Category Archives: General

Postcolonial DH

Postcolonial DH This conversation will examine the intersection of Postcolonial Studies and Digital Humanities. Based on audience interest, we can take up a number of questions and topics: 1. How do issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity manifest in digital products and sites (eg. social media, digital games, Wikipedia, etc)? 2. How is knowledge […]

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Creating a DH Community Site (DHFL or FLDH) for Florida

At present we have no platform/space, outside of THATCampFL, for sharing ideas and exploring/generating research and teaching collaborations among Florida-based DHers. I’m interested in exploring possibilities for building a DH community site that would address this and perhaps lead to spinoff projects. It could be modeled after NYCDH.org, which was launched last summer, and could […]

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Creating a DH Community Site (FLDH.org) for Florida

At present we have no platform/space, outside of THATCampFL, for sharing ideas and exploring/generating research and teaching collaborations among Florida-based DHers. I’m interested in exploring possibilities for building a DH community site that would address this and perhaps lead to spinoff projects. It could be modeled after , which was launched last summer, and could […]

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Creating an Introduction to Data Course (or, perhaps, Data Translation for Working on Data Science Teams, “Digital Literacy with a Maker Spirit”)

Many places have great introductory data science courses and resources like this course from Columbia, columbiadatascience.com/about-the-class/, a 3 course sequence at UF (each course is 3 credits) on data in Computer Science, and UCLA’s Intro to Digital Humanities (dh101.humanities.ucla.edu).  UCLA’s Intro to Digital Humanities covers “Concepts, Methods, and Tutorials for Students and Instructors.” I’m missing […]

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Mapping the Amazon

I work with students (mostly at UCF) and volunteers, using Google Earth to map pre-Columbian earthworks in the Bolivian Amazon. I am an archaeologist, and I travel to Bolivia for fieldwork, where I work with a community museum called the Museo Yacuma. If we can get together some laptops and some internet access, we could […]

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Drawing Near

We are happy to see the registrations rolling in at an increasing pace. We are also happy to see that some adventurous Campers have begun posting their proposals for sessions for THATCamp Florida 2014. Now it is time for the rest of you to jump in and post your proposals.  You can learn more about […]

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