Comments for THATCamp AHA 2014

Comment on Dork Shorts URLs by Digital History Resources from AHA 2014 | Tamar Ron Marvin

Digital History Resources from AHA 2014 | Tamar Ron Marvin — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 03:01:40 +0000

[…] of the resources shared at the AHA unconference are available on its website. See especially the Dork Shorts URLs post (if you’re wondering what Dork Shorts are, they’re lightening talks; see […]

Comment on (Talk, Resource-Making) Are you Annotating or Comparing Digital Images in a CMS? by Sheila Brennan

Sheila Brennan — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:59:51 +0000

Taking notes in this Google Doc,docs.google.com/document/d/1aIu33NnYuev07-ZRbJuTeoHMBugzqynB6C9OewVu2as/edit?usp=sharing

Comment on Notecards for the New Century: Best Practices for Personal Databases by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:41:41 +0000

(Posting on my proposal and this one in the hopes that it gets seen): Apparently, AHA takes a lot out of you. We’re both feeling blergh and are going to try to make it in for the pm session. I’m so sorry and I hope you guys have a good discussion (and that I’m still allowed to sign up for a future THATcamp). I blogged a little bit about what I’m doing last night here: www.rebeccaerbelding.com/index.php/blog/creating-a-digital-repository-one-historians-story/
And Ron copied up his “best practices” for creating a digital repository here:
docs.google.com/document/d/11Kl-F-FD10Awvk35EqgTxLFQQ6JasPrqJg3qdW6LyrA/edit

Any feedback would be great and questions too, either here or on another channel.

Comment on Proposal: Creating a Personal Digital Archive from Start to Finish by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:39:39 +0000

Apparently, AHA takes a lot out of you. We’re both feeling blergh and are going to try to make it in for the pm session. I’m so sorry and I hope you guys have a good discussion (and that I’m still allowed to sign up for a future THATcamp). I blogged a little bit about what I’m doing last night here: www.rebeccaerbelding.com/index.php/blog/creating-a-digital-repository-one-historians-story/
And Ron copied up his “best practices” for creating a digital repository here:
docs.google.com/document/d/11Kl-F-FD10Awvk35EqgTxLFQQ6JasPrqJg3qdW6LyrA/edit

Any feedback would be great and questions to, either here or on another channel.

Comment on Proposal: Creating a Personal Digital Archive from Start to Finish by Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:48:19 +0000

I’d be in favor of folding my session proposal (“Notecards for the New Century”) into Ron’s. I’d love to hear from the experts, and I think we’d have better conversations after a tangible, how-to session anyway.

Comment on (Talk) Data visualizations: What works and what doesn’t? by footnotesrising

footnotesrising — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:07:36 +0000

I’m definitely interested in this, and also the other side of the problem: Does the way you construct your data set affect the kind of visualization you can produce?

I first proposed a session for THATCamp Virginia in late 2010 related to this: virginia2010.thatcamp.org/author/footnotesrising/ — and then revised it slightly for THATCamp AHA in 2012: aha2012.thatcamp.org/author/footnotesrising/. I’m only very slowly getting closer to puzzling through my own ideas about how to work with my own data, so these are still active questions for me.

Susan

Comment on Git / GitHub ? by footnotesrising

footnotesrising — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:55:34 +0000

Thanks to Patrick for posting this. I was inspired by tweets coming out of a Thursday AHA session titled “The Digitally Informed Dissertation: New Questions, New Kinds of Research” (aha.confex.com/aha/2014/webprogram/Session10699.html), but haven’t yet explored Git or Github myself. That’s largely because I haven’t been involved in a large coding project that uses its versioning or sharing/repository capabilities in a more “traditional” way.

So the discussion would start with questions like what is Git, what is Github, what is versioning and forking, how do they work with Git/Github and how might historians use them? I have some ideas on the versioning aspect. Also, we could talk about it as a repository, in comparison to other types of systems–again, I have no expertise on this question.

Chad Black, who won’t be at THATCamp, has been using Github with his history classes. He shared a couple of links:

“getting started with github and prose.io”
parezcoydigo.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/getting-started-with-github-and-prose-io/

“using bitbucket for a research repository”
parezcoydigo.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/using-bitbucket-for-a-research-repository/

Lincoln Mullen tweeted to say he’d also be interested in talking about this on Sunday.

Thanks!

Susan

Comment on Notecards for the New Century: Best Practices for Personal Databases by footnotesrising

footnotesrising — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:35:07 +0000

I’m interested in discussing this (and also just to note that it could well be combined with Ron Coleman’s proposal).

Comment on Proposal: Creating a Personal Digital Archive from Start to Finish by footnotesrising

footnotesrising — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 17:33:16 +0000

Thanks, I’d be interested in attending this. I’m interested in Jordan’s proposal as well.

Susan

Comment on (Quasi-Make) Proposal: Check Me Out: Digital History Evaluations by JMcClurken

JMcClurken — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:49:35 +0000

Oddly enough, I logged on this morning prepared to suggest my own version of this session (though I doubt it would have been as well thought out as Jennifer’s proposal). One of the issues we run in to in evaluating digital scholarship is that it comes in so many forms and I would argue the reviewer needs to understand at least the broad outlines of those forms to evaluate the project on its merits.

So, yes, this is definitely a conversation we need to have. Even better if we can emerge from the session with with an “evaluative framework” (or two or three) for historians.

[Full disclosure: I have a vested interest in this conversation since I’m the contributing editor for Digital History Reviews at the JAH.]