Category Archives: Session Proposals

Session Proposal (Talk): Crowd-Sourcing the Scholarly Edition

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Les Harrison

One of the shortcomings of many digital editions is that they replicate the hierarchical relationship between editors/academics and reader/enthusiast. How can a digital edition encourage productive editorial input (transcribing, encoding, tagging) from its users to produce a scholarly edition capable … Continue reading →

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Integrating education and research

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Thomas Crombez

How to integrate the existing formats of education in the humanities (e.g., examinations, assignments) with ongoing research projects? In my teaching of theoretical courses at art colleges in Antwerp, I have experimented with both very strict forms (digital submissions, data collection) … Continue reading →

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The versatility of TEI: some projects

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Katrien Deroo

I would like to propose a THATcamp session where I discuss the versatility and useability  of TEI, by comparing aspects of three TEI-projects I was involved in: the Streuvels letters and the correspondence between Gust Gils and Paul Snoek (both … Continue reading →

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Using digital tools and resources for educational purposes

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Els De Paermentier

If scholarship is constantly changing as a result of new digital tools, resources and methods, why shouldn’t academic education evolve along? This session will concentrate on the usefulness of integrating digital tools and digitised (re)sources in academic trainings and courses … Continue reading →

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Manuscript description and the possibilities of digital editing with TEI-conformant XML

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Ulrike Wuttke

Recently I was lucky to get a bursary to attend a specialist training at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in codicology, the study of manuscript books as material objects, and the use of TEI-conformant XML to record and analyze codicological data. … Continue reading →

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How may the library help you?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Marina Muilwijk

In the past, the role of the library was clear: if you needed a book or access to a database, the library was the place to get it. But what can the library do for the digital humanities? In this … Continue reading →

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Graphic network analysis in the humanities: tools and perspectives

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Christophe Verbruggen

Spatial and graphic technologies including GIS, spatial and graphic network analysis, georeferencing and data visualization in general are increasingly used in the arts and humanities. In this session we will focus upon graphic network analysis (graphic SNA). We will discuss … Continue reading →

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Setting up an open and community based research network

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Berber Bevernage

Together with some colleagues I set up an International Network for Theory of History (INTH) which aims to foster collaboration and the exchange of ideas among historical theorists worldwide. After having talked about it for a long time, we started … Continue reading →

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Zotero

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Kenan Van De Mieroop

I would like to talk about the open source program Zotero which I use to organize my personal bibliography for my PhD research and for the collaborative bibliography for the International Network for the Theory of History. Since discovering Zoterto, … Continue reading →

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A basic toolkit for the digital humanist

Posted on May 17, 2013 by oendhddsq

What are your favourite tools when it comes to scholarly networking and collaboration, pedagogy, data analysis, text mining, data visualization, information management, etc? I will provide a brief summary of basic tools and resources to initiate the discussion.

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