Monthly Archives: October 2012

How to Propose a Session (Step by Step)

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Elli Mylonas

Log in with your username and password. If this is your first THATCamp, you received them in an email. If you’ve attended before, use your existing login. If you have forgotten, in either case, use the email address you registered with and click … Continue reading →

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Comparative Tools overview and Sound sessions

Posted on October 18, 2012 by monicaoconnell5

I am totally new to DH and to THATCamps; still figuring out semantics of workshops, sessions etc. But would like to propose a session or two. First, I briefly mentioned in a response to the workshops post that one that … Continue reading →

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Digital Curation In the Classroom

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Tim Lindgren

In the context of a humanities classroom, students can engage with ideas and culture in a hands-on way as they figure out how to arrange and interpret digital objects. Curating digital material into meaningful collections has become a critical skill, not … Continue reading →

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Prepare for the Text Processing Workshop

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jadrian

If you’re interested in the Regular Expressions, Text Processing, and Web Scraping workshop on Friday, please make sure to bring a laptop and to have the following software on your computer: Python — if you have a Mac OS X or … Continue reading →

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Doing Digital History with Non-Digital Sources

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Abby Mullen

In discussions about DH in my department, one of the concerns about DH that often surfaces is that digital history is considerably more difficult when the sources are, far from being digitized, not even in print. Where some scholars can … Continue reading →

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Physicality and Technology

Posted on October 18, 2012 by jusaret

It’s a little ironic that, despite the sizable quantity of conferencing technology available, we’re all bussing and training and carring and planing in to Providence to meet about the Digital Humanities. The situation illustrates how technology, from GPS’s to projectors … Continue reading →

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Where are all the artists?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by papaelia

What excludes visual artists + designers from digital humanities discourses? Is it an external view of art + design as a surface activity, applied only after research, development and conceptualization? Is it a lack of interest from within art + design to … Continue reading →

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Database Workshop Location Change

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Elli Mylonas

The Friday afternoon database workshop has been moved from the lovely historic JNBC seminar room to the brand spanking new Digital Scholarship in the Rockefeller Library.

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iOS- Advantages and Disadvantages of Mobile Devices

Posted on October 17, 2012 by adam.deyo

With high adoption rates for mobile devices, specifically iPads and the iPod Touch, efforts to support these devices continue to evolve.  Management of the devices, app recommendations and purchasing, loan programs, and general integration into Preschool-12 and Higher Education faculty … Continue reading →

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Network Analysis in the Humanities: New Kinds of Networks (or Analysis)?

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Ryan Cordell

In many ways, my proposal echoes that of my new Northeastern colleague, David Smith. I’m working with David and others to discover and map reprinted texts in the nineteenth-century American press. As we’ve develop this project, I’ve delved more and … Continue reading →

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