Digital Humanities Bootcamp 2019: Schedule of Workshops and Discussions
Digital Humanities Bootcamp
August 12-13, 2019
Draft Schedule of Workshops and Discussions
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Day One
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Introduction: What is Digital Humanities?
9:30 am Assessment and review of digital humanities projects
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Digital archives, computational analysis, and public humanities:
A Case Study of Freedom on the Move: A Database of Fugitives from North American Slavery
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Working with Data in humanities research:
challenges, methods, and possibilities
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Spatial Humanities and mapping:
challenges, methods, and possibilities
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Open research, open publishing, and the academy
4:30 pm Lightning talks and discussion
5:00 pm Happy hour
Day Two
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Digital Humanities project planning
10:15 pm Break
10:30 am Breakout workshops:
–Scalar: multimedia, multilinear texts
–Omeka: digital collections and exhibits
–TEI (Text Encoding Initiative): creating digital critical editions
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Overview of afternoon sessions
1:15 pm Breakout workshops:
–GIS: maps and spatial analyses
–Network analysis: visualizing relationships
–Computational text analysis: “data mining” in book and document collections
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm Wrap-up conversation; Cool Tools and Projects gallery; closing reception
Note: There were two Bootcamps offered in 2019: April 25-26 and August 12-13, 2019. Both covered the same material, and both took place on the Vanderbilt University campus.