First Hour: Introduction to the Spring

Second Hour: Praxathon check in

How do you conduct research in DH? How do you design a successful project? What do we mean when we call something a digital project, and how do we define them with an ethos that is meaningful to us? How do infrastructure and administration in the field intersect with DH research, enabling or inhibiting it? How do these questions bring us back around to the beginning of the year, by developing communities and audiences for our work? The students will explore these through project management activities resulting in individual project proposals based on their work as well as speculative activities for DH events.

Main assignment for this unit will be a two-page single-spaced proposal for a project that you would work on after praxis in the style of a grant application. Try to hit on the following categories (though it’s only two pages so each one will be pretty short!):

• Project description
• Literature review
• Technical overview
• Project development timeline
• Outreach/audience strategy
• Sustainability and Copyright
• Budget

You might, instead, try to follow the format of the DH Fellows applications. The goal is for this to be useful to you, so you can also opt to produce something more specific to your particular interests and career goals (like a proposal for a digital exhibition, symposium, etc.). If you go down one of these alternate routes chat with me first about the genre and how we can help. We will have in-session consults about each of your proposals, so they will be due by 9am on the Monday of the week you’ll be on deck, in weeks 9-11. Due in Mid-March. A fuller description of the assignment is available here.

Homework

• Decide tasks, deliverables, and agenda for next praxathon check in session. Start to delegate responsibility for them.