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Embedded Librarian in Undergrad Digital History Course & Extracurricular
Graduate Workshops
RUSA History Section Discussion ALA Midwinter Philadelphia 2014
Virginia Cole, Ph.D.Cornell University
HIST 2293/AMST 2293: Digital History
Digital technologies change the way we learn about and understand the past. In this course, we will explore U.S. History in particular through the use of new digital tools that allow us to conduct research, analyze information about the past, and communicate what we know in different ways.
Edward E. Baptist, US Historian (19th century South, Slavery, etc.)
Course topics
Project: Digital Scavenger Hunt
Discuss/critique: Valley of the Shadow
Intro to Relational Databases
Discuss/critique: New Orleans 1829-1831
database
Intro to Metadata & XML
Discuss/critique: Richmond Slave Market in
the 1850s
Project: New Orleans Slave Trader database
ArcGIS, Google maps, Google Earth tutorials
Project: Geocode New Orleans Slave Traders
Discuss/critique: DocSouth
Intro to Text mining
Project: Geocode DocSouth text
Project: Create Ngram with DocSouth
Discuss/critique: Edward Ayers’ book In the
Presence of Mine Enemies
Intro to Paper Machines
Project: ManyEyes visualization
FINAL PROJECTS:
Input 100 Fugitive Slave Advertisements
APP CAMP for Freedom on the Move Project
Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery (currently in development)
• runaway slave advertisements from pre-1865 U.S. newspapers (placed by slaveowners when enslaved people attempted to escape) which are single richest source of information about enslaved individuals in the US
• uses crowdsourcing to parse data into a database
• provides for public engagement with a formative and enduring national trauma, supporting lessons for K-12, university, and museum education
• publicly available for browsing and searching, and exportable for research and analysis
http://freedomonthemove.org/Currently in development
Part 2:Humanities Graduate Student Immersion Program
Began in 2012 with IMLS funding
2014 is third year
3-4 days in January before spring semesters begins17-10 students each year
Topics
Power ResearchInfo (citation/pdf) managementFinding ImagesUsing Images for Research & TeachingOrganize, Safeguard, Update: Manage Digital Research FilesFinding Funding Working with EbooksUsing a Camera in the ArchivesCopyright for Doctoral Students
Each session taught by different librarian(s)
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/olingrad
Optional fourth day of digital scholarship by Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services
• Publishing in a Networked Age
• Intro to Digital Tools (intro to HathiTrust & Voyeur)
• Showcase of projects from first cohort of Summer Digital Scholarship/Humanities Fellows
Virginia Cole, Ph.D. [email protected]
Questions? Comments? Discussion?