Comments for THATCamp Leadership 2013

Comment on Beyond Turnitin and anti-plagiarism softwares by serge noiret

serge noiret — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:22:18 +0000

Thank you Amanda for the tip, I’ll look fir that. Yes plagiarism is used at all levels and our Ph.D. students have to produce a turnitin report before submitting the thesis: sometimes ot is discovered only when publishers look at the manuscript before the production of a book and it comes out… But my bet was to reuse a software for other purposes it was build for, especially when you have it and pay for it anyway…

Comment on Digital Humanities and Online Education by Amanda French

Amanda French — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:18:36 +0000

I think this is a very important topic, Alok. Would love to see it on the schedule.

Comment on Policies and Safe Spaces for Diversity by Amanda French

Amanda French — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:29:44 +0000

And by the way, thanks VERY much for proposing that we work on that harassment policy I forked; I’d love to spend some time doing that collaboratively. Must say I wish we had two days. Ah well. If we don’t get to it tomorrow, I’ve got it prioritized for later work once my crazy October is over.

I said at the time of that Twitter convo and still think that although (as you point out) DH is one of the more tolerant and accepting communities, the very intimacy of an unconference that forms strong bonds is likely to be hugely problematic.

I think too that your work at THATCamp Virginia in developing child-friendly spaces is also relevant here.

Comment on Policies and Safe Spaces for Diversity by Amanda French

Amanda French — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 20:25:18 +0000

By the way, the Diversity site on thatcamp.org still exists: diversity.thatcamp.org — ready to be used.

Comment on Paralyzing or Parallelizing Workflows for Digital Collections by Neil Fraistat

Neil Fraistat — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:40:53 +0000

This session seems like a good companion to the one I proposed on Participatory DH.

Comment on Participatory DH by Rebecca Davis

Rebecca Davis — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 19:33:30 +0000

I like this idea because of intersections with liberal arts curriculum and focus on experiential learning.

Comment on Session teaching basic node.js by Dave Lester

Dave Lester — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:26:49 +0000

JS knowledge is not necessary. If there are diverging skill levels, we could also form multiple groups (assuming someone else would like to help teach).

For learning basic JS, I’d recommend jsforcats.com; we could potentially walk through this as a group to learn some fundamentals.

Comment on DH + Social Sciences by Ethan Watrall

Ethan Watrall — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:02:42 +0000

Ryan – I’m quite interested in your efforts and in this regard.

Comment on THATCamp Hierarchy 2014? by Defining and Developing the Skills Important to Digital Scholarship | THATCamp Leadership 2013

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:00:35 +0000

[…] of experience to hone their skills over a longer period of time than a day or a day and a half. (Ryan also points to the need to go beyond 101 in some THATCamp sessions.) Could we imagine new variants […]

Comment on Let’s Make a Humanities Pre-Print Server by Amanda French

Amanda French — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:05:56 +0000

I once went to the extent of buying the domain name mlapapers.info and setting up an install Open Journal Systems with the idea that I MYSELF ALL BY MY LONESOME would create a place where MLA members could deposit their conference papers. (Sorry about the hubris. And options for this now exist, of course.) Trevor, I think your ideas about using existing platforms are reasonable, but humanities-centrism is I’d say a highly desirable spec for such an arcHive. (H for Humanities, of course). Count me in to talk about this, though.