Upcoming Events

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STARS. On Wednesday, April 13, the DHI will be included in the Institute and Center Forum (12:00-1:30), as part of the Scholars Transforming Academic Research Symposium (STARS) sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Interim chair Clayton McCarl will provide a brief description of the DHI and our activities, and will participate along with the leaders of other centers and institutes in a question and answer session.

SOARS. On Friday, April 15, Cameron Adelsperger will discuss his work with coloniaLab, a DHI affiliate project, at the Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research & Scholarship (SOARS) sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Cameron is an English/Spanish double major and is a student representative to the DHI Advisory Committee.

Voces y caras. On Tuesday, April 19, students in Communication and Communities for Speakers of Spanish, an advanced course for native and heritage speakers, will present the interviews they have conducted this semester as part of Voces y caras: Hispanic Communities of Jacksonville, an affiliate project of the DHI. This event will take place 1:45-3:00 in the Special Collections Reading Room on the first floor of the Library.

Introduction to TEI-XML/Introduction to Story Maps. Please remember that faculty-led workshops on TEI-XML and Story Maps will offered on Wednesday, April 20 (reading day). Although these sessions are intended primarily for faculty and staff, students involved with the DHI and its affiliate projects are welcome. Please register now as space is limited (click here for Introduction to TEI-XML, click here for Introduction to Story Maps).

THATCamp. THATCamp Gainesville 2016, a Digital Humanities “unconference,” takes place on Saturday, April 23. The event begins at 8:30 and ends at around 5:15. Although the schedule for THATCamp is developed collaboratively the morning of the event, the organizers have generously reserved a session for those of us traveling from UNF. From 2:15 to 3:15, Laura Heffernan (English), Anne Pfister (Anthropology), Clayton McCarl (Spanish) and a group of seven of their students/alumni will discuss their work on a variety of recent and ongoing digital projects. For more information and to register, see http://gainesville2016.thatcamp.org. If you plan on taking any of your own students, please contact Clayton McCarl in advance for guidance regarding liability waivers and transportation matters.

DIG3990 Introduction to Electronic Textual Editing: Editing the Eartha M. M. White Archives. This experimental course, supported by the DHI, will be offered in Summer A. Participants will use TEI-XML to develop an online archive of the personal papers of Eartha M.M. White, held in Special Collections at UNF. Please encourage your students to register.

Electrifying English

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On Friday, March 4, students presented on their digital projects at “Electrifying English,” the annual showcase of the UNF chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors Society. Photos courtesy of Valerie Kelco.

Information Sessions for New Electronic Textual Editing Course, Summer A 2016

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DIG3990 Editing Eartha White Archives

UNF students, faculty and staff are invited to attend two open house sessions to learn more about DIG3990 Introduction to Electronic Textual Editing, an experimental Digital Humanities course that will be offered for the first time in Summer A 2016. In this experimental, workshop-style course, students will create a digital archive of the personal papers and correspondence of Eartha M. M. White (1876-1974), a key figure in the African American history of Jacksonville. Course participants will learn how to encode electronic texts using TEI-XML, working directly with rare documents in the Special Collections of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library. No previous experience with archival research or XML encoding is required, and the course has no prerequisites. This is an interdisciplinary project of the UNF Digital Humanities Initiative (http://unfdhi.org), with the support of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library; the Center for Instruction and Research Technology (CIRT); Information Technology Services (ITS); and the departments of English; History; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work; and the School of Computing.

 

The information sessions will be held in Special Collections on the first floor of the Thomas G. Carpenter Library on Wed., March 23, 11:30-12:30, and Thurs., March 24, 11:30-12:30. Anyone interested may stop by at their convenience during these times. The open house events will be an opportunity to meet Dr. Clayton McCarl, who will teach the course, and Dr. Aisha Johnson-Jones, Head of Special Collections and Archives, who will serve as guest lecturer. Attendees will also have a chance to learn more about the methods and materials to be used in the course.

 

For more information, please contact Clayton McCarl, clayton.mccarl@unf.edu.