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Curriculum

Final syllabi are being designed in collaboration with Institute faculty, and will be adjusted to meet the needs, skill levels, and expressed interests of selected participants. In the meantime, here's a rough sketch of the plan. In each track, continental breakfasts, box lunches, and one working dinner in UVa's Colonnade Club or Rotunda will be provided. Track 1 and 2 participants will have frequent opportunities to meet and exchange ideas. In each round, the Scholars' Lab will also host an optional mapping party. With the help of GPS devices, institute attendees can explore, record, and represent Thomas Jefferson's historic Academical Village in Open Street Map.

Tracks 1 & 2: Stewardship and Software

Julie Sweetkind-Singer, MLIS, Head Librarian and GIS & Map Librarian at Stanford University’s Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collection, will serve as facilitator for the Stewardship track of Round 1, with the assistance of Dr. Bethany Nowviskie and Scholars’ Lab GIS Specialist Kelly Johnston, MS GIS. Guest speakers include: Madelyn Wessel, Esq., Associate General Counsel, UVA, Dr. Joshua Greenberg, Director of Digital Strategy at the New York Public Library, and Dr. Diana Sinton, Director of Spatial Curriculum and Research, University of Redlands.

The Technology track of Round 1 will be coordinated by Joseph Gilbert, with instruction by Scholars’ Lab staff, including: GIS Specialist Christopher Gist, MS; User Support Programmer Adam Soroka (leader of a pre-conference workshop on the Scholars’ Lab approach to GIS infrastructure at the 2009 Code4Lib conference in Providence, RI); Scholars’ Lab Digital Humanities Specialist Wayne Graham, MA; and UVA Library Chief Systems Architect Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler, MLIS. Guest speakers include: Shekhar Krishnan, of MIT and Mumbai Free Map project; Schuyler Erle of OpenLayers, author of the O’Reilly books Map Hacks and Google Maps Hacks; Andrew Turner of Mapufacture, author of An Introduction to Neogeography and Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web, and Sean Gillies of the Pleiades Project at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU.

Anne Kelly Knowles, M.Sc., Ph.D., of Middlebury College, author of numerous books, articles, and textbooks on GIS applications for humanities scholarship, will facilitate Round 2 together with Dr. Bethany Nowviskie. Guest speakers include: Dr. Todd Presner of UCLA and the HyperCities project; Dr. David Germano of the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (UVA), Dr. Benjamin Ray of the Salem Witch Trials Archive (UVA), Matt Knutzen, Assistant Chief of the Maps Division at New York Public Library, and Martyn Jessop of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London.

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