SlavicDH Pre-Conference 2021
Periodicals as Data: Hands-on Workshop
December 1, 2021 (all times US Central, GMT-6)
| Start | End | Session Title | Description |
| Session I 8:00-9:45 ~ Introduction to the Early Soviet Periodicals Project | |||
| 8:00 | 8:20 | Welcome and introductions | What is periodical data? An overview of objectives. Time will be reserved for questions.
Presenters: Kat Reischl (Stanford) and Natasha Ermolaev (Stanford) |
| 8:20 | 8:40 | About the Early Soviet Periodicals Collection | The Landscape of Periodical Projects. Time will be reserved for questions.
Presenter: Thomas Keenan (Princeton) |
| 8:40 | 9:00 | Exploring the Collection | An introduction to the difficult typologies of journal spaces. Ongoing investigations. Time will be reserved for questions.
Presenters: Thomas Keenan (Princeton) and Kat Reischl (Stanford) |
| 9:00 | 9:45 | Hands-on activity | Description of Computer Vision and activity with Teachable Machine using categories and images from ESPC to train a model
Presenter: Andrew Janco (Haverford College) |
| Session II 10:00-11:45 ~ Teaching and Learning with Periodicals Collections | |||
| 10:00 | 10:15 | ITMO collaboration | Program developments at ITMO University with periodical collections
Presenter: Antonina Pushkovskaia (ITMO, St. Petersburg) |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | Truzhenitsa Vostoka | An overview of teaching with Harvard’s Truzhenitsa Vostoka collection in digital formats
Presenter: Christine Jacobson (Harvard) |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Soviet Periodicals in the classroom | An overview of implementing Soviet periodical collections in courses on Soviet and Russia media
Presenter: Carlotta Chenoweth (West Point Academy) |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | Discussion | |
| Session III 12:00-1:45 ~ Color & Vision | |||
| 12:00 | 12:40 | Color Detection | Colors in Digitized Images, Streamlit app, color picker |
| 12:40 | 1:10 | Computer Vision & Research |
Activity using PixPlot as a research tool in interpretation
Presenter: Andrew Janco (Haverford College) |
| 1:10 | 1:45 | Closing | Debrief from the day’s sessions. Where and how do we define digital periodical studies at the end of the day? What is useful in these approaches? |