Category Archives: Session Proposals

The Visibility of the Digital Archivist

Posted on June 19, 2013 by annakijas1

Extending the conversation on the new invisibility/visibility of the library in the digital age begun by Tom Scheinfeldt in Nobody Cares about the Library, we (Mary Isbell and I) would like to discuss if/how creating a digital archive requires the scholar to … Continue reading →

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Digital Documentation of the Creative Process

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Veronica Rivera-Negron

Digital technologies and the Internet may be helpful in preserving the text of a play and/or the video of its performance to other generations to see and study. But what if we can have an idea of how the actors … Continue reading →

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Open Source Content Management System for Digital Theater Archives

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Lillian Manzor

This session will show users how the content management system of he Cuban Theater Digital Archive (cubantheater.org) works. It will allow artists, scholars, and librarians to test it out and consider its use for other theater/performance digital archives. The platform … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Cataloging in the Performing Arts

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Siân Evans

Two of the barriers to providing access to special collections (including performing arts documentation) are time and descriptive metadata. Librarians are often short on the time and resources necessary to properly describe and make available special collections. Additionally, specialized knowledge … Continue reading →

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Session Proposals: WordPress Workshop & Conversation on Scaling & Integrating New Platforms

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Andrew Horwitz

I will lead a workshop on the basics of WordPress. I’ve been on WordPress since about 2009, after first being on Movable Type. I have a freestanding install for my main site and several WordPress.com hosted sites as well. I … Continue reading →

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The Foundry in Neverwinter (Workshop)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Lisa Reinke

Neverwinter is an upcoming (still in beta) massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for the Microsoft Windows platform. It was developed by the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) corporation, Perfect World, and Cryptic Studios. A staple of D&D is user-created game … Continue reading →

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Aesthetics of The Social Object and the Value of Intentional Liveness

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Andrew Horwitz

I’m quite eager to find people to explore some complex ideas and figure out how they might be implemented or expressed in tangible ways. I’m happy to either “teach” the ideas that I’ve been wrestling with or, preferably, talk about … Continue reading →

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Community and Network Building between DH & Performing Artists

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Cynthia Tobar

Today’s ever-growing interest in digital humanities research and teaching has coincided with an increased desire by performing artists to learn about appropriate digital tools, applications, and software in order to engage them into their performances. Our goal is to have … Continue reading →

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