I teach a variety of workshops each semester. I think ThatCamp is great fun when it involves collaboration and group learning – but I’m happy to either lead discussions or go over basic principles on some of the topics that I’ve got materials on.

• Data Cleaning – tools to include OpenRefine and basic regular expressions. With the potential for participants to share their own tips and habits.
• Scalar – how to use it, and what it might be used for. Again, very open to a discussion of its relative merits and applications.
• I also work a lot with XML, Text Encoding, and digital epigraphy and would be happy to lead or participate in a session on markup.

I know that THATCamps are participatory and informal, with “no lengthy proposals, papers, presentations, or product demos.” That said, I know from my experience attending Camps that people are often interested in learning and skilling up where possible. For that reason, I’d be happy to teach any of the following workshops, which I have done on multiple occasions at Brown and elsewhere:

• Introduction to Voyant and text analysis
• Introduction to social network analysis with Gephi
• Introduction to topic modeling
• Managing your online identity
• Managing your personal research library with Zotero

“Intro to TagTeam” will review the basics of TagTeam, a research tool and tagging platform developed by the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP) at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

TagTeam is a platform that supports the social tagging and aggregation of online resources, with the flexibility to manage your tag vocabulary from a folksonomy to an ontology.

This session will provide the background necessary to start using TagTeam by reviewing:

• TagTeam’s basic features and functions
• How to start a hub on TagTeam
• How to start tagging with TagTeam

Session Type: Teach

Session Keywords: Research Tools, Social Tagging, Open Source Software, Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies, Folksonomies and Ontologies.

THATCamp New England 2017 is nearly at capacity. We have fewer than 10 spots left. We are very excited to see a great diversity of campers, including a number of you with fantastic skill sets. The full agenda will be decided on the morning of March 25th, but to help us streamline the process, we would like to get a sense of who is willing to teach what in advance. This will help us make the best possible match between skills and interests. To that end, we’d like to invite proposals from ThatCampers who would like to teach.

Some of you are veteran THATCamp attendees and already know the process, but for those who are new or need a refresher, you can find the guidelines here. Session proposals are usually divided into four categories: make, play, talk, teach. Proposals to teach sessions jointly with other THATCampers are welcome and encouraged.