Share DH project explorations (day 1)

[evanwill]

Following up on Day 1:

1. Explore interesting DH projects
2. Deconstruct content and platform. Think about source data, tools, outputs, and people. e.g. Miriam Posner, How did they make that?.
3. Share your favorite example and thoughts here.

[samsonmatthews]

This is a link to a reasonably popular/famous score-follower youtube channel that specifically champions music written by living composers. This channel is unique in that it has a sustainable following, and provides resources for the new music community that offer not only scholarly research, but also accessibility to wider audiences (shown especially in terms of platform). It's also a good opportunity for emerging composers to spread their music to more people.

[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCyncBPEzI6pb_pmALJ9Tw]

[clamb89]

I took a look at: https://native-land.ca/

This project seeks a spatial representation of indigenous lands prior to colonization. It is unique in that it provides multiple geospatial layers representing the fluctuating/overlapping boundaries and relationships between places/people/time. The shaded/color-coded nodes allow for this important overlap of data. Using a contemporary base-layer (that appears to be from google maps) it situates the historical spaces of indigenous lands and people within (or over) contemporary ones, providing an important sense of continuity and presence (and occupation). Nodes provide multiple functions; when hovered over by the cursor options to seek more detailed information regarding specific groups/ treaties are provided. Yet, these links bring you to a separate page which disrupts the continuity of the map itself (for better or worse). The project seems relatively sustainable as it claims to be a “work in progress” and invites ongoing input from communities. It provides links to tribal websites extending the spatial/temporal representation beyond the site itself, which I think is also beneficial in regards to sustainability.

[dcnb]

An arcgis source for Native Land from the Forest Service

Quite a disclaimer to begin. A conflicted space to be sure ...

[dcnb]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCyncBPEzI6pb_pmALJ9Tw

@samsonmatthews how might you start thinking about doing something like this but not on a Google platform. And not using video?

[jak487]

Reading Like a Victorian is an attempt to recreate the Victorian-era practice of reading (and writing) novels in serialized form. The website offers a collection of "stacks" organized by year (1840-1872) which contain well-known serial novels organized by chapter and month of publication. The user can then read a facsimile version of the standalone or serialized chapter on https://babel.hathitrust.org/. I find Reading Like Victorian both valuable and deeply frustrating. On the one hand, it defamiliarizes our relationship with the commodity form of the novel and its relationship to narrative by harkening back to an earlier and more episodic form of the novel's material culture. On the other, the effect of serialization is diminished because the database is static; the user/reader always has access to the totality of the novel in its serialized form (unlike Victorian readers of The Tower of London in May of 1840, for example). To do things differently, I would ask users to subscribe to the publication/magazine they wanted to read and then grant them access to novels on a monthly basis as they were 'published'.