General – THATCamp Ghent 2013

Goodbye

Saskia Scheltjens — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:37:52 +0000

This is the end of THATCamp Ghent 2013.

A BIG thank-you to all #tcghent campers for your engagement, interest and participation!

All sessions already have plenty of notes with references, etc… via TitanPad (see schedule). Together with the pictures and the tweetstream they document this memorable first ever Belgian THATCamp.

Enjoy!

Finished Schedule

Saskia Scheltjens — Tue, 28 May 2013 09:44:04 +0000

See the finished schedule.

Go!

Saskia Scheltjens — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:45:32 +0000

THATCamp Ghent has started!

The scheduling session is on the way.

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

Les Harrison — Mon, 27 May 2013 08:38:24 +0000

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 of evolving with the needs of its multiple users and user communities?

Edgar Allan Poe is a good example as his works are widely read by a global audience that includes professors, students, horror & science fiction fans, and general readers alike. How these users work together in constructive ways to produce a more usable and extensible version of the best known web site dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe – The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore?

This Talk session will explore the challenges, rewards, and logistics of global, digital collaboration on the editing of scholarly editions of literary texts.

Integrating education and research

Thomas Crombez — Sun, 26 May 2013 10:10:39 +0000

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) and more free-form methods (collaborative translation). Both, however, have distinct advantages and disadvantages.

My question for THATCamp Ghent is: how can research projects be integrated into conventional Ba and Ma courses? How to set up a digital system so that it enables students to collaborate in ongoing research, but at the same time facilitates student evaluation?

Using digital tools and resources for educational purposes

Els De Paermentier — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:12:40 +0000

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 (Bachelor and Master). By way of introduction, some applications that already serve as a pedagogic tool within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities will be clarified and discussed.

Subsequently both lecturers and instructors, students and other participants will be invited to share their own experiences about the opportunities and limitations they are faced with during their digitally supported teaching and learning process, and to take part in the discussion on the expectations, needs and requirements for the development and management of digitally based educational support in general, and virtual learning environments in particular.

We hope to meet you on Tuesday,
Els and Nina

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

Ulrike Wuttke — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:14:31 +0000

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. Having studied editorial science in the past at FU Berlin, when this technology was still in its beginnings, I was deeply impressed by today’s possibilities of TEI-conformant XML for editing, archiving, and analyzing all kinds of documents. I think this is the future of editing.

In this session I would like to share my impressions on TEI from the workshop in Berlin, show you Oxygen, a program which helps you to program TEI-conformant XML, and show some websites which feature digital editions made with this technology. As I am far from being a specialist in this area, but more like an enthusiastic newcomer, I invite everybody who just wants to get a glimpse of the impressive possibilities. Those who know more and are willing to share their specialist knowledge are very welcome.

Registration

Saskia Scheltjens — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:22:56 +0000

It is still possible to register!

Registration ends May 27, 6:00 pm.

Zotero

Kenan Van De Mieroop — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:39:44 +0000

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, I have been able to organize myself in new ways that were impossible in the days of pen and paper. I save time because its much easier to add new books to my list with a click of the button instead of copying out the reference information like I used to do. I used to have to copy out the library reference number each time I wanted to check out a book but now its saved on my zotero.
But what I especially like about the system is the way it lets me classify references with as many labels as I like. This gives me a lot more flexibility organizing the books I need for different topics and issues. I’ve been working on my PhD for two years now and every organization system I have used has become obsolete as my project and interests develop. I’m hoping that zotero’s flexibility will mean that I can use it for the long term. Hopefully other zotero users will come to the discussion and share some tips on the program or superior ones that I may not know about.

posted by Kenan

Manifesto for the Digital Humanities

Saskia Scheltjens — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:05:51 +0000

Digital Humanities you say?

Digital evolutions are changing the way we do research but do they change science? A lot of debate is going on wither or not digital humanities is a new discipline. Does it need its own defenition, methods, courses and theory? Participants of THATCamp Paris helped the matter somewhat further by calling Digital Humanities a ‘transdiscipline’…

Read the Manifesto for the Digital Humanities in English or French.