How can new spatial mapping and mobile-device technologies be utilized to expose the history of race and place to the general public? I’d like to propose a discussion about the complex connection between technology and the representation of racialized spaces. Historical markers for significant sites associated with slavery populate the South but few acknowledge the […]
Continue readingPamela Mack, Clemson History I propose a session on finding and using aerial photographs (back to the 1930s) and satellite images (back to the 1970s) for GIS. I can share a little of the history of aerial and satellite photography and show some of the places where they can be reliably found. But […]
Continue readingWhat Does the Library Need to Do to Support DH Projects? By Camille Cooper When faculty and graduate students conceive of a DH project, do they think about their library’s resources, both material and human, as sources to consult? If not, why not? I’d like to talk about ways to determine what needs are out there […]
Continue readingCopyright restrictions can be significant barriers to digital humanities projects. I would like to chat about the current scholarly communication system, and ways that we can reduce these restrictions while making our research openly available via the web. By working together to ensure that our current scholarship remains accessible and repurpose-able, we can greatly expand […]
Continue readingThe lead programmer for Neatline Texts, David McClure, will be demonstrating the new version of Neatline, a platform for humanistic argument with digital images and maps. You can see the announcement for the platform here, and one demonstration of its use for manuscripts here.
Continue readingIn a time of information saturation, students and faculty have no trouble finding information…but it is the RIGHT/BEST information? How do they go about getting help from their friendly librarians? Do they know that librarians are out there? I propose a session to talk about ways that librarians can help create just in time research […]
Continue readingFor the Upstate THATcamp, I am interested in how digital tools might help us represent the benefits and consequences of close or slow or attentive reading, maybe using W. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 as an example. I have ideas on what I would like to have happen to the poem in the process, and nearly no […]
Continue readingTHATCamp Upstate is coming to Clemson on April 18th in the Academic Success Center! Michael Poston, editor and encoding architect of the Folger Digital Texts, will give a central presentation, and we’ll have other skills workshops in addition to participant-generated sessions. More details will be published here. Meanwhile, read more about the THATCamp movement, how […]
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