Comments for THATCamp@Penn 2012

Comment on Sponsors / Staffers by Reflections from THATCamp @Penn - Interactive Mechanics

Reflections from THATCamp @Penn - Interactive Mechanics — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:53:35 +0000

[…] special thanks to The University of Pennsylvania for hosting the event, Penn Libraries and the other sponsors, Amanda French for doing a fantastic job of running the event and speaking on Omeka, as well as all […]

Comment on Introduction to Omeka by Amanda French

Amanda French — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:22:52 +0000

Great to hear — glad you enjoyed the session. I can safely say that Omeka is a great system, because I had nothing to do with building it. 🙂

Comment on Schedule by THATCamp@Penn: Thoughts on the Day | Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

THATCamp@Penn: Thoughts on the Day | Maura Elizabeth Cunningham — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:44:50 +0000

[…] would attend and which I would pass up; today’s THATCamp had three main timeslots in the day and five or six sessions scheduled for each one, so I couldn’t do everything I wanted. Like SAC, THATCamp gave me a chance to learn about and try […]

Comment on Introduction to Omeka by jsadashige

jsadashige — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:18:07 +0000

Thanks for a great session – I already have plans for a course-generated omeka site for the fall!

Comment on Introduction to Omeka by Devin Griffiths

Devin Griffiths — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:06:57 +0000

HI Amanda,

I’d be interested in sitting in on this session. I’m just wrapping up a class where I used Omeka for a digital edition of a manuscript and paratextual materials (website at 23.21.246.240/ ).

-Devin

Comment on Designing a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate by Jim English

Jim English — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:02:31 +0000

I am all for this, and am interested in considering whether we have the faculty resources to make it work at present, or need to fold this into a cluster-hire initiative.

Comment on Databasing historical correspondence by Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:51:20 +0000

I would be interested in seeing your project and hearing about the tools your using and the bigger context of presenting scholarly work digitally

Comment on Designing a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate by Rachel Guberman

Rachel Guberman — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:23:54 +0000

I’m excited to have this conversation in person tomorrow! In addition to trying to come up with what we see as, sort of, the necessary components of a digital humanities program, I think it’d be worth taking a look at some of the existing graduate certificates that Penn offers to get a sense of the kinds of programs that have worked for others. Here I’m thinking in particular about the Urban Studies Graduate Certificate and the Teaching Certificate from CTL. Are there other certificate programs at Penn (or elsewhere) that could offer models?

Comment on Designing a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate by Tim Powell

Tim Powell — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:09:56 +0000

I am very supportive of trying to start a digital humanities program at Penn. I am very actively nationally in the digital humanities, but do not know of anyone else here at Penn working in the field. So even getting people together to talk would be a welcome start. I would be willing to teach a course in the digital humanities through Religious Studies, where I am on the faculty

Comment on Presenting Research Online by Devin Griffiths

Devin Griffiths — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:39:05 +0000

Hi — I’d be interested in a panel that has to do with Omeka, too. I’ve been working with Omeka this semester as part of an advanced English seminar at Penn (you can see the website we’re developing at the address above). Look forward to meeting you tomorrow.

Cheers!
Devin

Comment on Designing a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate by Louise Krasniewicz

Louise Krasniewicz — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:51:34 +0000

It’s not hard to learn all the tools you need (website design, database construction, image processing, digital video, presentation software, ebook publishing, etc) in one or two semesters. It makes sense to me to have a teaching group (faculty/staff) that could be shared across the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences so that everyone isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Also, each program/department would have to commit to requiring and/or offering their students the training otherwise, if only a few students chose it, the training would not be cost effective.

Comment on Register by THATCamp is tomorrow! | PennWIC

THATCamp is tomorrow! | PennWIC — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:35:26 +0000

[…] list of attendees! Want to join us? It’s not too late. You can register, free of charge, at penn2012.thatcamp.org/register/. If you don’t get a chance to register online ahead of time, please join us in Fisher Bennett […]

Comment on Location by THATCamp is tomorrow! | PennWIC

THATCamp is tomorrow! | PennWIC — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:32:53 +0000

[…] If you don’t get a chance to register online ahead of time, please join us in Fisher Bennett Hall tomorrow! You can sign up while you’re there and get in on a great conversation. Share […]

Comment on How Individuals React Towards Technology by Peter Collopy

Peter Collopy — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:22:13 +0000

There's some literature in science and technology studies on non-users of technologies, particularly in the book How Users Matter. You might also want to look at Nathan Ensmenger's chapter "Resistance is Futile? Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet" in The Commercialization of the Internet and Its Impact on American Business. And David Edgerton's Shock of the Old is a wonderful study of the continued use of old technologies that challenges the assumption that not using new technologies is necessarily an act of resistance; often, there are existing tools that are good enough. Indeed, I think histories of marketing suggest that demand for new inventions generally has to be created. All of which is to say that people's decision not to adopt a new technology is often not a decision at all, while the decision to adopt technology generally does require an explanation.

Comment on New ways of preparing and publishing critical editions by Felicia Jean Steele

Felicia Jean Steele — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:22:13 +0000

I’ve been thinking about these issues as well, especially when thinking about how an edition could teach skills necessary for an enriched understanding of an original text. For example, could an edition of a medieval text include a tool that teaches paleography. At what point do we exceed the boundaries of an edition and the text becomes something else entirely?

Comment on Identifying Common Needs by escheyder

escheyder — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:43:26 +0000

I agree, and will be listening for similar things. I’m also interested to see if there are common needs that might be addressed with a single tool, to make more efficient use of resources. Not trying to shoehorn all needs into the same box, but looking for commonalities.