Jan Hein Hoogstad yeehaa123

Aanzet inrichting e-lab

In het voorjaar van 2013 is binnen de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen een verkenning uitgevoerd naar de wensen en ideeën op een eventueel eHumanities lab (Koolen & Bod, 2013). Dit onderzoek benadrukt de brede scope die het eHumanities lab moet krijgen. Hierbij vallen een aantal dominante thema’s te onderscheiden: ondersteuning en professionalisering, fysieke en virtuele ruimtes, hardware en infrastructuur.

Voordat er sprake is van een lab, waarin al deze aspecten voldoende gewaarborgd zijn, is het noodzakelijk om al op korte termijn stappen te ondernemen zodat de weg naar een fysiek lab zo efficiënt mogelijk wordt vormgegeven.

In onderstaand voorstel zullen wij onze visie, en de stappen die volgens ons het komend jaar nodig zijn om deze te realiseren, beschreven. Hierin worden een tweetal aspecten benadrukt: ontsluiting van het huidige aanwezige Labs en materiaal en daarnaast professionalisering van docenten en studenten in Digital Humanities.

Visie

layout	subtitle	title	author	cover-image	date
post	Things the Humanities can Learn from Software Development I	When All We Have Is A Hammer	Yeehaa	/images/hammer.svg	2013-12-11 13:57:27 -0800

Coding the Humanities is not about technology or even programming. It is all about tools. Software is a blind spot for the humanities. While our discipline is deeply invested in self-reflection, we hardly ever think about the digital tools that we use to produce and disseminate these deep thoughts. As a result, we fail to see the obvious. The applications that facilitate our teaching and research, were not written for us, let alone developed by us. In fact, they are unfit for our needs.

Coding the Humanities

Humanities scholars often use pre-fabricated and often inappropriate tools.The aim of the Coding the humanities project is to help humanities scholars gain ownership of research tools by building their own.

For this project, we are currently developing a platform where scholars can learn programming and build small research tools that support individual steps in their research processes. With this platform we adopt techniques from the software development community, which has tackled several problems for collabaration, sharing of resources. Platforms like GitHub and Codepen support people in learning from others and to present and share their research.

Programming and computers are great thinking tools. A programmatic approach to research forces you to make your arguments explicit, which makes it easier to critique them, but also to reuse, share and extend them.

=== We have developed an approach to learning to programme tailored to humanities scholars:

	var event1 = {
	title: "Olympics",
	rating: 250,
	ficticious: true
	};

	var event2 = {
	title: "Fall of Berlin Wall",
	rating: 100,
	ficticious: false

	var eventsJSON = localStorage.getItem('assignment');
	var events = JSON.parse(eventsJSON).events;
	var data = events;


	var margin = { top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20, left: 40 };
	var width = 600 - margin.left - margin.right;
	var height = 550 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
	var chartHeight = 400;

	var eventsJSON = localStorage.getItem('assignment');
	var events = JSON.parse(eventsJSON).events;
	var data = events;

	var margin = { top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20, left: 40 };
	var width = 600 - margin.left - margin.right;
	var height = 550 - margin.top - margin.bottom;
	var chartHeight = 400;

	var svg = d3.select('body')

	// getting something from localstorage

	localStorage.getItem('assignment');

	// What is this? Document versus object...

	JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('assignment'));

	// What to do with this? Variables

	---
	layout: default
	---
	style.
	.graph {
	width: 800px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	}
	table {
	width: 800px;

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Art, Science, and Technology</title>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Abel\|Codystar" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./styles/main.css">
	</head>
	</html>
	<body>

	database.push(
	{firstName: "Yeehaa",
	lastName: "Haa",
	studentId: 179,
	assignments: {"0": "129"}})