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img7u commented on the post, DH and the Tech Industry, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 right now

“We all bemoan the awful lack of metadata in the Google Books digitization project, but the truth is those texts will be the ones that the general public is most likely to access – not the carefully curated […]

img7u wrote a new post, Metadata: describe, view and do, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 right now

Everyone so far has posted some really cool ideas, and my proposal is to latch on what you guys are already talking about but delve into the description, access and output aspects of your collections and projects. […]

img7u commented on the post, Public humanities and the digital humanities, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 right now

I’m definitely interested in this from a metadata perspective, especially with regard to evaluating your audience. When we have rich content but limited amount of time/labor/money available to describe it, what […]

img7u commented on the post, Possibilities for Local History, on the site THATCamp Virginia 2012 right now

Are you thinking something like The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu/) but on a more local level? And more interactive?