THATCamp

laura mandell wrote a new post, The Perils of Digitization: Google Research Centers, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 right now

One last thought as I dash to CSC: I’m interested in a panel about the incipient formation of the Google Research Centers, both how wonderful it is that scholars will be given the opportunity to do […]

laura mandell commented on the post, Text Encoding Projects for Small Institutions, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 right now

Richard:

I think the idea of creating “a collaborative open source training environment” sounds wonderful. We were trying to do something like that involving Miami students by launching the […]

laura mandell commented on the post, Data mining as literary criticism, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 right now

David:

This is a great panel proposal.

Also, I have used both wordle and juXta on the text of Frankenstein as a way of combining close reading with distant reading.

I put up a panel about my poetry […]

laura mandell wrote a new post, Visualization Tools – c, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 right now

(I just discovered a wonderful “data mining as literary criticism” presentation, and so recycled an earlier posting on datamining to offer this instead).

Digital Artist Ira Greenberg developed for me a poetry […]

laura mandell commented on the post, Elle, Edmonde Charles-Roux. The role of biographers, fashion and Coco Chanel, on the site THATCamp Columbus 2010 right now

Liz: I just helped Susan Schreibman conduct a workshop at MLA called Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion. We had a wonderfully creative example, a poet’s digital performance art, and the evaluators […]

laura mandell commented on the post, Thank You, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

Here, here! Tom, you were a benevolent dictator, and taught me so much (you, too, Mark — and Dan, and Sean Takka (sp?). THATCamp was an amazing experience for me.

laura mandell commented on the post, Visualizing Aggregated Data, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

I think the TimeRiver is beautiful as well as incredibly useful. Could you demo ArchivesZ? In thinking about kinds of subject terms, is it possible to think about layers of metadata, from the kind that imagines […]

laura mandell commented on the post, Text mining and visualizations, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

Rob: I like the idea of the two sessions. I can bring a poem marked up as deeply as possible — fit for Monk — using TEI P5. I’m getting it prepared for Ira Greenberg (http://www.iragreenberg.com) to create a […]

laura mandell commented on the post, Scholarship and Digital Texts, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

Adam, Ben, and Matthew:

I have been working with a computer scientist to develop something that does TEI encoding for people — could we talk about having them help you instead? Let’s discuss at THATCamp.

Laura Mandell

laura mandell commented on the post, Playing History: Video Games and the Humanities, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

This is fascinating, Trevor — I’d like to be involved. I posted something about games today as well.

laura mandell wrote a new post, An archive aggregator, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 right now

I’ve been working along with a great group of people at Virginia on NINES, and now, Bob Markley at Illinois and I will be working with UVA to start an 18th-century version. NINES peer-reviews and aggregates […]