A list of blog posts, trip reports or other mentions of THATCamp NE 2012:

• Abby Mullen on HASTAC

We’re hoping to see you all tomorrow morning, ready for a day of workshops that will culminate in a hackathon followed by a well deserved beer. Perhaps even a walk downtown after the beer to see an exhibit of multimedia installations. And then there’s Saturday!  Here in Providence, we’re getting ready and trying to make sure that all will go swimmingly. Here are some things that will help you prepare.

It’s all on the website – All information is on the site – parking, locations, session proposals, schedules. Look it over. If you need more information on something, make a comment, tweet a question. Please look over the Workshop page before Friday!

Checklist:

1. Have you updated your profile? Looked at the other profiles?
2. Have you made a session proposal? There’s still time – until Saturday at 9am. [See step by step instructions if you are having doubts!}
3. Have you thought about doing a Lightning Talk? No need to sign up now, you can get in line on Saturday morning. They’re short, sweet, and a great way to get your work or ideas out there. 2 minutes.
4. Workshops – any suggested preparations are linked from the Workshop description, take a look and download the necessaries for the workshop(s) you are interested in.
5. Bring a rain jacket. We’ll be walking around. Forecast for warm, but rainy. Check the forecast on Wunderground or the National Weather Service.
6. Parking: See “Around Brown” page also “Locations” page.
7. Are you on Twitter? That’s the best way to see what’s going on in other sessions/workshops, ask questions, see where everyone’s going for lunch… [Is Twitter new territory? Maybe that’s a session proposal right there!] Our Twitter hashtag is #thatcampne.

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1. 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 the “Forgot Password” link.
2. You’ll see the WordPress dashboard. On the left, there is a column of things you can do. One entry is the “Posts”. Mouse over “Posts”, and click on “Add New”
3. Add a session proposal – Give it a title, add a description, and make sure to click “Session Proposal” in the list of categories on the right. (Scroll down, it’s alphabetical). This will make it appear in the Session Proposal page. Click more categories if they apply.
4. Click Publish. You can always go back and edit if you want to change anything. (To edit, mouse over “Posts”, click “All Posts”, find your post and click the “Edit” button.

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.

Tell us about your project, the great tools or apps that make your life worth living or anything that you think is relevant and worth telling about. You have two minutes, one topic, and you get to use one URL No Powerpoint, no time to load anything, no USB sticks.

We’ll have a round of lightning talks during the opening session. If you’d like to present, sign up by adding a comment below. Enter the URL you’d like to use in the comment as well, if you want to save time.  You can also decide to present on Saturday morning.

Give it a shot, Dork Shorts are fun.

These are some instructions for preparing for the TEI workshop:

This TEI micro-workshop comes in two parts:

1. Introduction to TEI
This morning session will introduce the basic ideas of text encoding with the TEI. No laptops or advance preparation are required, but if you’d like to follow along on your own computer, please download and install the free trial version of the Oxygen XML editor:

www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html.

You’ll need to register for the trial version, and you’ll receive a registration code in an email.

2. Afternoon Hackathon

This afternoon session is a free-form hands-on session for experimentation and Q/A with experts. If you’re planning to work with TEI, please download and install the free trial of Oxygen (above). If you have a project you’re working on, feel free to bring a sample text to work on.

I follow a set of bloggers on DH, I read Humanist, I try to catch up on Digital Library discussions, not to mention listening to the Digital Classicist, MITH and Scholars Lab, podcasts as I walk to work in the morning.  There there are all the people I follow on Twitter. Well, ok, I read, listen and follow to other topics as well, but a lot of timely information and energetic discussion comes to me in these formats. DHNow aggregates a lot of blogs, but what about podcasts? Which ones do you listen to? What else is out there?

A great outcome of this discussion might be a list of suggestions, but we should all at least discover some new material to follow.

Here is how THATCamp works. Other than the workshops, we don’t have anything planned—you’re the ones who do the planning. Over the next two weeks you should post your session ideas to the THATCamp NE website. Also over the next two weeks, you should read other people’s proposals and comment on them if you wish. On Saturday morning, everyone will get to vote for the sessions you want to participate in, which will then become our schedule for the rest of the day.

Obviously this works better if more people propose sessions that they’ve put some thought into. Here’s what makes for a good session proposal:

• It’s NOT a paper, or a talk, or a lecture, but an idea for a conversation.
• It proposes a topic related to technology and humanities that a group of people can discuss in an hour or so.
• And ideally, the session will produce something useful: a list of resources, or some hacked code, or a syllabus. Don’t forget THATCamp Proceedings.

There are more ideas and guidelines on the THATCamp website.

So please visit the list of session proposals, then add yours with your login to WordPress by  Just log in with your username and password, and add a blog post to the category “Session Proposals.”

Please check your email for information on how to log into the site and modify  your profile. Also, check the Campers page to see if you are on it!

Please click the registration link to register for THATCamp NE 2012. We are looking forward to seeing you here.

THATCamp NE registration has been pushed back to Sep. 9. But we are hoping to hear from  you then!