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by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Entries from August 2010

One Week | One Tool: Interim Report

August 17th, 2010 · No Comments

As promised on Twitter, I’m sharing the report (with a few minor copyedits and corrections) I submitted this week to NEH on One Week | One Tool. This is an interim report, which means there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. The grant continues for another year, during which time the One Week | [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Open Source

Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 3, Serendipity

August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Over the past few months, several people—including several participants themselves—have asked me how we chose the One Week | One Tool crew. We had about 50 applicants. Nearly all of them were perfectly qualified to attend. This made the selection process exceedingly difficult. I have no doubt we could have ended up with another group [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites · Management

Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 2, Use

August 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments

For all the emphasis on the tool itself, the primary aim of One Week | One Tool is not tool building, it’s education. One Week | One Tool is funded by NEH under the the Institutes for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities (IATDH) program. IATDH grants “support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars [...]

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Tags: Digital Humanities · Favorites · Marketing · Open Source