We will be discussing this year’s THATCamp Philly at this meeting, the evaluation responses to our survey about the event, and if time the future of THATCamp Philly. There is personal information in some of the survey responses so I am not comfortable sharing them as is open with the group, but may make a version with that information stripped out available to this list. We will discuss this tomorrow as well.
Announcements about these working meetings will be posted to this google group but I suggest if you have a meetup.com account that you join the meetup as well:
]]>This half-day event will include workshops on using collections to teach undergraduates and high school students, plus six case studies and ample time for a wide-ranging discussion.
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 12:30pm – 5:00pm (but possibly 6:00pm if we end up adding wine & cheese)
Location: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, located on the sixth floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Free Registration Here »
Open to individuals from all institutions and with all levels of experience.
PACSCL brings you a one-afternoon event that combines presentations on practical practices for K-12 and college/grad students, lightning-round case studies, and attendee-driven conversations. We bring together a whole variety of people teaching and managing student programs and projects using archives, rare books, museum collections, and other special collections materials.
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
12:30pm Arrival and Check-In
12:50pm Welcome and Introduction
1:00-1:45 Beth Twiss Houting, Senior Director of Programs and Services at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania will share ideas for how to teach with documents with the K12 audience. She will review characteristics of the audience and then present examples of programs that have worked to excite students about the past and build their research and critical thinking skills. A model for working with National History Day students will be included.
1:45-2:30 This presentation will explore the various approaches that can be taken when using special collections with undergraduates and graduate students. It will also examine ways to integrate the history of material texts into these encounters. Session lead by Lynne Farrington (Curator of Printed Books) and John Pollack (Library Specialist, Public Services), University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-4:00 Six Case Studies that will drive initial discussions
Rachel Buurma (Swarthmore) & Jon Shaw (Penn Libraries) – description forthcoming
Sarah M. Horowitz, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Head of Special Collections, Haverford College. My case study will focus on assessment of student learning in the Special Collections classroom at both Haverford and Augustana College (Illinois).
Melissa Mandell, Program Manager for Education and Interpretation, Legacy Center Archives, Drexel College of Medicine. Case study: Developing a website (Doctor or Doctress?) to connect high school students and teachers with primary sources. When students “do history” by coming up with evidence-based interpretations of history, what can a website provide that a classroom setting can’t? What gets missed doing it this way?
JC Cloutier & Holly Mengel – Case study: A semester-long University of Pennsylvania English course designed to de-mystify the archives for future researchers. Students researched both processed and unprocessed papers created by literary figures and were exposed to the hands-on work of an archivist, with a focus on deciding how collections should be assessed, arranged, and described.
Adrienne Whaley, Curator of Education & Public Programming, African American Museum in Philadelphia. Case study: Using objects from our Trailblazers to Freedom Traveling Trunks, which are traveling extensions of our core exhibit, Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776 – 1876, I will talk about how we imagined K-12 teachers would use them in the classroom and some of the ways they have actually been used, both in classroom and in the museum itself.
Jessica Baumert, Executive Director, The Woodlands Cemetery. Case study: A yearly project where 11th graders at Philadelphia School District’s Masterman School do authentic historical research on individuals buried at this historic cemetery.
4:00-5:00 Discussion on topics driven by attendees. This will function like a mini unconference.
Discussion Room #1 (Room xxx) – Topic to be determined day-of
Discussion Room #2 (Room yyy) – Topic to be determined day-of
Discussion Room #3 (Room zzz) – Topic to be determined day-of
Discussion Room #4 (Room &&&) – Topic to be determined day-of
5:00pm Wine and cheese (possibly…tune in…)
6:00pm End
]]>Title: Introduction to Text Mining
Learn the why and the how of text mining, its methodology, cautionary tales, and preferred tools. Presented by Mitch Fraas, Penn Libraries, Kislak Center and Digital Humanities Forum, Molly Des Jardins, Penn Libraries Area Studies Specialist for Japanese Studies, Dot Porter, Penn Libraries, Kislak Center Curator for Digital Servies.
12:00pm – 1:00pm, Wednesday, October 8, 2014,Kislak Center Seminar Room 625, 6th Floor. Van Pelt-Dietrich
Register: http://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event.php?id=794247
Title: Make the Most of your Visit to the Archives
Professor J.C. Cloutier, English and History Ph.D. Candidate Emily Merrill provide insight, both practical and philosophical on making the most of the often limited, and therefore precious, time available for conducting research in archives. Join us to prepare a tool kit for your backpack and for your mind.
12:00pm – 1:00pm, Thursday, October 30, 2014, Kislak Center Seminar Room 625, 6th Floor. Van Pelt-Dietrich
Register: http://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event.php?id=794373
Title: Sharing Research Through Social Media: Scholarly Commons, Academia.edu, and more
There are expanding opportunities for sharing your scholarly work with a global community from the Penn Libraries’ Scholarly Commons, to social media sites for academics including Academia.edu, ResearchGATE and more. Benefits and complications. 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Kislak Center Seminar Room 625, 6th Floor. Van Pelt-Dietrich.
Register: http://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event.php?id=794251
This year’s headlining events include a chance to view historic lantern slides, an exclusive look at the stories of Philadelphia’s World War I dead, a revealing talk on the famed Wanamaker Organ, and a fun evening of “Philly History Quizzo.” The full lineup of events features programming at more than 15 regional institutions, including the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Union League, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science.
Part of American Archives Month, Archives Month Philly is an opportunity for archives and archivists to celebrate the value of historical records with a dynamic program of events at many of the Delaware Valley’s most notable repositories.
Archives Month Philly officially starts 5:30 pm October 2 with a talk on Philadelphia LGBT history co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia. Then, join us on Oct. 8, when the Wagner Free Institute of Science (1700 W. Montgomery Ave.) hosts the second annual Philadelphia Lantern Slide Salon in its Victorian-era lecture hall at 6 p.m. The salon will use a historic lantern projector to showcase 19th- and 20th-century glass lantern slides from the collections of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Barbara Bates Center for the History of Nursing, the Historical Society of Frankford, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Also notable this year, with the centennial of the start of World War I, is a presentation on a new online database of the over 2,500 military personnel from Philadelphia who lost their lives in the war. The database, created by volunteers from the academic and genealogical communities, and the stories it has uncovered will be showcased at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1300 Locust St.) on Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. (Registration is required to attend.)
Events continue throughout October with behind-the-scenes tours, ongoing exhibitions, presentations, a sauerkraut-making workshop, and even a historical-hair-themed social evening dubbed “’Staches and Spirits.” For more information, including a full schedule and event descriptions, visit archivesmonthphilly.com, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
See you around at Archives Month Philly!
]]>First in a series of talks on 3D printing.
3D Printing and Making
Friday, September 26
3:30 – 4:30, Science & Engineering Library (SEL)
Technologies that allow at-home, in-lab or in-classroom fabrication have been rapidly increasing in quality and decreasing in price making them more accessible. As a result, 3D printers, 3D scanners and other making technologies are now becoming available on university campuses. This presentation will provide an overview of how these technologies are currently being incorporated into scholarly research and pedagogical methods.
Presenter: Matt Shoemaker, Digital and Web Services Librarian,
Temple University Libraries
Light refreshments will be served
Location: SEL is on the 2nd floor of the Engineering Bldg,12th & Norris Sts.
RSVP requested, but not required.
* Setting up a Wikipedia account
* How to add materials to Wikimedia Commons
* How to edit a Wikipedia entry
The first meeting of the Wikipedia interest group will be on Friday, September 26th, from 11:30 to 1:30. Light snacks and drinks will be provided, and attendees are welcome to bring lunch. Bring a laptop, if you have one; a small number of laptops will be available in the lab. Vitale II is located on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, room 623.
Please share this announcement with your colleagues and students. Questions? Contact Dot Porter, at do…@upenn.edu
Friday, September 19 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Old City, Philadelphia
THATCamp, The Humanities And Technology Camp, is a free, open, interdisciplinary “unconference” where humanists and technologists meet to work together for the common good.
The theme for this year’s event is “DH on a Dime” and will focus on low-cost and creative approaches to Digital Humanities work.
The one-day forum will feature both scheduled workshops and unconference sessions, dine arounds, swag, refreshments and good cheer!
Workshops will include: “GIS” by Sarah Cordivano of Azavea and GeoPhilly — “Reusing Existing Platforms and Projects” by Stacey Mann of Night Kitchen Interactive — “Finding Data” by Nabil Kashyap of Swarthmore College — “Humanities Outreach Integrating Livestreamed Video and Social Media” by Jeff Guin of Chemical Heritage Foundation — “Video Production and Publishing Strategies for Small Institutions on a Budget” by Nicole Scalessa of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Our late afternoon reception will take place at the nearby historic “Physick House” and will be sponsored by the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Who should come?
Technologists, Humanists, Librarians, Archivists, Museum Professionals, Academics, GIS Practitioners, Archaeologists, Undergraduates, Graduate Students, AV Geeks, Tourism Promoters, Public Historians, English Literature Types, Gallery Owners, Artists, Wikipedians, Visual Studies Folks, Journalists, Cultural Organization Workers, Material Culture Enthusiasts, Bloggers, Coders, Life-Long Learners. In short: YOU!
Registration is now open at the THATCamp Philly website:
http://2014.thatcampphilly.
You can keep in touch and keep up on developments by following THATCamp Philly on Twitter @THATCampPhilly and by joining the PhillyDH Google Group at phillydigitalhumanities@
As Matt Shoemaker notes: This will likely be the most crucial meeting for THATCamp Philly planning. There is only one more meeting after this one before THATCamp and it is the week prior to the event, too close to make sure most tasks have enough time to be completed. All interested in helping with planning should make sure to attend.
]]>THATCamp Philly 2014 will be on Friday, September 19 at the Conference Center at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. This year will be a one-day event, with both workshops and unconference sessions throughout the day. More info to follow
For now, you can link to the THATCamp Philly 2014 website HERE.
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