Fall Schedule

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August 29: Unit 1

Intro to the fellowship, expectations, schedule, etc. For the first meeting, fellows are only required to attend the regular meeting time (1:30-3:00). The full in-residence time (10:00-3:00) starts next week.

September 5

What is heritage? What do we mean by digital heritage? What is tangible vs. intangible?

September 12

Introduction to Project Management for Digital Cultural Heritage

1. How are Digital Heritage Projects Designed and Built?
2. Developing and Managing Digital Heritage Projects.
3. Project Lifecycle
4. Building a Vision Document
5. Building a team (who does what?)
6. Building a Workplan
7. Building and nurturing fruitful collaborations

September 19

Work on Project Vision Challenge (due September 26)

PROJECT VISION TEAMS:

TBD

September 26

Present project vision document challenge

To do for October 3:

There were summer prerequisites, but it might be a good idea to revisit them again in advance of our start of Github related work.

1. Watch “What is Version Control?” https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/videos/what-is-version-control
2. Watch “The Basic Workflow of Version Control” https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/videos/basic-workflow
3. Read “Understanding the Github Flow” https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
4. Complete the “Introduction to GitHub” Course https://lab.github.com/githubtraining/introduction-to-github
5. Complete “Hello World” Tutorial https://guides.github.com/activities/hello-world/

Some added video tutorials that will help:

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhIqta2iCQk

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-yT2Err6PE

October 3: Unit 2

Version Control & Github as a critical component of project management and sustainability

Understanding Javascript Frameworks

Project Pitch Rapid Development Challenge

PROJECT PITCH TEAMS:

TBD

October 10

Work on your Project Pitch Website challenge (due October 17)

Past Examples:

1. Around Motown - https://emilynisch.github.io/AroundMotown/

2. Become Part of the H.E.R.D. - https://meknaak.github.io/HERD-trail/

October 17

Present Project Pitch Website challenge

October 24: Unit 3

Project Hositing & Digitization

Copyright & Licensing

October 31: Unit 3

Building Digital Cultural Maps and Story Maps

1. The geospatial web & its architecture (maps, data, backend, user interface etc)
2. Web mapping services and tools
3. Opensource web mapping ecosystems
4. Challenges of heritage web mapping

November 7

Mapping Memory challenge (due November 15)

MAPPING MEMORY TEAMS:

TBD

Past Examples:

Rylee, Madison, Marissa, & Morgan: https://r3m-chi.github.io/superiorshipwrecks/

Madiha, Ashley, Jada, Priyanka: https://jayakodicham.github.io/forrestgump/

November 15

Present Mapping Memory challenge

To do for Nov 21:

Read: A General Introduction to Cloud Computing https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/a-general-introduction-to-cloud-computing

November 21

3D Digitization and Printing

Start preparing for the final project pitch and final project proposal.

November 28

Thanksgiving - no meeting.

December 5

Project Pitches (10 minutes max): Along with your pitch, you need to share an initial project vision document (using the template you used earlier) with everyone

DUE (Friday, December 12 by 5pm): Project Proposal Document. Share a OneDrive doc with both Maddie and Gillian's MSU email (macdo313@msu.edu, mmackie@msu.edu). Shared OneDrive doc because this allows us to provide comments and ask questions.