<h3 id="welcome-to-week-7"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#welcome-to-week-7"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a><strong>Welcome to Week 7</strong></h3>
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<h4 id="consolidation-reflection-update"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#consolidation-reflection-update"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Consolidation Reflection Update</h4>
<p>Hello, students. Welcome to week seven. I apologize for the delay in this News/Update post. First, I have almost completed marking your consolidation reflections. I plan to finish marking by tomorrow, Thursday, October 16th. Once I have completed the marking, I will release the grades. I've enjoyed reading them and all of you have provided valuable insights and demonstrated your growth over the first module. For those consolidation reflections I have marked, feedback is provided via Hypothes.is app. Please review your feedback and consider how you can improve for your next reflection.</p>
<p>Week Six reflections were due on Sunday. When creating the syllabus, I did not consider that it was the holiday weekend. With that said, if you have not submitted your weekly reflection via your Mixa site, please do so as soon as possible. I will begin providing feedback when I have completed the consolidation reflections. I appreciate your patience.</p>
<h4 id="mixa-site"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#mixa-site"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Mixa Site</h4>
<p>Some of you still have not submitted your Mixa Domain address. <strong>This is the final reminder: Students must submit their Mixa/Memex domain address to pass the course.</strong> The site is your evidence of the work and research you are performing each week. Your weekly reflections inform and support your consolidation reflections, along with your research notes (Atomic, Literature, and Process notes). <strong>This is your Final Reminder</strong></p>
<h4 id="reading-week-and-office-hours"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#reading-week-and-office-hours"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Reading Week and Office Hours</h4>
<p>Many of you have used my office hours to seek help and support, which I am happy to provide. For those who have not yet utilized these available support times, please do so. I am here to support you and help you succeed in this course. Remember, you are not alone.</p>
<p>Thus, I will maintain my office hours throughout the reading week break. If you need help on a particular subject in the course or your research, please come to office hours or drop me a DM in Discord to schedule an appointment. Take advantage of this time.</p>
<h4 id="week-seven"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#week-seven"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Week Seven</h4>
<p>This is the heaviest reading and workload week, but it is one of my favourite topics. <strong>DATA</strong>. I will create a short video today about the <em>Bases</em> core plugin for Obsidian and how the YAML/Properties metadata is an important feature to master for your research goals in this course and beyond. Please review <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/2.%20Schedule/Module%202%20Wrangling%20&#x26;%20Critiquing/Week%207" title="Week 7">Week 7</a> and reach out to me if you have any questions. Please submit your weekly reflection for week seven by this Sunday, before your Reading week break begins.</p>
<p><strong>Bases Core Plugin</strong><br>
This is a new feature added to Obsidian this past summer, and it is still in its early stages, with updates occurring regularly. Bases is a more user friendly version of the community developed Dataview plugin. Each has its pros and cons, but what I appreciate about the Bases plugin is its ease of use, the user interface (UI), and the ability to create various databases for your research. The plugin is already installed in your Obsidian vault. Please do not be intimidated by the plugin. It is new and I have not mastered it yet. However, it is a fantastic way to get your toes wet when it comes to understanding how to structure personal databases and why metadata properties (like YAML) in Obsidian are fundamental to identify and label correctly, ie., <em>Identifiers</em>.</p>
<p>Think about the labels and identifiers used to describe your historical topic. If you are exploring ancient pottery, what identifiers are used to describe the pottery from your period? Is there a global standard or do archaeological projects have their own structure for the data they collect? What are the implications of using unstructured data for research on ancient or medieval history? How is data globally searchable? What about language? Should their be a <em>lingua franca</em> for pottery's structured data? Lastly, and most importantly, I argue, what data are we missing or misrepresenting due to poor identifier practices? The so-called 'Dark Data' problem; an issue you will encounter when creating notes and 'data' in your vault. There are so many questions to explore with so little time. I am geeking out!!</p>
<p>Have a great week and a relaxing reading week break. Again, I am available if you need help.<br>
All the best<br>
Scott</p>

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

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

News