Panel
The panel discussion focused on demystifying Digital Humanities (DH) projects by profiling the individuals behind them. Key discussions included the anatomy of a DH project, emphasizing the need for planning, stakeholder engagement, and community-oriented ethics before commencement. Specific projects detailed involved brainstorming ethical principles for archiving local COVID-19 experiences, including issues of solicitation, access, and social media content acquisition, as well as a project named "Digital El Diario" focusing on creating a dataset from an independent student newspaper to promote archival justice for the Chicano student movement through various DH techniques like topic modeling and NLP. Another project involved a bibliometric study and content analysis of the "Journal of Mississippi History" from 1939 to 2019 using named entity recognition and sentiment analysis. A final project shared was the Starkville Civil Rights Project, which documented local integration struggles in the 1960s-1980s through oral history interviews, emphasizing indexing and synopsis creation due to interview length.