Category Archives: Session Proposals

Credit, recognition, attribution, and risk aversion in Digital Humanities scholarship

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Phil Edwards

One of the notions that I’ve been mulling over after last weekend’s THATCamp Virginia 2012 is how credit, recognition, and attribution for work on digital humanities projects are integrated into the work itself. (I’ve tossed in a few bon mots … Continue reading →

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Databasing historical correspondence

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Peter Collopy

I’ve experimented a bit with using commercial database software—Filemaker Pro and Bento—to store the text of historical correspondence (i.e. letters) I’ve found in archives, making it searchable and sortable. I’d be happy to demonstrate my databases and would be interested … Continue reading →

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Designing a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Rachel Guberman

Over the past year, I’ve talked a lot with grad students in my own department (History) and elsewhere at Penn about digital humanities and how we can incorporate these tools and methods into our work as scholars and teachers. People … Continue reading →

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“Out-of-the-Box” Solutions

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Mike Zarafonetis

Not to be confused with the phrase, “thinking outside the box,” of course. As Laurie Allen (@librlaurie) and I continue to build our support for digital scholarship at Haverford College, we are frequently asked by faculty and staff members to … Continue reading →

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Identifying Common Needs

Posted on March 23, 2012 by macderm

Digital Humanities covers a lot of ground.  I often assume that each new project must be a highly customized creation for a specific research interest and will have little in common with other projects.  But I want to challenge that … Continue reading →

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Collborations between Faculty and Subject Librarians/ Curators

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Chella Vaidyanathan

The availability of new digital tools provides more opportunities to design creative course projects which would be helpful in developing students’ critical thinking skills. Not only would these kinds of projects make the research process exciting, but also more personal to the students. I … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities Toolboxes

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Laurie Allen

Even though there are now countless example projects to point to in the world of Digital Scholarship, I’m still looking for more ways to encourage faculty to think about the opportunities for their own research and teaching on our own … Continue reading →

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Mediated Engagements

Posted on March 21, 2012 by droyles

THATCampers might be interested in this conference hosted by the Center for the Humanities at Temple, where I’m currently a fellow. It will be a great opportunity to listen to really smart people talk about the politics of digital representation … Continue reading →

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Presenting Research Online

Posted on March 20, 2012 by droyles

Through THATCamp Philly, I became interested in using Omeka as a platform for presenting my own research and gathering materials from interested readers to effectively create a user-generated digital archive. Since I work on a topic of public interest in the … Continue reading →

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New ways of preparing and publishing critical editions

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Rebecca

I have read and am reading a few interesting books on critical thinking and critical editions in the digital environment. The critical editions can be more than texts, but can include artwork and music. What advantages do we have in … Continue reading →

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