We welcome your feedback. Please take a few moments to fill out and return the feedback from. Side 1 is for the BootCamp Workshops, Side 2 for the THATCamp and Knowledge Representation conference. Feedback Form (PDF).

Alternatively, you can use the general THATCamp feedback form online at thatcamp.org/go/feedback/

Thank you!

Here is a spreadsheet where URLs mentioned at THATCamp KS can be entered.  It is not necessary to fill in every column for every link, but try to fill in info you know.  I will add to the sheet as I have time but I hope others will contribute, too.

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak4JEzOyiqM0dGZERnQ0RHVxMUpNa3pFdnpfbGZtOGc&hl=en_US

Our Google doc for this session is at:

docs.google.com/document/d/1qwUAp1nC0ySmRH5aidbgKW8z1EYJw6gdERCjpqPd_9I/edit.

About THATCamp
THATCamp.org

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University”

THATCamp “groundrules”
www.foundhistory.org/2010/05/24/thatcamp-groundrules/

KU Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
idrh.ku.edu

THATCamp Kansas Blog
kansas2011.thatcamp.org

Twitter
#thatcampks
#thatcamp
@THATCampKS

Google Docs
http://…..?

Friday’s THATCamp
Schedule: goo.gl/dt70m

Michael Sperberg-McQueen talk and reception at Spencer Museum of Art: 4:30pm

Saturday’s Representing Knowledge in the DH conferene
Schedule: goo.gl/9B4he

Presentation Abstracts: kansas2011.thatcamp.org/category/representing-knowledge-conference/

Feedback sheets
On paper and online

KU Libraries planning team:

• Marianne Reed, Digital Information Specialist, Center for Digital Scholarship
• Elspeth Healey, Special Collections Librarian, Spencer Research Library
• Kim Glover, Instructional Design Librarian
• Scott Hanrath, Web Services Manager
• Geoff Husic, Slavic and Eurasian Studies Librarian

THATCamp Kansas logo: Todd Pickrell, Library student assistant, Industrial Design

We’ve now posted the abstracts for the the papers and posters for Saturday’s “Representing Knowledge” conference. See the links in the Categories sidebar or click here for the abstracts…

….and here for the schedule of times and locations.

A reminder that on Friday, after the THATCamp sessions, at 4:30pm, Michael Sperberg-McQueen of Black Mesa Technologies (www.blackmesatech.com) will give a plenary talk at the Spencer Museum of Art. He will also be giving a talk at the “Representing Knowledge” conference on Saturday.

Friday, September 23
4.30pm, Spencer Museum of Art
XML as a tool for domain-specific languages

Abstract: Computers are general-purpose machines for manipulation of symbols, which means they can be applied in almost any field whose problems can be expressed in terms of symbols. But the creators of computer systems and the potential users of those systems do not always think the same way and do not always find communication easy. Much of the history of information technology can be glossed as a series of attempts to bridge this communication gap. One current approach to this problem is to design ‘domain-specific languages’ (DSLs): formal languages suitable for computer processing, with vocabulary and semantics drawn from the intended application domain. In retrospect, the design of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) can be viewed as an attempt to encourage domain-specific languages and make them easier to specify. Like DSLs as conventionally conceived of, XML vocabularies allow concise descriptions of interesting states of affairs in a particular application area and tend to be more accessible to domain experts than conventional programming languages.

Unlike conventional DSLs, most XML vocabularies are specified as having declarative not imperative semantics; this is both a blessing (declarative information is almost always easier to verify and easier to apply in new and unexpected ways) and a curse (many conventional programmers find declarative semantics hard to come to terms with). Examples will be drawn largely from XML vocabularies for the encoding of culturally significant textual materials.

If anyone has need Interent access beyond http or https, please see us at the registration desk. The KUGUEST network will work for basic access to Internet, but if you need secure FTP or other secure connections, you will need to log on to a different network.

KU users please use the SECURE JAYHAWK network (you may need to configure your laptop to access that network. Please see KU’s wireless info page for more details.

This is not part of THATCamp, but those at KU might be interested in this talk by Sam Pepple of Sample Cartography:

Tues Sept 20, 2011
12-1 pm
Lindley 210 (next door to the Art & Design Building)

Sam Pepple worked for the last three years at National Geographic. Starting in NG Maps as an intern, Sam was soon hired to design and produce maps and graphics for the Thematic Section of the 9th Ed. Atlas of the World. After the atlas, he was hired by National Geographic magazine to make maps and graphics for the monthly periodical. In January 2011 he left NGM to pursue a freelance career, and consequently created Sample Cartography. He will be presenting on his career in print and interactive cartography, and on his current work designing in a programmatic way with Open Street Map data for OpenGeo. The focus wil be on the creation of the Atlas of Rock Creek Park, which incorporated a public art project, printed book, and a digital, dynamic, data-base built with open-source geospatial data and mapping API. Through such projects, Sam hopes to inspire whole communities of (non-professional) cartographers to participate in telling their unique narratives, histories, and cartographies through maps.

Information regarding visitor parking on KU’s campus is available at parking.ku.edu/visit.shtml. The visitor parking lot that is closest to the conference venues is the Mississippi Street Garage (just north of the Kansas Union), which has 500 visitor parking spaces. The fee for parking there is $1.25/hour payable in cash or credit card at the pay station on level 4, or with a credit card at the exit gates. It is recommended that you park here on Thursday and Friday.


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However, there is *free* parking available at many campus lots on Saturday. Accordingly, we recommend that you do not park at the Mississippi Street Garage on Saturday (where fees will still apply), but instead park either in the lot across from the Kansas Union on Jayhawk Blvd (Lot 16) or the lot near the intersection of Mississippi Street and 11th St. (Lot 94). These lots require permits during the work week, but will be free on Saturday, September 24. Please consult the following campus parking map for precise lot locations: parking.ku.edu/2011map.pdf.

Should you find the Mississippi Street Garage full on Thursday or Friday, an additional 250 visitor spaces are available in the Allen Fieldhouse Garage at 1501 Irving Hill Road, directly north of Allen Field House, at the same fee of $1.25/hour.

Day 1 of our Digital Humanities Forum is a series of hands-on workshops. Day 3 is a conference with papers and poster sessions. The format of these sessions will be familiar to most participants, and the schedule and session titles for both these days are already on the website.

But for those who are new to THATCamp, you may be wondering what to expect from Day 2. As you will notice, the schedule is completely open….and it will stay that way until the day of the Camp.

First held at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media in 2008, THATCamp follows an “unconference” model in which the participants themselves set the agenda. There are no papers or presentations—instead each session is intended for discussion, sharing of information, and interaction. Every unconference is different, depending on the number of participants and their interests. Here’s is how we are planning to organize THATCamp Kansas:

1) Prior to the conference, participants can post to this blog ideas or topics they think would make for interesting sessions (please use the “Session Ideas” category to make it easy for others to find). Others can then respond with expressions of interest, or their own suggestions.

2) On the morning of THATCamp (Friday, Sep 23rd) the organizers will post the ideas on large sheets of paper, and as participants arrive, register and drink coffee, they can vote or sign up for sessions that interest them. We will then schedule the most popular topics into one of the rooms and time slots for that day. With four rooms available, and 5 hours of session time for each room, there will be plenty of time for a variety of topics!

For more information on proposing a session, including many examples of of sessions from previous THATCamps, please see our Propose a Session page.

The deadline for applying for BootCamp fellowships to help with travel expenses has been extended to August 15. If you are on the fence about attending THATCamp Kansas because of funding, the BootCamp fellowships may be able to help! Please see thatcamp.org/go/fellowships for more details.

Also–we now have 4 workshops set withe great instructors, and more in development. Confirmed workshops include: Creating Digital Scholarly Editions Using the TEI, Introduction to Omeka, Introduction to R for Humanists, and Grantwriting strategies for the Digital Humanities. See our BootCamp page for more details.

Registration for THATCamp Kansas, along with our other 2011 Digital Humanities Forum events, is now open! The KU 2011 Digital Humanities Forum 2011 consists of three separate but related programs held over three days:

Thursday, September 22: BootCamp Workshops: a set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital tools and other DH topics

Friday, September 23: THATCamp: an “unconference” for technologists and humanists

Saturday, September 24: Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities: a one-day program of panels and poster sessions showcasing DH projects and research

Please use the registration form here to register for any or all of the these three events.

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at KU is pleased to announce that THATCamp Kansas will take place September 22-23, 2011 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Thursday, September 22 will be devoted to a series of hands-on BootCamp workshops on topics such as GIS, visualizing data, and creating digital exhibits using Omeka (exact topics are still to be determined). Friday, September 23 will be devoted to open, free-wheeling conversations about topics defined by the participants.

In addition, Saturday, September 24 we will be hosting a one-day conference, Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities, featuring keynote speaker C. M. Sperberg-McQueen along with panel and poster sessions. Please see the conference website for more information about submitting a paper or poster.

Stay tuned to this website, follow our RSS feed (link above), or follow us on Twitter (@THATCampKS) for further updates, registration, and travel information.