THATCamp | Ben Brumfield | Activity https://thatcamp.org/people/ben-brumfield/activity/ Activity feed for Ben Brumfield. Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:54:33 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.2 en 30 hourly 2 93a58d5f8165ce22bf77d6e0e87a68bd-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Teach Proposal: IIIF, on the site THATCamp AHA-MLA http://ahamla.thatcamp.org/?p=158 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:21:36 +0000 IIIF–the International Image Interoperability Framework–is a rapidly growing standard for presenting digitized media in a reusable format. After early implementation efforts by R1 universities and national […]

]]> 1e476a4a8e1ecca0cf4f3f7de1386de4-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Talk Proposal: Crowdsourcing, on the site THATCamp AHA-MLA http://ahamla.thatcamp.org/?p=156 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:14:18 +0000 Seven years ago, at the first THATCamp AHA, we had a rollicking session on crowdsourcing led by two experts in the field. This year we’re fortunate to be joined once again by Jen Wolfe, who spearheaded the […]

]]> 5f2cd5c210327c36e3d500df563ad36d-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Digital Scholarly Editions -- Challenges and Opportunities, on the site THATCamp AHA 2018 http://aha2018.thatcamp.org/?p=233 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:03:48 +0000 The work of documentary editors and the capabilities of digital platforms are highlighted at this year’s AHA meeting in several sessions, including (but not limited to) the an entire track on Primary Sources and […]

]]> 505e30bdb31017b9643fad77d71e6fd0-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Libraries as providers of DH data sources, on the site THATCamp Digital Humanities & Libraries 2013 http://dhlib2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/06/libraries-as-providers-of-dh-data-sources/#comment-28 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 23:23:15 +0000 This seems like the mirror image of my session proposal. Do you think that combining them would make sense?

]]> 48af8c815210455dff76bb9b39476b0d-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, DAMS, CMSes, and APIs -- oh my!, on the site THATCamp Digital Humanities & Libraries 2013 http://dhlib2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/06/dams-cmses-and-apis-oh-my/ Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:14:34 +0000 Like Melinda, I’m a bit of a newbie to DH&Lib, but from the opposite direction. Having done software development within and around DH for a couple of years, I’d like to work with library collections, but am […]

]]> 2908d1caa724b3d7b45cebe616dd1d4a-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Using Neatline w/Omeka or other Open-Source Geospatial/Temporal Tools?, on the site THATCamp Digital Humanities & Libraries 2013 http://dhlib2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/31/using-neatline-womeka-or-other-open-source-geospatialtemporal-tools/#comment-17 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:14:15 +0000 I’d like to learn more about Neatline to see how I can integrate it into visualizations of times/places within digital editions.

]]> 1eb17fb2567ca9c7fde0c023a0172235-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10478/ Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:11:22 +0000 0 b41f08b5c2c4ecaefb532941dd9dedd1-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10476/ Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:06:45 +0000 0 065aab2344e654b64d25088d83811407-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10473/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 23:00:05 +0000 0 9fc328402b2a6945c790bc5cc4265cd5-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10466/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:53:25 +0000 0 9fb89e0d89796a95c97b0040fc332c42-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10464/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:46:46 +0000 0 5dfe84ef3fb165e13259928cba255d3a-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10462/ Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:40:06 +0000 0 b671c3a5e09e2141dbb438b78f9f09bc-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10314/ Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:41:08 +0000 0 70a250f40780bddd20a5fb3e825eb170-en Ben Brumfield edited a notepad Notes on Show me Your Data on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 https://thatcamp.org/activity/p/10292/ Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:34:54 +0000 0 8c421956b614d17e5ef33502068f0ec2-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Show me your data: Scholarly notes, public expectations, on the site THATCamp Leadership 2013 http://leadership2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/04/show-me-your-data-scholarly-notes-public-expectations/ Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:26:56 +0000 The “Show Me Your Data” session proposal from THATCamp CHNM 2012 summarized the open research notes movement this way:

There has been some move in research to not just publish papers with the final results but to […]

]]> 4b207a53a5e3312a7c3d1625020aa4b8-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Teach/Talk session: "Can you show me how to ____?", on the site THATCamp New England 2012 http://newengland2012.thatcamp.org/2012/10/a-product-from-the-undergrad-curriculum-workshop/#comment-769 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:07:05 +0000 Participants may also be interested in a crowdsourced google spreadsheet on crowdsourced transcription platforms here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsXpm6NXLstzdExZZzhaclhIY1ZtMk5yazJlT1FReUE#gid=0

]]> 77cab2fa946894ccd743cf6899795988-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Open Access and Research, on the site THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges 2012 http://lac2012.thatcamp.org/05/31/open-access-and-research/#comment-509 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:25:18 +0000 I’d be interested in this topic. As someone without any institutional affiliation, if scholarship isn’t Open Access I’m not likely to read it. (If an article is important enough I can ask friends for bootleg […]

]]> ebc041df07a1d43c831d7528cb14ef5e-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, THATCamp LAC on Twitter, on the site THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges 2012 http://lac2012.thatcamp.org/06/01/thatcamp-lac-on-twitter/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:13:40 +0000 At the very first THATCamp, the registration page required a participant’s Twitter handle. The effect was to force all of the attendees who didn’t already have a Twitter account–which was most of us–to sign […]

]]> 0dfad88edb5402cb118a55e42303c98c-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Crowdsourcing, on the site THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges 2012 http://lac2012.thatcamp.org/05/31/crowdsourcing/#comment-481 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:25:38 +0000 I’d be happy to join in, so long as it’s not in session slots 1-3, during which I unfortunately have conflicts.

]]> 71d592ed0aeb2cb7e2c132ecf5399702-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Session Ideas Ideas, on the site THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges 2012 http://lac2012.thatcamp.org/05/29/session-ideas-ideas/ Tue, 29 May 2012 10:28:53 +0000 A friend or two has asked me for advice on session ideas for THATCamp, and since I’m running a workshop at THATCampLAC I figured I’d post my response in lieu of an actual session proposal:

My advice is to take […]

]]> 0bd254e2356904cc679c173451c08800-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, A Programming Course for the Humanities?, on the site THATCamp Texas 2012 http://texas2012.thatcamp.org/03/09/a-programming-course-for-the-humanities/#comment-222 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:22:29 +0000 I’m very interested in this myself. Although I have a CS degree, I find that a lot of the tools used for dealing with text are not quite what I was taught as part of my traditional curriculum — a curriculum that […]

]]> 711d1aaa1d262e7272cace02d163e3e7-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Session on re-using copyrighted materials, on the site THATCamp Texas 2012 http://texas2012.thatcamp.org/03/05/session-on-re-using-copyrighted-materials/#comment-171 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:59:32 +0000 I’m moving to a project in which I’ll be dealing with UK copyright law, which is much more horrible when it comes to cultural materials than US law. I’ll need to track the provenance of each stage of manuscripts, […]

]]> 987bd39bf0fc8b7001a0497dc5d574b1-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Session Proposal: Crowdsourcing, on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/30/session-proposal-crowdsourcing/#comment-79 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:27:06 +0000 Today I interviewed the main volunteer for Southwestern University’s Zenas Matthews Mexican War diary project. In that case, the passionate volunteer arrived before the project was even announced — the head of […]

]]> 588118debedec77f7562080870f1b563-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Session Proposal: Going off the grid., on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/31/session-proposal-going-off-the-grid/#comment-78 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:12:31 +0000 One approach I’ve heard about in the corporate world is to use cloud computing to completely circumvent IT-department restrictions. In one throwaway comment at the beginning of the Amazon Web Services book, the […]

]]> c6d0caae7ffe1e0f1d7d6592d9f12fc6-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Session Proposal: Crowdsourcing, on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/30/session-proposal-crowdsourcing/#comment-69 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:20:59 +0000 I don’t see why not. My perspective may be limited based on my experience with crowdsourced manuscript transcription, but I hope not to restrict the session to just that niche.

]]> f92bdb02ba0391e7ef74369b66026bda-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Session Proposal: Crowdsourcing, on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/30/session-proposal-crowdsourcing/ Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:30:46 +0000 “How many digital humanists does it take to change a lightbulb?”
“Yay, crowdsourcing!” — Melissa Terras

Crowdsourcing seems to be a favorite THATCamp session idea, appearing in at least half a dozen of the […]

]]> 1b7fc6ad173a154d15573a04f66bfa6c-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Housing / Room-share for ThatCamp and AHA, on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/25/housing-roomshare/#comment-61 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:02:37 +0000 Not yet, but today’s the last day for the extended AHA rate at the Sheraton. I’ll book a double. Contact me at benwbrum@gmail.com to firm up details.

]]> d85b662add97c1d9586e758520237542-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Housing / Room-share for ThatCamp and AHA, on the site THATCamp American Historical Association 2012 http://aha2012.thatcamp.org/12/25/housing-roomshare/#comment-59 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:09:28 +0000 I’m also looking for somebody to split a hotel room in or near the conference hotel for Wednesday-Saturday nights. I haven’t booked the hotel yet, but will have to bite the bullet sometime this week.

]]> 8e383749beebdfdfb133f1066b6eee49-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, DH Commons, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/#comment-86 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:50:32 +0000 It seems to me that there might be a lot of value in a community concentrating on the lone DHers within academia, even if such a community would exclude folks like me who are outside it. Issues regarding tenure […]

]]> bb5959b676bea6da2f82c360c147e7fd-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Digital Humanities, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/11/librarians-archives-museums-and-digital-humanities/#comment-78 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:30:18 +0000 One intriguing suggestion is that the LAM world may be able to provide the kind of long-term continuity for supporting DH projects that one-time grants are poorly suited for. I’m speaking well outside my […]

]]> 8fbfa33584ddbcefeb26179f407b3067-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, DH Commons, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/dh-commons/#comment-77 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:59:46 +0000 It would be useful to know more about the community you hope to serve. Will DHCommons be restricted to academia, or will it be open to similarly isolated digital humanists at museums, archives, libraries, or […]

]]> 9a9a80f16ea512a315ff2d42bd786cd3-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Identifying and Motivating Citizen X-ists, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/22/identifying-and-motivating-citizen-x-ists/#comment-75 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:04:38 +0000 I’ve just posted a session idea devoted to crowdsourcing. I’m still very interested in presenting my original proposal on the mechanics of motivating volunteers, but am not sure if it or Amy’s session idea should […]

]]> 86409cc3080f7de282ad02be3a63eda3-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Yay! Crowdsourcing!, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/12/crowdsourcing/ Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:59:31 +0000 Q: How many digital humanists does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Yay! Crowdsourcing! (Melissa Terras via Bethany Nowviskie)

Several THATCampers have added comments to my session proposal mentioning their […]

]]> 99cec63886e9bb017591a49cc205134e-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, What helps you be productive?, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/04/07/what-helps-you-be-productive/#comment-60 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:03:10 +0000 I’d just like to add to the chorus: this looks like a really valuable session.

]]> def98e0178dfa66e6c9bbb77265f865e-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Literature and GIS, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/28/literature-and-gis/#comment-33 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:01:42 +0000 I’d love to attend/participate in a session like this. I’ve got no GIS experience at all, but the kinds of data encoding/visualization you describe really resonates with a project I’ve been involved in. We’ve […]

]]> 18a3098faacd802f81acfa726f7aac58-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Identifying and Motivating Citizen X-ists, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/22/identifying-and-motivating-citizen-x-ists/#comment-32 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:53:13 +0000 LibraryThing is just amazing. One of the things that wows me most as an application developer is that they’ve made one of the most odious, repetitive database tasks (de-duplication of records) and turned it into […]

]]> 82676c6fc94ad343be793c11eecbf0e9-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Identifying and Motivating Citizen X-ists, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/22/identifying-and-motivating-citizen-x-ists/#comment-28 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:08:58 +0000 Crowdsourcing is a big, big issue — why don’t you post a session idea with some of the specific things that are on your mind and we’ll see what we can put together?


Andrew J. Torget:

We’re contemplating a […]

]]> 806d4866094ec08321e82630d0fcebe8-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Logistics, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 #comment-17 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:48:03 +0000 We stayed in the Plaza Hilton last year and were really impressed. Apparently they did a major overhaul a couple of years ago and combined every two rooms together, so each “room” is actually a large suite. I […]

]]> a9b8aa17c08de2144abc0ab00121ad81-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Identifying and Motivating Citizen X-ists, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/22/identifying-and-motivating-citizen-x-ists/#comment-11 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:20:55 +0000 I think they might do very nicely together as well. It’s early yet, so let’s see how all the other session ideas fit together.

]]> 27dabeaef673767341760bdeee421b0a-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Identifying and Motivating Citizen X-ists, on the site THATCamp Texas 2011 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/22/identifying-and-motivating-citizen-x-ists/ Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:20:46 +0000 I’ve got several session ideas rattling around my head. I doubt I could talk about any of them for more than 20 minutes, but if one of them fits well with another THATCamper’s interests, perhaps we can put a […]

]]> 51d5aada48dc1199c4d19ccf51ce9d2f-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Context & Connections notes, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009 http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/27/context-connections-notes/#comment-476 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:38:35 +0000 Do you have a link to the LoC project on Civil War letters? I’d really like to see how they’re organizing related documents, and haven’t been able to find anything that matches that description via Google.

]]> 9d5477e204169fab9cabc580a2e62852-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Collaborative annotation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/28/collaborative-annotation/#comment-182 Wed, 28 May 2008 15:31:05 +0000 I’m very interested in how you’re doing word-level annotation. Looking forward to a demo or a session.

]]> d4ad99b9f271ebc07e30834dc17daaa4-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Crowdsourcing Transcriptions, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/23/crowdsourcing-transcriptions/#comment-150 Sat, 24 May 2008 02:40:37 +0000 The entire reason I’m going to THATCamp is to get feedback on my software for collaborative manuscript transcription. Adam and I are planning to do a joint session at which we demo our alphas. If you can’t make […]

]]> 717a19583d1f787a7ff77c9af5f8ee6f-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Swapping Subscriptions, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/06/swapping-subscriptions/#comment-54 Fri, 23 May 2008 13:02:39 +0000 Please do, Margie: benwbrum@gmail.com . Surely there’s an opml->delicious converter somewhere out there.

]]> e892aa938258e4539195a5f1be47b30e-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Scholarship and Digital Texts, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/14/scholarship-and-digital-texts/#comment-74 Fri, 23 May 2008 12:55:06 +0000 Matthew,

I think that Adam and I would both be interested in discussing this. We’re each trying to make software that’s both rigorous and user-friendly, and would love to explore interface options with you.

]]> 0527ef2cb9d7d08d7d795a218c3cf347-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Dork Shorts, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/22/dork-shorts/#comment-112 Fri, 23 May 2008 12:25:56 +0000 Do we actually have to wear dork shorts while we’re talking?

I’d be happy to give short intros to DocBook or GraphViz and how to use them as intermediate output formats.

]]> 799c5c595a3efdc4eeeecb9d22398488-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Scholarship and Digital Texts, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/14/scholarship-and-digital-texts/#comment-71 Thu, 15 May 2008 21:16:55 +0000 Would you be willing to demo your alpha in a session? I’d love to see it, since my own project also is an alpha-stage system for producing critical editions of manuscripts, but I’m dissatisfied with my visual […]

]]> c41c6187bc10b4252778d395ec73052b-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Hotels and Transportation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/07/hotels-and-transportation/#comment-58 Thu, 08 May 2008 02:22:33 +0000 Re-read the post and found the answers to my parking questions. Karin, have you checked out the CUE Bus?

]]> 8777894d3c4afebaea43af5e82288833-en Ben Brumfield commented on the post, Hotels and Transportation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/07/hotels-and-transportation/#comment-57 Thu, 08 May 2008 01:51:33 +0000 What’s the parking situation at GMU? My current plan (no reservations yet) is to bring the family with me to the Best Western. They’ll take the subway to Washington City during the day, and I’ll drive the […]

]]> ad645e2a410c021b20297aa271829181-en Ben Brumfield wrote a new post, Swapping Subscriptions, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008 http://chnm2008.thatcamp.org/05/06/swapping-subscriptions/ Tue, 06 May 2008 19:07:46 +0000 About a year ago, Gavin Robinson and I swapped our Google Reader subscriptions. Neither of us is affiliated with an institution, so blogs really are how we stay connected to the digital humanities community. […]

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