Category Archives: Archives

Talk Session: Tools Users Use

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Marty Olliff

As an archivist, I post content to my website but have fallen behind a bit in knowing the tools my users use and how to prepare my materials for them. As a teacher, F2F and online, I want to know … Continue reading →

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Talk & Teach: My sometimes friend the database

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Holland Hopson

Databases are my friends. Every application that I use and care about has a database built into it somewhere: digital audio workstation, video editor, address book, calendar, to-do list (don’t forget online shopping…). Important research is predicated on the analysis … Continue reading →

Categories: Archives, Coding, Data Mining, Digital Literacy, Libraries, Linked Data, Mapping, Metadata, Open Access, Session Proposals, Session: Talk, Session: Teach, Text Mining, Visualization | Leave a comment

Workshop: Digital Collections and Exhibits with Omeka

Posted on August 2, 2013 by g.cory.duclos

Omeka.net is a web-publishing platform that allows anyone with an account to create or collaborate on a website to display collections and build digital exhibitions (“About,” Omeka.net). In this workshop for THATCampers with no previous experience with Omeka, we will: … Continue reading →

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Digital Editions

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Mary Alexander

Why is it important to create digital editions for old manuscripts?  How do you do it?  What is the final product?  How many steps will it take?  What do you need to learn?  HTML?  TEI?  PDFs?  Is support available? We … Continue reading →

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