This came in from Matt Kochis as a comment on another post.  Thought I should post it here as a potential session proposal, though I take it Matt is looking for whether someone else could lead such a session.

“Hey all. Can we have a session on how to evaluate digital humanities projects? Particularly, I’m interested not only on critiquing faculty projects but, more important, how to criticize and grade student projects. At a recent conference I attended this summer, I sat in on a round table discussion on Digital Humanities and Pedagogy. At the end of the session, I asked the panel participants what the range of grades were on their students’ work. None of them gave less than an A. This seems very problematic. I was hoping that we can discuss best practices and rubrics.

It is estimated that 80% of all data has a spatial component.  Placing that data within the visual framework of a map is a powerful tool for promoting visual analysis and contextual understanding.  Common methods of extracting, manipulating and displaying the spatial nature inherent in many elements of the Humanities will be the focus of this workshop.

Attendees will have hands-on exposure to ArcGIS software, the most widely used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software.  The workshop will cover the basics of spatial data import, visual manipulation and simple analysis.  The primiary objective of the workshop is to enable attendees with a clearer understanding of what this technology can be used for in their field of study.

Omeka is a web publishing platform used by archives, librarians, museums, and many others organization. It is used to to organize, describe, and display digital images, audio files, videos, and texts. The websites are visually appealing (many themes feature responsive design), and you can create exhibits to tell the narrative of groups of items.

In this introduction to Omeka, you’ll learn how to add images, audio, video, and text to your archive, how to arrange items into collections, and how to create exhibits. We’ll also go over the difference between Omeka.net and self-hosted Omeka sites, examples of pedagocical uses of Omeka, and discuss the Dublin Core metadata standard for describing digital objects.

To bring:
1. Laptop
2. Sample materials (several images, pdfs, and audiovisual files)
3. An Omeka.net Basic account (free) – sign up at www.omeka.net/signup

Handouts (complements of Miriam Posner) available at:
hbg2013.thatcamp.org/files/2013/10/Omeka-Up-and-Running.docx
hbg2013.thatcamp.org/files/2013/10/Omeka-Creating-an-Exhibit.docx