Breakout Sessions

Jaz Thomasian – Academic Technologist for Social Sciences; Aisling Quigley – DLA Librarian and Program Manager; Ellie Anderson – Digital Services Specialist, Library (Macalester College)

Weitz 026 (IdeaLab)

A grassroots movement at Macalester to improve the digital accessibility of teaching and learning materials is gaining momentum. In collaboration with the library and the digital liberal arts librarian, our academic technology team has been creating support materials, offering workshops, organizing awareness campaigns, etc., all toward raising the baseline of campus digital accessibility. One key goal of this project is supporting students and faculty in creating accessible digital liberal arts (DLA) projects.

Learn what we’ve done at Macalester so far, and join a conversation about what’s worked well (and what hasn’t) at your school. Hopefully, this can be an opportunity to share strategies across campuses, to strengthen all of our digital accessibility programs.

Erin Ridnour – Digital Scholarship Librarian (Iowa State University)

Weitz 138 (computer classroom)

The Iowa Community Cookbook Corpus is a text dataset of 200 OCR’d cookbooks published by Iowa community organizations from 1896-2009. This dataset was compiled as part of the collections-as-data project Computers Reading Cookbooks which uses natural language processing tools to identify shared food traditions and culturally distinct recipes across Iowa communities.

This workshop will provide a demonstration of two free text analysis tools, VoyantTools and AntConc, using the Iowa Community Cookbook Corpus as the demo dataset. Participants will get hands-on experience exploring the dataset with these tools as well as time to share findings and discuss the possibilities of this type of DH work.  

Downloading the most recent official release of AntConc in advance of the workshop will be helpful but is not required. 

Sara Lynnore – Instructional Technologist for Geospatial and Data Services (St Olaf College)

Weitz 235 (collaborative classroom)

• Slides

During the process of converting legacy StoryMaps to the current template, this led to many conversations about project management and sustainability. In the world of digital projects, how do we make these reproducible or sustainable for the long term?

Come for a discussion on digital project preservation. Are there any processes that your institution uses or encourages? Debrief on the StoryMaps legacy conversion, or are there any other project types (video, audio, website, etc.) that you have needed to manage for the long term?

Attendees are welcome to bring a laptop or mobile device to view a slide deck or take shared notes, but it is not required.