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Category Archives: Session Proposals
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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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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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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Session Idea: [Make]: SoTL Design Wizard
In the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), faculty study and improve their teaching and the learning in their classrooms and courses, and share their findings to advance the practice of teaching. SoTL may focus on any pedagogical approach – … Continue reading
Categories: Research Methods, Session Proposals, session-make, Teaching
Tags: IRB, research methods, scholarship of teaching and learning, SoTL
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Session Idea: [Talk/Make]: 50 Ways to be a FOSSer
Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) is distributed without charge and with the underlying source code, so that anyone can fix defects, update documentation, add enhancements, or otherwise modify the software and share the changes with others. Thus FOSS is … Continue reading
Categories: Crowdsourcing, Digital Literacy, Session Proposals, session-make, session-talk, Teaching
Tags: FOSS, open source
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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
Categories: Collaboration, Session Proposals, session-make
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