Group chapter projects for African Digital Humanities — worked notebooks turning each dataset into a publishable analysis
# Group chapter projects — African Digital Humanities
One worked notebook per group, turning a dataset into a publishable chapter draft.
Each notebook runs the analysis end to end and produces the numbers and the figure the
chapter needs. It does **not** decide what they mean: cells marked **YOUR DECISION** are
where your judgement enters, and they are the only part a reader will credit to you.
## Open in Colab — nothing to install, nothing to upload
Click a badge. The first cell downloads the data straight from
`adh-dh-datasets`, so there is no upload
step and no account needed.
| Group | Dataset | Working chapter title | Open |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | African films on Wikidata | *A Title, a Country, an Identifier: thin records and the labour geography of African cinema on Wikidata* | |
| 2 | African languages (Glottolog) | *No Code, No Corpus: ISO 639-3 as a precondition for computational existence* | |
| 3 | African artworks in museums | *Complete About Possession, Silent About Transfer: provenance as structural absence in museum linked data* | |
| 4 | UNESCO World Heritage in Africa | *Five of One Hundred and Fifteen: the Cultural/Natural binary and what it makes unsayable* | |
| 5 | Trans-Atlantic slave-trade voyages | *Eighteen Thousand Captains, No Names: the person as absent category in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database* | |
## Writing the chapter, and dividing the work
Two sections at the end of each notebook exist because the analysis is the easy half:
**The chapter template (Step 9).** The full structure of a DH chapter — introduction,
the standard and its critics, data, method, findings, discussion, limitations,
conclusion — with sentence frames to complete and a note under each section saying
which notebook step feeds it. A cell then prints draft sentences with *your* computed
numbers already in place, so you can see which figure belongs in which section. Rewrite
them in your own voice; they are placement practice, not prose.
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