Led by Natalia Cecire, this brief, partial, and situated introduction will explore the diversity of disciplinary foundations, methodologies, and practices of digital humanities. After an overview, we will look at a number of existing projects and discuss some core issues in digital humanities, including developing standards for evaluation, the role of collaboration, and open access.

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Omeka is a simple system used by scholarly archives, libraries, and museums all over the world to manage and describe digital images, audio files, videos, and texts; to put such digital objects online in a searchable database; and to create attractive web exhibits from them. In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll create your own digital archive of images, audio, video, and texts that meets scholarly metadata standards and creates a search engine-optimized website. We’ll go over the difference between the hosted version of Omeka and the open source server-side version of Omeka, look at examples of Omeka archives and exhibits, and discuss other possible uses.

This workshop is intended for campers that have no previous experience with Omeka.

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As many of you know, THATCamp Feminisms East is happening simultaneously with THATCamp Feminisms West at Scripps College and THATCamp Feminisms South at Emory University. We are very excited about the opportunity to follow and connect with these sister events in the twittersphere using the following hashtags:

THATCamp Feminisms East:  #tcfe

THATCamp Feminisms West:  #tcfw

THATCamp Feminisms South: #tcfso

THATCamp Feminisms (All): #tcfem

How you use the hashtags is up to you, but all tweets attached to a hashtag will be archived and made accessible to participants post-camp.

Want to follow other campers at THATCamp Feminisms East? Check out the THATCamp Feminisms East list.

Want to participate in the conversation, but don’t have an account? Create one! Then check out some useful tips here, and let us know if you’d like a brief orientation to Twitter.

Happy tweeting!!

Registration for THATCamp Feminisms East is officially open! To register, fill out the form on the Register page and we will email you with information regarding the status of your registration as soon as possible. If you decide that you can no longer attend, please let us know so we may give the seat to another participant.
Questions? Email us at ajonas@barnard.edu.