Sagaustus/adh-group-projects

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. ** …