Category Archives: Session Proposals

Proposals for unconference sessions from THATCamp participants.

BL Labs Competition – Tips, Advice and Looking at BL Data

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Mahendra Mahey

The new British Library Labs competition for 2015 is live and closes on 29 April 2015. The competition encourages anyone to come up with an idea of what you might do with British Library digital content. We will choose 2 … Continue reading →

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VOX: Voices Of eXperience

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Laura Carletti

What does it happen when Humanists & Technologists work together? What are the challenges and opportunities of cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborations? What is your personal experience? This Talk session proposes to listen to the voices of Humanists and Technologists involved in … Continue reading →

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Show, Tell and Ask: Tools, Tips and Data

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Owen Stephens

In a rapidly evolving field it is difficult to keep up with all the available tools, techniques and data sources available and being used. This session would offer a space to share experiences – good and bad – of various tools … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Text: Teaching DH with visual sources

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Melodee Beals

With one foot firmly in corpus linguistics, Digital History has often been about finding, collecting, collating, manipulating and linking textual information.  However, just as historians have learned to move beyond the text in traditional historical research, so too do we … Continue reading →

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Big Data for Musicology

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Tillman Weyde

Digital music libraries and collections are growing quickly and are increasingly made available for research. We feel that the use of large data collections need will enable a better understanding of music performance and music in general, which will benefit areas … Continue reading →

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Getting experienced

Posted on February 5, 2015 by David King

Digitised literature gives us the opportunity to explore how people experienced the past. However, if extracting tangible things from texts such as names and places can be tricky, consider the challenge of extracting something intangible such as an experience. If … Continue reading →

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Gamestorming for DH

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Paul Matthews

I would like to propose a gamestorming session to playfully combine technologies and applications, guided by current DH research questions.  The session can start with sharing the (technical and subject-matter) skill-sets, interests and data sources of the participants, then move … Continue reading →

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Explain to a Newbie: Digital Research in the Humanities – What’s the Question?

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Allan Sudlow

The Challenge: Can you explain in plain English what digital research methods in the Humanities allow folks to do that they couldn’t do before? Some Discussion Topics: What new sorts of research questions can be asked? What new concepts or … Continue reading →

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