Undergraduates Collaborating in Digital Humanities Research

NITLE Digital Scholarship Seminar, Friday, April 27, 2012, 3-4 pm EDT

  1. Recording of #NITLE Dig Schol Sem, Undergraduates Collaborating in Digital Humanities Research, now available online bit.ly/JFJDSY
  2. John Burnett, Wheaton College presented, “Getting Up to Speed in the Wheaton College Digital History Project.” John is a sophomore at Wheaton College.
  3. John Burnett Wheaton College Class of 2014 speaking now on how he got involved in WC Digital History Project #NITLE
  4. John Burnett asked how he could combine twin interests in history and computing; answer was digital humanities #NITLE
  5. Burnett: Transcribed the cash book of the founders of Wheaton College, MA and created an XML document #NITLE
  6. Students had been invited by their local campus mentors; John Burnett was speaking but the screen showed Kathryn Tomasek.  This led to some confusion on twitter . . . 
  7. #NITLE The virtual life of K. Tomasek, student @ Wheaton C, and his academic life are not separate worlds
  8. Wheaton student John Barnett uses digital cachebook to make historical info/project readily available to masses #NITLE
  9. Personography databases in a digital format can be very valuable for college historiography #NITLE
  10. Burnett applying XML skills from digital history project to modding games #NITLE
  11. Being able to use #digitalhumanities to take something that is usually only recreational and making it useful and academic #NITLE
  12. #NITLE DH allows connection of recreational interests and intellectual interests
  13. Next speaker: Sarah Schultz, Hamilton College, who will present her English Honors Thesis, “What’s All the Hype About?: A Critical Exploration of Hypertext Theory and Authorship using Agha Shahid Ali’s poem “Snow on the Desert.” Sarah Schultz is a senior at Hamilton College. She concentrates in English and has also helped develop Professor Patricia O’Neill’s DHI initiative, the Agha Shahid Ali digital archive. 

    She may be referred to as Janet Simons on twitter.
  14. Sarah Schultz, Janet Simons' student at Hamilton presenting on her honors English thesis. DH tools are useful in studying poetry #NITLE
  15. student had no interest in writing another 40-50 page paper on Shakespeare #NITLE
  16. Hamilton student Sarah Schultz: using hyperlinks to analyze poetry through popup boxes offering factual and interpretive information #NITLE
  17. Hyperlinks: a useful tool for connecting comments and factual information to lines of poetry. #NITLE #digitalhumanities
  18. #NITLE discussion of hypertext interpretation. Love the interactive comment feature

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