The MLA Office of Research will be updating its Guide to Doctoral Programs in English and Other Modern Languages www.mla.org/gdp_intro in the coming months and would like to hear from users how the guide can be made more useful to them and more “born digital.” What information is most useful to you? How can Web …
Category Archive: Session Proposals
Nov 08
Georeferencing digital collections
Just as I like to think of what’s needed for long-term preservation up-front when I plan to digitize a collection, so, too, I’ve been thinking, should I consider geo-referencing the items of some collections. Would love to develop a guide for planning and doing collection georeferencing. Questions we might discuss: 1. What kinds of collections …
Nov 08
Browsing the DVD collection digitally
If your library doesn’t add genres to the MARC record of films, it’s really difficult to browse a collection that is shelved alphabetically by title (which is common). If you know what film you want to watch, you can search the OPAC/library catalog and go to the shelves to find it. But suppose you’d like …
Nov 08
The Book & Monograph Remixed: Digital Age Meets Analog Practices
This session will feature a discussion format exploring the (r)evolution of the 21st century book and scholarly monograph. For some, the paper-based book is considered an analog age relic. Yet this format is very much at the heart and soul of humanities scholarship. During this conversation we will try to identify trends v. fad when …
Nov 08
Support for Dig Hum Research
As a librarian, I’ve been immersed in reading and discussion about the kinds of support that researchers in digital humanities might need. My question is being asked in a lot of places — how can libraries reinvent information services and products in the digital age? A lot of the discussion about supporting digital scholarship is …
Nov 04
Information Overload: Condensing a wealth of resources into a format digestible for students
The problem: Today’s students, despite their reputation for technological savvy, still need to be taught how to conduct research. The increasing amount of digital material available makes research easier in many ways, but it can also complicate matters — particularly in terms of “information overload.” Rob Widell and I propose a discussion around strategies for …
Nov 03
Games, serious play, and digital pedagogy
I’m not, strictly speaking, a gamer, nor am I anything like an expert on the subject. But one of the things I’m interested in talking about at THATCamp is the pedagogical potential of serious play: the use of games to engage students with a topic or get them to enter a text in a new …
Nov 02
Starting and Marketing Digital Archives
I have two questions for THATCamp. Well, that’s not true, I have many questions for THATCamp but two possible session-type questions. The first is more of a BootCamp question: How does one begin to go about creating a digital archive of historic documents? Even before questions of encoding and formatting, I am curious about copyright …
Nov 01
Pulling together the “right” project team
This is the short version. THATCamp is next on my list after I survive this week. But I’m throwing this in the mix because it’s what I’m most interested in/in need of. I’m a humanities/education person through and through. Don’t know a thing about the “back-end” of all this DH stuff. Though I would say …
Nov 01
Collaboration in the archives / archiving blogs
I have two separate lines of thought that I will explore briefly here. They both emerge from thinking about blogs and social media in the archives, but go in very different directions. When I was blogging about archival processing for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania as a project archivist, I began to see the real …
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