Here are the links to the Google docs created during Pedagogy and DH session this morning, and the Copyrighted and uncopyrighted materials session this afternoon. They are open to public editing, so feel free to add in. (These were first circulated on Twitter under the #thatcamptx hashtag.)

AM: E-books/Crowd-sourcing transcriptions/Text encoding 315A
AM: Pedagogy and DH Parlor
AM: Intro GIS and Humanities B20

PM: Intro Programing for DH/(annotating video, large data sets) 315A
PM: Inclusivity and DH Parlor
PM: Reusing Copyrighted Material/ Royalty-free multimedia B20

Here’s my first session idea: I’m compiling a corpus of both old and new media vernacular texts as part of a semantic/anthropological examination of American beliefs about health. (It’s called CADOH—Corpus of American Discourses on Health). I’ve been using the pilot stages of it to look at the distribution of terms such as fat, stress, cold, and oil. I’m envisioning its final form as a mix of vernacular discussions. While good corpora exist already for contemporary magazine, newspaper, and fiction (e.g. COCA), I’m aiming to capture more transient conversations about health, including blog posts and their comments, listervs, online forums and wikis, letters to the editor, and radio transcripts. To make it useful for others, I will need copyright approval for sharing the texts. So I’m proposing a helpathon in order to hear from others who have dealt with compiling current materials. What ways to request copyrighted info have been helpful? For those items not under a Creative Commons license, are the costs prohibitive for re-using current material? And, once the copyright issues are dealt with, what’s the best way to make the corpus accessible? Would this be a good Omeka-type project?

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The first 10 people have registered already!  Looking forward to a great unconference in March.