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DH Project Review Essay

For this assignment you’ll write a review of a digital humanities project. You’ll write it using Markdown and you’ll post your review essay to your personal GitHub page and you’ll call it [lastname]_project_eval.md. Once completed, you will “submit” your review essay by

1. navigating to the dh_project_reviews directory in the course GitHub page,
2. creating a branch within that directory (call it what you will),
3. editing the README.md file to include a link to the project in your repository.
4. You will then merge that branch with master, resolve conflicts, and delete the branch.

Criteria for Evaluation

You may want to review Mattern’s “Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited”, and you’ll definitely want to familiarize yourself with the list of evaluation criteria that we compiled in class. You will use primarily the latter as a framework for your review of a DH project. Your review of the project should be pegged to these criteria, and you should use these criteria to formulate a general sense of the successes and/or shortcomings of a given project.

Your review essay should be well-written, by which I mean cohesive with clearly articulated arguments and well-wrought prose. Your sentences should build one upon the other as you walk your reader through your carefully chosen evidence. You may experiment with the format; as we’re writing in Markdown and for our GitHub page, you may think about appropriate uses of section headings to organize your paper and signpost your arguments for your reader. Do not think of the use of sections as a crutch, however. Your ideas within the sections must hang together while ensuring that the sections – as parts of a whole essay – work together to create a coherent final product.

Even More sites to consider!

So you’ve had a look at the winners from DH Awards and I’ve asked you to chose from those. Let’s broaden that scope to include some classics in the field as well. If you’re a fan of options, check these out too.

• Understanding Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Quartos Archive
• The Map of Early Modern London
• The John Milton Reading Room
• Mapping the Republic of Letters
• Melville’s Marginalia Online
• On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
• For Better for Verse
• Valley of the Shadow
• Voyages
• Transcribe Bentham
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