12 floor West.

It appears that there have been a couple of issues in connecting Apple computers to display from the podiums. There a a few simple steps to follow, which should enable you to display your desktop through the projector:

• Connect your laptop to the VGA cable via dongle (if you need a dongle, let a volunteer or organizer know)
• On your computer go to System preferences
• Click on Displays
• Select Detect Displays

This should find the display and give you options about how you want your desktop to display (through the projector alone or mirroring your desktop through the projector).

If you have any problems let a volunteer or organizer know and we will try to get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Thanks

The schedule of sessions has been updated and can be found on the schedule page.

I’m interested in bringing together people who are thinking about different approaches to text mining. I think it would be helpful for people to discuss different workflows–from cleaning texts, creating databases, mining the texts, and visualizing the data. I have some experience in text mining, but I think it would be useful to hear the pros and cons of different methodologies. What types of questions are people asking? What are the main challenges people have faced? What types of skills are people trying to learn?

Friday 530PM-715PM
Lucy Bruell
JITP (Kimon Keramidas, Ben Miller, Amanda Licastro, et al)
Ben Miller, Amanda Licastro, Jill Belli
Collin Jennings
Jane Carr & Cecily Swanson
Cathy Moran Hajo
Jonathan Reeve
Silvia Stoyanova
Micki McGee
Matt Miller
Susan Naomi Bernstein
Butheina Kazim

Saturday  (9:45-10:00AM)

Robin Camille
Roger Panetta
Cristina Vignone
Dennis Tenen

I would like to propose a grab bag session that would take us off-site and into the streets of New York City to cultivate compassion in the digital humanities.  This session would be offered in the 4:45 time slot at the end of the day to allow sufficient time for traveling and researching off-site. If there is sufficient interest, we may choose to collaborate on a blog or other digital publication with the data that we collect.

Join this session for an off-site walking tour of New York City, with special attention to places and spaces linked to Occupy Wall Street.  Working with contemplative pedagogy for the digital humanities, we will visit and digitally record our responses on this walking tour.  By mindfully mapping our embodied connections to living history, we may begin to imagine a means of cultivating compassionate in our teaching and scholarship in the digital humanities.

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 in gallery spaces, are using wikis as course software, have a NEH funded startup grant for a mult-year faculty project, and are experimenting with 3D printing and scanning and the question of the representation of materiality in a digital age. I would like to propose a session for anyone interested in the use of digital technology in the study of material culture, epistemological questions that digital technology raises about material culture, 3D printing and scanning, museums and technology, or any other related questions. Some people at TCNY may have attended THATCamp Museums NYC that we hosted in the Spring and I see this session as possibly a bridge between those two events

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 as well): Omeka, Viewshare, Historypin.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of these platforms (perhaps with an emphasis on the level of programming/technology knowledge required)?  I personally use Omeka for my site, but my experience in that has led me to what I hope is a good segue into debating DH skill sets.  I do not mean to rehash the longstanding debate, but possible questions are:   When does programming knowledge turn into a gatekeeper, limiting the implementation of an idea/research? Do advanced programming skills reduce, even eliminate the need for collaboration with those who have those skills?  If someone does not have these skills, what can/is the DH community doing to facilitate acquisition of those skills?  Is a workshop in the timespan of one hour or hours enough to acquire those skills? Are w3schools or codeacademy useful self-teaching platforms? Are funding issues complicating big ideas for solutions to these questions?

I realize this panel proposal slightly overlaps with other proposals and may be better suited to two different sessions, perhaps leading to workshops led by experts in attendance.  I look forward to hearing more ideas in the comments section.

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 editing. In cases where a literary text has several flawed editions, creating a wiki-style collaborative editing platform might help to facilitate the creation of accurate, crowd-sourced digital editions.

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 of archival documents.

I have been  working with a collaborative interdisciplinary team that includes a computer scientist, an interactive graphic designer, a historian, and a cartographer to design and develop a new digital tool called Mix D that visualizes  historical journeys.  The product prototype (based upon the actor Ira Aldridge) intends to create multiple narratives that will enhance user understanding of a historical figure, and create a narrative that goes beyond the bare reading of the data.  Some of the visualizations are pre-scribed (timelines and maps) while others are dependent upon user interests.

Anita Gonzalez is a Professor of Theatre Arts at SUNY New Paltz.

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 to hear ideas and insight from others interested in this kind of thing.

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THATCampNY 2012 (TCNY) will take place on October 5 and 6 on the campus of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City. TCNY will be a space for librarians, archivists, researchers, scholars, and computer scientists working within the digital humanities to explore ways to foster collaboration among themselves and libraries, archives, academic institutions, and other information centers.

Some of the emphasis this weekend will be on ways research collections based in New York City and the greater metropolitan area can be exploited to inspire new digital humanities scholarship or to strengthen current projects, but any collection or project is of interest.

Workshops will be available for participants who wish to learn more about specific tools, skills, and platforms for digital scholarship.

For more information about TCNY, write the organizers at thatcampny [at] gmail [dot] com .

Feel free to propose workshops and sessions via All Our Ideas below!

We would like to thank the THATCamp NY 2012 sponsors for their generous support:

• Fordham University
• New York University Libraries
• Hunter College Libraries
• JSTOR
• & CUNY Libraries!

THATCamp NY is scheduled to take place in October, 2012 in NYC! Read more about other THATCamps at thatcamp.org.