Digitized Memory Workshop (TTTM ESPC)

Slides

Logseq — Downloads

Logseq software (I'm currently using version 0.9.10): Download the latest version

Logseq Demo Graph: Download here

Here is how to load the demo graph:

Resources

Digitized Diasporic Memory — Thesis Links

• Official website: diasporamemory.com
• Network graph: demo.diasporamemory.com
• Database: diasporamemory.com/database 
• Thesis document: openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/3795 
• Student blog: www.thesis.candide.xyz

Logseq — Getting Help

• Forum (account required): discuss.logseq.com
• Bug reports (GitHub account required): github.com/logseq/logseq/issues 
• Community Hub: hub.logseq.com
• Blog: blog.logseq.com
• Technical documentation: docs.logseq.com
• Discord chat: discord.com/invite/logseq 

Logseq — My Favourite Plugins

You can find a full list of my favourite plugins + demo in the demo graph.

Make sure that you've enabled plugins to access the marketplace of themes and plugins by the community.

Logseq — Misc.

• Logseq Markdown Support: reference page to help with formatting text using Markdown markup
• Logseq Markdown Cheat Sheet: more tips on formatting text using Markdown
• csv2md: scripts to generate multiple Markdown pages based on a template and csv file
• Embed Media - Audio, Photos, Videos: documentation page that I've been maintaining on how to embed audio, video, and photos
• Citation Needed: How to Use Logseq's Zotero Integration: Learn how to set up Zotero in combination with Logseq

Learning HTML and CSS (to help with theming)

• Responsive Web Design by freeCodeCamp: learn HTML and CSS as you create mini projects (there's also a Legacy certificate)
• Plan, Design + Code Your First Website: code-along style course where you learn about grid layouts, using Figma, and creating nice websites from scratch. You can find some of their other course resources here.
• Mimo: A website and mobile app which gamifies learning code. Think of it like Duolingo, but for programming.

Other Tools Mentioned

• Airtable: collaborative spreadsheet/database hybrid used during study
• Jitsi: open source meeting platform, no sign-in or download required
• NocoDB: open source Airtable alternative which allows for better asset management

Works Mentioned

Akomfrah, John, dir. 1996. The Last Angel of History. Documentary, Sci-Fi. Black Studio Film Collective,  Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF),  Channel 4 Television Corporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AorKl-FmCLA.

De Kosnik, Abigail. 2016. Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10248.001.0001.

Le Cunff, Anne-Laure. 2020. “A Non-Linear Cadavre Exquis.” Mental Nodes. May 12, 2020. https://www.mentalnodes.com/a-non-linear-cadavre-exquis.

Mbembe, Achille. 2002. “The Power of the Archive and Its Limits.” In Refiguring the Archive, edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graeme Reid, and Razia Saleh, 19–27. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8_2.

Rezaire, Tabita. 2014. “Afro Cyber Resistance: South African Internet Art.” Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 12 (2): 185–96. https://doi.org/10.1386/tear.12.2-3.185_1. 

Rezaire, Tabita. 2017. PREMIUM CONNECT. HD Video. https://vimeo.com/247826259.

Sharpe, Jenny. 2020. Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. http://muse.jhu.edu/book/72857.

Smart, Cherry-Ann. 2019. “African Oral Tradition, Cultural Retentions and the Transmission of Knowledge in the West Indies.” IFLA Journal 45 (1): 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035218823219.