Partnered #dh Project Critique

Augmenting Realities Assignment Specs for Partnered #dh Project Critique

Assignment:

Using Shannon Mattern’s Criteria for Evaluating Multimodal Work, you and your partner will evaluate at least one of the projects below. You will briefly present your chosen project(s) and your critique in class on Friday. You will post your collaborative written critique to the blog as your Weekly Blog assignment for this week. Only one of you needs to post the critique but make sure both of your names appear on the blog. Beneath the title of your blog, add a line like “Collaboratively written by Jack and Jill” so as to give proper attribution to the joint authorship.

Pay close attention to the multimodal project evaluation criteria and how they are enacted (or not) in your chosen project(s). Your final project will be assessed on similar criteria. As we work through this critique, we will choose those assessment criteria we find most pertinent to our projects and these will become the criteria upon which your final projects will be graded.

Projects:

• African Origins http://www.african-origins.org/

• Civil War Washington http://civilwardc.org/

• Envisaging the West, http://jeffersonswest.unl.edu/

• For Better for Verse, http://prosody.lib.virginia.edu/

• Global Shakespeares, http://globalshakespeares.org/

• Heart of Rachel, http://www.stanford.edu/dept/english/cgi-bin/humComp/2005Gp1/

• History Engine, http://historyengine.richmond.edu/

• Interactive Nolli Map, http://nolli.uoregon.edu/

• In Transition: Selected Poems by the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhovern, http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/transition

• Looking for Whitman, http://lookingforwhitman.org/

• The Map of Early Modern London, http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/

• Mapping the Republic of Letters, https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/

• Melville’s Marginalia Online, http://melvillesmarginalia.org/

• The Mind is a Metaphor http://metaphors.lib.virginia.edu/

• NINES, http://www.nines.org/

• On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, http://benfry.com/traces/

• Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

• Preserving Virtual Worlds, http://pvw.illinois.edu/pvw/

• Railroads and the Making of Modern America, http://railroads.unl.edu/

• Rossetti Archive, http://www.rossettiarchive.org/

• The Sonneteer, http://cocoon.lis.illinois.edu:8080/lis590dpl/wapiez/Sonneteer/

• September 11 Digital Archive http://911digitalarchive.org/

• Shakespeare Quartos Archive, http://www.quartos.org/

• Speech Accent Archive, http://accent.gmu.edu/

• Transcribe Bentham, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/

• Valley of the Shadow, http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/

• Voyages, http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

Or any of these Digital Humanities Award-winners 2012 projects:

Best DH visualization or infographic

• Winner: A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualization for the Humanities http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/a-thousand-words

• 1st Runner Up: e-Diasporas Atlas http://maps.e-diasporas.fr/

• 2nd Runner Up: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World http://orbis.stanford.edu/

Best DH project for public audiences

• Winner: CEISMIC: Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive http://www.ceismic.org.nz/

• 1st Runner Up: La Biblioteca Virtual de la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/indice

• 2nd Runner Up: Dickens Journals Online http://www.djo.org.uk/

Best use of DH for fun

• Winner: The Future of the Past http://newspapers.wraggelabs.com/fotp/

• 1st Runner Up: DigitalNZ magic squares http://wraggelabs.com/shed/magicsquares/

• 2nd Runner Up: 10 PRINT ebooks https://twitter.com/10print_ebooks