Category Archives: Collaboration

Does it count?

Digital Scholarship is often collaborative and the final product is inherently different than a thesis, dissertation, journal, or book. How should digital scholarship be evaluated? Is it only the content or does the interface and user experience need to be … Continue reading

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Join the Crowd: Hands-On Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing [Play]

This is a companion “play” session to the “talk” on crowdsourcing in the digital humanities. In this session we would visit various sites and contribute by reviewing menus, tagging photos, transcribing letters, etc. We could share our thoughts informally during … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities [Talk]

Crowdsourcing is becoming more and more common in the digital humanities. Here is a sampling of projects which currently include crowdsourcing features: wardepartmentpapers.org diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/ www.pepysdiary.com/ www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/ menus.nypl.org/ www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/tag_game/start.php www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/freeze_tag/start.php swem.wm.edu/news/fights-rights/transcription-project www.medici.org/ I would be interested in a discussion … Continue reading

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Session Idea [Make] – Build a Linode Stackscript for a Digital Humanities/Library Application Stack

There is a necessary tension between University IT departments and the curious digital humanist, computer scientist, and librarian.  IT departments pride themselves on building and supporting things that don’t ever break and that are always secure — we love them … Continue reading

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Lecture Thursday Feb. 28

For anyone who is local or getting in on Thursday, this lecture may be of interest to you: Andrea A. Lunsford is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford … Continue reading

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