Monthly Archives: October 2012

Humanities, Technology, and Material Culture

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Kimon Keramidas

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

Posted on October 5, 2012 by lucybruell

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

Posted on October 5, 2012 by jmaxwell

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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Session Proposal Idea: Software/Platforms for Mapping and Timelines, Debating DH skill sets

Posted on October 4, 2012 by jaredsimard

I would like campers to share and discuss the different software and platforms currently available for mapping and timelines. A quick list, and please add more in the comments, for timelines would be: Simile, Chronos, Verite; for mapping (and timelines … Continue reading →

Categories: General | Tags: debates, exhibits, mapping, omeka, platforms, skillsets, software, timeline | 1 Comment

Working Session proposal: Watching and Talk Pages in Drupal 7

Posted on October 4, 2012 by benmiller314

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 Proposal: Social Textual Annotation

Posted on October 4, 2012 by jon.reeve

I’d like to discuss building a central textual annotation website, which would allow for open, collaborative literary marginalia on a line-by-line or word-by-word basis. I’d also like to talk about using a similar engine to allow for open, collaborative textual … Continue reading →

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Session idea: Wikipedia-Libraries-Classroom Activities

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Ann Matsuuchi

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

Posted on October 3, 2012 by jnm2145

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

Posted on October 3, 2012 by cathy.hajo

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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User Based Content Visualizations

Posted on October 3, 2012 by gonzalea

I am proposing a session for those creating new visualization tools about how programmers can work with humanists to organize content in a way that responds dynamic user interests. I am particularly interested in how to create narratives through the display … Continue reading →