Welcome to THATCamp Florida 3.0!
Welcome to the Third Annual THATCamp Florida website. The History Department and the RICHES program at the University of Central Florida, in cooperation with the UCF Center for Research and Education...
View ArticleGetting Closer
We are happy to see the registrations rolling in at an increasing pace. Soon it will be time for the more adventurous to begin posting their proposals for sessions for THATCamp Florida 2013. Honestly,...
View ArticleDisruptive Pedagogy Meets Procedural Rhetoric
Okay, the title must look like a horrible Hollywood-style “high concept” description of … well, something. Something awful, probably. Or something fun. I hope the latter. Can we play with the core...
View ArticlePinball Platform Studies
I like what Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost do with the Atari VCS in Racing the Beam, and following their lead, consider pinball platform studies. Concurrent to the first decade of videogames, hundreds of...
View ArticleHotel Rooms
Campers, A reminder that the Hotel rooms reserved for THATCamp disappear this on Monday. There is a not a huge savings involved, to be honest, but at least the availability of the rooms are secure and...
View ArticleNew Possibilities for Linking Archival Collections Using Encoded Archival...
For researchers working with primary source material in archives, the paper trail can often be difficult to follow. Although standards like Encoded Archival Description (EAD) have helped make finding...
View ArticleDigital Collections and Scholarship, Baldwin and Others
Digital collections and libraries are often created through collaboration with librarians, teaching faculty, and others. This panel would be a discussion panel on current strategies and best practices...
View Article”’Using Versus Building’ in the Digital Humanities”
THATCamp session: ”’Using Versus Building’ in the Digital Humanities” In a recent Inside Higher Ed blog posting entitled “The Incredible Privilege of ‘Building’”...
View ArticleRobinson Crusoe in the Public Sphere
Robinson Crusoe and the Robinsonades are a major part of digital humanities scholarship, particularly in the fields of English, Education, History, Religion, and the Fine Arts. Robinson Crusoe was...
View ArticleProgramming the Digital Humanities
Edit 2/16: Here are the PPTX slides from our panel: Programming the Humanities. Thanks for everyone who joined and participated. In a prior book I co-authored with JD Applen (The Rhetorical Nature of...
View ArticleMobile Application for Humanities Research (MAFHR)
I’m interested in developing a mobile application for field research. My goal is to use mobile phone’s functionality to create a versatile data collection tool. The app I envision allows the user to...
View ArticleHistory Harvests/Photo Scanning Events: Collecting ‘the People’s History’
This session will explore prospects for collaboration between university-based Digital/Public History programs, an emerging nationwide “History Harvest Movement,” and commercial photo/document scanning...
View ArticleSnow Fall & Digital Story Telling
Snow Fall & Digital Story Telling I know, it seems odd to talk of snow at THATCamp Florida, of all places. However, I am fascinated, obsessed even, with the recent New York Times article entitled...
View ArticleVisual Historiography: Tools for Analyzing/Visualizing Journal Content
As digital editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly (a newly created position), I’m working with colleagues at UCF, Ohio State, and U.Va. on a project exploring the use of human-assisted machine...
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