Assignment Workshop

This module introduces an open workshop for planning your written assignment that concludes the summer school programme, to be prepared and delivered by Friday 12 August.

Introduction

The assignment is intended as an exercise in the definition, description, and evaluation of a simple application of digital tools to Assyriological data. As such, you should focus on definition and documentation of the digital approach and developing your workflow. Choose a very simple topic for this assignment. You want to focus on developing basic computing skills, not on substantive research questions

• Formal requirements
• Example of assignment structure
• Examples of assignment topics
• Teaching staff contacts

Formal requirements

• 3-5 pages written pages (can include illustrations), excluding appendices with the data employed
• Assignment paper should contain definition of aims, methodology, and intended outcomes
• Assignment paper should cover process of data collection, processing, analysis and presentation
• The assignment can be submitted either as a Word (.docx) and accompanying .pdf, in markup format using Markdown or LaTex, or as a repository on GitHub or a GitHub Pages webpage
• The deadline is Friday 12 August 23.59 CET

Example of assignment structure

You are free to structure the assignment as you like, but a basic template could look like this:

• Aims
  • Question
  • Approach
• Methodology
  • Applications
  • Workflow
• Results
  • Presentation
  • Discussion
• Conclusion
• Appendices

Examples of assignment topics

These are but some generic examples of what the assignment paper could be about. You are encourage to discuss your ideas with summer school teaching staff, who are also available by email.

• Data cleaning using OpenRefine
• Mapping datasets using GIS
• Analysis and visualisation using SNA
• Data visualisation using Tableau or R
• Writing and publishing in Markdown
• Using GitHub repositories for work

Teaching staff contacts

• Rune Rattenborg
• Seraina Nett
• Ellie Bennett
• Lena Tambs
• Aleksi Sahala
• Stefan Smith