3D printing in the news (take a few minutes to read this at the start of class):

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/29/british-museum-facing-legal-action-parthenon-marbles-3d-scan-refusal

Virtual exhibit tour:

https://hubs.mozilla.com/A5MY6Gv/excited-blushing-safari

Augmented Reality Examples:

Use your phone to scan these QR codes. If your phone gives you a warning that it lacks World Tracking, just click OK. It just means the A

Readings:

• Inmaculada Remolar, Cristina Rebollo, and Jon A. Fernández-Moyano, “Learning History Using Virtual and Augmented Reality,” Computers 10, no. 11 (November 2021): 146, https://doi.org/10.3390/computers10110146.

• Anne Frank House VR. I have this loaded on an Oculus Quest headset and I would be happy to set it up in 722 when I’m back on campus (next week??) for you to give it a try. It is really very powerful and the best example of AR for history that I’ve tried. It takes about 15 minutes.
  • https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/what-we-do/publications/anne-frank-house-virtual-reality/
• Michael Waters, The Augmented Reality App That Lets You Experience the Moon Landing, Smithsonian Magazine, June 2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/augmented-reality-app-lets-you-experience-moon-landing-180972465/
  • You can find this in the Apple and Android app stores.
• Tutorial: 
• Sophie Dixson, “Creating a WebXR Exhibition using Mozilla Hubs” Mnemoscene, Medium, June 2020 https://medium.com/mnemoscene/creating-a-webxr-exhibition-for-games-design-students-65c4579abdf8
• Recourses:
  • https://sketchfab.com/tags/history
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-now-download-1700-free-3-d-models-cultural-heritage-artifacts-180974308/

• Readings:
• Dan Edelstein et al., “Historical Research in a Digital Age: Reflections from the Mapping the Republic of Letters Project,” The American Historical Review 122, no. 2 (April 1, 2017): 400–424, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.400.

Lab: Palladio

• Marten Düring, “From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources,” Programming Historian 4 (2015), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0044.
• More resources:
  • http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/help/
  • Getting Started with Palladio: https://hcommons.org/?get_group_doc=1003007/1552175523-FolgerworkshopnetworksPalladiotutorial.pdf

1. Lab:

   The Programming Historian, available online, http://programminghistorian.org. Do the Introduction to Python lessons.

   1. Python Introduction and Installation
      1. We will use the Python IDLE (Python GUI) instead of the text editor suggested by the lessons, which is already installed on the lab computers. So we will skip the installation lesson.
      2. Search and open IDLE (Python 3.5 64-bit)
      3. It should open the Python 3.5.4 Shell
      4. Try this: >>>print ‘hello world’
         1. Hit enter
      5. Click “File” and “Open New File”
      6. You are ready for the next lesson.
   2. Understanding Web Pages and HTML
   3. Working with Text Files in Python
   4. Code Reuse and Modularity in Python
   5. Downloading Web Pages with Python
   6. Manipulating Strings in Python
   7. From HTML to List of Words (part 1)
   8. From HTML to List of Words (part 2)
   9. Normalizing Textual Data with Python
   10. Counting Word Frequencies with Python
   11. Creating and Viewing HTML Files with Python
   12. Output Data as an HTML File with Python
   13. Keywords in Context (Using n-grams) with Python
   14. Output Keywords in Context in an HTML File with Python
   15. Introduction to Jupyter Notebooks
   16. Advanced: Clustering with Scikit-Learn in Python (might not be possible on lab computers)

Here are the lessons I planned to use today. But we’re missing one package on the lab computers, so it will not work (and the cloud platform I planed to use is no long available to the public).

Download: Introduction to Text Analysis Jupyter Notebooks

Unzip

Search for Jupyter Notebooks in the start menu (if you are using Windows) and click to open. It will open in the browser.

Navigate to where you unzipped the folder.

Click on lesson 1-getting-started-with-jupyter

February 18

Readings: 

• Steven Ruggles, “The Revival of Quantification: Reflections on Old New Histories,” Social Science History 45, no. 1 (2021): 1–25. 
• P. Baskerville et al., “Mining microdata: Economic opportunity and spatial mobility in Britain and the United States, 1850–1881,” 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2014, pp. 5-13, doi: 10.1109/BigData.2014.7004446.

Lab: Working with historical database in Excel (or Google Drive Sheets).

Quantitative history and spreadsheets workshop

Part 1: Clifford’s British Imports Database

• Which country supplies the most “Copper Unwrought” in 1886? How much and does it cost per ton?
• How much does the total “Copper Unwrought” imports increase between 1856 and 1906?
  • Create a bar chart showing this trend. Do you know how to add the years as labels on the x-axes?
• How do the “Cotton Raw” imports change?
  • Which year is it most expensive?
  • How much cotton does the West Coast of Africa export to the UK in 1866? When is the last year the West Coast of Africa sends cotton to the UK? Why does it end (the answer is in the spreadsheet)?
• What are the top 10 commodities imported by value in 1901?
• What are the top 10 commodities imported by quantity?
  • Tips:
    • A load is about the equivalent to an Imperial ton of timber
    • A tun is about the equivalent of an Imperial ton of train (whale) oil
    • There are 20 Hundredweights (CWTS) in an Imperial ton
    • There are 2240 Pounds (LBS) in an Imperial ton
    • A gallon of petroleum weighs about 6.1 lbs
  • What is the best approach? You need to normalize the data to Imperial Tons. Can you use an IF statement? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/if-function-69aed7c9-4e8a-4755-a9bc-aa8bbff73be2

Video: https://usask.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4b1c0935-60de-46a5-88e3-ae240116ddce

A temporary link to the Great Plains data.

Analysis 1950:

1. Bring the relevant data into this tab.
2. Calculate Corn bushels/acre, wheat bushels/acre and corn for grain, kilograms/hectare
3. Find the averages for Iawa

Analysis 1900 to 1997

1. find the total average wheat kilograms/hectare between 1950 and 1997

https://covid19archive.usask.ca/

Readings:

Lab: Omeka digital archives and the importance of metadata.

• Miriam Posner, “Up and Running with Omeka.net,” Programming Historian 5 (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0060.
• Miriam Posner and Megan R. Brett, “Creating an Omeka Exhibit,” Programming Historian 5 (2016), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0049.

First blog posts:

• They were all well done.
• Please include images and hyperlinks
• Think about using subject headings. See Sam’s post for an example.
• I’ll be a little tougher grader with the second post.

Week 4: Non-Academic Digital History and Games February 3

• Andrew Denning, “Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary,” The American Historical Review 126, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 180–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab002.
• Julien Bazile, “Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry.,” The American Historical Review 126, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 217–19, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab005.
• Michael D. Hattem, “Assassin’s Creed III.,” The American Historical Review 126, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 214–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab004.
• Christopher P. Magra, “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.,” The American Historical Review 126, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 216–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab003.
• Gabi Kirilloff, “Interactive Fiction in the Humanities Classroom: How to Create Interactive Text Games Using Twine,” Programming Historian 10 (2021), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0095.
  • We will start working on creating the interactive game in the lab, but please read the lesson before class.

Lab: Creating Interactive Games

Gabi Kirilloff, “Interactive Fiction in the Humanities Classroom: How to Create Interactive Text Games Using Twine,” Programming Historian 10 (2021), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0095.

Blog post 2: A post reviewing a digital public history project, virtual reality app, augmented reality app or video game. February 9

• Digital exhibits from museums
• Augmented reality apps on your phone (Moon Landing)
• A virtual reality app (I have an Oculus headset with the Anne Frank House VR app installed and can arrange to share it if we are back on campus).
• History YouTube series or channel (check with me first, as I’d like you to focus on something made for YouTube and not just reposted BBC documentaries.
• History podcasts
• Educational or commercial video games excluding the four discussed in the readings
• Exhibits in the StoryMaps platform: https://storymaps-classic.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#s=0
• Omeka exhibits

Week 2: What is Digital History and Who are Digital Historians – January 20

Reading:

• Chad Gaffield, “Clio and Computers in Canada and Beyond: Contested Past, Promising Present, Uncertain Future,” Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 559–84, https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2020-0020.
• Kimberley Martin, “Clio, Rewired: Propositions for the Future of Digital History Pedagogy in Canada,” Canadian Historical Review 101, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 622–40, https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2020-0021.
• Sharon Leon, “Complicating a “Great Man” Narrative of Digital History in the United States,” Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities, E Losh and J Wernimount, ed., University of Minnesota Press, 2018 https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-4e08b137-aec5-49a4-83c0-38258425f145/section/53838061-eb08-4f46-ace0-e6b15e4bf5bf#ch19
• Stephen Robertson, “The Differences between Digital Humanities and Digital History,” Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2016 edition, http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/76. 

Lab 2:

• Explore some examples on Timeline.js: https://timeline.knightlab.com/
•  Think of a topic that has images, maps, texts and videos (the easiest option is to find a Wikipedia site with lots of images.)
• Build a timeline and create a blog on your site with a link to the timeline. The university WordPress doesn’t let us embed the timeline.

Here is my incomplete timeline for the Great Smog in London: https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1pYlNIDrpJ0q_kVW7Lsxmu1oL2jZSm-L7Pd-e1e-9ui8&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

Homework due January 26: Complete your first required blog post on an academic digital history project. What is it? What does it offer? Is it valuable? Representative?

1. The Liberated Africans Project: http://www.liberatedafricans.org/
2. Map of Early Modern London: https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/
3. 9/11 Digital Archive: http://911digitalarchive.org
4. Geography of the Post: U.S. Post Offices in the Nineteenth-Century West http://www.cameronblevins.org/gotp/
5. The Old Bailey Online: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
6. Mapping the Republic of Letters: http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
7. Quantifying Kissinger: http://blog.quantifyingkissinger.com/
8. Digital Harlem: http://digitalharlem.org/
9. Occupy Web Archive: http://webarchives.cdlib.org/a/occupy
10. Returning the Voices to Kouchibouguac National Park: http://returningthevoices.ca
11. Old Maps Online: http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
12. American Panorama: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/:
13. Enchanting the Desert: http://enchantingthedesert.com/home/
14. The Lucas-Heaton Letters: http://loudounmuseum.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=8f83bd92c18f40dfbb4a455acbe85f2d&webmap=d69b68d0e43445f8baea7eb27b9f49c4
15. Canada is the Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: https://lglc.ca/
16. Musical Passage: http://www.musicalpassage.org/#home
17. Mapping Occupation: http://mappingoccupation.org/
18. Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
19. Coloured Conventions: http://coloredconventions.org/
20. Wearing gay history: http://www.wearinggayhistory.com/
21. Becoming Richard Pryor: http://www.becomingrichardpryor.com/pryors-peoria/era/1919-1941/
22. Canada’s Year Without a Summer: http://niche-canada.org/yearwithoutasummer/
23. 100 Years of In Flanders Fields: http://cityofguelph.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=f39b056d38fe460f8269eed11eb3cd66
24. Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
25. Clio Visualizing History: https://www.cliohistory.org/
26. Any other significant digital history project, but please check with me first.