[Rescheduled from last week.]<\/p>\n
A MITH Digital Dialogue
\nTuesday, February 16th, 12:30-1:45
\nMITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135<\/p>\n
\u201cCollaborative Approaches to Digital Humanities: Unconferences and Crowdsourcing\u201d
\nby DAVE LESTER<\/p>\n
As MITH\u2019s newly-minted Assistant Director and a serial collaborator, Dave Lester will discuss the unconference (barcamp) model and his experience helping organize The Humanities and Technology Camp (THATCamp) while previously employed at George Mason University\u2019s Center for History & New Media. THATCamp has become an annual unconference hosted by GMU, and inspired regional digital humanities unconferences in France, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, and California. Lester will also draw from his experience engaging existing communities of interest through social networking sites to discuss the changing landscape of crowdsourcing and suggest ways that digital humanists can engage the public to answer research questions.<\/p>\n
DAVE LESTER, Assistant Director of MITH, has previously been employed by George Mason University\u2019s Center for History & New Media where he coordinated software development outreach for the Omeka Web publishing system used by libraries, museums, and archives. He was responsible for prototyping mobile applications for museums, fostering a collaborative open source community, and co-organizing THATCamp, an annual Digital Humanities \u201cunconference\u201d bringing together practitioners to collaborate and share their work. Prior to Mason, Dave was a Crossroads Fellow at Georgetown University\u2019s Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship, and helped redevelop the American Studies Crossroads Project Web site. He is also a HASTAC scholar, and his ongoing research focuses on place-based computing and the engagement of the public in crowdsourcing local history.<\/p>\n
Coming up @MITH: There are no further talks scheduled until after Spring Break as we anticipate presentations from candidates visiting campus for the College of Arts and Humanities cluster search in Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture.<\/p>\n
View MITH\u2019s complete Fall Speakers Schedule here:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100608231200\/http:\/\/www.mith2.umd.edu\/programs\/mith_speakers_spring_2010.pdf<\/p>\n
All talks free and open to the public!<\/p>\n
Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-8927).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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