This is a totally half baked idea but it keeps popping up in my little head and maybe you all can help me deal. I’m basically thinking about the challenge of applying my humanities-trained mind to data driven projects. The challenge isn’t that I am skeptical of quantitative stuff but that I know how easy …
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Proposal: One Session | One Solution
CONTEXT: Many (most?) of you will remember the “One Week | One Tool” event hosted in 2010 by CHNM (and funded by the NEH) that resulted in Anthologize. The event was described on their site as “a unique summer institute, one that aim[ed] to teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for …
Session Proposal: Critical Code Studies
This session proposal overlaps with Patrick’s idea for a humanities coding session, but it’s different enough that I thought it might warrant its own session. Whereas Patrick would like to draw together people who write or hack code in a digital humanities context, I’d like to bring together people who are interested in the critical …
“Unsession” proposal: grad-school games
At THATCamp Southeast in March, a session on gaming at one point turned to the idea of creating a game based on grad school. The general tone of the brainstorming was dominated by morbid humor, but no one had the energy or inclination to start creating a game right then and there. Well, it’s almost …
Where are the mini-yous?
I’m a high school teacher. I attended THATCamp Prime for the first time last year, and left thinking a lot about how little I know about linked data or Omeka or the ethics of iPad hacking. In fact, I’m teaching a research and writing course and just learned about Zotero about five minutes ago. This …
Humanities Coding/Hacking
This idea actually has two different orientations to it, one yack-oriented and one hack-oriented. Yack Oriented: Yack the Hack: Mark wants “to hack the way we yack“. I want to yack the way we hack. In the #alt-ac trajectory that lots of us have followed, I suspect that there’s an idea of a “humanities coder …
Match make/ paper prototype nifty visual interfaces for particular kinds of digital objects and collections
We put stuff on maps. We can put stuff on historic maps. We can put things on timelines. What do we want to do next? There are a ton of cool visualization things going on, many of which use simple javascript libraries. Which of these are useful for cultural heritage collections? Further, what kinds of …
Session Proposal: Building a Better Backchannel
It’s come to be expected at digital humanities-oriented conferences that there will be a vibrant backchannel—commentary, questions, dissent, and amplification, usually taking place in real-time (but not always real-place) on Twitter. Even scholarly conferences that are not strictly digital, such as the Modern Language Association, have begun to have ongoing and serious discussions on the …
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