Comments for THATCamp Society of Early Americanists 2013

Comment on Session on database design & where else to go by Joanne van der Woude

Joanne van der Woude — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:25:02 +0000

I would love to see a session on open source databases. I’m thinking about building one on unpublished New World poetry, so manuscripts, but also Spanish stuff that may not be available in English (and hence unteachable for the most of us). I’m looking forward to Amanda French’s session on OMEKA, to see if that would meet my needs. I would hopefully be working with several researchers on this database, and allow posting from different parts of the world (obviously). Thanks!

Comment on TEAMS: Transcribing Early American Manuscript Sermons by jbdibbell

jbdibbell — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:47:04 +0000

Goodness this sounds wonderfully complex and awesome. I’d love to talk through details and methods!

Comment on Possible topic–social annotation by tharvey2

tharvey2 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:34:41 +0000

I’m also interested in collaboration, both for pedagogical and scholarly reasons. Pedagogically I’m finding myself wrestling more with how to get students formulating meaningful research questions when they need to get up to speed on a lot of unfamiliar content as well as what literary research, especially in earlier periods, involves. I’ve done this some with collaborative wiki posts, but I’m not satisfied with this approach. As for scholarship, I would find it useful to have collaborative spaces for enabling broadly comparative approaches to women in the Americas. In the past I suggested an Omeka archive that would allow students to curate mini exhibits on early American women, but the follow through wasn’t there (mea culpa). I would also find a curated overview of archives with online materials treating this period from around the world useful.

Comment on teaching basic tech skills quickly, to get to the good stuff by phillipc

phillipc — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:27:53 +0000

Joy, it strikes me that online tutorials for students (PDFs, videos, etc.) might help get them up to speed without sucking up class time. I’ve just started experimenting with using PDFs including screen shots to help students catch on to some features of WordPress—as in last week. Hoping to hear from others about more developed ideas, too.

Comment on TEAMS: Transcribing Early American Manuscript Sermons by phillipc

phillipc — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:25:06 +0000

Zach, this sounds like a fascinating and very important project, the kind that can do for early American religion studies what The Walt Whitman Archive has done for Whitman studies. My guess is that you could get a good number of people on board to pitch in with the editing (myself included). So glad we’re going to be talking about this at SEATC!

Comment on museum-site visitor feedback by Granville Ganter

Granville Ganter — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 11:28:11 +0000

Yes, Zach, you’re right–I proposed small but am thinking big. The problem of a user-driven “dynamic” research site that can organize information conceptually, rather than simply a list of blog comments, is what I’m thinking about.
G.

Comment on museum-site visitor feedback by zach_hutchins

zach_hutchins — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:32:39 +0000

Granville,

I really like this idea. One question: If you’re interested in facilitating a larger scholarly discussion on oral culture in the 19th century, why limit such a site to one lecturer? You’ve got to start somewhere, of course, but it seems that you might draw broader interest in the project if you were to broaden the project’s focus. I personally have had thoughts about putting another 19th century lecturer’s materials online . . .

Comment on Register by Granville Ganter

Granville Ganter — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:38:07 +0000

I am interested in learning about OMEKA for the digital publication of early manuscripts—a kind of learning venue. I registered for the SEA Savannah conference already but I just noticed the THATCAMP workshop would be held there.
best,
G. Ganter

Comment on Register by Wednesday, February 28: THATCamp | Society of Early Americanists

Wednesday, February 28: THATCamp | Society of Early Americanists — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:53:08 +0000

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