Assignment One - ISC 105 (Due February 28th, 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: YOU MAY SUBMIT YOUR ANSWERS TO THIS ASSIGNMENT VIA ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS TO MY EMAIL (david.vampola@oswego.edu), YOU CAN SUBMIT THEM ON PAPER TO ME PERSONALLY, OR YOU MAY USE A COMBINATION OF BOTH.
PART ONE:
Go to the following website:
Mental Models - Wikipedia article
Now, please answer the following questions: 1) "What is a mental model?", 2) How can mentai models be used in your major and 3) With your present knowledge of the humanities, how are mental models useful?
PART TWO:
1) Read the following section from Introduction to Digital Humanities:
http://dh101.humanities.ucla.edu/?page_id=33
2) Write a response to the following exericse (that I have adapted from the text you just read):
An archaeologist from an alien (off-world) civilization has arrived at SUNY=Oswego and is studying the students in order to make a museum exhibition on the home planet. All students have something that is part of his/her usual daily stuff/equipment/baggage that can contribute to this exhibir Now, to help the poor alien, you need to come up with a classification system of the objects of your daily life. Now, choose four to six of thse objects/ How will you classify them? Color, size, order, materials, function, value, or other? Keep in mind that you are helping communicate something about SUNY - Oswego student life in your organization. Please write down your classification system and the reason (s) for making the classificatons that you did.
PART THREE
Go to the following online article:
Research Databases and the Future of Digital Humanities Applications
Then, write a short paper of several paragraphs indicating what you think are the important points of the article.
PART FOUR:
Read Ed Folsom's "Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives" that was distributed to you.
Then, write a short paper of several paragraphs indicating what you think are the important points of the article.
PART FIVE:
First, I want you to learn a bit about Microsoft Access 2016 on your own. Please go to the following website:
https://www.qhmit.com/database/tutorial/
ALSO, IF YOU NEED "ACCESS TO ACCESS" you can find it on one of the machines in the university's computer labs, or through remote means by following the instructions on this website:
https://www.oswego.edu/cts/cts-blog/easy-access-specialized-software-citrix
Work through the following sections to gain some background on the operations of Access:
Second, please follow the following steps:
1) Using the search methods that we discussed in class (Google Scholar and library resources) find 10 articles concerning the field "digital humanities". YOU CAN ASK A LIBRARIAN FOR HELP WITH THIS!
2) Record all the relevant information concerning the citation for the article.
3) Identify database attributes that that can be used as fields for entering information about the article.
4) Design and construct a database that can hold the citation information about the article based upon the attributes defined in step three.
5) Enter into the database the relevant information concerning the article.
Hand in to me: a) the citation information, b) a list of the attributes that you defined in step three and c) a printed report of the contents of the database sorted by author last name.
BY THE WAY - IF YOU CANNOT PRINT THE DATABASE REPORT, PLEASE SEND ME A SCREEN SHOT OR PHOTO OF IT.
PART SIX (Entity -
Relationship Diagrams)
1)
Go to the following website and read through what entity -
relationship diagrams
are:
https://www.visual-paradigm.com/guide/data-modeling/what-is-entity-relationship-diagr
2)
Go the the following website for an alternate
view:
http://www.umsl.edu/~sauterv/analysis/er/er_intro.html
Please answer the following questions and turn in your responses:
What are E-R diagrams? Are they mental models? In the example of the loan system, what are the attributes found in the loan request table? Is there a relationship of this table to any other table(s)? If so, what are those tables and what is the relationship?