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Tutorial materials to teach Racket/Scribble to people without a math or CS background
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What tools do DH scholars need? #1

Open spdegabrielle opened 6 years ago

spdegabrielle commented 6 years ago

I’d love to know what the participants ask for?

Encoding texts Coding texts Multimedia tools (#lang video) visualisations, etc.

mlemmer commented 6 years ago

So far we're only covering basic materials, but the biggest asks so have been about formatting and bibliographies. Scribble only has two bibliography options built in and neither are standard for Humanities, and the over-sized margins etc wouldn't be accepted by most professors for a class assignment. Both of these can be solved using LaTeX and BibTeX, but that requires a whole new syntax and we haven't had the time to cover it yet (though we have provided a LaTeX prefix that has basic modifications (margins, font size, line spacing, etc).

So far our participants have been excited about the ability to build custom functions into their papers to do things like automating figures lists and mining data.

spdegabrielle commented 6 years ago

Are there any existing tools or formats they need to be able to work with? e.g. Atlas.TI/NVIVO, TEI-C etc. I know in the UK that funding is now often tied to submitting research artefacts to a repository - and while RTF is accepted, scribble isn't on the list of formats :)

My interest is I used to work in digital libraries in Australia so had some contact with DH people. I first used racket to recover images from a proprietary digital archive and some email discovery stuff, so I'm excited by the possibilities of DSL's that meet their needs.

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So far we're only covering basic materials, but the biggest asks so have been about formatting and bibliographies. Scribble only has two bibliography options built in and neither are standard for Humanities, and the over-sized margins etc wouldn't be accepted by most professors for a class assignment. Both of these can be solved using LaTeX and BibTeX, but that requires a whole new syntax and we haven't had the time to cover it yet (though we have provided a LaTeX prefix that has basic modifications (margins, font size, line spacing, etc).

So far our participants have been excited about the ability to build custom functions into their papers to do things like automating figures lists and mining data.

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