Doing Digital Humanities is a monthly series of presentations and workshops focusing on basic skills needed for working in the digital humanities: wrangling data, managing projects, and learning on-the-fly. Lightning-talk panel presentations, followed by audience and panel discussion, showcase people, projects, and expertise in the Research Triangle and offer insights into the practical side of being a digital humanist. Workshops provide hands-on introduction to tools used by digital humanists.

Visit http://sites.duke.edu/digital/training-events/doing-dh/ for more information.

The series kicks off with a workshop and panel on Digital Humanities Data (download the flyer):

Digital Humanities Data

WORKSHOP 
Thursday, October 24, 4:00-5:00 PM
Wired! Lab (Bay 11, Smith Warehouse)
Register: http://tinyurl.com/DoingDH-DHdata-work (limited space – registration required)
Open to all faculty, staff, and students at Research Triangle institutions.

Workshop Leader: Pamella Lach, UNC Digital Innovation Lab
In this workshop, participants will explore what it means to undertake data-driven digital humanities projects, and experiment with approaches to translating and transforming traditional objects of humanistic inquiry into data. No previous experience with digital humanities or relational databases is required.

PANEL
Thursday, October 24, 6:00-7:30 PM
FHI Garage (Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)
Register: http://tinyurl.com/DoingDH-data
Open to faculty, staff, and students at all Research Triangle institutions

What are the particular challenges of creating, managing, curating, and maintaining digital humanities data? In this panel discussion, four experts from Triangle research universities join us for a conversation about data issues that digital humanities practitioners face at all stages of project development.

• Hugh Cayless (Senior Digital Humanities Programmer, Duke Classics Computing Collaboratory);
• Matthew Davis (CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation, North Carolina State University);
• Markus Wust (Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, North Carolina State University);
• Pamella Lach (Manager, UNC Digital Innovation Lab);
• Angela Zoss (Data Visualization Coordinator, Duke University Libraries).

And look for these future sessions…

Project Management for Digital Humanists 

WORKSHOP 
Thursday, November 21, 4:00-5:00 PM
Wired! Lab (Bay 11, Smith Warehouse)
Register: http://tinyurl.com/DoingDH-PM-work (limited space – registration required)
Open to all faculty, staff, and students at Research Triangle institutions.

Workshop Leader: Ashley Reed, The William Blake Archive, UNC
Introduction to DH project planning and management, with special emphasis on choosing the tools and applications (from free apps like Google Docs to professional software like BaseCamp and Jira) that best suit your project and your team.

PRESENTATION
Thursday, October 24, 6:00-7:30 PM
FHI Garage (Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)
Register: http://tinyurl.com/DoingDH-PM
Open to faculty, staff, and students at all Research Triangle institutions

Learning On The Fly 

PANEL
Thursday, December 5, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
FHI Garage (Bay 4, Smith Warehouse)
Register: http://tinyurl.com/DoingDH-LearnFly
Open to faculty, staff, and students at all Research Triangle institutions

Digital projects frequently breed challenges that require new skills and knowledge and a willingness to take risks and make mistakes, as part of the process of learning and moving forward. Whether part of cross-disciplinary and collaborative work, or the application of a new digital tool or method to an established research area, learning on-the-fly is an unavoidable and valuable trait of digital humanities work. Panelists will present critical learning moments in their own work, and discuss strategies for cultivating this skill.