Category: pre-conference workshop

Periodicals as Data: Hands-on Workshop December 1, 2021

Andrew Janco

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? 

pre-conference workshop 2019

Andrew Janco

The ASEEES Digital Humanities in the Slavic Field group is pleased to announce a pre-conference digital project workshop to take place on the morning of November 23, 2019, at San Francisco Marriott Marquis (Floor 2 Foothill G1, G2). 

ASEEES Digital Humanities in the Slavic Field group is pleased to announce a pre-conference digital project workshop to take place on the morning of November 23, 2019, at San Francisco Marriott Marquis (Floor 2 Foothill G1, G2). The workshop is open to all ASEEES attendees and other interested scholars.

In an on-going effort to build a digital ego-document repository, the Prozhito project has already collected over 3,000 Russian- and Ukrainian-language diaries and made over 400,000 diary entries available to researchers through the archive search function. The next step in Prozhito development is finding digital tools to assist researchers who wish to work with the archive. The second annual pre-conference digital project workshop brings together Slavic DH scholars who showcase their research in the Prozhito archive.

SCHOLARS

Misha Melnichenko, Prozhito project founder and leading researcher

Anastasiya Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Academic Supervisor, Computational Linguistics Program, Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Philip Gleissner, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, The Ohio State University

Andrew Janco, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Haverford College

SCHEDULE

8:30-9:00 Meet and greet

9:00-9:30 Prozhito: Three Thousand People Describe Four Hundred Thousand Days of Their Lives

Prozhito founder Misha Melnichenko will explain how the project began, how he built a team of 600 volunteers to digitize diaries, and how Prozhito teaches the art and craft of reading and digitizing ego-documents.  

9:30-9:50 From Collections to Data: Turning Raw Text into Structured Research Data

In this section, we will discuss the process of transforming the raw text and metadata transcribed by Prozhito into datasets that can be used in specific experiments.

Leader: Andrew Janco

10:00-10:45 Diarists as Readers: Literary Networks in the Prozhito Diaries 

Soviet diarists often wrote about the literature they were reading. In this section, we will use network analysis to trace literary reception in the Prozhito data. The session will feature a basic introduction to network analysis terms and tools.

Leader: Philip Gleissner

10:45-11:45 Diarists as Writers: Sense and Sensibility in the Diary Entries

As ego-documents, diaries contain authentic expressions of personal thoughts and feelings. In this section, we will use distant reading tools to trace the emotional expressions and patterns of reasoning in the Prozhito diaries. The session will feature a basic introduction to distant reading terms and tools.

Leader: Anastasiya Bonch-Osmolovskaya

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The workshop is open to all ASEEES attendees and other scholars wishing to investigate and develop research questions for the Prozhito project collections.

NB

No previous knowledge of Digital Humanities is required.

We apologize for having no refreshments on site as we are prohibited from ordering third-party catering. There are many coffeehouses in the area including Peet’s Coffee at 773 Market St. and Starbucks coffeehouses at 789 Mission St. and  780 Market St. where refreshments can be bought.

Pre-conference workshop and Prozhito on the ASEEES Blog: 2019-11-01 and 2019-04-04

The Road to Now podcast episode recorded at the ASEEES post-workshop panel.

 

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Original Photo Credit: Anastasiia Pavlovskaia

SlavicDH 2018 Pre-conference Workshop

Andrew Janco

The ASEEES Slavic Digital Humanities group is pleased to announce a pre-conference digital project workshop, to take place on the morning of  December 6, 2018 in Boston. Together we will examine artifacts and interpretive questions derived from the Sourcebook of the Post-Soviet 1990s. The technical training sessions and discussion groups within the workshop will address key research questions connected to the project.

ASEEES Pre-Conference Workshop Multimedia Sourcebook of the 1990s

All participants are welcome, including those with no DH expertise. We especially encourage language, culture, and area experts to join us in the service of preserving, interrogating, and (re-)interpreting key artifacts from the “long 1990s,” defined as the period between 1985 and 2000. The workshop will feature guest experts tasked with guiding participants in developing skills relevant to the Digital Humanities, including web-scraping, metadata, and digital curation.  

We hope you’ll be able to join us in Boston this coming December! For more information, please visit the event website, or write to Andrew Janco or Maya Vinokour.