- formal administrative requirements
- how these play out
- purpose and structure
- of a thesis
- of an MRE
- know the culture of your department!
- DH can but doesn't have to mess with structure
- Strategies
- interweaving
- blocking off
- building and reflecting
- DANGERS
- especially in terms of workload
- department expectations
- audience expectations: choosing your Reader carefully
- Carleton's requirement for a pdf
- Planning for digital decay - zenodo.org; github.com; Carleton's dataverse
- Examples of Past Work
- Alessandro Marcon Linguistics
- Ingrid Reich English and online component
- Rob Blades History
- Cristina Wood History
- Jaime Simons History
- Proposing your thesis/mre project
- be aware of the culture of your department
- bring me into the discussion early; happy to talk with supervisors
- During the Thesis/MRE Process
- keep careful notes about process; document decisions re tech/analysis and why (obsidian and other options; note Rob Blade's approach).
- paradata for the things we build
- feasibility is a function of time/energy: the perfect is the enemy of the good
DH is a team sport. Throughout the process, find your team. Join the CUDHGSS discord server; organizing writing circles. Bounce ideas off one another. Talk with me.
- unconventional dissertations: Original: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lNbG1C7G-73R7uK5NQqykngTyrktuAyOORvI1f5eY8w/
- in the HSS commons repo: https://hsscommons.ca/publications/372/1
- History Department Theses and MREs: https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/
Dear Advisor, I am thinking about exploring Y in the context of Z for my thesis/MRE. Would you have a moment to talk about the DH aspect? I have CC Dr. Graham, who is the DH program coordinator, to get his perspective on the DH aspect to my work as well.