THATCamp

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 4: Queering Information/Going Rogue, on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

How to subvert structures in a field that should be inclusive and interdisciplinary?

We all have ingrained ideas about how one should learn – how do we reverse those if structures aren’t working? Expand our […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 4: Digital Collections Outreach, on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Digital Collections Outreach

Methods

Wikipedia

Cite back to collection/website

Kringla
“athons”

Events of various durations

Reddit AMA’s

AMA about the Shoah foundation brought […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 3: Born Digital, on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Session 3: 1:30-12:20

Born Digital

Alice Prael, UMD Libraries
Categories of born digital media

Email
Websites

E-publications
Blogs

Legacy media

Floppy discs

Oral […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 3: Tumblr, Flickr, and tools used by digital humanists, on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Tumblr, Flickr, and tools used by digital humanists

How do researchers think they might want to use Tumblr and Flickr information?

People don’t work with these sources because there is no access to that […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 3: Supporting other people's DH projects with Meg (1:30-2:20), on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Supporting other people’s DH projects with Meg

At times its hard to stay connected with other projects because of the size of a university

What do you do when there are a diversity of documents […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 2: Digital History (11:30-12:20), on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Digital History Projects 11:30-12:20

Some projects that got us started in digital history

Angela- US Holocaust Museum project Children of the Lodz Ghetto

Dan- Salem Witch Trials social network […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 1: Future of Crowdsourcing (10:30-11:20), on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Future of Crowdsourcing

Room 108

10:30-11:20 AM April 18, 2015

http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org/

http://www.crowdconsortium.org/

Lots of crowdsourcing project, but what’s next?

How do […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 1: Institutional MediaWiki (10:30-11:20), on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Session 1: 10:30-11:20

Institutional MediaWiki

Meg Brown, Folger Shakespeare Library

Institutional wiki: Folgerpedia (folgerpedia.folger.edu)

99% of contributors are staff members
Scholar […]

Angela Spidalette wrote a new post, Session 1: Social Network Analysis with Dan (10:30-11:20), on the site THATCamp DC2015 right now

Social Network Analysis with Dan (10:30-11:20)

Introductions
Dan’s Salem witch trial project (wordpress.com)

Briefing on his project

Biggest problem: How are people connected?

Over 900 documents […]