ISAW-GA 3024-001 | Fall 2017 | Introduction to Digital Humanities for the Ancient World
November 20 / Week 10
Teaching, Research, and Collaboration in the Digital Era
We welcome Dot Porter, Curator of Digital Research Services in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at Penn Libraries, to the class for this session.
Before Class
Please the introduction to the just-published “digital supplement” of the medieval studies journal Speculum: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/694236
Assignment Due
Present an intellectually coherent set of 3D models in class using Sketchfab. At least three. Make use of Sketchfab’s annotation function.
ca. 250 word response to the digital supplement to Speculum on the class google doc.
Class Outline
This class will fall in three parts:
First, we will reviewing the 3D work you have done for the week.
Second, we will have a discussion of the digital humanities in the current academic landscape, led by Dot Porter from UPenn. The aim is to gain greater perspective on the different ways in which DH is pursued at academic institutions today, as a way of helping us think about what sort of digital humanists we are or are becoming.
Third, and to that end, we will ask that you present a 3-min. elevator pitch of your final project, articulating generally (and briefly!) your