DC THATCamp 2015: Supporting Other People’s DH
By Kat Bell

THATCamp DC 2015
Supporting Other People’s DH Projects
As a librarian, how can we help other division’s projects?
Between institutions, how can you offer your help?
How do we get the information out as to what we have? – Especially for Archives
Example of ride board – digital humanities ride board?
Practical questions of type of engagement, who will manage
Like LinkedIn, but something people would use
University of Nebraska Digital Humanists
Inclusiveness, accessibility
beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/
More dynamic system than just Excel
Barriers to entry in sharing, collaborating, participating – service vs. research
dhcommons.org/collaborators
digitalhumanities.unc.edu/resources/projects/
Large historical societies – how they help sustain the small ones
Evaluation and marketing – librarians don’t have the needed skillset
Philadelphia History Bus
Personal Digital Archiving
Personal Digital Humanities

What do we want? XX When do we want it? now!
TEI training camps
Getting most support off campus DH working group on English, Lori Brister Code
Art Library Society. aRLIS. Mentorships, unconventional mentoring up, younger people teaching older!!
Ask what are you working on?
How can I help?
Association of c and research libraries emphasize not calling it dH
We offer workshops and faculty don’t show up!
Need more one on one
Broader group in DC, sustainable MeetUp group DCHDC
Coding and coffee groups
Barriers include copyright restrictions.
Six degrees of Francis Bacon is here!
Archives Special Collections has dilemmas because they need to be aware of the Institutional Context. Measures of use?
With limited resources, digitizing isn’t priority. Need and desire for sharing information.

Paywall for materials, workshops behind them.
Folder has works in progress talks,
Little support for students to learn about grants at GMU.
Also using symposia for stimulating collaboration.
STEM priority.
How to get Humanities more support?
Sharing expertise
Joint grants ?
Need library workshops on lifecycle sustainability
Why people don’t come to workshops: different questions from different fields doesn’t work.
Useful might be when we tailor workshops to technical level and discipline.
Rails girls workshops for Ruby on Rails training, groups but also mentors.
Finders demanding TEI, plans for online and sustainability.
Technology develops so rapidly and early adopters can get behind.
Open access is key. Policy, principle. Struggle between finders and institutions.
Rotunda at UVa is a paywall but calls themselves Open Access, huh?
funding for computational collaborations in engineering, MITH has done collaborations with computer scientists.

Engineering is also Entrepreneurial
ISchool cross over thing.
Community client program at Carnegie Mellon, students use computational techniques to do humanities , could work.

… and it is time to start proposing your discussion topics, demos, hacks, and mini-workshops. You may also suggest them in the morning session at 9:30. Doors open at 9:00 with breakfast, registration and conversation. Please see the website tabs for details on transportation. There is a festival on the capitol mall so add a little extra time to the commute in.

For those on the fence, this is an opportunity to get and share ideas about the Digital Humanities with diverse colleagues from regional institutions and universities; learn a bit about DH tools, issues, best practices, struggles, and culture; and get an inside look at where we are today.  We welcome walk-ins but prefer pre-registration to help us plan ahead. This is for students, faculty, practitioners, librarians, archivists, project managers, and the interested public.

Register in B156 Phillips Hall, one flight down from the entrance, which is located on the South side of I street between 22nd and 21st NW. See you there!

Please join us for DC2015 THATCamp. The un-conference will be held from 9:30 to 3:45 with breakfast and lunch included, and is organized by the GWU students in HIST3001 Digital Humanities and the Historian. We anticipate a structure somewhat like this:

9:30-10:00 Registration and breakfast in B156 Phillips Hall (two short blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro, public parking across the street).

Breakfast (bagels, creamcheese, coffee)

Registration at DC2014

10:00-10:50 Introductions and setting the agenda (maximum 16 sessions, 4 rooms and 4 timeslots.) Come with an idea for a conversation you would be willing to host or post in advance as a comment at the bottom of the page “Proposals” on this website.

Introductions around the room, session proposals

11:00-11:50 Session 1 x 4 rooms

Checking the sessions and rooms

12:00-12:50 Session 2 x 4 rooms

Self-organized sessions in GWU classrooms

Breaks between sessions for networking; continuing the conversation

12:50-1:40 Lunch

1:45-2:30 Session 3 x 4 rooms

Checking the agenda online

2:45-3:30 Session 4 x 4 rooms

The DC2014 THATCamp organizers

3:30-3:45 Gathering in original large room Phillips B156  for  closure and to say farewell

End of THATCamp2014

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There’s a new THATCamp being planned!  Set aside April 18th on your calendar, register now, and we will give you more info as we know it. Currently we expect to hold it in B156 and 109, 110, 111 Phillips Hall on the GWU campus, at 22nd between H and I streets NW, one block from Foggy Bottom metro station and across H Street from Gelman Library. Meanwhile, read more about the THATCamp movement and browse other THATCamps at thatcamp.org. Visit DC2014.thatcamp.org to see what we did last year.