Category Archives: Session Proposals

Proposals for unconference sessions from THATCamp participants.

Session Proposal: Wikipedia and the Digital Humanities

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Sara Marks

This is both a Talk and Play session proposal.  Wikipedia has a wealth of content and STEM seems to be the focus.  The entries related to the humanities are often not as well developed.  For a talk session I propose … Continue reading →

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Can we MAKE text of an Ethics Case more engaging with digital enhancements?

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Maria Flanagan

I have an active project underway that could benefit from a burst of great minds working together. Case method teaching (done at HKS, HBS, HLS) requires students to ‘prep for a case’ by close reading and reflection on a written … Continue reading →

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Humanities and technology: Can we talk?

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Betsy Devine

I would love to be part of a session where people trade stories of success and failure at collaboration. I’m thinking especially of collaboration between technology-skilled people and those focused on humanities teaching or research. I have been on both … Continue reading →

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Taking the First Byte: DH Student Projects

Posted on September 26, 2014 by L. Kelly Fitzpatrick

In an increasingly interdisciplinary academic climate, students working across majors are collaborating and creating DH projects. During this talk, I’m interested in exploring the following questions: How are students first introduced to the concept of DH? How do we foster … Continue reading →

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Archives à la Carte

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Amanda Strauss

AFTERNOON WORKSHOP Amy Benson and Amanda Strauss will lead a session in which users hack the Library’s EAD-XML finding aids to design new, flexible, and dynamic ways to present and use research collection inventories and descriptions. Currently, the Library’s finding … Continue reading →

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GIS Brainstorming Session with Bonnie Burns

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Odile Harter

Are you interested in working with maps and GIS data but not sure exactly how to connect geographical data to your project? Not sure how to find the right data? Undecided about which platform to use? We’ll share tips and … Continue reading →

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How To Build Collaborations in the Digital Humanities

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Judson Harward

There are very few project-based courses in the humanities compared with science, engineering, and the social sciences. Does that put digital humanists at a disadvantage when it comes to building teams for projects? What are some good techniques for pulling … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Music

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Christopher Morse

Music is a multidimensional experience. How can we encode this experience into the web? I am interested in music visualization and the development of music related software for research and pedagogy. This began with the creation of the Cyclochromatophone, a … Continue reading →

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