{"id":87,"date":"2012-08-29T20:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/adhc\/?p=87"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:52:38","slug":"report-from-the-august-brown-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/adhc\/2012\/08\/29\/report-from-the-august-brown-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from the August Brown Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello ADHC Community!<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of you who came out on August 17 to hear about our plans for the coming year. I\u2019m very excited and grateful for all of the support, volunteers, and suggestions about ADHC activities. Here\u2019s a brief summary of the announcements that I made:<\/p>\n

1) Events<\/strong>: We\u2019re going to do a total of 15 events this fall: 3 guest speaker presentations, 8 workshops, and 4 monthly brown bag lunch discussions. I\u2019ve sent out an events list to the ADHI listserv and information will also be available on the UA Events Calendar and the new website (once we launch it in the next few weeks).<\/p>\n

Speakers:<\/strong> This fall, we are hosting three terrific speakers. Each speaker will give a formal presentation and then meet with a smaller group which I hope will include many of you!<\/p>\n

9\/26 Korey Jackson<\/strong><\/em>, ACLS Public Fellow, Program Coordinator and Analyst for Anvil Academic, will talk about open access publishing (co-sponsored by SLIS). For more information about Korey, visit: http:\/\/www.clir.org\/about\/news\/pressrelease\/12anviljackson<\/p>\n

10\/11 Dave McClure<\/strong><\/em>, Lead Programmer for Neatline at UVA\u2019s Scholars\u2019 Lab, will talk about his center\u2019s work and their recently launched tool Neatline (for making maps, timelines, etc with Omeka) For more information about Dave and Neatline, visit: http:\/\/www.directionsmag.com\/pressreleases\/neatline-helps-map-new-world-of-digital-humanities-scholarship\/264461<\/p>\n

11\/7 Lauren Klein<\/strong><\/em>, Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, will discuss her use of data visualization to address silences in the Thomas Jefferson Archive (sponsored by the Summersell Center). For more information about Lauren\u2019s research, visit: http:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/~lklein7\/?p=86<\/p>\n

Workshops:<\/strong> We\u2019ve teamed up with Gorgas Information Services to offer 8 workshops this fall. Thanks to all of the ADHCers and GISers who volunteered to give workshops. Presenters\/topics are:<\/p>\n

Franky Abbott: Quick Tools for Data Visualization
\nJason Battles: Intro to HTML5
\nLindley Shedd: Planning Video and Audio Projects
\nSteven MacCall: Intro to Omeka
\nDavid Ainsworth: Using WordPress to Create a Class Online
\nBarbara Dahlbach\/Mark Robison: Zotero and Refworks
\nRebecca Johnson: Using Social Media in the Classroom
\nSara Whitver: Hootsuite<\/p>\n

Brown Bags:<\/strong> We are using brown bags as places to showcase the work of ADHC community members, interact with guest speakers, and discuss theoretical issues related to DH. Each brown bag will have a rotating discussion leader. For the fall:<\/p>\n

September: Jen Drouin will show her TEI project and discuss goals, progress, and challenges.
\nOctober: Dave McClure will talk about Scholars\u2019 Lab projects, past and present.
\nNovember: Lauren Klein will showcase a handful of her favorite digital humanities projects.
\nDecember: Jody DeRidder will lead a discussion about the issues and challenges of keeping digital works alive through the years.<\/p>\n

2) Projects\/Consultations<\/strong>
\nWe have had a number of promising consultations with faculty and staff members interested in pursuing digital projects this summer (including some that continue from last year). In particular, we discussed the ADHC\u2019s collaboration with the Office of Community-Based Partnerships to create a digital archive for the Black Belt 100 Lenses project. We hope to announce other projects as they proceed in near future.<\/p>\n

3) General Outreach<\/strong>
\nWe are redesigning the ADHC website and hope to launch in the next few weeks. We have also started a twitter account (@AlabamaDHC) and a new Facebook group (Alabama Digital Humanities Center). Please join if you are interested and feel free to recommend to others!<\/p>\n

Your Helpful Suggestions:<\/strong>
\nWe got a lot of great feedback at the brown bag. One of these suggestions–a facebook group recommended by Claire–has already been implemented. Others suggested topics for brown bags–metadata, community-based digital humanities projects, digital storytelling–that we have put on the brown bag list for the spring (thanks Heather and Janet!) I heard ideas for outside speakers, both in terms of particular people and topics. Several of you said that you would like to see specific DH projects shown and discussed at brown bags, which I have tried to incorporate for the fall and will continue to keep in mind for the spring. After the meeting, I also got a very helpful suggestion from Rebecca M. about presenting an \u201cIntroduction to Digital Humanities\u201d event to address interested DH beginners campus-wide. I plan to follow-up on her idea and also work with Arts and Sciences to address new faculty (thanks Rebecca J.!)<\/p>\n

Stay Involved!<\/strong>
\nWe are trying out a number of new experiments this year and would love to have your support in planning and executing them. Here are some things we would really appreciate:<\/p>\n