Scheduled for 2:30-3:20 in Room 601, 66 W 12th Street In 2013, the American Historical Association put out a statement encouraging graduate programs and university libraries to allow students to embargo their dissertations for up to 6 years. They wrote, “History has been and remains a book-based discipline, and the requirement that dissertations be published online […]
Continue readingScheduled for 2:30-3:20pm in Theresa Lang Auditorium (202) 55 W 13th Street With the massive digitization of primary sources that has taken place over the past decade or so there are far more resources available online for research and teaching than was even imaginable a short time ago. This work by libraries, archives, commercial entities and […]
Continue readingScheduled for 1:30-2:20 in Theresa Lang Auditorium (202), 55 W 13th Street Digital Dawdle: Walk and Talk around a Historic Site, connecting via Social Media. We scurry by statues, buildings, and historic spots every day without slowing down to take in the atmosphere or soak up the history. How do we slow down the urban walker […]
Continue readingThis session will take place from 3:30-4:20pm in the Theresa Lang Auditorium (202), 55 W 13th Street This is an unformed suggestion written as I sit here in the visualization session in the last AHA time slot on Monday. At 12:45 there are still some 40 people in the room. This wasn’t the only well-attended […]
Continue readingThis session is scheduled for 3:30-4:20 in the Hirshon Suite (205), 55 W. 13th Street The report of MOOCs’ death was an exaggeration. They may no longer be featured in the Times on a weekly basis and some companies (cough … Udacity … cough) may have abandoned their original missions to provide free education. But hundreds […]
Continue readingScheduled for 1:30-2:20pm in the Hirshon Suite (205), 55 W. 13th Street Whether this is your first THATCamp or your 20th, you are participating in a remarkably wide-reaching process of talking, making, learning, and sharing the digital humanities. Since the first THATCamp in May 2008 at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media there have been […]
Continue readingScheduled as part of teaching conversations from 10:45-11:20am at Theresa Lang auditorium, 55 W 13th Street I am wondering how one would design the perfect course for a degree in digital humanities. Should it have technical and non-technical modules at equal measure? Should it have more humanistic modules for those with a stronger technical background, […]
Continue readingScheduled for 2:30-3:20 in Hirshon Suite (205), 55 W. 13th Street While the use of GIS for the humanities (particularly history) has been discussed for quite some time now, it still seems to be unclear to many scholars what kind of fundamental new insights GIS is supposed to deliver. Given its nature as positivistic tool that […]
Continue readingScheduled for 3:30-4:20 in Room 601, 66 W 12th Street In this session, I’m interested in exploring Tumblr as an introductory platform for digital scholarship. This session will provide an overview of the platform, strong examples of use rooted in scholarship and access, and finally select and post sample content to our own test blog using […]
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