Teaching Digital Humanities at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki Mikko Tolonen, Eetu Mäkelä, Maija Paavolainen This presentation: http://j.mp/dhinhel M
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Positioning: What is our DH in the sea of DHs Principles: Ecosystems thinking Teaching Module Construction Principles in action in example courses Reflection
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Our DH ● Applying modern data processing to solve humanities research questions ○ Digitized and born digital sources treated the same ● Acknowledging the benefit to such work of ○ open science principles ○ diverse, practical engagement ● Broadening to related fields: data management, multimodal/augmented reality/VR studies, digital culture studies EM
Transparency (data, methods, reporting) Memory org
Access and reuse
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Research team
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Research process
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DH teaching module structure Digital Humanities 25sp DH1 Theory and Practice (5-15sp) DH1a Introduction to digital humanities (5sp)
Cultural Social Social heritage network Social network and network the digital analysis analysis analysis 0-10sp
DH2 Methods (5-15sp) DH2a Introduction to methods in digital humanities (5sp)
Social Social network Social network network Data visualization analysis analysis analysis 0-10sp
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DH3 Multidisciplinary Project (5sp)
Course: Introduction to Digital Humanities 1.
What is digital humanities
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Interplay of research questions ↔ research methods ↔ digital resources
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Digital humanities in practice 1: focus on data processing a.
Different types of data, data quality, available open datasets
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Fundamental concepts of programming for humanists
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Cross-cutting focus on open, reproducible research and publishing
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Digital humanities in practice 2: data analysis methods a.
Focus on understanding what they do and can do
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Digital humanities in practice 3: digital humanities project
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Digital humanities in practice 4: participation in a DH symposium
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Course: Working with Open Heritage Materials ● Finnish cultural heritage institutions presented their collections and access options ● Students evaluated them from the viewpoint of using them in research
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Join (liittykää) Hurry (rientäkää) Hold (pitäkää) Go (käykää) Do (tehkää) Don’t (älkää) Write (kirjoittakaa)
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Come (tulkaa) Remember (muistakaa) Take (ottakaa) See (katsokaa) Avoid (karttakaa) Come (saapukaa) Burn (polttakaa)
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Feedback on the DH intro course What was good about the course: ● ● ●
The range of digital tools introduced Concrete research examples and the visitors telling about their own stuff. The fact that we were "forced" to do a little hands on project was a really good thing. It taught me a lot but also gave me ideas for further research etc.
What needed improvement on the course? ●
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The starting level between humanist and computer scientist branches is unbalanced. The course is possibly the first encounter with computer code for many humanists, which could make the course unnecessarily hard.
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start (intro) + end (project) defined, allow to control in between a mishmash of courses Diverse engagement i. multiple disciplines: CS & HUM ii. research AND GLAM organizations AND infrastructure iii. teaching, research, projects, seminars, events Pragmatism - hands on work, hackathons tie the above together Open methods, open science
Ecosystems thinking - different actors have different viewpoints, still possible to combine them in processes that benefit each DHH, courses as example Reflection: culture in DHH vs intro course
DH1 Theory and practice (5-15 SP) DH1a Introduction to digital humanities (5 sp) DH1b Optional courses to choose from (0-10 sp) English philology: Korpuslingvistiikka Translation studies: Digitaaliset aineistot Finnish language: Kielenoppiminen, vuorovaikutus ja teknologia Finnish language: Monitieteinen termityö Finnish language: Käsiteanalyysi ja termityö History: Digitala källör och medier History: Games and history History: Historiantutkimus, tilastot ja määrällinen tutkimus Ethnology: Avoin digitaalinen kulttuuriperintö Musicology: Johdatus tietokoneavusteiseen musiikintutkimukseen Film and television studies: Yhteiskunta ja av-kulttuuri Film and television studies: Av mediakasvatus + OTHER SUITABLE ONES CAN BE SUGGESTED
Helsinki ecosystem in practice - involve and mix all of: 1.
Individual researchers, research groups and projects
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Symposiums and other events
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Research seminars
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Lecture courses
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Infrastructure and memory institutions
Keep it practical – involve researchers and memory institutions in project courses, hackathons, students and memory institutions in research
