Category Archives: Session Proposals

Last minute session proposal – Disruption Theory

I’m interested in gathering a group of people to talk through some implications of disruption theory (developed by Clayton Christensen) on the humanities, and for academic, library, and museum institutions. I proposed a similar session at THATCamp Museum 2012 and … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Developing DH at the undergraduate level

I would like to propose a subject on incorporating more undergraduate students into the process of DH. I would like to propose a session in which we discuss ways of getting digital scholarship skills and methodologies in the the skill … Continue reading

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Visualization and Digital Archives

I would like to discuss visualization tools for qualitative content, such as concept maps and other platforms allowing non-linear navigation, especially tools allowing to play with the visual structure of the content and helping picture how concepts and data are … Continue reading

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Humanities, Technology, and Material Culture

At the Bard Graduate Center where I run the Digital Media Lab we have been experimenting with a wide array of digital applications for the study of material culture. We have had thesis-level digital-born projects, are working with digital interactives … Continue reading

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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

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Session Idea: digital humanities and scholarly communication

For THATCamp this Saturday, I would like to have a general discussion about the relationship between the digital humanities and scholarly communication and the different forms of online scholarly communication, such as MediaCommonsPress and hypertext. This week at my DH … Continue reading

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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

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Session idea: Wikipedia-Libraries-Classroom Activities

If anyone’s interested: a general discussion about Wikipedia and libraries; using Wikipedia in classes (Campus Ambassador Program: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Present).

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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

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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

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