Upcoming Event: Four-Part Digital Humanities Project Design Seminar at Temple University
Digital Humanities Project Design Seminar
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Beginning in mid-July over a period of 2 months, we will be running a 4-part seminar on Digital Humanities Project Design. This seminar will be run as a PhillyDH/Temple University event. The goal is to take participants from the conception of their project to a final 3-to-5 page project plan or proposal that they can utilize to begin their project or move to the next stages of soliciting assistance or trying to raise funds. We will lead participants through the project design process with portions of each session devoted to brief lectures, hands-on exercises and group discussions where the participants will be sharing their developing project plans.
There will be homework to complete from one session to the next, where we will ask you to work on specific sections of your project plan or refine your overall document.
Space is limited, with a max capacity of 12 attendees. So we ask that you register only if you:
* Know that you can make it to most sessions (the first one being mandatory)
* Know that you will be able to do the homework (which will be due via electronic submission on the Sunday prior to the following session, so we can provide you with personalized feedback.)
* Have a project in mind (it does not need to be a project that you will be able to implement in reality, but you should be able to think of it in enough details to use it as your proposal material.)
The workshops will be held from 6 – 7:30pm at the Paley Library on Temple main campus:
* Session 1 — Thursday, July 10
* Session 2 — Thursday, July 31
* Session 3 — Monday, Aug. 25
* Session 4 — Thursday, Sep. 4
Note that Temple is only a 10 minute ride away from Center City on the Broad Street line, or a brief walk from the Temple University regional rail train station. Please see this link for more information on directions.
To register for this seminar please add your name and contact information to this signup sheet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gRUcA_lHfgkMkstjEeZEG74JkaMslO9KOfRSM_WCbK4/edit?usp=sharing
Upcoming Event: Public History Boot Camp about Pinterest, Rutgers-Camden, June 30
Public History Boot Camp: Pinterest for History Organizations
Pinterest has 25 million users and is the fastest growing social media platform. It drives more traffic to websites than Twitter and Reddit, second only to Facebook.
But how can your history organization use Pinterest?
In this workshop, Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College, will guide attendees into the world of Pinterest. You’ll learn the basics–from pinning content to creating boards, and more advanced topics like geotagging. But more than that, you’ll learn how to connect your local historic site, museum, or historical society to the wider public via Pinterest, the 3rd largest social media platform on the Internet.
You’ll be given hands-on experience loading content into Pinterest as well as tools to think creatively about how to use Pinterest for outreach and education, to engage visitors, and to enhance tours, exhibits, and public programs.
When: June 30, 2014, 10am-12pm
Where: Rutgers University-Camden
Cost: $15 + small service charge
To register, go to our event page.
This program will take place at the Rutgers University-Camden library. The easiest way to get to campus is public transportation via PATCO or the Riverline, which have stops on campus. Click here for directions by car or mass transit.
There is some metered parking just off campus. Parking permits cost $2 and can be obtained directly from the Parking Services.
You can find a campus map here. Note: the workshop will take place in the Paul Robeson Library NOT the Law Library or the Camden County Library.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Rutgers University-Camden Digital Studies Center.
Upcoming Event: GLAM Day Out, June 26
“A GLAM Day Out: Cultural Collaboration through Wikipedia” is a day-long event, Thursday, June 26, 2014, offering information about institutionally and personally working with Wikipedia. See the schedule below and the event web page for more details. People are welcome to attend whatever parts of the day match their interests and time: be sure to join us at the reception to celebrate the first year of our Wikipedian in Residence program at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/A_GLAM_Day_Out
10:00 – 10:45 Guest speaker: Bob Skiba, John J. Wilcox Jr. LGBT Archives, on GLAM/LGBT initiatives in Philadelphia
11:00 – 12:00 Wikipedia How-to Edit Workshop with Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Chemical Heritage Foundation
11:00 or 12:00 Tours of the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s museum
1:00 – 1:45 Guest speaker: Dominic McDevitt-Parks, National Archives Digital Content Specialist and Wikipedian-in-Residence, on content collaboration with Wikipedia
1:45 – 2:30 Guest speaker: Dorothy Howard, Metropolitan New York Library Council Wikipedian-in-Residence on metrics for evaluating institutional involvement with Wikipedia
2:45 – 5:00 Edit-a-thon: Guest archivist Bob Skiba will give a brief introduction to LGBT content sources, to open our “Wiki Loves Pride”-themed edit-a-thon. Bring content on any topics you are interested in to share and edit.
5:00 – 7:00 Reception
Upcoming Event: Launch Event for “Home Before the Leaves Fall: The Great War,” at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, June 26
Join the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and collaborating institutions in the Delaware Valley (American Philosophical Society, Chemical Heritage Foundation, College of Physicians, Library Company of Philadelphia, Swarthmore College, Villanova University) for the launch of “Home Before the Leaves Fall: The Great War,” a digital resource highlighting little-known primary source materials relating to World War I. In commemoration of the war’s centennial, partner organizations will curate and contribute Great War content to the site throughout 2014-2018, starting with the anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 2014.
A launch event for the project will be held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1300 Locust Street) on June 26th, 2014 at 6:00 pm. The event will include physical and digital document displays of WWI materials, and Peter Williams, author of Philadelphia: The World War I Years, will be speaking on life in Philadelphia during the First World War. A reception will follow the discussion. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. For additional information and to register, please visit: http://hsp.org/calendar/home-before-the-leaves-fall-philadelphia-and-the-first-world-war
Upcoming Event: Chris Nighman to speak at Vitale II, Penn, Tuesday, June 3
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at Penn invites you to join them Tuesday, June 3, for a lecture with Chris Nighman, Wilfred Laurier University, director of the Electronic Manipulus florum and the new Compendium moralium notabilium Projects. Lecture will be at 2pm in Van Pelt 623, aka Vitale II.
“Digital florilegia: the Manipulus florum and Compendium moralium notabilium Projects…and beyond”
Dr Nighman says: “Since about 2000 there has been a major surge of scholarly interest in medieval and renaissance collections of Latin quotations, most notably in Spain, Belgium and France. My efforts at providing an Open Access critical edition of the Manipulus florum have participated in and supported this research field; my new project seeks to do the same for a contemporary but very different collection of authoritative quotations compiled by Geremia da Montagnone. This presentation will review both of these projects and explain my future plans to develop digital resources in support of Latin philology and intellectual history.”