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

Patrick Murray-John, Research Assistant Professor at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, has agreed to offer an Omeka workshop at THATCamp AHA2014. Thanks, Patrick!

Omeka is a simple system used by scholarly archives, libraries, and museums all over the world to manage and describe digital images, audio files, videos, and texts; to put such digital objects online in a searchable database; and to create attractive web exhibits from them. In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll create your own digital archive of images, audio, video, and texts that meets scholarly metadata standards and creates a search engine-optimized website. We’ll go over the difference between the hosted version of Omeka and the open source server-side version of Omeka (we’ll work from the server version), and we’ll learn about the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects. We’ll also look at some examples of pedagogical use of Omeka in humanities courses and talk about assigning students to create digital archives in individual or group projects.

Lincoln Mullen, a Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis University, has agreed to repeat the hands-on workshop on using statistical programs to analyze data sets relevant to humanities scholars that he offered at THATCamp AAR in November 2013. Mullen has also agreed to hold a kind of THATCamp office hours after his workshop, where he’s agreed to work one on one with interested campers. Thanks, Lincoln!

Humanities scholars now have access to a range of data sets and techniques for analyzing them that were previously regarded as the province of scholars in other disciplines. In this workshop, we’ll try our hands at a couple forms of analysis, using data sets of interest to scholars of religion. We will make maps from the missions of the Paulist Fathers and do some quantitative analysis of religious demographic data. By bringing these common kinds of data analysis together, we will learn the basic practices and theories which underlie all of them. Of course we will have occasion to discuss what data analysis means from a humanistic perspective. During this workshop we will get hands-on with the statistical programming language R. While there are many tools to make maps, mine texts, and analyze numbers, R is especially powerful because it can perform all of these types of analysis. R is a favorite tool of academics, Google, and the New York Times, so it has strong support. You are encouraged to install R (the programming language itself) and the desktop version of R Studio (a tool to help you use R) in advance. Self-starters can watch some of Google’s video introductions to R to acquire the basics. While you will benefit from learning some of the theory behind the analysis even without using R, there is no substitute for performing the analysis yourself, and you’ll pick up the basics of a powerful digital humanities tool.

THATCamp AHA will be held at the Omni Shoreham, 2500 Calvert Street NW (at Connecticut Ave.), Washington, District of Columbia 20008.

We will convene in the Executive Room at 9 a.m. on Sunday, January 5, for the scheduling session.

Thanks to Jen Serventi for asking and to Seth Denbo and Kalani Craig for verifying.

It's time to start proposing sessions for THATCamp AHA 2014!

As an unconference, THATCamp relies on participants to propose sessions, lead them, and make the whole event a productive and enjoyable experience for everyone.  When you register, you write a short blurb about why you are interested in attending.  The next step, now that our THATCamp is just over three weeks away (eep!), is to consider turning that blurb into a session proposal.  (I'm thinking that a rant about why Mac wants to turn my eep! into an eel might not be the best of all possible sessions…. But maybe for the lightning round….)

For how-to info, see the "Propose" and "THATCamp 101" tabs above. Note that WordPress allows you to give your post both categories and tags.  In typical THATCamp fashion, categories include "Your Categories Are Inadequate."  Extra swag for the tag that best represents this particular element of the THATCamp ethos!

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!