2015 Guidelines

Here are guidelines for completing your Tool Review and Project Review assignments for Jennifer Drouin’s Spring 2015 class.

Tool Review: Review an established or an emerging DH tool for its usability, functions, pros and cons versus comparable tools if any, reliability, and foreseeable applications. See DiRT Directory: Digital Research Tools for a list of tools organized by category from which you may choose. You may also choose a tool not listed there. Verify your selection with me before beginning the assignment.

Follow this Sample Tool Review 2015 format guide.

You can find inspiration by reading the past Tool Reviews from 2013 and a sample Tool Review from 2011.

Post your review as a Page (not a Post) on the course website before the beginning of class on February 10th and be prepared to present it in class. When creating and saving your Page, make sure to select “Tool Reviews” as the Parent under Page Attributes; this will ensure that your page is created in the appropriate part of the WordPress site.

Project Review: Review an established DH project. Assess the project’s usability, its scholarly standards, the value of its data or tools, and its degree of completeness.

Examples of projects to analyze include: British Women Playwrights around 1800; Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project (CASP); Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC);English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA); Editing Modernism in Canada (EmiC); Global Shakespeares; Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE); Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice (ICASP); Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE); Map of Early Modern London (MoEML); Modernist Journals Project; Modernist Versions Project; Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship (NINES); The Orlando Project; Rossetti Archive;Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia; Synergies: Canada’s SSH Research Infrastructure; The Walt Whitman Archive; Women Writers Project; Woolf Online; and The Yellow Nineties Online.

Additional possible projects to analyze can be found at DHCommons under the Projects tab: http://dhcommons.org/projects

Follow this Sample Project Review 2015 format guide.

You can find inspiration by reading the past Project Reviews from 2013 and a sample Project Review from 2011.

Post your review as a Page (not a Post) on the course website before the beginning of class on March 10th and be prepared to present it in class. When creating and saving your Page, make sure to select “Project Reviews” as the Parent under Page Attributes; this will ensure that your page is created in the appropriate part of the WordPress site.

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