Project Review Assignment Instructions
For this assignment, you will carefully review and analyze a digital humanities project in order to understand how it was created. Using the framework laid out in the How Did They Make That video, write a review of 500-750 words describing and reflecting upon the project. Submit your assignment to Moodle by Friday, January 31.
Try to answer the following questions in your response:
- Sources: identify the sources used in this project.
- What primary sources were included or consulted?
- What secondary sources were included or consulted?
- Why were those sources selected?
- Processing: describe how the project team conducted their research.
- What methods did they use to document, digitize, extract data from, or analyze their sources?
- What tools and strategies played a crucial role in processing the material?
- Presentation: how is their work presented and why is it presented that way?
- What tools, platforms, or modalities are they using to present their research?
- What significant design choices have they made?
- Reflections: what is your impression of the overall project?
- What is the effect of the decisions that were made at each layer?
- What opportunities for expansion, revision, or continuation can you imagine?
You may also wish to address these questions:
- What methodological and theoretical frameworks did the authors use to conduct their work?
- What are the goals of the project? What types of questions is the project trying to answer?
- Who is the audience of the project?
Project options
- Digital Grainger: an Online Edition of The Sugar-Cane (1764)
- Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature
- Queer Digital History Project
- a Portrait of Tenochtitlan
- Plant Humanities Lab
- Feminist Freedom Warriors
- On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance
- I’m Still Surviving
- Persepolis Reimagined
You may use a different project with permission of the instructor.