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Bring a Text Editor, Please

For those interested in learning more about or working with text encoding, TEI, or various computational approaches to humanistic scholarship, it would be really helpful if you already had a plain text editor on your preferred computing device (PCD). Since … Continue reading

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Intro to GIS

Dear Campers, Given the growing integration of geography into digital humanities projects, geographic  information systems (GIS) has become a particular useful tool in these scholarly endeavors. Whether used as a repository of spatially linked data or as a visualizing tool, … Continue reading

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The Range of Digital Humanities

In a recent post on his site, William G. Thomas, whom some of you may recognize as the chair of the History department at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and/or the author of the essay on “Computing and the … Continue reading

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Digital Publishing

Randy Gonzales (ULL) and myself propose a session on online publishing covering both content creation and distribution. The content portion would cover tools and techniques for creating and publishing digital humanities projects on the web. I oversee journal publishing (peer-review) and … Continue reading

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Copyrights: What does the Digital technology (not) change?

Dear Campers. I don’t know if you feel the same but when I do digital projects, copyrights are probably the issue that gives me headache…. So I was thinking of sharing my headache with you during one session. I would … Continue reading

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Teaching Through Digital Tools

I would be interested in proposing a session regarding best digital tools for teaching that would incorporate teachers of all students (including the K-12 population). Teachers evaluate and reevaluate digital tools for their value in the classroom and struggle with factors … Continue reading

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Teaching Digital History / Digital Humanities

I would like to propose a session based on my experience of teaching Digital History. Given the conference, I think we could enlarge the session to teaching digital humanities. I’d like to discuss what you think are the skills students … Continue reading

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DH in the Undergraduate Classroom

I’d be interested in attending a session on how people have used DH tools or methods in undergraduate or graduate classes.   It could be focused on a particular platform or exercise (TEI, Gephi, Omeka, Annotation Studio, text mining…).  Or, it … Continue reading

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How Can We Keep Digital Humanities Projects Going?

I would like to propose a session in honor of Michael Mizell-Nelson, my late mentor and regional digital humanities pioneer, in conjunction with a memorial panel Kevin McQueeney and I are involved with at LHA. Kevin and I would like to … Continue reading

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Session on use of historical maps in GIS

This is my first THATCamp so I’m not too sure about how play, teach, and make sessions work. Pretty sure I don’t want a talk session, though. In any case, I’m excited to find out more about how THATCamp works and … Continue reading

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