Schedule & Assignments Overview

Weekly Schedule

This overview gives a top level view of the topics for each of our meetings. You can either use the side navigation or click on a topic to jump to that section.

Tuesday Topics (Explorations)	Thursday Topics (Experimentations)
August 25 - Why Is This Not Called Computing in the Humanities? Introductions & Overviews	August 27 - How Will We Work in This Course? Programming & Processing
September 1 - What Is Culture As Data? Definitions & Disciplines	September 3 - How can we work collaboratively and computationally? Version & File Histories
September 8 - How and when did we first start representing culture as data? Histories of Culture & Computing	September 10 - What does it mean to work digitally? Markup & Markdown
September 15 - What are the historic legacies and politics of representing culture as data? Digital Objects & Obsolescence	September 17 - How has the web changed culture as data? Servers & Web Standards
September 22 - How do our choices shape whose culture becomes data? Data Feminism & Design Justice	September 24 - How can we represent culture computationally? Scripts & Types
September 29 - How do we decide which culture as data to capture? Cleaning & Curating	October 1 - How can we start creating culture as data? Ecosystems & Environments

Assignment Schedule

Assignments will be added throughout the semester depending on how much material we get through.

Individual Assignments

Assignment	Due Date (Subject to Change)
Initial Interest Survey (Link Available on Canvas)	Due by Midnight CT on August 31
Init IS310 Homework	Due by Midnight CT on September 2
Lost & Found in the Cultural Command Line Homework	Due by Midnight CT on September 9
Source & Style Homework	Due By Midnight CT on September 16
Doing It Live Homework	Due By Midnight CT on September 24

Group Assignments

Assignment	Due Date
Mass Digitization, Digital Libraries, and Data Retirement	September 29 (Depending on progress with topic selection)