Stephen Robertson will be part of a team working on Promoting a Public Face for Scholarly Journals at the Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute from October 7-11, 2018. Together with Lisa Brady, Liz Covart, Seth Denbo, Robert Greene II, and Catherine Halley, he will be developing a guide to platforms and strategies for public engagement which we would disseminate online, and present at the journal editors’ breakfast at the 2019 American Historical Association conference.
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Megan Brett, Stephen Robertson and LaQuanda Walters Cooper will be presenting a lighting talk on Creating Local Linkages at the Public Library Archives and Special Collections Section meeting during the Society of American Archivists Conference on August 15, 2018, at 4.00 PM. Creating Local Linkages is an online course to introduce public librarians to researching and publishing local history using digital tools.
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We are happy to announce a day of workshops and activities for developers and users of Omeka S on June 22, 2018. The event will include an overview of the design of Omeka S, as well as introductions to resources (mostly items, but other things as well), module, and site development from the Omeka team. The morning will give a high-level conceptual overview of Omeka S, and the afternoon will involve hands-on exploration of site building and module development. It’s a Friday, so we expect to wrap up around 3pm.
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Stephen Robertson & Megan Brett will be presenting sessions at the Conference for High Impact Research at American University on May 14, 2018. Stephen Robertson will be leading a session entitled “Adding a Digital Dimension to Your Research” from 10.45am – 12.00pm. Megan Brett will be part of a session entitled “Omeka and Preserve the Baltimore Uprising 2015: The Power of Online Exhibits in High Impact Research” from 2.15pm-3.30pm.
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Sheila Brennan will be participating in the panel “Continuing the Conversation – Curators & Technologists United” at the Association of Art Museum Curators Conference, in Montreal, on May 7, 2018.
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Stephen Robertson will be participating in a roundtable on digital humanities at Case Western University, from 11.35am-12.45pm on April 25, 2018
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A concert and symposium showcasing the work for the ReSounding the Archive project will be held at the the Colonnade Club on the campus of the University of Virginia on April 24, from 5.30-8 pm. The project brings World War I sheet music to life through recordings and live performances, and a website that will provide digitized sheet music, historical context, and usable recordings of each song.
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Sheila Brennan will be facilitating a roundtable entitled “Extending the Power of Public History through Open Access Digital Publishing,” at the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, on April 20, from 3.30-5.00pm.
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Sean Takats will be presenting “Managing research photos and archival images with Tropy” at the European University Institute in Florence, on March 21, 2018
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The Current Research in Digital History 2018 conference will be held in Founders Hall at George Mason University in Arlington, VA, on Saturday, March 17, 2018.
CRDH is an annual one-day conference that publishes online, peer-reviewed proceedings. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations. A format of short presentations provides an opportunity to make an argument on the basis of ongoing research in a larger project.
Registration and Program Information is available here
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