Category Archives: Session: Talk

Digital Projects: The Benefits and Challenges of Collaboration Online

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Mia Tootill

Potentially linking in with (perhaps preceding) Thomas Beebee’s session on new projects for the NEH grant, I would like to hold a session on current digital projects. I am contributing to a couple of (open access) web resources within my … Continue reading →

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Lunchtime Dork Shorts on Friday

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Patrick Williams

As you may have seen on the tentative schedule, we are planning to have a session of Dork Shorts concurrent with our lunch session on Friday. What are Dork Shorts? Dork shorts, known in some corners as “lightning talks,” are … Continue reading →

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SWOTing at Humane Newspaper Based Research Practice – A Three Act Dialogue

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Michael Pasqualoni

They have been called a first rough draft of history.  They relied upon child labor. They have seen advertising dollars and established business models erode.   They have transformed from offline to online artifacts, leading to both newer formats and issues … Continue reading →

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Smash the Bot for Fun and Profit

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Jesse Menn

I’ve become interested in the scholarly possibilities of Twitter bots. From bots that tweet a line from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, “over and over” (@TweetsOfGrass), to generating tweets that sound like Buddhist koans (@Horse_ebooks), to automating the writing of … Continue reading →

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DPLA: SearchFest

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Inga Barnello

I am interested in how the Digital Public Library can be used (in your teaching, for an assignment, or in your own research) and am in search of folks who want to experiment together. Let’s explore the DPLA through multiple … Continue reading →

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Creative Uses of Zotero

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Patrick Williams

I’m very interested in how people research, read, and write together, and I”m also an avid user of Zotero. I’m proposing a session where Zotero users (both new & old) talk about ways to use the tool to do more … Continue reading →

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