Roadmap

Developing Librarian: The Project Site

Installing WordPress: Introduction to servers.

Basic Design Principles: Using themes and widgets.

Advanced WordPress techniques: Plug-ins.

 

A Digital History of Morningside Heights: The Product Site

6/4 – Installing Omeka: Revisiting servers.

6/18 – Items & Collections: Populating the database.

7/2 – Metadata, Dublin Core

7/16 – Copyright Law and Creative Commons Licenses

8/6 – Research Management

8/20 – Four things, blogs. Syllabus. Short sessions.

9/17 – Intro to versioning: GIT (Breck and Thomas) and Rackspace.

10/01 – Git Continued

10/15 – Design Principles: Wireframes (CCNMTL)

10/29 – Design Principles: Color Palettes & Typography (do friday)

11/19 – Design Principles: Advanced HTML & CSS

12/3 – Project Management (Mark Newton)

12/17 – Review

 

2014

01/07 Tour of municipal research center.

01/21 Introduction to programming I: PHP

02/04 – Introduction to programming II: PHP

02/18 – The Data Cycle: Obtaining Data from API’s

03/04 – The Data Cycle: Cleaning up Data

03/18 – The Data Cycle: Preservation

04/01 – Design Principles: UX & Javascript.

04/15 – Introduction to security: Protecting our site.

05/06 – Outreach and Publicity

 

 

Semi-Related

As much as time provides, we will do quick tours of the world of contemporary digital humanities. Topics may include:

Natural Language Processing

Experimental forms of scholarly communications

GIS for the humanities

Forms of Distant Reading

Textual Encoding Initiative