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THATCamp Bibliography

Just a brief follow-up to the bibliography idea we kicked off this past weekend: The point of the project is to start to build some institutional memory around THATCamp as a whole. As sessions are proposed and conversations and discussions … Continue reading

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Sharing Tools: General and Pedegogy

I didn’t see a place for the shared tools, and I know that even people who didn’t participate in the session want to share some tools . . . so I thought I would post this so that we can … Continue reading

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Intro to FTP / Shell – Richard Pearce-Moses

I demonstrated a way to build a virtual Linux server on your Mac or PC. This virtual space would give people a safe place to learn by playing with the system. If you completely screw up the virtual machine, deleted … Continue reading

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Digital Video, Annotator’s Workbench, Omeka, segmentation and annotations

As someone called me, I’m “the guy in the green shirt” that talked about the online video segmentation tool at Dork Shorts. If anyone is interested in more discussion, demos, etc. about working with video segmentation and annotations, working with … Continue reading

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Dork Shorts archive

Hi all — if you did a lightning talk at Dork Shorts, please put a link to your project in the comments.

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Interinstitutional Collaboration

I want to talk about what can constitute interinstitutional collaboration and how it can work. What are the possibilities for interinstitutional collaboration? What kinds of gaps can it be used to fill and what new possibilities does it invite? What … Continue reading

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Graded By The Street: Experiential Learning

Experiential learning submerges a class in applied activities that dissolve the boundary between the academy and whatever’s beyond it. Whether as focused simulations, individual ethnographic projects, or semester-long endeavors that involve an whole class, experiential learning forces us to consider … Continue reading

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Demonstrating the value of DH/DL/DA projects in a tl;dr world

How do we better demonstrate the connection between institutions that support the efforts of digital humanities/digital libraries/digital archives (DH/DL/DA) projects, and the value of creating, contextualizing and preserving cultural and historic materials that become the source of easily-accessible digital content … Continue reading

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Less Yack, More Fun.

(Am I allowed to propose more than once?) Two ideas I had real quick while mainlining THATCampery prior to leaving: 1) One of the things I’ve really begun to value about digital humanities is how I see its potential and … Continue reading

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The Technology of Human Interaction

Technology is great. My first real job out of college was at the Miami Herald in 1999, where I was the new Digital Pre-Press Paginator for the Classifieds. I watched an entire department of veteran cut-and-pasters, who had served the … Continue reading

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