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<p><strong>Sept 15, 2025</strong><br>
by Scott Coleman</p>
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<p><strong>Houskeeping</strong><br>
Welcome to week three. This week, you will be introduced to Digital Public History and its foundations as a discipline (Is it a discipline?). You are also introduced to the Obsidian core plugin Canvas. A handy plugin that can help you visualize your work, create mind-maps, workflows, or whatever you can imagine. <strong>I will make an instruction video on Canvas in the next day or two.</strong> My apologies for the delay. If you have any suggestions for tutorial videos you wish to see, please let me know, and I will do my best to make them.</p>
<p>When doing the readings, consider the following questions.</p>
<ol>
<li>What is Digital History and Digital Public History?</li>
<li>What are the similarities and differences between the two disciplines?</li>
<li>Has the so-called 'Digital Turn' democratized history or created more silos?</li>
</ol>
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<div class="callout-content" style=""><p><strong>Please ensure you are publishing your notes online for me to review them alongside your reflections. This is crucial, as it allows me to see the evolution of your thought process. If you have not submitted your Mixa domain via Google Forms, please do so immediately. Weekly reflections and notes may not be directly graded, but will influence your grades for the Consolidation Reflection/Memex evaluation and Final Exit Ticket. See the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelMXdGOmKSqRrNzOHNO-l3H_oKZP-wzab3nFkqf2-wa4W_rg/viewform?usp=dialog">Mixa Domain</a> link to submit your site domain. For those who have already submitted, thank you.</strong></p></div>
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<p><strong>Proposals</strong><br>
Your project proposals are due at the end of this week. <a href="/Crafting%20Digital%20History/4.%20Assessment/1%20Historical%20Topic%20and%20Proposal" title="1 Historical Topic and Proposal">1 Historical Topic and Proposal</a>. Remember, the objective of the proposal exercise is for you to create tangible and achievable research goals. It is meant to help you focus on an ancient or medieval topic and digital technology, which you can then use for the duration of the term for your weekly exercises. If you have any questions, please reach out to me via email or during office hours.</p>
<p>Have a great week.<br>
The Prof.</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

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