{"id":1140,"date":"2015-11-12T10:55:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2015-11-12T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T15:55:19","slug":"january-digital-boot-camp-for-dickinson-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/2015\/11\/12\/january-digital-boot-camp-for-dickinson-students\/","title":{"rendered":"January Digital Boot Camp for Dickinson Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student applications to Digital Boot Camp 2016 are due Friday, November 20, at 5:00 PM. Please invite students who may be interested in this two-week, paid\u00a0opportunity.\u00a0This year’s program includes an all-day “humanities hack-a-thon,” and the theme will be “Humanities at the Crossroads of Tradition and New Technologies.”\u00a0The application form is available on the website,\u00a0DBC 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Out of the dozens of applications we received last year, eleven students were accepted into Dickinson’s Digital Boot Camp held in Waidner-Spahr Library (January 12-16). Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dickinson’s Digital Boot Camp 2015 was a two-week series of tutorials and on-campus workshops designed to help students develop the skills to produce and display, organize, and analyze digital content and information online.<\/p>\n

Based in current Web technologies, students learned fundamentals of using Drupal (CMS) to design and display content, ArcGIS (Geographic Information Systems) for identifying and analyzing geographic relationships in humanities-based research, and Gephi (an open-source data visualization software) for mapping large complex sets of data for visualization, discovery, and network analysis.<\/p>\n

This year’s upcoming program (January 11-22, 2016) will mark the third anniversary of DBC @ Dickinson, and be the first in which students have the opportunity to interact in Waidner-Spahr Library\u2019s two new digital humanities workspaces, the Willoughby Digital Scholarship Lab and the <TEI Lab\/>. Here they will be learning last year\u2019s application technologies in addition to XML encoding and the markup language of TEI, which support the next-generation Web technologies that are already shifting scholarship away from today\u2019s Web of Display to tomorrow\u2019s Web of Data and Meaning.<\/p>\n

For an example of Web 3.0 collaboration in the humanities, see the ARC\u00a0BigDIVA<\/a>\u00a0(Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application), a dynamic catalog of over 200 research projects in the digital humanities which students at Dickinson have been involved in building through textual markup of early 20th-c. magazines and internships in the <TEI Lab\/> this year.<\/p>\n

“The taxonomies we develop [through ARC] will be taken up by contributors to our nodes and could potentially become one of the standards for the semantic web. This is a big responsibility: we can at this moment have an impact on the way that literature is\u00a0found\u00a0on the Internet, not just by search engines but by data-mining and information systems that create encyclopedic definitions of the world. We are participating in the emergence of knowledge organization for the future, beyond Dewey and Library of Congress schemes<\/strong>.\u201d — Dr.\u00a0Laura Mandell, Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Director of ARC,\u00a018thConnect and General Editor of The Poetess Archive.<\/p>\n

Read what students last year are saying:\u00a0Student Experience<\/a>\u00a0and Kristina Rodriguez’s\u00a0Article<\/a>\u00a0from The Dickinsonian<\/em> (Oct. 25, 2015); and learn more about the National Endowment for the Humanities and support for humanities computing,\u00a0The Rise of the Machines<\/a><\/p>\n

Patrick Belk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Student applications to Digital Boot Camp 2016 are due Friday, November 20, at 5:00 PM. Please invite students who may be interested in this two-week, paid\u00a0opportunity.\u00a0This year’s program includes an all-day “humanities hack-a-thon,” and the theme will be “Humanities at the Crossroads of Tradition and New Technologies.”\u00a0The application form is available on the website,\u00a0DBC 2016. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}