digital humanities skillshare

Final Project: A Survey of Digital Humanities Skillshare Applications

Noreen Whysel LIS 657 Digital Humanities Professor Chris Alen Sula

DH Skillshare

Overview

  What is a Skillshare?

  Skillshare Formats

  Core Values

  Technology Platforms

  Skillshares in Digital Humanities

  Pratt DH Skillshare

  Challenges

What is a Skillshare?

What is a Skill Share?

Kinds of Skillshares

Festivals

Communities

Hacker Spaces

Formal and Informal Training

Online Communities

Skillshare Formats

Festivals: Whatcom

Festivals: Whatcom

Festivals: Whatcom

Festivals: Maker Faire

Festivals: Maker Faire

Communities: Brooklyn Skillshare

Hackerspaces: NYC Resistor

Hackerspaces: NYC Resistor

Training: General Assembly

Training: General Assembly

Training: Skillshare.com

Training: Skillshare.com

Online: Brooklyn Librarians

Core Values

Values: Education is a Right

Values: Freedom and Community

Values: Friendship and Curiosity

Technology Platforms

Digital Humanities Platforms

  Hosted Web Systems and Group Sites   Google Sites, Yahoo! Groups, email discussion lists, wikis

  Web Content Management Systems   WordPress, Drupal, Joomla

  Library and Archival Repository and Digital Collections Systems   Fedora Commons, Omeka, Dspace, Greenstone,

CONTENTdm   Museum Collections Management and

Online Exhibition Systems   PastPerfect, steve.museum, The Museum System (TMS)

  Code Repositories   GitHub, SourceForge, supercomputing

Source: markkamrath, THATCamp Florida and my own research

DH Skillshares: Groups

Google Sites Discussion Lists

DH Skillshares: CMS

Wordpress Drupal

DH Skillshares: Archival Systems

Omeka Fedora Commons

DH Skillshares: Museum Systems

PastPerfect steve.museum

DH Skillshares: Code Repositories

GitHub SourceForge

Digital Humanities Skillshares

WordPress: THATCamp

WordPress: THATCamp Florida

WordPress: CUNY Academic Commons

WordPress: CUNY Academic Commons

WordPress: CUNY Academic Commons

Drupal: HASTAC

Fedora Commons: DHO Discovery

Fedora Commons: DHO Discovery

GitHub: A Guide to DH

SourceForge: Infouma OS for DH

Challenges

Challenges

  Determining Community Needs

  Determining Storage Needs

  Selecting Features

  Training

Challenges: Is DH Ready?

Pratt DH Skillshare

Pratt SILS DH Skillshare

Pratt SILS DH Skillshare

Pratt SILS DH Skillshare

Pratt SILS DH Skillshare

Thank You! Look for Digital Humanities resources at:

  DH Skillshare Student Project: http://dhskillshare.prattsils.org

  Digital Humanities at Pratt SILS: http://dh.prattsils.org

  DH Trends on Storify: http://dhtrends.storify.com

  DH Trends on Twitter: @dhtrends

Noreen Whysel nwhysel@pratt.edu @nwhysel