of collaboration in digital scholarship and pedagogy. They currently serve as Director for Research and Scholarly Initiatives with the Southern Methodist University Libraries.

Pakhee Kumar is Lecturer (Teaching) in Sustainable Heritage and Data Analysis at the Institute of Sustainable Heritage, University College London. Her research focuses on the use of social media and crowdsourcing during disasters affecting cultural heritage. She teaches MSc Sustainable Heritage and MSc Data Science for Cultural Heritage students. She has conducted workshops on using heritage data and tools.

Chao-Lin Liu is the President of the Taiwanese Association of Digital Humanities and a distinguished professor and the Chairperson of the Department of Computer Science of the College of Informatics at National Chengchi University. He is interested in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics, aiming to enable computers to understand human languages. He was a Fulbright and TUSA scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies of Harvard University between 2016 and 2017.

Natalie Looyer (she/her) completed her Master of Arts in Classics in 2019 and has worked at the University of Canterbury, previously as a curatorial assistant for the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities and now as a research assistant for the Arts Digital Lab. She is now a doctoral candidate in history at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Eileen J. Manchester is an innovation specialist on the Library of Congress Labs team. She is a former classroom teacher and is pursuing a PhD in education at George Mason University, where she focuses on critical data literacies. Eileen holds an MSt in modern languages from the University of Oxford, and a BA in English, French, and German from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Donald Matheson is a professor of media and communication at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the Co-Editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, former President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association and Co-Director of the University of Canterbury Arts Digital Lab.

Maria Isabel Maza (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the Pennsylvania State University specializing in early modern literature, travel narratives, and recipe books.

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Nirmala Menon is a professor of English in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Discipline of English, IIT Indore. She leads the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, India. She mentors research scholars and runs DH projects from the research lab at IIT Indore. While her primary area of research is postcolonial studies and digital humanities, partition studies, graphic literature, and translation studies are additional areas of research.

Caleb Middendorf (he/him) is a research assistant for the UC QuakeBox: Take 2 project, helping to transcribe recordings. Caleb is in his second year of a BSc, majoring in chemistry at the University of Canterbury.

Kaspar Middendorf (they/them) is the Manager of the Arts Digital Lab, with qualifications in linguistics, mathematics, and secondary teaching. Their Master of Linguistics thesis used statistical modeling to compare syntactic structures in the QuakeBox spoken language corpus with the written language of the Christchurch Press.

Paul Millar is a professor of English and DH at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he founded the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, co-directs the Arts Digital Lab, and leads a program of research into the human impacts of disaster. He was President of the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities from 2019-2021.

Laura Moir (she/her) is a graduate from the University of Otago with a BA in linguistics. Laura is currently working as a research assistant for the UC Quake- Box: Take 2 project. She divides the rest of her time between creative pursuits and freelance IT projects.

Clemency Montelle is a professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She has research interests in the mathematical history of several early cultures of inquiry including Mesopotamia, Greece, India, and the Islamic near east and is involved in several international projects combining digital humanities in the context of documenting early scientific traditions.

Ashley Caranto Morford is a diasporic Filipina-British settler scholar and community educator. Her work is in relationship with Indigenous studies, Filipinx/a/o studies, anti-colonial methods, and digital humanities. She is an assistant professor in liberal arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, located in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homelands colonially called Philadelphia.

Kaviarasu P is a PhD research scholar with the Digital Humanities and Publishing Research Group in the School of Humanities and social sciences at IIT Indore. His current research focuses on translation studies and digital humanities. His research interests include digital mapping, epigraphy, literary studies, Tamil literature, and archiving.

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Kush Patel is a queer feminist educator, writer, and public scholar whose research and teaching remain oriented to the theme of “survival” as both a form and method of historical and theoretical investigations into making just environments across a range of digital and community sites. They are currently a faculty member in and head of studies for the Postgraduate Arts Program in Technology and Change at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Bangalore, India.

Miriam Peña-Pimentel is a researcher at the Institute of Bibliographical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She specializes in working with digital academic editions, remediation, and digital humanities scholarship. She teaches in multiple academic programs at graduate, undergraduate, and professional levels.

Gesina A. Phillips was formerly the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh Library System, where she led the Digital Scholarship Services unit. She has since joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as a Senior Systems Software Engineer. Her research interests relate to digital skills pedagogy, data and coding literacy, critical approaches to digital humanities, copyright, and library labor.

Mia Ridge is currently Digital Curator in the Digital Scholarship team at the British Library. Mia is an experienced practitioner and consultant in the field of user experience design and delivery for digital heritage and digital humanities projects.

Henriette Roued is an associate professor in digital humanities at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. With a background in archaeological computing, their research focuses on the use of open heritage data in organizations and amongst citizen participants. They teach Digital Heritage and Data Science in the Humanities and create open tutorials online.

Beth Russell is Associate Director for Research Services and Strategy and Associate Academic Librarian for the Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. She oversees the library’s programs in digital scholarship, research and instructional services, and collections and technical services, working in conjunction with global NYU Libraries colleagues to build library programs that support the teaching, research, and learning of students, faculty, and staff. She is also co-founder of the Winter Institute in Digital Humanities.

John Russell is Digital Humanities Librarian and Associate Director of the Center for Virtual/Material Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of articles and presentations relating to digital humanities librarianship.

Claus-Michael Schlesinger is a research associate at the University of Stuttgart, Department of Digital Humanities. His work focuses on electronic literature, historical and contemporary relations of aesthetics and technology, and the history of meteorology and climatology.

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Ray Siemens directs the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. He is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, in English and computer science, and past Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing (2004-15). In 2019-20, he was also Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Loughborough U, and he is the current Global Innovation Chair in Digital Humanities at U Newcastle (2019-22). You can learn more about Ray at web.uvic.ca/~siemens/.

Sarah Simpkin is the Head of Research Support (Arts and Special Collections) at the University of Ottawa Library. Sarah works at the intersection of analogue and digital collections, bringing together teams with diverse skill sets to make the library’s collections more accessible to members of the uOttawa community and beyond. She launched the DH Toolbox series in Fall 2017.

Juan Steyn is the Director of Operations at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) hosted at the NWU. SADiLaR is a new research infrastructure that forms part of the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap and focuses on two main programs: A digitization program and a digital humanities program. Juan’s research interests link to possibilities that minimal computing may offer in the context of the humanities and social sciences research as well as building capacity and in general enabling research within the DH context. His educational background includes theology and ancient languages, actuarial sciences, and business studies.

Emanuel Stoakes (he/him) is a Master’s student in media and communications at the University of Canterbury; he continues to work as a freelance journalist in television and print. His research interests include information societies and the role of media.

Nancy Sumpter (she/her), now retired, was a Program Coordinator II at the Center of Digital Humanities Research at Texas A&M University. She was responsible for the administrative and fiscal duties in managing the Programming for Humanists continuing education webinar series.

Bryan Tarpley (he/him) is an associate research scientist at The Center of Digital Humanities Research at Texas A&M University, where he conducts research in critical infrastructure studies, with a focus on multi-model solutions for the storage and retrieval of big humanities data. He also recently completed a PhD in English, studying 21st century literature and affect theory.

Christopher Thomson is a senior lecturer in digital humanities at the University of Canterbury. He is a co-director of the UC Arts Digital Lab and has worked on digital research projects including the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, and a current longitudinal study of post-disaster narratives in Canterbury.

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Angelique Trusler is the African Capacity Development Manager at The Carpentries and Extraordinary Researcher at Optentia Research Focus Area, North- West University, South Africa. Angelique leads the community engagement efforts to develop and support The Carpentries community in Africa, focusing on the Southern, Eastern, and Western regions, creating pathways for participation and increased communication. She further guides the recruitment of new instructors and institutional members, drives The Carpentries’ awareness efforts in Africa, mentors instructors, and coordinates workshops across the continent. She has a PhD in Educational Psychology.

Anelda Van der Walt has a background in bioinformatics but transitioned into transdisciplinary work over the last few years. In 2015 she founded a South African-based consultancy, Talarify, to support digital and computational capacity and community development within research settings in Africa. Her work focuses on open science, open educational resources, reproducible research, and communities of practice. She has well-established collaborations with institutions in the Global North and South.

Menno Van Zaanen is a professor in digital humanities at the South African Center for Digital Language Resources hosted at North-West University, South Africa. He is particularly interested in incorporating the use of computational techniques in the field of humanities. His PhD in the area of computer science dealt with building systems that learn (linguistic) grammars from plain sequences (sentences). These empirical grammatical inference systems result in patterns that can be used for further analysis of the data, for instance, in applied machine learning, computational linguistics, or computational musicology. During his MA (computational linguistics) and MSc (computer science) studies, Menno used techniques from one field and applied them to situations in the other, such as proofing tools and error correction, machine translation, and multi-modal information retrieval.

Jada Watson is an assistant professor of digital humanities in the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa. Coordinator of Digital Humanities, Jada oversees programming for the university’s summer institute workshops (DHSITE) and the DH Toolbox series. Her research explores the potential for using industry data to examine the formation and development of popular music genres.

David Joseph Wrisley is Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. He is a comparative medievalist and digital humanist. His research straddles the domains of late medieval court culture, Mediterranean studies, multilingual corpora analysis, and the spatial humanities. He founded and organized the first digital humanities training institute in the Middle East in Beirut in 2015.

Mengjun Yu (she/her) is a PhD student in comparative literature in the Global, Cultural and Language Studies department, University of Canterbury. A research assistant in the Arts Digital Lab, she has prepared metadata for the QuakeStudies archive and researched background material for the Christchurch Diaspora project.