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…
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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…
This year’s Great Lakes THATCamp is just around the corner, and MPublishing staff are busy getting ready. The Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities originally inspired by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. Great Lakes THATCamp will be held on the Michigan State University campus on April 30th & May 1st, 2011 in the Residential College of Arts & Humanities,…