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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Institutional Anniversaries: Strategies for Archivists and Librarians
I’d like to propose a talk session to exchange ideas, opinions, and share experiences with the archivists and librarians (of course others are welcome!) who have been involved or asked or expected to be involved with their institutional anniversary celebrations. … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Libraries, Session Proposals, session-talk
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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
Categories: Collaboration, Session Proposals, session-talk, Tenure and Promotion
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[Make] Sonic Boom: Audio Texts with Audacity and SoundCloud
I’d like to propose a session centered on collecting, editing, and sharing sound. Attendees can take an individual approach or a collective approach to the session: Bring a germ of an idea for that aural piece you’ve always wanted to … Continue reading
Categories: General
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I’ll need a pot of coffee,12 jammy dodgers, and a fez…
Scholarly works like masters theses and dissertations are already preserved in print and electronically through services like ProQuest. But what should happen when the scholarly work is a digital project? How should that content be preserved? Who is responsible for … Continue reading
Categories: Blogging, Libraries, Session Proposals, session-talk
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[Talk/Make] The Untapped Power of Digital Readers: Why are we still reading the same way?
In the near future (or maybe even now?), people will do their reading almost exclusively via device (i.e. on a digital reader, laptop, tablet, and/or smartphone) instead of via paper. Given this change of medium, some questions naturally follow: Should … Continue reading
Categories: Data Mining, Session Proposals, session-talk, session-teach, Text Mining, Visualization
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Designing a DH Program/Specialization [Talk]
I’d like to lead a discussion that includes a variety of perspectives about what you would want to see in a digital humanities program, degree, or specialization at your university/college/school. Some questions to consider: What skills/tools/methodologies should be taught? (To … Continue reading
Categories: Session Proposals, session-talk
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Session Idea [Talk?]: Digital Archives & Humanities Research
I would like to propose a session that could involve a series of interrelated topics of discussion including copyright, open access to scholarly materials, and digitization of texts that evade most people’s regular access. I am thinking, first, of two … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Open Access
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Juxta Commons
This tool might be of interest to some attending THATCamp. Juxta was developed by NINES to compare different versions of a text and can be found here- juxtacommons.org/. This is a great blog post about how it works- www.pcfleming.com/2013/02/26/wikipedia-the-oscars-and-juxta/
Categories: General
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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
Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Libraries, Museums, Session Proposals, session-play
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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
Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Libraries, Museums, Session Proposals, session-talk, Social Media
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