Category Archives: Collaboration
Omeka Folks
Would those working on or developing Omeka projects be interested in collaborating post-THATCamp on a joint wiki or doc? My idea is creating a resource for those interested in Omeka in which we can list our sites, share how we … Continue reading
Working Session Proposal: Overhauling a Database of Annotations
I’d like to have a working session to pick the brains of other campers on ideas for overhauling NYU’s Literature, Arts, and Medicine database. The database has thousands of annotations on various works of literature, art, theater, and film that … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Funding, Session Proposals, Workshops
Tags: discussion forums, Proposals, working session, Workshops
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Working Session proposal: Watching and Talk Pages in Drupal 7
Many wikis, including Wikipedia, encourage user-centered curation through a combination of discussion and notification: Talk pages and Watching. Talk pages are forums affiliated with each content page, where users can defend or question posted information, providing both a history of … Continue reading
Categories: Administrative, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Session Proposals
Tags: discussion forums, drupal, notification systems, working session
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Session proposal: Online Scholarly Publishing: Platforms and Best Practices
I’d like to have a discussion around what existing web platforms folks are using for publishing scholarly journals and other publications online, and what their successes and wish-lists are within these applications. I’m thinking WordPress, OJS, Ambra, plus any others. … Continue reading
Categories: Collaboration, Open Access, Publishing, Session Proposals
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Teaching with Omeka
I use Omeka as a major component of Creating Digital History, a graduate course for NYU’s Archives and Public History Program. Students in the course locate, digitize and contribute digital items to the Greenwich Village History Digital Archive, learning how … Continue reading
Categories: Collaboration, Session Proposals, Teaching
Tags: exhibits, omeka
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Libraries Supporting Digital Humanities
How can libraries support the practice and dissemination of DH on campus? What roles can we play? With whom can we develop effective partnerships on campus and beyond? What kinds of collaboration are scholars seeking? And how can libraries participate … Continue reading
Categories: Collaboration, Digital Literacy, Libraries
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Session Idea: Creating collaborative digital editions as part of undergraduate coursework
I’m interested in creating digital editions collaboratively in the classroom, having students work on mapping places, linking the text to referenced works, providing images, explanations of rhetorical devices used… Visualizations based on text mining would be amazing, too. I’d love … Continue reading
Categories: Collaboration, General, Mapping, Scholarly Editions, Teaching
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Collaboration, Archives, and E-textbooks
From Roger Panetta: What are the best platforms for developing semester-long collaborative class projects? What are the best ways to engage the public in the development and use of archives? For an interdisciplinary history of the Hudson River, what are … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Digital Literacy, Mapping, Open Access, Session Proposals, Social Media, Teaching
Tags: Sessions
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Session idea: DH-enabled research assignments
I’m interested in discussing a topic that dovetails nicely into sessions that others have proposed: exploring DH-enabled alternatives to the long-form researched argument in undergraduate courses. In a Spring course (cross-listed as English and Environmental Studies) I’ll be working with … Continue reading
Categories: Collaboration, Research Methods, Teaching
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Working Session on Blogging Archives from the Classroom to the Community
How can blogs best be incorporated into the college classroom and can they build a bridge with the broader online community? Jane Carr and I have been considering this question while launching a new blog, Archive Notebook, where we share … Continue reading
Categories: Archives, Blogging, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Digital Literacy, Mapping, Publishing, Research Methods, Session Proposals
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