To follow up on the Leventhal Map collection: Historic Map Works out of Westbrook, Maine has been doing similar work: http://www.historicmapworks.com/About.php.  I’m not sure about all the details, but I know that you can use their maps to look at layers of place in a given setting.

For more experienced Campers, this topic is well-worn, I know. It’s a discussion I’ve had at every THATCamp I’ve attended. But it’s one that never fails to get me to think. I think it’s evergreen.

Basically, a free-wheeling discussion about advocacy, communication, community, and labor within the digital humanities. Topics would include (but in no way be limited to):

• How do we describe the digital humanities? What “counts” as DH? What maybe doesn’t? Why?
• Are people in adjacent roles, like digital archivists, and digital librarians, “doing DH”? How much does the distinction matter?
• Who are the gatekeepers for all of the above?
• Is critical code theory part of DH’s “big tent?”
• Is DH’s “big tent” really that big?
• Content vs. Making/Programming: The Hack/Yack dichotomy.
• How to make DH-skeptical colleagues (and, oh, say, tenure committees) see the value of DH.
• How to curb or counteract tech-crazed administrators who may not understand that DH is not a panacea.
• How do we do DH outreach and inreach?
• Issues of labor, collaboration, & crediting in DH projects.
• DH and the neoliberal university.

Really, I’m just wanting to establish a space for wide-ranging higher-level conversation. I think it’d be a break from all the tool-learning and skill-building, and a good opportunity to engage critically with the fundamental concept of “digital humanities,” as it undergirds this whole (un)conference.

Getting Started with Open Digital Collections will provide an overview of how to find and use open access content in museum digital collections.

This session will review:

1. Where to find open digital collections
2. How to identify open access content
3. How to use open collections content (this segment will focus on how to navigate the terms of use that impact how you can use content).

Session Type: Teach

Session Keywords: Digital Collections, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), Open Access, Public Domain, Creative Commons, Digitization, Museums.

Background Image: Still Life: Flowers and Fruit by Severin Roesen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain.

NOTE: We are currently at capacity, but will maintain a wait list up to a week before THATCamp. If a spot opens up, we will notify the person at the top of the wait list.

THATCamp New England 2017 will be held on Sat. March 25, 2017 at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. The primary focus of this camp is Digital Pedagogy. Registration will open February 1st. We are pleased to offer room for up to 90 participants, on a first-come, first served basis. A continental breakfast will be provided.

Organizers are Profs. Ella Howard (Wentworth Institute of Technology) and Jessica Parr (UNH & Simmons College).

Speakers:

Franky Abbott, Curation and Education Strategist, Digital Public Library of America

Evan Thornberry, Geospatial and Reference Librarian, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library

Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University Library & Center for Digital Scholarship

Molly Hardy, DH Curator, American Antiquarian Society

Nancy Heywood, Digital Projects Coordinator, Massachusetts Historical Society

Marta Crilly, Archivist for Reference and Outreach, Boston City Archives

We thank the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology, New England Historical Association, and Reclaim Hosting for their generous sponsorship of this event.

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