• Bootcamps

    We’re very happy to announce the following bootcamps at Great Lakes THATCamp 2011.  Registration (via the RSVP form attendees received in their Great Lakes THATCamp 2011 acceptance email) is on a first come, first served basis (space is very limited). There is no tuition for the bootcamps – and there are a handful of fellowships available to defray travel costs for qualified applicants.  Application deadline for a bootcamp fellowship is March 27th (yes, the window to apply for a bootcamp fellowship is very small – we apologize). Applicants should wait until they’ve received their acceptance email before applying for a bootcamp fellowship.  All bootcamps will take place on Friday, April 29th.

    Copyright/Open Access

    The Digital Humanities presents scholars, archivists, and librarians — as both creators and users — with a new set of challenges and opportunities with respect to copyright law. Because of ingrained complexity, uncertainty can and frequently does arise when reusing digital works from from your local library or archive to the Web. This BootCamp will give attendees a primer on copyright law (including important exceptions and limitations) and how it affects the study and use of digital texts. Building on that foundation, we will next explore the purpose of Creative Commons licenses/waivers and how they can be effectively used in Open Access publications. Lastly, an explanation of best practices in Open Access scholarly publishing that incorporates a strong understanding of copyright and related issues will be given.

    Instructors: Greg Grossmeier (University of Michigan), Bobby Glushko (University of Michigan), and Lance Sutchell (The Henry Ford)

    Difficulty Level: Easy

    Prerequisites/What to Bring: Laptop; Examples of digital texts (archival or not) which they want to use in scholarly research

    Time: 1-4pm; Friday, April 29th

    Location: Residential College of Arts & Humanities/Snyder-Philips C202

    Creating Digital Scholarly Editions: An Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

    one‐day workshop during which participants will learn about creating, working with, and publishing digital scholarly editions and other genres of text in print and digital form using XML and, in particular, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. The TEI guidelines provide instructions for creating digital text for use across platforms and with various tools for querying data. They are recommended by the MLA and NEH and are widely used in digital humanities centers and by individual scholars. The workshop will consist of a mix of lectures and hands‐on exercises much like in these past workshops.

    Instructors: Kevin Hawkins (University of Michigan) & Rebecca Welzenbach (University of Michigan)

    Difficulty Level: Medium

    Prerequisites/What to Bring: A laptop with a copy of <oXygen/> XML Editor installed.  (You can download a version with a 30-day trial period.)

    Time: 9am-4pm; Friday, April 29th

    Location: Residential College of Arts & Humanities/Snyder-Philips C203

    Hacking WordPress: Beyond the Blog (FULL)

    The Hacking WordPress bootcamp will take the attendee through settingup a WordPress site from scratch (no WordPress.com sites here),creating a custom theme and using WordPress as a powerful contentmanagement tool. We’ll look past the blogging features and experimentwith WordPress’s robust templating engine and build a great site thatdoesn’t look like your typical WordPress webpage. In addition, we’llcover a set of plugins that will have your site running at peakperformance, giving the fastest possible experience to your visitors.This isn’t your typical “welcome to blogging class–this ishigh-performance WordPress hacking.

    Instructor: Jeff Siarto (LoudPixel)

    Difficulty Level: Medium

    Prerequisites/What to Bring: Laptop (Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6). Windows: Students must have XAMPP installed and ready to go. Mac users should have MAMP installed and ready to go.  Although there is no required reading, brushing up on the content found at WordPress.org will help.  Basic familiarity with WordPress (installed) a requirement.

    Time: 9-12am; Friday, April 29th

    Location: Residential College of Arts & Humanities/Snyder-Philips C202

    Introduction to Omeka

    Description: Omeka is a simple system used by scholarly archives, libraries, and museums all over the world to manage and describe digital images, audio files, videos, and texts; to put such digital objects online in a searchable database; and to create attractive web exhibits from them. In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll create your own digital archive of images, audio, video, and texts that meets scholarly metadata standards and creates a search engine-optimized website. We’ll go over the difference between the hosted version of Omeka and the open source server-side version of Omeka, and we’ll learn about the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects. We’ll also look at some examples of pedagogical use of Omeka in humanities courses and talk about assigning students to create digital archives in individual or group projects.

    Instructor: Amanda French (Center for History & New Media)

    Difficulty Level: Easy

    Prerequisites/What to Bring: bring your laptop

    Time: 1-4pm; Friday, April 29th

    Location: MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letter, and Social Sciences Online; Conference Room (Natural Sciences Building, 407)

    Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives & Museums Bootcamp

    According to a definition on LinkedData.org, “The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the web.”  This has enormous implications for discoverability and interoperability for libraries, archives, and museums, not to mention a shift in the World Wide Web as we know it.  In this bootcamp, we’ll examine Linked Data through the lens of an ongoing project, Civil War Data 150.  We’ll explore the conceptual framework of Linked Data, touching on graphs and triples, discuss vocabulary and ontology concerns, and finally dig into just a little bit of code and Linked Data applications.

    Instructor: Jon Voss (LookBackMaps)

    Difficulty Level: Easy

    Prerequisites/What to Bring: bring your laptop. No programming experience is required, but being familiar with things like HTML and XML can’t hurt.

    Time: 9-12am; Friday, April 29th

    Location: MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letter, and Social Sciences Online; Conference Room (Natural Sciences Building, 407)