Introducing DH Websites

Seminar and Workshop FramingPermalink

How are websites foundational to DH and how do we build them in DH-specific ways? How can working on the web present new opportunities and challenges for DH?

Contextual MaterialsPermalink

• Dombrowski, Quinn. “Minimizing Computing Maximizes Labor.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 016, no. 2 (June 25, 2022). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000594/000594.html
• “.Break .Dance.” Sx Archipelagos, no. 2 (July 10, 2019) https://archipelagosjournal.org/issue03/parham/parham.html
• Parham, Marisa. “Breaking, dancing, making in the machine: notes on .break.dance” Sx Archipelagos, no. 2 (July 10, 2019) https://doi.org/10.7916/archipelagos-xn3y-vj19 OR Proctor, Brittnay L. “Review: .Break .Dance.” Reviews in Digital Humanities II, no. 8 (August 16, 2021). https://doi.org/10.21428/3e88f64f.c62a7450.

Applied MaterialsPermalink

None

Curated Additional Materials (optional but recommended if familiar with assigned materials)Permalink

• Estill, Laura, Jennifer Guiliano, Élika Ortega, Melissa Terras, Deb Verhoeven, and Glen Layne-Worthey. “The Circus We Deserve? A Front Row Look at the Organization of the Annual Academic Conference for the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 016, no. 4 (August 5, 2022). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/4/000643/000643.html
• Lincoln, Matthew, Jennifer Isasi, Sarah Melton, and François Dominic Laramée. “Relocating Complexity: The Programming Historian and Multilingual Static Site Generation.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 016, no. 2 (June 25, 2022). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000585/000585.html
• Posner, Miriam. “JavaScript Is for Girls.” Logic(s) Magazine, March 15, 2017. https://logicmag.io/intelligence/javascript-is-for-girls/.

Workshop Assignments (to be completed prior to class)Permalink

• Complete one of the mapping assignments, available here.

Workshop ResourcesPermalink

• Jonathan Blaney, “Introduction to the Principles of Linked Open Data,” Programming Historian 6 (2017), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0068.
• William J. Turkel and Adam Crymble, “Understanding Web Pages and HTML,” Programming Historian 1 (2012), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0018.
• Dennis Tenen and Grant Wythoff, “Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown,” Programming Historian 3 (2014), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0041.
• Sarah Simpkin, “Getting Started with Markdown,” Programming Historian 4 (2015), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0046.