Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off HASTAC V, sponsored by the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. The first event associated with the conference is a public lecture by artist Paul Kaiser, a pioneer in the use of 3D rendering, motion capture, and artificial intelligence in digital art. Friday and Saturday are packed with engaging speakers, tours, and demos. For the complete program, see here. Registration is still available on site, and attendance at sessions (does…
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The MPublishing team recently returned from THATCamp Publishing in Baltimore, MD. For the uninitiated, THAT (for “The Humanities and Technology”) Camp is a new breed of “unconference” attempting to move beyond the stand-and-deliver (and sit-and-listen) variety of academic conferences many of us are used to. Instead, the mission is collective discussion and concerted sharing around particular themes and with specific goals in mind. If you’d like to read participants’ notes from THATCamp Publishing, they are…
Participants at THATCamp Kansas, September 2011. Image copyright: KU Libraries. Used with permission. Kevin Hawkins and Becky Welzenbach (Head of Digital Publishing Production and TCP Outreach Librarian, respectively, here at MPublishing) have been offering a workshop on “Creating Digital Scholarly Editions Using the TEI.” The course, which covers everything from basic Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to discussions about the wide application of digital scholarly editions, has been popular among librarians and humanities scholars here…
Terri Geitgey is the Manager of Library Print Services at MPublishing. On April 4 & 5, she attended the Coalition for Networked Information spring meeting in San Diego, California. I attended the Coalition for Networked Information spring meeting to do a co-presentation with staff from the University of Utah Library on our respective experiences with the Espresso Book Machine (EBM). Our session, The Espresso Book Machine in the Library: Case Studies from Two University Libraries,…
Copyright law is, for good or for ill, now a part of the academic experience. Learning about copyright and alternative models of distribution, such as Creative Commons and Open Access, is an important piece of effectively navigating the waters of the new educational reality. The third annual eCornucopia conference at Oakland University will examine specific examples about how openness is implemented in higher education and the importance of increasing the transparency and accessibility of knowledge….
Next week, May 2-6, the U-M Teaching and Technology Collaborative will host their annual conference, Enriching Scholarship, and invite “faculty and instructional staff to enhance their teaching and research by participating in a week of free seminars, workshops, demonstrations and other events drawing upon the expertise of faculty and instructional technology specialists from across campus. Enriching Scholarship offers sessions exploring the effective integration of information and technology with teaching, learning and research.” Registration for the 100+ workshops, demonstrations, discussions, and social…