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Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation Building a Digital Portfolio DH for Art History Graduate Students 1 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation Table Of Contents About ............................................................... 3 Institute Team ........................................................ 4 July 13: Introductions ................................................... 5 July 14: Surveying Major Digital Art Collections ................................ 7 July 15: Building Digital Collections ......................................... 9 July 16: Modeling and Models ............................................ 11 July 17: Data and Text Analysis ........................................... 13 July 20: Visualizations and Networks ....................................... 15 July 21: Mapping and Spatial History ....................................... 17 July 22: Shared Authority and GLAMs ...................................... 19 July 23: Project Planning & Grant Proposals .................................. 21 July 24: Scholarly Communication, Professionalization, Publications ................. 23 Glossary ............................................................ 24 Bibliography ......................................................... 28 Digital Art History Web ................................................. 41 Art History Collections, Highlights ......................................... 43 Multimedia Sources .................................................... 45 SketchUp Tutorial ..................................................... 46 2 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation About Building a Digital Portfolio was a digital humanities summer institute for 20 art history graduate students offered by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, at George Mason University with support from the Getty Foundation held July 13-24, 2015. The goal of the institute was to introduce digital art history to graduate students in MA and PhD programs by training them in digital humanities methods and tools. During the summer of 2014, RRCHNM ran an institute, also sponsored by the Getty, for established faculty, librarians, archivists, and museum curators. Learn more about their experiences on Rebuilding the Portfolio: DH for Art Historians. _______________________________________________ 3 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation Institute Team RRCHNM Sheila A. Brennan Co-Director, Building a Digital Portfolio; Associate Director of Public Projects; Associate Research Professor, Department of History and Art History Gretchen Burgess Mentor, Graduate Research Assistant Michele Greet Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History Jannelle Legg Mentor, Graduate Research Assistant Sharon M. Leon Co-Director, Building a Digital Portfolio; Director of Public Projects; Associate Professor, Department of History and Art History Jeny Martinez Office Manager Lincoln Mullen Assistant Professor, Department of History and Art History Megan Ober Office Manager Lisa M. Rhody Associate Director of Research; Assistant Research Professor, Department of History and Art History Spencer Roberts Mentor, Graduate Research Assistant Stephanie Westcott Director, PressForward; Assistant Research Professor, Department of History and Art History _______________________________________________ 4 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation July 13: Introductions Readings How the Internet Works in Five Minutes, 2009, https://youtu.be/7_LPdttKXPc Introduction and Part I, in Debates in the Digital Humanities, Matthew K. Gold, ed., Open Access Edition (2013), http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/ Matthew Long and Roger C. Schonfeld, “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Art Historians,” Research Support Services Program (Ithaka S+R, April 30, 2014), http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/supporting-changing-research-practices-art- historians? Jules David Prown, “The Art Historian and the Computer,” in Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 36–51. View PDF Activities Morning Opening comments and introductions Introduction to the Digital Humanities Community and the Digital Art History web. Overview of disciplinary approaches using "threshold concepts" (Meyer and Land): tranformative troublesome irreversible integrative bounded discursive reconstitutive liminality Afternoon Building a professional identity online. Introduction to digital communication platforms Hands-on Session: Sign up for/working with Twitter. #doingdah15 Hands-on Session: Sign up for Reclaim web hosting and install WordPress. Project Planning: Sharing of Project Ideas Tools Twitter ReClaim Hosting WordPress, and WordPress Documentation for Administration Panels 5 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation Sites Grad Hacker blog Academia.edu Medium LinkedIn Extra Material Additional readings and material are not required, but recommended. They are accessible through a Zotero Group Library. If you already use Zotero, click here to see the group and apply for membership. Even if you don't use Zotero, a link to the extra material is included at the bottom of each day's schedule page: Zotero Folder - Day 1 - Introductions - Extra Material Next Day _______________________________________________ 6 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation July 14: Surveying Major Digital Art Collections Readings Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” The American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (2003): 735–762. http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new- media/essays/?essayid=6 Tim Sherratt, “It’s All About the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People,” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (March 9, 2012), http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/its-all- about-the-stuff-by-tim-sherratt/ John Resig, “Using Computer Vision to Increase the Research Potential of Photo Archives,” John Resig, 2013, http://ejohn.org/research/computer-vision-photo-archives/ Activities Morning Please share the location of your new blog with us Discuss Readings Digital Methods: Search, discovery, and storage, metadata How does the Internet work; using Google Foo Research and file management Guest: Jenna Rinalducci, Art Librarian, Fenwick Library, George Mason University Hands-on Session: Metadata games, http://play.metadatagames.org/shipstag Afternoon Hands-on Session: Install Zotero Survey major digital art history collections Hands-on Session: Tin Eye, http://tineye.com/ Hands-on Session: Scavenger Hunt For Fun: Your Face in History, http://faces.cultureplex.ca/ Homework Take 15-20 minutes to quickly review (take notes, do not write a review) your assigned site. Think about: Applicability: Is it directed at a clear audience? Will it serve the needs of that audience? Quality: Is the scholarship sound and current? What is the interpretation or point of view? Accessibility: Is there a fee for use? is specific software required? User Experience: Easy to navigate? Does it function effectively? Does it have a clear, effective, and original design? Use of New Media: Does it make effective use of new media and new technology? Does it 7 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation do something that could not be done in other media—print, exhibition, film? (from Art Libraries Society of North America review guidelines: http://arlisna.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=303:for- reviewers&catid=38:multimedia-technology-reviews&Itemid=146) Site Assignments Art Detective: http://www.thepcf.org.uk/artdetective/ (Drago, Butcosk) Art Stories, Minneapolis Institute of Art: http://artstories.artsmia.org (Clements, Converse) Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh Letters: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html (Cook) National Gallery of Art, Dutch Paintings of the 19th Century: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/online-editions/17th-century-dutch-paintings.html/ (Farrell Rivello) Walker Art Center: http://www.walkerart.org/ (Gilodi, Greenlee) Visualizing Schneemann: http://historyinthecity.blogspot.com/2013/11/before-i-start-i-want-to- thank-people.html (Hager, Harris) Louis Prang and Chromolithography: http://americanantiquarian.org/prang/ (Kalkstein) MOMA iPhone app: http://www.moma.org/explore/mobile/iphoneapp (Kilgarriff, Trucks) Timelines of Dutch History: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/timeline-dutch- history (Lin) VanGoYourself: http://vangoyourself.com/ (Mirza, Kive) Vermeer and Technique: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/meaning-of- making/vermeer-and-technique/ (Rice, Riesenberger) Pietro Mellini’s Inventory in Verse, 1681: http://www.getty.edu/research/mellini/ (Stein, Thomas) Sites Your Face in History: http://faces.cultureplex.ca/ Tools Zotero: http://zotero.org Tin Eye: http://tineye.com Extra Material Zotero Folder - Day 2 - Surveying Major Digital Art Collections - Extra Material Previous Day | Next Day _______________________________________________ 8 Building a Digital Portfolio RRCHNM & The Getty Foundation July 15: Building Digital Collections Readings Erin Kissane, The Elements of Content Strategy (New York: A Book Apart, 2011). Mitchell Whitelaw, “Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Collections,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2015), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/1/000205/000205.html Cooper Hewitt Labs, “Object Concordances – What Is the Simplest Thing to Match Like with