<h1 id="week-twelve-nov-17-2025"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#week-twelve-nov-17-2025"></a>Week Twelve: Nov. 17, 2025.</h1>
<h3 id="publicly-crafting-a-historical-argument-open-access-notebooks"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#publicly-crafting-a-historical-argument-open-access-notebooks"></a>Publicly Crafting a Historical Argument: Open-Access Notebooks.</h3>
This week, the focus shifts to a critical analysis of how transparent, open-access research is presented in the real world. You will analyze several examples of Open-Access Notebooks, thinking deeply about their purpose, their methods, and how they perform authority. This critical work will prepare you to make your own informed choices as you begin the technical process of publishing your own research vault.
Key Learning Goals: By the end of this module, students will be able to:
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<li>Critically analyze and compare the purpose, methods, and goals of different Open-Access Notebooks.</li>
<li>Articulate how design, tone, and structure in an OAN are forms of scholarly argument.</li>
<li>Install and configure the Mixa plugin in preparation for publishing their final project.</li>
<li>Connect their critical analysis of public scholarship to the design of their own OAN.</li>
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<h3 id="checklist-for-week-12"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#checklist-for-week-12"></a>Checklist for Week 12:</h3>
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[ ] The Digital Sites (Examples):
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<li>Required Readings: 
* Mounier, Pierre. (2022). “Open Access: an opportunity to redesign scholarly communication in history” in The Handbook of Digital Public History. De Gruyter Oldenbourg: (111-118).</li>
<li>Required Sites:
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<li>Open-Access Notebook project at Rice University: <a href="http://wiki.wcaleb.rice.edu/">http://wiki.wcaleb.rice.edu/</a></li>
<li>Madsen Lab (Open Science Notebook in a STEM context): <a href="https://notebook.madsenlab.org/openscience.html">https://notebook.madsenlab.org/openscience.html</a></li>
<li>Carl Boettiger Open-Lab-Notebook <a href="https://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html">https://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html</a></li>
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<li>Optional
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<li>My own Open-Access Notebook (RogueHistoryNotes): <a href="https://publish.obsidian.md/roguenotes/welcome">https://publish.obsidian.md/roguenotes/welcome</a></li>
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[ ] The Core Workflow: Analyzing the Examples:
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<li>Part A: Annotate the Required Digital Sites. Using the Hypothes.is browser extension, make at least 3-4 meaningful annotations on each on two of the OAN sites. Your annotations should focus on identifying how each site addresses the core themes from Week 11: Positionality, Authority, Audience, and the Subaltern.</li>
<li>Part B: Import and Process Annotations. Sync your Hypothes.is annotations into your vault and process them into at least three new, synthesized atomic notes</li>
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[ ] Weekly Reflection (Ungraded):
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<li>In a new journal entry, you will write a detailed reflection based on your analysis of the example OANs. Your reflection must address the following prompts:
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<li>What is the proposed purpose stated by the creators of each OAN? Do they have similar objectives and goals?</li>
<li>Are their methods for organizing and presenting their research similar or different?</li>
<li>Based on your analysis, would you say the creators are "performing" digital history? Why or why not?</li>
<li>Finally, identify one specific choice (e.g., in tone, structure, or transparency) that you might make in the design of your own OAN that was directly inspired by your analysis.</li>
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Welcome

1. Course Description

2. Learning Outcomes

3. Course Schedule

4. Evaluation

5. Course Communications

6. Common Regulations

6. Contact the Professor

how the course tech is built; how the course came to be

7. Colophon

8. Reuse

Orientation and Digital Setup

Week 1

Personal Knowledge Management and Linked Thinking

Week 2

Thinking about the “Craft” of Digital History

Week 3

Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

Week 4

Consolidation & Check-In Week

Week 5

Digital Excavation

Week 6

Defining Data, 'Dark' Data, & Identifiers

Week 7

Fall Break

Week 8

Seeing the Past?

Week 9

Week 10

Authority and Positionality in Your Digital Research

Week 11

Publicly Crafting a Historical Argument

Week 12

Open-Access Notebook Workshop

Week 13

Exit Ticket

Week 14

1 Setting up your vault

2 Create your first note

3 Templater Plugiin

4 What Goes into a Note?

5 Properties

Hypothesis

The Simplest Online Memex Worfklow

How To Read An Academic Article

FAQ for Common Tech Issues

Where to Find help

Text Formatting

Introduction to your vault

index note

Atomic Note

Literature Note

Process Note

Weekly Journal

Topic Proposal

Weekly Work & Tasks

Consolidation Reflection

Open Access Notebook/Memex

Benchmarking Your Memex

Exit Ticket/Final Project

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History Transcript

2 Obsidian User Interface (UI) Guide

3 Templater and Hotkeys Setup

4 How to use PDF++

5 Canvas Core Plugin Introductory Tutorial

6 Hypothes.is and Annotating the Web

7 Omnisearch Plugin for Obsidian

8 How to Use Process Notes for Digital Research Projects in Obsidian

9 Properties, Identifiers and Data Management with Obsidian Core Plugin Bases

1 Welcome to Crafting Digital History

2 Some Logistical Updates

3 Welcome to Week Two

4 What is Digital History?

5 Crusading into the Digital Age of LLMs

6 Week Four Exercise Example

7 Using Obsidian for Digital History Research and Note-Making

8 Reflection Feedback Update and Hypothes.is

9 Week Five Update

10 Consolidation Reflection Submission

11 Module Two Wrangling and Critiquing

12 Week 7 Update

13 Week 9 Welcome Back

14 Consolidation Week Number 2

1. Course Overview

Module 1 Contextualizing

Module 2 Wrangling & Critiquing

Module 3 Arguing & Communicating

2. Schedule

01  memex help

8. Course Files

3. Tutorials

4. Assessment

5. VideoTutorials

Crafting Digital History

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