Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

Nebraska Digital Workshop

Attended the Nebraska Digital Workshop.  Excellent work by the CDHR (and Kay Walter and the gang) to show off new work by emerging scholars in digital humanities (http://cdrh.unl.edu/opportunities/neb_digital_workshop/index.php).Nebraska Digital Workshop

Oral History Association | 2009 Annual Meeting Program

Oral History Association | 2009 Annual Meeting Program is now available online.  It will be a great conference held October 14-18, 2009, at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

DH 2009

Attending the Digital Humanities 2009 conference http://www.mith2.umd.edu/dh09/> The conference runs from June 22-25, 1009 at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

Oral History Association Annual Meeting

Participated a part of a roundtable “Oral History in the Digital Age: A Conversation About Best Practices,” Oral History  Association, Pittsburgh, PA, October 15-19, 2008.  Also talked about the launch of the new website for OHA (http://www.oralhistory.org/).

Open Education 2008

Attending the Open Education 2008, the annual meeting and conference for the OpenCourseWare Consortium.  Doing demonstration of Kora and Connex.  September 24-26, 2008.

Project Bamboo

July 14-16, 2008

Princeton, NJ

Participated in Workshop 1d (http://projectbamboo.uchicago.edu/)

Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question:

How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?

Cultural Heritage Professionals Workshop

April 3-4, 2008

http://chips.ci.fs.edu

IMLS meeting to discuss how libraries, archives, and museums can work together better to train information professinals for tomorrow.

Webwise 2008

Webwise is a conference for museums and libraries in the digital world.

http://webwise2008.fcla.edu/ 

will be attending workshop on digital applications for the humanities.  The conference is focusing on community and Web 2.0.

Merlot

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching – MERLOT
7th International Conference (August 7-10, 2007).

Project Builder: A Digital Repository Engineered to Function as a Robust Content Management System
Presenters: Dean Rehberger, Michael Fegan
(http://conference.merlot.org/2007/ProgramGrid.htm)

MATRIX, a Humanities Computing Research Center at MSU, has constructed an open source digital repository, Project Builder, providing the full functionality of a rich content management system. We will explore PB, a flexible web-based CMS designed for long term preservation and access, which allows for the development of complex, multimedia learning objects. Designed for a long-term preservation and access, PB is a flexible web-based CMS that allows for the development of complex, multimedia learning objects.

Video, Education, and Open Content: Best Practices

Presentation at Columbia University, May 22-23, 2007
Teaching and Learning–best practices session on MediaMatrix
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/opencontent/may23/teaching_and_learning_best_pra.html