The final full session I attended was devoted to the question of digital project management, led by Radu Suciu. Among the questions discussed were how to complete a project once the money runs out? Another was how to plan successfully for the final outcome? Another was how do we get started with a digital humanities…
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THATCamp Switzerland (7)
In the afternoon the first session I attended was “How is the writing of history changing?” The session began with a Ted Talk by Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel on Google’s n-gram viewer and what we can learn from 5 million books (500 billion words), a topic I’ve also played with here in the…
THATCAMP Switzerland (6)
After escaping the pirates who took over my session in the morning and finding coffee, I went to the session on mobile computing led by two people from the University of Zurich. The session began with a demonstration of a course developed there several years ago. This particular course is targeted primarily at students to…
THATCamp Switzerland (5)
My session on graduate students in digital humanities was Occupied! Because it became clear to many at the conference that although 40% of the attendees at THATCamp Switzerland were female, only one of the proposals was by a woman. So, two of the women here at Camp staged a pirate attack on my session and…