<h1 id="open-access-notebook-or-memex"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#open-access-notebook-or-memex"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Open-Access Notebook or Memex</h1>
<p>In this assignment, which unrolls over the duration of the entire term, you will create your own personal 'memex'/open access note book of a kind first described by <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/">Vannevar Bush in his article, 'As We May Think.'</a> published in The Atlantic in 1945, and Caleb McDaniel <a href="http://wcaleb.org/blog/open-notebook-history">Open Notebook History</a></p>
<p><strong>You will need to download and install <a href="https://obsidian.md">obsidian.md</a> to do this. It is free. See <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/3.%20Tutorials/01%20%20memex%20help/01%20Setting%20Up%20Your%20Vault" title="01 Setting Up Your Vault">01 Setting Up Your Vault</a> for installation instructions.</strong></p>
<p>I will walk you through how to use this software both in a video, and through copious documentation under <code>3. tutorials</code> folder.</p>
<h2 id="build-your-memex"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#build-your-memex"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Build your Memex</h2>
<p>This involves:</p>
<ul>
<li>making annotations on the readings, via your own <a href="https://zotero.org">Zotero</a> library or the PDF++ plugin.</li>
<li>or making annotations on the readings, via your <a href="https://hypothes.is">Hypothes.is</a> account</li>
<li>extracting those annotations to a single note in <a href="https://obsidian.md">Obsidian</a></li>
<li>writing a literature note on the reading</li>
<li>refactoring the extracted annotations into individual, 'atomic' notes (one idea per note)</li>
<li>interlinking the atomic notes to each other and to the summaries as appropriate (use the graph feature to help with this; I call this 'gardening')</li>
<li>pruning extraneous notes of no value</li>
<li>adding new notes with your own thoughts/observations (including from my lectures)</li>
<li>interlinking those as well.</li>
<li>Linkages can be explicit, using <code>[[</code> and <code>]]</code>, or they might happen via tags - we recommend using both. A tag can have subtags as well, eg <code>#tag/subtag</code>. Tags should capture what's important about a note; that could be its general topic, or perhaps, an idea of yours that a note speaks to.</li>
<li>you might want to have notes that you use to corral similar ideas together; these are sometimes called 'maps of content' and are lists of links, organized in some fashion as appropriate.</li>
</ul>
<p>Then:</p>
<ul>
<li>You will choose to make a subset (or all, it's up to you) of these notes available online periodically, for our review.</li>
<li>This can be done either publicly or privately: <a href="/2" title="Pushing your materials online at a public location">Pushing your materials online at a public location</a> | <a href="/3" title="or at a private location">or at a private location</a></li>
<li>Note that you do not have to use your real name if you choose to make things public.</li>
<li>We will share with you the URLs of others' memexs, and I will encourage you to make external links to ideas your peers have made (Hyperlinks)<code>[ProfessorsNotebook](https://publish.obsidian.md/roguenotes/welcome)</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>This mirrors the ways documents and servers and the other bits and pieces of the internet came to become interconnected.</strong></p>
<p>Remember, not everything in your personal memx/vault has to go into the online version. The way to do this is to create two folders, public and private, and direct the Mixa plugin to publish the <code>public</code> folder. However, I will need to see your private folder to assess your work correctly. Thus, I ask that you submit a .zip of your memx with each consolidation reflection. See <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/3%20Consolidation%20Reflection" title="3 Consolidation Reflection">3 Consolidation Reflection</a></p>
<h3 id="evaluation"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#evaluation"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Evaluation</h3>
<p>Elements that we look for as we evaluate your memex as it develops:</p>
<ul>
<li>are notes well documented? have you used the templates to good effect?</li>
<li>are there sensible interlinkages?</li>
<li>is there evidence of careful, reflexive thinking? Is there evidence of taking in the discussions, making connections between what you have done/heard/read? Explicitly cite materials that underpin your thinking using Harvard author-date contextual citations or link to the items directly in your Zotero library</li>
<li>Are you using Hypothes.is to engage with the readings and the observations of your peers - do you link and make notes related to individual hypothesis annotations? Do you use the hypothes.is importer to ingest annotations from the web into your personal meme?</li>
<li>is there evidence for how any feedback has been considered, adopted, adapted?</li>
<li>Is there evidence for a developing sophistication in the work?</li>
<li>There may well be some small <strong>bonuses</strong> for finding and making notes from sources that explicitly deal with the history of the internet in Canada and related themes.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="callout-title warning" style="background-color: undefined1a;"><span style="color:undefined" class="callout-icon"></span><strong><p>Warning!</p></strong></div>
<div class="callout-content" style=""><p>Remember that the following are the bare minimums! Please see <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/5%20Benchmarking%20Your%20Memex" title="5 Benchmarking Your Memex">5 Benchmarking Your Memex</a> for further details on the Memex assessment.</p></div>
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<h3 id="first-memex-assessment"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#first-memex-assessment"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>First Memex Assessment</h3>
<p><strong>Assessed with your First Consolidation Reflection</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>have at least <strong>five sources</strong> adequately translated into note form
<ul>
<li>notes with the bibliographic info, general summary</li>
<li>atomic notes as appropriate</li>
<li>interlinkages</li>
<li>A map of content note providing some initial structure, an initial 'way in' to your memex is structured.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="second-memex-assessment"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#second-memex-assessment"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Second Memex Assessment</h3>
<p><strong>Assessed with your Second Consolidation Reflection</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>have at least <strong>another</strong> five sources adequately translated into note form
<ul>
<li>notes with the bibliographic info, general summary</li>
<li>atomic notes as appropriate</li>
<li>interlinkages</li>
<li>links outwards to others' memexes, or hypothesis permalinked annotations</li>
<li>maps of content as appropriate providing a useful 'way in' to your memex as suits your own research interests</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="third-and-final-memex-assessment"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#third-and-final-memex-assessment"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Third and Final Memex Assessment</h3>
<p><strong>This is assessed along side your <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/6%20Exit%20Ticket" title="6 Exit Ticket">6 Exit Ticket</a></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>have at least <strong>another</strong> five sources adequately translated into note form
<ul>
<li>notes with the bibliographic info, general summary</li>
<li>atomic notes as appropriate</li>
<li>interlinkages</li>
<li>links outwards to others' memexes, or hypothesis permalinked annotations</li>
<li>useful tag structure implemented</li>
<li>maps of content as appropriate providing a useful 'way in' to your memex as suits your own research interests</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

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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