Digital Humanities 2011: June 19 – 22

Thanks to the grass-roots efforts of some of our favorite faithful DHers (both of whom we really missed at Stanford this weekend!), there are at least two Twitter archives of the outstandingly rich #dh11 conference stream:

• one by @ernestopriego, a.k.a. @ComicsGrid
• and another by @samplereality

Thanks for stepping up! Let us know if there are other archives you’d like to see listed here.

21 DHer’s Showed up for the first annual DH Fun Run.

Alan Liu, Chair and Professor of English at University of Santa Barbara, known for Voice of the Shuttle, The Laws of Cool, Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database, and now for his work on 4Humanities, will be the centerNet luncheon speaker at the Digital Humanities 2011 conference on Wed, June 22nd.

His presentation is titled “4Humanities: The Digital Humanities Community & Humanities Advocacy.”

More information about Liu is available at http://liu.english.ucsb.edu. Details about the location and schedule can be found in the Conference Schedule.

The Conference schedule has just been updated. Mostly minor changes: a few room numbers, times, and moving of the fun run to the morning in order to accommodate a very busy series of afternoon/evening events and the hot weather that has descended upon the Bay Area.

We have also just learned that Sunday is “World Music Day” in Palo Alto. Those of you arriving early may want to check it out!

See you all very soon,

Glen and Matt

The Pre-Conference, Conference, and Post-Conference Schedule is now available on line:  DH 2011 Conference Schedule

General
Wireless internet will be available to all presenters, as well as to the audience.

We’re working to insure that there are ample power outlets for your laptop batteries: knowing our DH community, we expect they’ll be getting a real good workout.

Poster Session
This year’s unified poster session will be in a spacious and elegant ballroom. If you look at the schedule, you’ll see there’s no competition from any other papers or events. We know from your abstracts that you’ve put a lot of effort into these presentations of your work, and we hope to make DH2011′s poster session the most visible, comfortable and well-attended ever.

Each poster presenter will have one side of a stand-alone poster board that is 4′ high and 8′ wide, and several will have a place to set a laptop. We’ll have push-pins appropriate for these boards, but if you’d like something special or out-of-the-ordinary to hang your poster, please bring it with you.

Papers and Panels
Projectors will be provided for each room, but please bring your own laptop or be prepared with a flash drive to transfer your presentation visuals to a fellow presenter’s laptop. Past DH experience has shown that most presenters prefer to use their own machines, and that they are very willing to share with those who don’t. Note that our projectors have VGA connectors, so Mac users: bring your video adapters.

All sessions have been assigned chairs, whose primary purpose is to make sure that presenters and sessions start and end on time. For those panels that have self-organized: you may still have an assigned chair to oversee the general timetable and to take care of any last-minute needs.

Please let us know soon if you have any special presentation needs, and we’ll try to accommodate them; even better, contact your session chair to talk about these needs.

Register for DH2011 excursions before Tuesday, June 14, to ensure your spot on the bus! Registration for the excursions and the conference banquet will close completely on Friday, June 17.

You can still register for these events, even if you’ve already registered for the conference proper! Simply go to our DH2011 registration form, fill in the required fields, and select only the additional events you want.

Rather than outsourcing your DH2011 social program, we’ve decided to put a Stanford spin on our post-conference excursions, starting with the tour guides, whom we’re pleased now to announce:

The Sonoma Wine Country tour guide will be Long Le-Khac, PhD Candidate in English, laborer in the Stanford Literary Lab at Stanford, and Local Wine Sipper.

The Silicon Valley History will be Leslie Berlin, historian of the Stanford University Libraries’ Silicon Valley Archives.

The Literary San Francisco excursion, now expanded to include cinematic and visual history in the City by the Bay, will be led by yours truly, fourth-generation Northern Californian Glen Worthey.

Fully searchable Book of Abstracts is now on line at http://dh2011abstracts.stanford.edu/.

Q. How’d we do it?

A. XTF [1] , and a wee bit of XSLT tweaking.

But this came only after a lot (a lot!) of effort converting all the abstracts to TEI XML, with which we got an enormous boost from the 50 DH2011 heroes who submitted their abstracts in XML. You’ll be able to spot these bold DHers by their honorary blue DH2011 teeshirts and celebratory conference badges. Shake their hands.

[1] Developed and maintained by the California Digital Library (CDL), XTF is an open source platform for providing search-able access to digital content. XTF is built in XML/XSLT and runs very nicely in Tomcat.

Thanks to Network Visualization guru and Stanford Digital Humanities Specialist Elijah Meeks, we now have a sweet looking node and edge map of everyone participating in DH2011.  Check it out here:  http://dh2011network.stanford.edu/.  Participant and session data was extracted from the DH2011 conference registration system.  Elijah will be showing off his network viz. chops during the conference, and he will be happy to run ego networks for any DH participants who happen to swing by.  And, if you really want to show your Dean how important you are, Elijah can advise you on how to turn your network into a poster for your office door!  A few examples are inserted below.