Some of the things I’ve been thinking about recently that might make for a session or a side-hacking: 1) Amazon Web Services for Poets. Father-of-blogging-among-other-things Dave Winer has started a tutorial called EC2 for Poets, showing non-techies how to run their own virtual server on AWS. CHNM has started to use these cloud services, from …
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Digital Humanities Curation? What Do We Mean?
I am interested in exploring the various ways that we discuss curation in the digital humanities, as well as models of best practice in digital humanities curation. What are great examples? With its origins in the 14th Century, specifically in the practice of rural priests or “curates,” the word originally emphasized the caring for and …
Proposing a Pan-THATCamp-alactic project
Yesterday, Dan Cohen tweeted a comment about all the places where THATCamps are springing up, causing me to once again look over the list of past and upcoming THATCamps–almost 50 in total. It really has become a world-wide phenomenon. All of which caused me to tweet: Given the global nature of #THATCamp, it’d be cool …
Whither Anthologize
It has been nearly a year since the crew from One Week | One Tool launched Anthologize. Ten months and thousands of downloads later, most of that crew is back at CHNM for THATCamp. We’d like to get together with Anthologize users, fans, and critics to share the progress we’ve made and brainstorm plans for …
Extensible mobile history
Lots of great themes are already emerging from the pre-conference posts; allow me to add a couple thoughts about mobile, which is one of the things that I’ll be interested in discussing and learning more about. My digital humanities research explores how one can curate a city through mobile devices. Over the past several months, …
Proposal: AccessibleFutures.org — Accessibility Talk and Workshop
I would like to propose a roundtable web accessibility discussion and workshop that would help accelerate the adoption of accessible design strategies in the Digital Humanities. Over the past two years at the University of South Carolina Upstate, George Williams and I have been working in conjunction with Tina Herzberg on BrailleSC.org. Through our research, …
Hacking Cultural Institutions Using the “Radical Trust” Exploit
Museums, universities, archives, and libraries are all slowly waking up to the need to “have some sort of presence online,” to engage with the public on the internet, at least in the abstract. Social media is key to such efforts for two reasons: one, it’s something most people understand to be important. Even the most …
DH Project Management
Let’s face it. No one creates a Digital Humanities project all on his or her own. And personally, I like it that way. DH is at its best when people from different backgrounds come together to solve problems, share research, create new knowledge, and improve teaching. This exciting mix, however, leads to a particular set …
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