I attended a workshop called How Do You DH? that was kind of a “lunch and learn” session put on by two digital fellows on 10/7/24. I attended this session because I thought it would be helpful as I am thinking about our impending DH project proposals. I am most interested in text analysis so thus far I have been thinking of how I can do a project using that DH methodology. But, since I don’t know all that much about text analysis it has been hard to come up with a project idea. The workshop helped me to think about what research question(s) I might want to ask and then presented an array of potential DH tools to choose from in order to answer that question.

I appreciated the high level overview of DH , which was laid out really clearly and in a straightforward way. I am still struggling to conceptualize exactly what DH is and especially struggle when trying to explain it to the people in my life. The facilitators had us break into small groups to look at a DH project and assess what the format of the project was (Digital Methods Approach, Traditional Monograph + Digital Project Approach, or Wholly Digital Approach), what DH methodology was used, and what tools were used to create the project. Again, this just helped me to conceptualize what will go into my own DH project and also to better understand how DH is translated into the “real world”.

This was the first workshop I attended and I am eager to go to more!