Hello campers!

Below is an outline of tomorrow’s (Thursday, 11/7) THATCamp schedule (bit.ly/1dOkuSz), which will be completed as part of our proposal voting process:

• 8:15-9:15:     Registration, Breakfast & Voting, Salon A/B, Level 3
• 9:15-9:30:    Welcome & Introductions, Salon A/B, Level 3
• 9:30-10:00: Review and Finalize the Schedule
• 10:00-11:00: Concurrent Session 1
• 11:00-12:00: Concurrent Session 2
• 12:00-1:00: Lunch, Tejas, Level 2 (ad-hoc sessions up to attendees)
• 1:00-2:00: Concurrent Session 3
• 2:00-2:30: Break
• 2:30-3:30: Concurrent Session 4
• 3:30-4:00: Break
• 4:00-5:00: Wrap-Up, Salon A/B, Level 3

Registration, Breakfast & Voting

Registration should be a quick and painless process.  Make sure to grab your sticky notes when you register since they will be a crucial part of the voting process.  Take your sticky notes and breakfast into Salon A/B, which is where eating, voting, and the beginning sessions will happen.

It is important that you cast your vote by 9:15 am sharp.  To vote, place as many sticky notes as you’d like, up to the maximum given, on the proposal or proposals of interest, which will be taped on to the walls of Salon A/B.  The organizers will promptly tally the votes, and prepare an initial draft of the schedule, populated with sessions, for group review at 9:30 am.

Sessions

We have designated 4, one-hour slots with up to as many as 4 concurrent concurrent sessions.  The number of concurrent sessions will not be known until the schedule is finalized, but we have 4 venues identified for gathering.  On level 3, we can split Salon A/B into two distinct spaces: Salon A and Salon B, and on level 2, informal groupings can set up in the two open spaces in the Courtyard (Courtyard A & B).  The Courtyard spaces are informal so it’s up to the session leader to find and claim a spot.

Google docs have been setup for collaborative note-taking.  While everyone can take notes, it would be helpful to designate an official note taker at the start of the session.

Lunch

Lunch is provided in the Tejas dining space located on level 2 of the conference center from 1:00-2:00 pm.  Campers could use this time to form ad-hoc lunch sessions.  Ad-hoc lunch sessions should be posted to the schedule, blogged and/or tweeted (#thatcamp #dhlib2013) by the session leader.  Campers can also holler or hold up signs.  No matter how it’s done, individual campers are responsible for organizing shop talk or show & tells during lunch.

Wrap Up

At 4:00 pm we will all not leave early, but instead come back to Salon A/B for a super fun wrap up session.  We will use this time to report back on themes that emerge, and help foster ongoing connections and collaboration.  We might also tell some jokes.

The session today on Omeka raised questions we have been wrestling with on support and scaling for tools in the digital humanities.  What has been working and what has not?  How do you decide on what tools, versions, plugins, etc. support and when to upgrade?  Do you make exception for certain sets of users or use cases?  DH tools are often experimental, so what is reasonable to support and push and how far can we stretch it?  How has it been when you have had to say no?

The Digital Humanities & Libraries THATCamp event has a twitter handle: twitter.com/dhlibthatcamp.  Follow us and re-tweet like mad.  We need more followers and session proposals (or comments on existing session proposals).

Make sure to also join us for online discussions as we kick around themes, session proposals, workshop ideas and more.

The hash tags for the event are:

• #thatcamp
• #dhlib2013

We have decided to close registration.  We were able to send out a few codes to some wait listed people last week and nearly all of them have been used.  Unless people cancel we will not be able to allow any more people from the wait list in. Since we would need a fairly high pre-unconference attrition rate to get through all of those currently on the wait list closing registration seemed like the best option.

The Digital Humanities & Libraries THATCamp event, as part of the Digital Library Federation Forum post-conference activities, now has a twitter handle: https://twitter.com/dhlibthatcamp.  Follow us and re-tweet like mad.

Make sure to also join us for online discussions as we kick around themes, session proposals, workshop ideas and more.

The hash tags for the event are:

• #thatcamp
• #dhlib2013