work

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library publishing

I’m the the Project Manager for Library Publishing Workflows at Educopia Institute, where I am conducting interviews with a cohort of library publishers about the workflows they employ for journal publishing. I’m also a member of the Next Generation Library Publishing team.

Endangered Data Week

I am founder and co-organizer of Endangered Data Week, a collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. More about my work with Endangered Data Week can be found in scholarship and press.

History Harvest

History Harvest undergraduate and graduate students meet members of the community and digitize their stories and historical objects as part of a community-based, online collection. I was first involved with History Harvest at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a graduate student volunteer and later Project Manager. I established a History Harvest program at Michigan State University (HST 495), and taught a class in Fall 2017.

exploratory text & data mining

I’m working alongside MSU Librarians and LEADR undergraduate staff to make derivative datasets, subsets, visualizations, and metadata for existing humanities datasets.

intensive workshops

I’ve taught (with Thomas Padilla (2015-2017), Lauren Tilton (2018) & Catherine DeRose (2019)), a week-long, intensive course at HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching) for five years. Getting Started with Data, Tools, & Platforms explores tools and platforms that support digital humanities research, analysis, and publication and reframes sources as data that enable digital research. In addition to HILT, I’ve taught several other intensive workshop series, including an NEH Advanced Institute on Text Analysis in the Undergraduate Classroom.

publications

• Locke, Brandon T. and Jason A. Heppler. “Teaching Data Literacy for Civic Engagement: Resources for Data Capture and .” KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies
• Locke, Brandon. “Digital Humanities Pedagogy as Essential Liberal Education: A Framework for Curriculum Development.” Digital Humanities Quarterly.
• Locke, Brandon and Kristen Mapes. “Do DH librarians need to be in the library?: DH librarianship in academic units.” Digital Humanities In the Library / Of the Library: A dh+lib Special Issue, dh+lib, http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2016-special-issue/

The Military-Masculinity Complex

The Military-Masculinity Complex: Hegemonic Masculinity and the United States Armed Forces is a large digital history project I completed to fulfill the thesis requirements for my Master’s Degree in History at UNL. The project critically examines the usage of hegemonic masculinity in documents produced by the US military to promote idealistic manhood and soothe concerns over the use and misuse of military force. I wrote about my initial conceptualization of the project in Pursuing a Hypertextual Argument with ‘No Reservations’ and wrote retrospectively about the process in Conceptualizing “The Military-Masculinity Complex” and Building “The Military-Masculinity Complex”.

Newsboys

I completed Newsboys in the Spring 2011 semester as part of a seminar in Digital History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The project centers around the masculine discourse present in a World War II naval ammunitions depot in Hastings, NE. The project was my first experience with digital architecture and HTML/CSS design.