Comments for THATCamp Modern Language Association Boston 2013

Comment on Schedule by Is a THATCamp the right way to start 2013? (was: Happy new year!) | Creative Amnesia

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Comment on Analog Hackerspace! by A Day of DH at #THATCamp #MLA13 | MLA Convention

A Day of DH at #THATCamp #MLA13 | MLA Convention — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:07:16 +0000

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Comment on Notes from Tools for Literary Text Analysis by Is a THATCamp the right way to start 2013? (was: Happy new year!)Creative Amnesia Blog | Creative Amnesia Blog

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[…] back to the sessions, the first one I went on was the one on Tools for Literary Analysis, which was, needless to say, focused on tools and how to use them, especially for teaching. […]

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Comment on Teaching Digital Archives by Notes from Teaching Digital Archives session | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Notes from Teaching Digital Archives session | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:19:32 +0000

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Comment on “Here in the museum we do not invite trouble”: Archiving The Archivists Of The Twenty-first Century by Notes for Morning Session: (“Here In The Museum We Do Not Invite Trouble”) | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:27:09 +0000

[…] (Original session proposal can be found here) […]

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by jmittell

jmittell — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:28:36 +0000

I’d be interested in this as well. From the perspective of film/media studies, the recent growth of video essays are a potential mode of DH productivity – within those makers, there’s a debate about whether such projects should be analytical and/or poetic, and what that means for makers & viewers. I’d love to hear similar issues from other fields.

Comment on Talk and Play: Becoming a Better Bloggette by Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:19:43 +0000

A really useful topic. I’m a relatively prolific writer, but I’ve never been a very good blogger. I’d love to come to a session on academic blogging. I’d also be interesting in thinking about and discussing the distinctions and overlap between blogging and other more “traditional” forms of academic publishing.

Comment on Engaging students in the entire process by Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:17:08 +0000

I think I must have been working on my proposal as you were writing this. Your idea here fits well with what I just proposed. 🙂 Very important, I think to bring students both into the process and the discussion of the process.

Comment on Student Storage & Processes of Multimodal Compositions by trip.kirkpatrick

trip.kirkpatrick — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:58:39 +0000

One of the things I got a chance to do this past fall was to lead a media lab for a humanities course, and I’m expecting to get another crack at it next fall, so I’m quite interested in this conversation.

Comment on Domain of One’s Own/Scaling Up by Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:52:42 +0000

The issue of scale interests me too, not only how to scale up but how to scale down as well. My concern is whether our pedagogies can even scale at all, or whether each scale demands that we approach teaching and learning in a different way. MOOCs, at their worst, reproduce pedagogies designed for much different environments or scales. At their best, they challenge us to do things and interact in ways that would be impossible in a smaller class or at a brick-and-mortar institution.

Comment on That’s Not My Department: Multidisciplinary Conversations at MLA by Transes | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Transes | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:51:57 +0000

[…] what tools, structures, patterns, theories exist or need creating. There is some kinship here with Anastasia’s proposal on interdisciplinarity and possibly with Marc’s on scaling up, but I think there’s something else to talk […]

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by rybakc

rybakc — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:47:11 +0000

As someone who primarily publishes as a creative writer, I’m very interested in this. This is also pretty much the debate I had with my dept head recently, with his position being that DH dehumanizes the humanities. My personal interests are in learning to code poetic rhythm and meter as a way to widen aesthetic discussions of poetry.

Comment on MLA Commons by Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:40:48 +0000

I’m eager to play around with this as well. 🙂

Comment on MOOCs Workshop by Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:38:56 +0000

This is a timely discussion and one that’s important for digital humanists to engage in. I think this discussion could also consider the role of online learning more broadly in the humanities.

Comment on Digital Tools for Literary Analysis by rybakc

rybakc — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:37:51 +0000

I’m definitely interested in this, especially in the nuts and bolts of how to actually interpret the information returned by these tools.

Comment on Talk and Play: Becoming a Better Bloggette by rybakc

rybakc — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:35:57 +0000

I’ve just started my own blog this year, so I have some interest in this. I’m also interested in how to involve students in such a blog, where the academic blog is also a teaching blog with student voices. (maybe this overlaps with the “Domain of One’s Own” concept.

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by Patsy Baudoin

Patsy Baudoin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:33:31 +0000

As one of the 10 PRINT authors, I’m committed to reading code culturally (including mainly aesthetically and politically). I’m quite intrigued by the Coles-Lein work, which I’m just learning about (thanks to Amanda F.) and would like to continue the stimulating THATCampNE conversation Amanda R. refers to. Count me in…

Comment on Workshop: Let’s plot to learn GIS by Patsy Baudoin

Patsy Baudoin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 03:21:49 +0000

Thanks for your replies to my post. We’ll see where GIS lands in the voting tomorrow. If no workshop materializes, maybe we can meet briefly to chat about the best strategies for learning GIS basics. I will try to read the material at the links you’ve provided. Thanks for those. Cheers. -P.

Comment on Cyberteacher: Digital Writing and Digital Pedagogies by Rebecca Harris

Rebecca Harris — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:53:56 +0000

I’d be interested in multimodal project assignments as well, specifically how we should tailor instructions to students who may not be familiar with the tools, programs, etc. that we’re using.

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:58:49 +0000

This sounds like a terrific conversation. As Amanda Rust intimates, there are such rich worlds of artistic practice in digital media; there’s a flourishing networked vernacular on aesthetics as well (e.g., The New Aesthetic), and the lack of connection between DH and these domains seems redressable.

Comment on Cyberteacher: Digital Writing and Digital Pedagogies by lynn.reid14

lynn.reid14 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:25:14 +0000

I have assigned multimodal projects to composition classes and would be happy to share my stories of success (and failure…!).

Comment on Make session: digital bibliographies by Amanda Rust

Amanda Rust — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:12:34 +0000

I would love to participate — count me in, too.

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by Amanda Rust

Amanda Rust — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:06:13 +0000

I'd be interested in this as well. At THATCamp New England we had a great discussion around a possibly related theme: Where are all the artists? We focused somewhat on the role of the artist / designer in digital humanities, so perhaps more on visual aesthetics than what you are thinking of here. There are great notes on that discussion from papaelia (proposer of the session) here.

Comment on Workshop: Let’s plot to learn GIS by cottrell.j

cottrell.j — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:00:12 +0000

I’m a beginner with ARcGIS but I would be interested in participating in any kind of discussion relating to either the theory/problems of mapping or the more “hands on” work being called for.

Comment on Make session: Tagging the personal library of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Meg Tarquinio Roche

Meg Tarquinio Roche — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:40:37 +0000

Amanda -I’d love to get involved! (Also, I live near Austerlitz if you’ll need help when checking against her library there.)

Comment on Workshop: Let’s plot to learn GIS by trip.kirkpatrick

trip.kirkpatrick — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:20:04 +0000

I’d be interested in this specifically if there is some work on dealing with geographic uncertainty. Ambiguity/uncertainty in chronology and GIS came up in DH Q&A a while back (digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/i-am-looking-for-discussions-of-how-to-model-dates-and-time-in-dh-projects and digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/best-practice-for-representing-imprecise-historical-geospatial-data-on-a-map), but the latter felt a little insubstantial.

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by Mary Loeffelholz

Mary Loeffelholz — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:56:08 +0000

Count me as interested too–I’d love to hear more about the Coles-Lein work and Amanda’s research questions. From research interests based in US poetry of the long 19th C, I’d be interested in thinking about “gorgeous complexity” as an attribute of networks of poems as well as individual poems. Looking forward, mkl

Comment on Clustering discussions? by guzzettg

guzzettg — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:47:21 +0000

Yes, I think I was “cautiously” aiming at some mammoth-session, as you say, only I was thinking, more than a full-day concurrently session, say a cluster on “DH as a field” in the morning, and two in the afternoon on “Research Tools” and “Teaching Tools”. But is all open to interpretation, of course.
Also I think this might be helpful in creating Proceedings. But that is another story…
BTW, call me Giorgio please, guzzettg is just a nickname… I thought it was cool at first, but now I am starting to hate it, really. I am slowly moving back to my real name, one login at a time…

Comment on Talk session: Aesthetics and Digital Humanities by John Rodzvilla

John Rodzvilla — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:36:56 +0000

This is something I would be interested in talking about. I’ve been trying to figure out how to approach this from a professional studies approach in our program. I teach students how to make e-books and websites so they can go out into the industry, but feel that my courses miss the opportunity to talk about an aesthetic quality that’s being ignored. The most I can do is point to some of the more concrete poems and ask how to deal with it. I’d be interested in hearing from others on what they need to do.

Comment on Clustering discussions? by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:35:25 +0000

Great taxonomy, guzzetg. Almost always at THATCamp things are “tracked” so that similar sessions are subsequent instead of simultaneous, so to that extent there’s usually clustering. But do I understand you to be suggesting that we just do (say) 3 mammoth all-day sessions, one on the general topic of “DH as a field,” one on “Teaching tools & tech,” and one on “Research tools & tech”? I’m cautiously interested in that idea.

Comment on Capturing Tweets and Twitter Networks at MLA 2013 by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:59:36 +0000

I’d be interested in doing this. I’ve seen others use NodeXL to analyze twitterstreams before, and it’s been great.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:59:11 +0000

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Comment on Digital Literary Studies by Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:58:56 +0000

[…] could be Designing DH Projects. On the research side, the general overview could be given at the Digital Literary Studies – for which an helpful starting point is the Bamboo Dirt website. Also (self-servingly) I […]

Comment on Workshop on Annotation Studio – an annotation tool for humanities pedagogy by Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:58:40 +0000

[…] Workshop on Annotation Studio – which could be interesting to see it as a note taking tool for researcher as well. […]

Comment on DH info hubs: what are we missing? by Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Clustering discussions? | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:58:24 +0000

[…] would need to discuss the creation of a common network for researcher in the field, as proposed in DH info hubs: what are we missing?. Also important is to enter into mainstream computing, which is something that both IT wishlist […]

Comment on MLA Commons by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:57:52 +0000

You bet! Eager to see what it’s all about.

Comment on Multi-text Projects by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:56:34 +0000

Of course, everything looks like a nail to me and Omeka is my hammer, but Omeka would actually be a great tool for this. It handles images, audio, video, text, and all kinds of stuff.

Comment on Domain of One’s Own/Scaling Up by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:48:26 +0000

I’d actually love to learn a bit more about edX, but I too am interested in how and (even more so) *why* to scale up teaching. I continue to feel a bit muddled about MOOCs, deeply suspicious both of them and at the same time deeply suspicious of my own deep suspicions.

In other contexts, I think I’ve resolved certain problems of scale rather well: the buzzword “platform” is a buzzword for a reason. THATCamp itself is a pretty good example of scaling up by decentralizing, by creating a replicable and customizable model that small communities can adopt for their own. UMW blogs operates on a similar principle, but so far MOOCs themselves don’t really seem scalable, oddly enough. Setting one up sounds like a whole heck of a lot of work.

Enough of this: suffice it to say I’m interested.

Comment on Teaching Digital Archives by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:28:11 +0000

I’m interested in this, too! I taught a grad course at NYU a couple years ago on “Creating Digital History” where I had students build digital archives with Omeka, and that involved their using online archives as well. Always interested in other possibilities, though.

Comment on Workshop on Annotation Studio – an annotation tool for humanities pedagogy by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:22:27 +0000

I’d love to learn more. Count me in too.

Comment on Workshop: Let’s plot to learn GIS by Amanda French

Amanda French — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:12:56 +0000

I’ve taught Google Maps before, so I could teach that, but nothing else — not like ARcGIS or anything. I have played around with ViewShare, too: viewshare.org/ I’d be willing to, um, facilitate a session on ViewShare (let’s not use the word “teach”).

The other software that I know a lot of people are or will use is Neatline, which is a plugin for Omeka, but I haven’t actually used that.

Comment on Teaching Digital Archives by paj32

paj32 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:38:09 +0000

In many respects, your twitter/class discussion proposal overlaps with my own concerns. The recent Annotation Studio posting might be a useful way to bridge our interests in a more concrete application, although I’d be happy to share some of my past projects using other tools. For instance, I had students annotate historical maps during a 19th c literature survey, which produced some interesting work.

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by Candy Schwartz

Candy Schwartz — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:03:09 +0000

Unfortunately I have had to withdraw from THATCamp for family health reasons.

Comment on Make session: digital bibliographies by guzzettg

guzzettg — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:09:44 +0000

I am currently working on a bibliographic project regarding an Italian writer, and looking around for tools to put it in the web. This schema you are proposing could be very helpful. Count me in for the discussion.

Comment on Workshop on Annotation Studio – an annotation tool for humanities pedagogy by guzzettg

guzzettg — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:05:09 +0000

Very interesting. I am definitely in.

Comment on Capturing Tweets and Twitter Networks at MLA 2013 by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:43:48 +0000

Hmmm, I didn’t see this proposal earlier, but I have one later about Twitter and class discussions, where a lot of these same mapping issues/skills might come into play with what I was asking.

Comment on MOOCs Workshop by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:41:39 +0000

This is something I’ve been kicking around in my head for a bit, and actually got a good Google Doc discussion going on different ways MOOCs might be approached. If you’re interested in looking at that, the link is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1gK20pJrc0r4US13lfmTYHvRYch6jhWkXB-foW2Wi4Vk/edit

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:38:04 +0000

I know nothing at all about this but am definitely interested, especially in terms of how to apply mapping (likely Google) to literary texts.

Comment on Teaching Digital Archives by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:18:45 +0000

This is definitely not my area of expertise, but I do see some overlap here with digital storytelling/alternative narratives. I’d love to create an assignment where students digitized the types of materials you’re describing and crafted a narrative; so I’d benefit quite a bit from hearing about your ideas. And I’m definitely interested in the application to close reading and literary studies, which involves a lot of my teaching.

Comment on That’s Not My Department: Multidisciplinary Conversations at MLA by jmittell

jmittell — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:53:43 +0000

I’m definitely interested in this session as well – this is my first MLA (I’m a media scholar, typically attending SCMS among others). Alas, I can only be at the afternoon sessions of THATCamp, so if it’s possible to have this session after lunch, I’d be quite appreciative!

Comment on Cyberteacher: Digital Writing and Digital Pedagogies by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:34:14 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this for literature classes quite a bit–moving away from traditional essays and into the type of media productions you describe. Basically, I want students to make things, so this sounds great. Plus, I really want to learn how to make a mash-up.

Comment on Omeka Neatline and spatial-temporal visualization, anyone? by jasonecohen

jasonecohen — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:18:57 +0000

Chris and Dawn, and attendant silent majority: I’m glad there’s interest here. Mapstraction — looks cool and interesting, and perhaps in need of an update? I’m in, and would love to see what you’re doing with it. I’m currently using the Google Earth API in combination with a GDocs spreadsheet / fusion tables , which is a really flexible way to do the data entry and management. Anyway, I’m using it in the spring and surely hope it will work for the class as well as my research. So, yes, let’s look at that stuff. I should admit, straight out, that I’m absolutely new to Neatline and am just setting it up for myself, so anyone who has experience actually implementing it, let me know.

Finally, anyone interested in co-leading a session on this stuff, hit me back and we can put our heads together on it.

Comment on Omeka Neatline and spatial-temporal visualization, anyone? by dawn

dawn — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:45:31 +0000

I’m in! I’d also like to see the discussion move beyond Google Maps/Earth and incorporate more flexible solutions like Mapstraction and other tools that support multiple javascript mapping solutions. And definitely Neatline…

Comment on Juxta by dawn

dawn — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:37:34 +0000

I’ve also been thinking about ways of using Juxta for translation — comparing translations of a work over time and following the progress of a translation as it develops.

Comment on Designing DH Projects by Building DH Community, Competency, Capacity | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Building DH Community, Competency, Capacity | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013 — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:34:27 +0000

[…] on bernierr1‘s proposal, Designing DH Projects, I would like to explore ways of building local community around DH to generate ideas, build […]

Comment on Juxta by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:28:36 +0000

I’ve been thinking about trying Juxta in creative writing classes, to get students comparing earlier versus later drafts of their own work. In short, I’d be interested in knowing more about Juxta as well.

Comment on Omeka Neatline and spatial-temporal visualization, anyone? by christopherohge

christopherohge — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:08:07 +0000

Sounds fantastic; I’m in. Many thanks.

Comment on MLA Commons by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:19:35 +0000

Sure, I’m game!

Comment on Domain of One’s Own/Scaling Up by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:17:38 +0000

I read about the Domain of One’s Own project and was immediately captivated, and I’ve also participated in a MOOC and have a lot of thoughts about that experience. I’d be interested in talking about these issues.

Comment on That’s Not My Department: Multidisciplinary Conversations at MLA by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:14:55 +0000

This is my first MLA, as I usually go to AWP instead (creative writing is largely the teaching focus of my job, and it’s my area of publishing–I see you have an MFA). In short, this does sound interesting to me for a number of reasons.

Comment on Designing DH Projects by bernierr1

bernierr1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:13:23 +0000

Excellent! Looking forward to meeting you.

Comment on Designing DH Projects by rybakc

rybakc — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:07:00 +0000

I’ve been experiencing much of the same (though I’m not our department head); this is definitely a discussion I’d want to have, and there’s a lot of potential for basic “making” here.

Comment on Network Analysis by cnwarren

cnwarren — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:57:06 +0000

Hi Shawn,
This sounds like a great workshop! I hope it materializes.
Chris

Comment on Domain of One’s Own/Scaling Up by Trip Kirkpatrick

Trip Kirkpatrick — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:24:54 +0000

This interests me as well. With more of our pedagogical efforts in recent years tending toward finding ways to increase personal connections even in larger classes, yet with intense pressure to enter the fray, I’d enjoy the chance to discuss possible ways forward.

Comment on That’s Not My Department: Multidisciplinary Conversations at MLA by Trip Kirkpatrick

Trip Kirkpatrick — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 03:05:30 +0000

This sounds like a session I can really get behind.

Comment on The path forward for usable systems for productive academics by guzzettg

guzzettg — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:41:30 +0000

Academic writing, and writing in general, is changing, not only because of the use of digital means, but substantially because of it. Is not only about connections, I think, although connecting ideas and people is part of it. Is the writing process itself that is changing. Think for instance about Jim Brown's course who seeks to "encourage students to view writing as something more than words on the page (or even words on the screen)" and to make students "study the similarities and differences between the composition of computer programs and the composition of text". Future -if not present already - writing, even academic, in my opinion, will not be just writing, will be a mixture of writing and coding. In some sense is going to be "constantly moving" and at risk of being volatile, if we don't find alternatives to the current way of doing it. In my proposal I was trying to combine together the need to code with the need to write (which is still very important in academia, of course). I think this is an issue that need to be addressed, and I am not sure that your approach is taking it into account. I am not saying this because I want to publicize my proposal over yours. In fact, I think we should combine them. It could be a very interesting discussion.

Comment on The Humanist’s Operating System by The path forward for usable systems for productive academics | THATCamp MLA Boston 2013

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:53:19 +0000

[…] in a spatial way, though the system as envisioned was never completed. Giorgio Guzzetta’s proposal for this year’s THATCamp MLA talked of a scholarly operating system, citing the various tools and programs that would allow […]

Comment on Domain of One’s Own/Scaling Up by Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:25:52 +0000

These questions of scale, effectiveness, and flexibility are very much of the moment in my neck of the woods, with edX offering more questions than answers. This would be a welcome conversation!

Comment on Capturing Tweets and Twitter Networks at MLA 2013 by PhDeviate

PhDeviate — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:02:41 +0000

I love this idea! Count me in, if I can!

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Anne Flannery

Anne Flannery — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:00:01 +0000

An Omeka Workshop with a little help regarding how Scripto works would be great! Or a Scripto workshop that would give tips on how to use it as plug in for Omeka and WordPress, as well as its connection to wikimedia, would also be enormously helpful!

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by Candy Schwartz

Candy Schwartz — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:03:36 +0000

I was thinking along more elementary lines for a workshop – as in, how do you work with something like QGIS.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Karen Bourrier

Karen Bourrier — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:31:35 +0000

I’m also stuck on how Scripto works with wikimedia and could use some help. I prefer to work with Omeka and Scripto but just a plain Scripto workshop sounds great!

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by nermolaev99

nermolaev99 — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:19:50 +0000

I’m just initiating a project using Scripto on a WordPress site & am getting a little confused about how the program works with MediaWiki – which is the same whether one uses Omeka, WordPress or Drupal. I agree with Patrick above that its probably best to treat Omeka and Scripto/transcription separately. I’d be more interested in the latter.

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by jasonecohen

jasonecohen — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:37:59 +0000

If this is going to get off the ground, we should specify what we mean by GIS in particular. I’ve begun to work with the open-source platform QGIS (www.qgis.org/), but I’m also finding that Google Earth and GMap serve many of the functions we need as humanists. I’d be happy to join this conversation, for sure, particularly if it means moving in the direction of historical cartography and geo-referencing / geo-rectifying the layers of time and space in a flexible platform.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by jasonecohen

jasonecohen — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:24:09 +0000

Another reply to this thread — while I’m fairly new to Omeka in general, I’m planning on using it as the basis for a Spring course project, so this timing is excellent. I have been wondering about how transcription and tagging might be used in a way complementary with geo-locational applications. Essentially, my question is not only about transcription, but about moving between archive and map in useful ways. Perhaps these approaches are too different, or too irreconcilable, but I’m interested to think across those two modalities.

Comment on Analog Hackerspace! by PhDeviate

PhDeviate — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:44:37 +0000

Hi folks, (esp JLP!)

If I’m going to make this happen (and I’m getting pretty excited about it) I’m going to need some help! Is there anyone among the current campers interested in helping staff the Analog hackerspace?

Comment on Analog Hackerspace! by jlp

jlp — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:00:29 +0000

COOL, and thank you for the heads up! I need time to scout material.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Amanda French

Amanda French — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:33:07 +0000

Even I didn’t know that Scripto worked with Drupal and WordPress. You learn something new every day. I’d be interested in playing with WP version.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Patrick Murray-John

Patrick Murray-John — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:54:17 +0000

Keep in mind that Scripto isn’t necessarily an Omeka thing — there are Scripto plugins for Omeka, Drupal, and WordPress.

So, it might be worth thinking about whether we’re talking about an Omeka workshop/session, or a transcription/Scripto session, or separate ones for both.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by karen.bourrier

karen.bourrier — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:40:45 +0000

this sounds fabulous to me as well! I’m currently working on an Omeka based project, and thinking of using Omeka and Scripto to do transcriptions of a collection of 19th C letters that I am working on. I’d be curious to discuss how people have gone about getting permission to digitize and crowd source transcriptions from the libraries involved, which seems like a potential minefield.

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Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Christopher Ohge

Christopher Ohge — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:12:33 +0000

I would also like an Omeka workshop.

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by Toma Tasovac

Toma Tasovac — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:46:26 +0000

I would also be very interested in a Scripto/collaborative transcription workshop!

Comment on Omeka and Scripto Workshop by nermolaev99

nermolaev99 — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:00:31 +0000

I second the call for a Scripto workshop! or any tools for collaborative transcription, editing, and translation.

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by flannerya

flannerya — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:15:35 +0000

I would definitely go to a workshop on GIS!

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by Ryan Cordell

Ryan Cordell — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:28:30 +0000

We can probably make that happen. Lots of GIS expertise here at Northeastern we can draw on. Thanks for the suggestion!

Comment on About THATCamp MLA by Giorgio Guzzetta

Giorgio Guzzetta — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:26:18 +0000

Reading, in the traditional sense, is dealing with something (a meaning?) hidden and condensed in lines of characters written on a page. This can be unlocked by the imagination of the reader in a kind of “telepathy” (Sartre) or “allucination”(Kittler). What is changed with computer? Can digital tools read? or at least help in unlocking that kind of experience? These are some of the question I am intrigued by and I would like to discuss at thatcamp.
Speaking of reading I am also asking myself what will happen with digital tools in cultures where reading was much less important, or non-existent at all, such as African societies. What kind of use they will make of the digital?

Comment on GIS workshop at THATCamp MLA? by michael_millner

michael_millner — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:25:39 +0000

Yes, I would too.

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Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:01:46 +0000

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Comment on THATCamp MLA / New England? by Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:32:36 +0000

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages . . .