**Update 5/10/12: Added links to DH books and another DH-focused journal issue **

So you don’t have to wade through the Twitter archive to find a link to something, here is a round-up of the documents, projects, tools, and publications shared via Twitter during THATCamp OSU. If there’s anything I missed, feel free to leave it in the comments.

The first group contains links to the Twitter archive, a blog post about the event, and Google docs for a few sessions. The second (below the fold) is a jumble of other stuff.

Documentation:

• Twitter archive
• Post about THATCamp OSU on Michelle Aubrecht’s HASTAC blog
• Twitter Resources for THATCamp OSU with Jen Michaels
• Google doc for session on emotion and technology
• Side projects (Google doc)
• Notes from plenary session with Julia Flanders

Other links:

• Computers and Composition Digital Press
• When you die on Facebook, The Huffington Post
• Geoffrey Rockwell’s presentation on Planning Digital Projects
• DH journals:
• Journal of Digital Humanities (also see this introductory post on DH Now)
• Digital Humanities Quarterly
• DH issue of Culture Machine
• Kate Hayles on hyper and deep attention
• Against thinking, Peter Stallybrass
• The Curator’s Code
• Content Curators are the New Superheroes of the Web
• Kill Peer Review or Reform It?
• Planned Obsolescence
• Books on the spatial humanities
• The Spatial Humanities
• GeoHumanities
• Past Time, Past Place
• Placing History
• Other books on digital humanities
• Gold, Matthew K., ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012. Print.
• A Companion to Digital Humanities
• Cool DH projects
• Mapping projects
• America’s Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66
• The Virtual Morgantown Project
• Journalism’s Voyage West
• Hypercities
• Historypin
• Mapping the Republic of Letters
• Quijote Interactivo
• Links to educational game resources
• How Video Games are Changing Education
• Free Art and Technology Lab
• Carmen Instructor Tutorials Online
• Open Heat Map
• Possible next steps
• “Networks” at OSU
• Working groups at the Humanities Institute

Hi, all. While reading through all of the session proposals submitted to date, one of THATCamp OSU’s organizers decided it might be fun and (OK, this next descriptor might be a stretch) heuristically valuable to create a Wordle from all of the session proposals (titles + text):

I’ve been working on collecting digital stories from Columbus community members since the spring of 2009. The Knowledge Bank folks have been very generous and provided a portal for the work completed in the Hilltop area of town and will, no doubt, be willing to set one up for other neighborhoods if a grant I submitted allows for work in Old Town, East; Linden; and the University Area (District). Other colleagues around the country in English studies and related areas are doing similar work and looking for a national archive to which we can all submit work. In addition, the director of the Center for Digital Storytelling <www.storycenter.org>, Joe Lambert, indicated several months ago that he too is interested in an archive of this nature: that one did not already exist. (Lambert will be in town for the Innovate conference next week. I’ll touch base with him again.)

The characteristics of such an archive are to be determined but should include a simple submission process, a long-term archival plan for many media types, IRB approved permissions, Creative Commons-type IP assignments, interactive components, a “spacialized” interface, etc.

Questions that participants in a session of this type might address collectively include

• Does such an archive already exist? (I haven’t found it.)
• Would OSU and the OSU Libraries be interested in this type of systems development?
• Are the OSU library’s dspace or OJS installations sufficient for all or part of this effort?
• What other HE, state, or national institutions might want to contribute to an effort of this type?
• What grant opportunities are their for a multi-institutional development team?
• Can the “tool” being developed be of use to other disciplines not as tied to story telling?

Dickie Selfe.3

I’ve been using both iMovie and prezi as platforms for composition assignments in my classes. I’m wondering if we could get a a group together and collectively compose some short project in one of these platforms. Obviously there would be several issues:

First, captaining such a ship of fools. According to the “propose a session” post, I would be responsible for chairing. I believe I could handle this. I’ve been in numerous student organization, where I have been responsible for making a decision happen without making the decision myself. I’d be managing editor and we would have no editor-in-chief.

Second, the subject. With limited time, I think we’d have to jump straight into composition choices. So we’d need to have big picture content issues decided ahead of time, via commenting here I presume. My suggestion for content is actually THATcamp itself. If we have this session late in the day, our composition can share our collective experience of the un-conference. We’d probably also want to decide which platform ahead of time.

Third, technology constraints. I think we’d be pretty safe with Prezi. But if we decided on a short movie, there’s importing/exporting time constraints as well as the gathering of raw footage. If this session goes forward, perhaps people planning to attend could check out flipcameras in the morning and shoot bits during the day. As managing editor, I could collect these at the lunch, or at least sometime before the session begins, and start importing. We could export at the close of the session. This way, we could spend the majority of the session selecting clips, sequencing, adding titles, and other editing details.

I’d like to hear thoughts on which platform people would prefer to work with, if it even seems feasible to try to work with iMovie, and also about the content. We could decide content live in the room as this is certainly part of the composition process. I’m just afraid that too much time spent in initial brainstorming wouldn’t leave us enough time to do the actually composing and editing.