Category Archives: session-talk

Institutional Anniversaries: Strategies for Archivists and Librarians

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Ilhan Citak

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 →

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Does it count?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Jessica Aberle

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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I’ll need a pot of coffee,12 jammy dodgers, and a fez…

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Heather Simoneau

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 →

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[Talk/Make] The Untapped Power of Digital Readers: Why are we still reading the same way?

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Eric Nalisnick

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 →

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Designing a DH Program/Specialization [Talk]

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Katie Kaczmarek

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 →

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Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities [Talk]

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Rob Weidman

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: [Talk/Make]: 50 Ways to be a FOSSer

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Clif Kussmaul

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 →

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