Collaborating Across Units to Support Digital Scholarship

In this session, participants shared strategies and best practices for collaborating across units to support digital scholarship. The leaders briefly described two recent examples of successful collaborations at Middlebury College, instituting Omeka support & running a Liberal Arts Data Bootcamp, before opening up for broader discussions and brainstorming

Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement

While crowdsourcing has been used in the corporate world as a way to outsource tasks to non-employees, it is increasingly being used in cultural and educational institutions for projects that seek to harness the energy and brainpower of the masses to complete specific tasks (e.g. transcription, annotation, metadata creation) more quickly and inexpensively than would otherwise be possible

Crowdsourcing and Community Engagement

While crowdsourcing has been used in the corporate world as a way to outsource tasks to non-employees, it is increasingly being used in cultural and educational institutions for projects that seek to harness the energy and brainpower of the masses to complete specific tasks (e.g. transcription, annotation, metadata creation) more quickly and inexpensively than would otherwise be possible

Lakeview Tower: Case History of Foundation Failure

The 14 storey Lakeview Towers apartment building in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada began with the site investigation in 1972 and ended 10 years later by demolition. During this interval settlements of over 400 mm occurred in one section of the structure. The reasons for the settlement revolved around a change in foundation design from piles to spread footings on improved ground, complicated by an unexpected layer of highly compressible clay. While the building may have been able to tolerate the settlement depending on the reader\u27s interpretation of the results, it was demolished after legal disputes. A final structural analysis indicated a deficiency related particularly to earthquake loading

Direction of the Musical: Working

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, musical analysis, casting, direction, vocal coaching, and post-production analysis of Centennial High School\u27s production of Working. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play, its music, and an evaluation of the musical as a production vehicle for the department of theatre arts at Centennial High School. The analysis also includes a discussion as to the non-traditional directorial vision of this production

Crafting Digital Narratives with Scalar

From non-linear storytelling to rich, scholarly annotations, this workshop will encourage new ways of thinking about classroom writing in digital environments. Using a web application called Scalar, you will begin to craft a media-rich digital narrative. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways

Fair-Play: How Women Experience Sexism within Board Gaming Spaces

As a male dominated culture, board gaming demonstrates relative traits to its digital counterpart video games when it comes to accepting women within its spaces. Through the representations of women of both in game and from within the culture, board gaming has a lot to offer in terms of understanding their experiences. Despite this, board gaming has and continues to be a niche community that has been left fairly untouched by scholars and research. Although there has been previous work regarding board games, there has been no full exploration of the fans within this culture. This study aim to change that, and look into the very minority of board games, the women. This study aims to explore how women experience board games on a daily basis when engaging with their own gaming groups and spaces and talks through the labour and challenges that faces them when experiencing sexism and resistance from its male dominated audience. Through the use of twelve interviews with women based in worldwide locations alongside netnographic data taken from the BoardGameGeek forums, we begin to understand how women work within these spaces despite being under represented and dismissed. The study provides analysis on the participants answers by delving deeper into the concept of ‘play’ and subcultural style alongside fannish participatory labour to form a greater understanding as to how women experience sexism within their chosen community