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…
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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…
THATCamp Switzerland (4)
The final bootcamp session of the day was on “emulators” by Patrick Kammerer of the University of Zurich and the blog Geschichte & Informatik. I picked this session because it’s a topic I know zero about, as one should do at an unconference. If you want to play with a Commodore 64 emulator, you can…
THATCamp Switzerland (3)
In the first bootcamp session after lunch I attended a session led by Stefan Keller (University of Zurich) called “Knowledge Organization and Representation,” which was focused on various information management tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, and LitLink (new version launched officially today). Note to self: More than one person has told me I ought to…