Development
There are a lot of development skills I’d really like to, um, develop. I know a very small amount about a lot of things:
- Web — my HTML skills are actually pretty good! I’m not extremely knoweldgeable about any of the development tools like Dreamweaver or anything like that, but I can do decent markup in a text editor. My CSS skills are a little weaker. I have a general familiarity with WordPress, but not expert-level — I don’t know how to make themes or anything like that — and I’m taking the Omeka workshops at DH Week just in case. I learned a little bit about GitHub and Git at the GC Digital Research Institute and could work on that.
- Python — I’ve dipped my toe into Python and am really enjoying it. I’ve picked up as much of the basics as I could in the last several months, so I’m starting to get comfortable, but don’t exactly know how to do stuff yet. BUT I really want to learn!
- SQL — I actually learned a lot of SQL once upon a time, but I’m extremely, extremely rusty, but I feel like I could pick it up again, maybe?
- Network Analysis — this is the thing I’m trying to learn! I still don’t know a lot, but I’m going to try to learn it regardless of whether it’s part of this project or not.
Design
This is not my strength! I took a graphic design class once and it was a total nightmare. I’m not very visually oriented, and I’m not very good at figuring out how other people do things (it usually isn’t how I do things), so this is an area that I’m happy to leave to someone else.
Outreach
I don’t think I’m that great at finely crafting the best language for outreach, and I’m easily intimidated by this sort of thing, but I do have a couple strengths:
- I’ve been working as a faculty librarian at CUNY for over a decade, so I know a lot of people, especially librarians.
- I’m on Twitter, though I don’t have a huge network there.
- I have run workshops before, most notably a Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
- I’m Creative Commons certified, so I can help with CC licensing, and I’m definitely up for talking about openness. I’m not sure whether that should go under outreach or development, though.
Project Management
I don’t know anything about project management and find it a little intimidating. I definitely don’t know any of the technical stuff about planning. However, I have taught classes, which might involve some similar skills.
Research
I’m a research librarian, so I have those skills — identifying academic sources is something I’m pretty good at. I have subject knowledge in literature and a little in the humanities more broadly. I’m also a good writer; I’ve published several academic papers, which I know isn’t exactly a guarantee of good writing, but I do think I’ve gotten better at it. I’m always told my literature reviews are the thing I do well.
Project Pitches
I am very much looking forward to seeing what projects we vote to build this semester! As promised, here are some useful links:
By tomorrow (2/1), please post your pitch if you have one, including:
Keep in mind that some group members may double up on roles or you can slightly expand the scope of the project if it was originally designed for two or three people. Minimally, these are the roles we’re aiming to fill in each project:
We’ll hold back on determining group sizes until we’ve seen all the project pitches, but it’s a good idea to define the specific roles you envision the project requiring to achieve your planned benchmarks.
If you’re not pitching a project, take the time to respond to all the pitches with constructive feedback. Additionally, everyone should make a separate post listing your skillsets. Please use the category “skillsets” when doing so.