listening to repeating

A big thanks to Rebecca Collins for her story in the new issue of Perspectives, the UW’s College of Arts & Sciences newsletter.

Also a big thanks to Fiona Barnett (Women’s Studies, Duke) and Herb Blau (English and Comp Lit., UW) for their kind and supportive words.

Check out the story.

Good news!  The next installment in the “What does digital scholarship do?” HASTAC Scholars series at the University of Washington is scheduled for this week.

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A piece, titled “Teaching and Learning through the Digital Humanities,” that I wrote for English Matters (the UW English Department’s newsletter) is now online.

Give it a gander.  There are also some print versions finding their way into the mailboxes of alumni.

A big thanks to Jen Gonyer-Donohue for being a fantastic editor and conversationalist.

I’m happy to announce that my UW English colleague, Paige Morgan, and I recently finished the THATCamp PNW website, including a Call for Participants for the October 2010 event, which will be held on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.

A big thanks to Julie Meloni for all of her help.

The call’s copied below, and you can visit the site for more info.  If you are interested in applying, then please note the deadline.  Thanks!

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This Thursday, March 18th, I’ll be participating in a Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 2010 with a number of other folks.

Day of DH is a community publication project that will bring together digital humanists from around the world to document what they do on one day. The goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together the journals of the participants into a picture that answers the question, “Just what do computing humanists really do?” Participants will document their day through photographs and commentary in a blog-like journal. The collection of these journals with links, tags, and comments will make up the final work which will be published online.

On March 18th, participants will document and share the events of their day. However participants will also become co-authors, and the direction of the entire project will be influenced by their choices, both before and after the day of documentation. Eventually, the data will be grouped together, undergo some light semantic editing, and released for others to study. We hope that, beyond the original online publication, the raw data will be of use to those interested in further visualization or ethnographic experiments.

Here’s my “Day of Jentery Sayers” blog.  If you get a chance, then check in with me and others on Thursday.  I’m looking forward!

Thanks to a Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) plugin, you can now “bibliomap” your Zotero library.  Fun!  Er . . . wait . . .  useful!

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After a cursory go (about thirty minutes) at it, I’ve been able to:

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