{"id":313,"date":"2011-10-26T20:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T01:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodydworak.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-06-27T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:29:23","slug":"whats-keeping-me-busy-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melodydworak.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s keeping me busy these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a full and gratifying month this October and haven\u2019t been as free to contribute thoughtfully to my own blog. I have posted a couple of essays to my HASTAC blog, and thought it\u2019d be worth noting here too. Since my last post here, I have written about Twitter and using social media for research purposes and the use of databases for digital humanities (DH) projects. Here is the information from those posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hastac.org\/blogs\/melody-dworak\/2011\/09\/23\/feminist-hulk-goes-my-school\">Feminist Hulk Goes to (My) School: Exploring the Use of Twitter as a Research Method<\/a>, published September 23, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hastac.org\/blogs\/melody-dworak\/2011\/10\/20\/databases-digital-humanities-whose-power-whose-peril\">Databases &amp; Digital Humanities: Whose Power? Whose Peril?<\/a> published October 20, 2011<\/p>\n<p>And for those who are wondering what\u2019s keeping me so busy this semester, here are some of the things that are a little more exciting than writing blog posts for The Melody Party:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taking full advantage of my position as a HASTAC Scholar\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitating DH discussion among 9 UI faculty and staff<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating DH conversation between professionals in archives and a museum, particularly talking about the Civil War Diaries Transcription project and digital media for teaching and learning (audio recorded!)<\/li>\n<li>Planning THATCamp Iowa City for Spring 2012<\/li>\n<li>Preparing Pecha-Kucha presentation on THATCamp plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>B Sides AY 2011\u20132012 progress\n<ul>\n<li>Establishing B Sides formally with UI Student Organizations<\/li>\n<li>Interviewing and taking on two new associate editors for B Sides<\/li>\n<li>Creating copy editor position and adding organizational capacity<\/li>\n<li>Launch planning for Spring 2012 practice poster session<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Graduate assistantship duties\n<ul>\n<li>Developing timeline for project management goals<\/li>\n<li>Investigating CMS tools for functionality (Omeka, Drupal, WordPress)<\/li>\n<li>Conversations about database design and metadata<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Somehow I\u2019ve managed to keep on top of my coursework and get a few runs in on top of all this. My hopes for strength training this semester haven\u2019t come to fruition, however. (Bought a medicine ball a week ago but have yet to try out a workout I found in a magazine.)<\/p>\n<p>All this makes me remember what my friend\u2019s family member told me when I visited her in Germany: \u201cYou can sleep when in America!\u201d I\u2019m starting to tell myself this about Thanksgiving and Winter holidays\u2014relaxing is what breaks are for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a full and gratifying month this October and haven\u2019t been as free to contribute thoughtfully to my own blog. 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