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Last week I was grateful to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria in beautiful British Columbia with support from both ZSR and Wake Forest’s Humanities Institute. I took a week-long course in project management, specifically tailored to digital humanities, where projects are often protean and power dynamics among team members are…complicated. Before and after, I also took two 3-hour workshops on metadata for digital humanities (Open Refine FTW!) and large-scale text analysis through the HathiTrust Research Center.
I often digest professional development by articulating what I’ve learned in multiple snippets of 140 characters or less — and at DHSI, where Twitter is a medium of collaborative note-taking, as well as conversation, this was especially true. Below is an embedded collection of select tweets (not all, I promise!) capturing some of my conversations and takeaways from DHSI. I invite you to browse below or to skim the collection on Twitter.
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I was lazily following some of the tweeting last week. Looks like an amazing conference! (Also, clever of you to summarize your experience with curated tweets!)
I, too, was loosely following your tweets from DHSI, and saw some of those collected above. However, I’d missed the one equating collaboration in projects to making stone soup – great analogy! And 100% agree that leadership, especially when spearheaded by a librarian, is not always acknowledged as such, but undervalued as support or service.
Worthwhile trip out west! Amused that charter allows swearing in person but not in writing; oh, the things that must be navigated in collaboration. I’m curious about how you made the Twitter timeline, will have to explore – very useful for personal post-conference processing!