Ashley Young, Duke University: Digital Tools Bootcamp

Cameron Blevins, Stanford University: Geography of the Past credits his colleague @jaheppler

Irene Meisel, CUNY Grad Center: online historical role-play with a Drupal site

Jeff Mummert, K-12 and ; gaming and education, Submrge.org

Joan Fragaszy Troyano, RR-CHNM: DHNow, Journal of Digital Humanities, Global Perspectives on Digital History

Lincoln Mullen, Brandeis University: The American Converts Database

NEH, represented by Jen Serventi and David Weinstein: Digital projects are supported by all divisions and by state and territorial humanities councils. Individual fellowships can support digital projects. Attend institutes. Talk to Program Officers.

Omeka, represented by Patrick Murray-John: Omeka 3.0 moves beyond the printed page in Exhibit Builder.

Robin Butterhof, Library of Congress: Chronicling America

Shane Landrum, Florida International University: Crowdsourced transcription for U.S.
women’s history using Children’s Bureau letters.

Sheila Brennan, RR-CHNM: Histories of the National Mall

I’m realizing it’s been three days of AHA and I haven’t heard a thing about 3D printing or hardware hacking or making or the physical side of the digital turn. Wanna talk about this and the implications for historical research or pedagogy?

See, for example, this poster on “Kits for Cultural History” from the U. Victoria Maker Lab in the Humanities: maker.uvic.ca/kitsposter/ or some of the related blog posts at maker.uvic.ca/fab/.

Susan

If others are interested, I'd like to brainstorm some ways that historians who teach at the college or grad level might be interested in collaborating with GLAMS–that is, galleries, libraries, archives and museums–in specifically new-media, social-media, tech-enabled, digital ways as part of their courses.  I'm picturing anything from video conferences or web chats with curators to course projects that build upon or enhance knowledge about an institution's already-digitized materials. The Internet allows for easy collaboration across distances and institutions, but its vastness can also make it hard to identify the colleagues, venues or topics around which to strike up those collaborations.  How can GLAMS not already located on campuses best offer "remote" programs or services through or to instructors that will involve higher-ed students in actively using their collections?

In my new role (both for me and for the organization) at the AHA I am tasked with thinking about how the AHA can use the digital environment to better serve our members, the discipline of history, and the historical profession. This is a process that involves creating resources, building services, and leveraging the great work being done in the digital realm across the discipline and on the open web. This should be an exchange between the association and its members (among others) and involve an ongoing dialogue.

I would like to hear from campers what they want from their learned society in the digital realm. How can we utilize the digital environment to better serve the historical profession in the ways they interact with the association, each other, their students, other scholars and the wider world?

Hi all! If you are planning to play Omeka at my workshop, here’s a little more info and optional prep work.

We’ll be working from the most current version of Omeka, so if you haven’t looked at Omeka for a while, of if you’ve only looked at omeka.net, there will be some major changes that you might be interested in.

And, in the same spirit of being cutting-edge, we’ll even look at the soon-to-be-released ExhibitBuilder 3.0 plugin, which is also a major overhaul.

We’ll work in this demo site, and you can register for an account here. I’ll give everyone admin privileges (play nice!), so if you have some images or documents or any other files you want to use during the hands-on time, please bring them along on your laptop.

Thanks! It’ll be a fun time!

This isn’t a proposal (I will have one nearer the date), but I just wanted to give THATCamp participants a heads up about some of the other digital activities at the AHA annual meeting.

If you’re coming to THATCamp and are interested in digital history (which seems likely), you will also want to check out all of the other exciting events, activities and panels related to digital engagement that are happening at the meeting. I’ve written an article that describes a few of the highlights and also has a list of most of the sessions that have a digital focus. There are panels on all manner of digital history including teaching with digital tools and methods, using digital materials as primary sources, the future of historical research in a digital age, and many more.

For the first time this year, we’re hosting a reception for history bloggers and tweeters, so if you’ve ever blogged about history, sent a tweet, or even if you’re curious and interested in talking to people about it over a drink, please come along to the Governor’s Room at the Omni Shoreham on Thursday January 2nd from 5:30-7:00PM.

We’ve also recently had a few cancellations for the Getting Started in Digital History workshop. If you’re new to digital history, and want to participate in a more structured introduction to the tools, techniques and methodologies then reserve your spot now.

So if you haven’t already, consider registering for the annual meeting and taking part in all of the exciting things we have planned.

Before you make your travel plans for the AHA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, be sure to register for THATCampAHA 2014.

This year's THATCamp will be held on the final day of the meeting rather than before it as in the past. We have room for about 50-100 campers.

So plan to extend your New Year celebration by staying for THATCamp AHA on Sunday, January 5, 2014.

Complete the registration form under the Register tab above, and get ready for history, technology, and fun.

THATCampAHA 2014 will be held on Sunday, January 5, 2014.

We have space, a (minimalist) website, and a fabulous community of practice who are looking forward to the third iteration of THATCamp AHA.

Registration opens soon!