Tim Wray (@timwray87) has started us a spreadsheet on Google docs which will be used during the planning session tomorrow. We can all edit it in real time.

Tim has also thoughtfully drawn up some campus map images showing how to get from to the SMART building from the free shuttle bus stop.

#THATCamp #OzHA2013 is all set to go at 9:30am Saturday morning.

We’re meeting in the foyer of the SMART building, University of Wollongong at 9:30am (Campus map, building 6).

We have t-shirts for those who registered early enough, free food, free wifi, and a great venue. Thanks to Tim Sherrat (@wragge) for making a very generous cash donation, and the University of Wollongong, for providing us with internetz and the venue free of charge.

It’s not too late to propose a session.

One thing to consider might be how we can use (and manage) “the crowd” in digital humanities. I’m thinking of this broadly, from collaborations such as “Transcribe Bentham” and text corrections and comments on Trove (for example the anachronism issue), to the management of comments on blogs and collaboration on wikis.

Food for thought before the day might be:

Rosenzweig, Roy. “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” Journal of American History 93, no. 1 (2006): 117 – 46. www.csupomona.edu/~zywang/Rosenzweig.pdf

Causer, Tim, Justin Tonra, and Valerie Wallace. “Transcription Maximised; Expense Minimised? Crowdsourcing and Editing the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 27, no. 2 (2012): 119-37. bit.ly/1a9v04F

Waters, Neil L. “Why You Can’t Cite Wikipedia in My Class.” Communications of the ACM 50, no. 9 (September 2007): 15-17. www2.hawaii.edu/~nreed/ics313/lectures/Waters07wikipedia.pdf

Macnamara, Jim. 2013. Google’s Map of North Korea Stirs Social Media Passion and Tensions. < theconversation.edu.au/googles-map-of-north-korea-stirs-social-media-passion-and-tensions-11858 >, 30th January 2013.

Madsen-Brooks, Leslie. “‘I Nevertheless Am a Historian’: Digital Historical Practice and Malpractice around Black Confederate Soldiers.” In Writing History in the Digital Age: A Born-Digital, Open-Review Volume, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki and Jack Dougherty. < writinghistory.trincoll.edu/ >, 2012.

Despite ongoing negotiations with the University’s IT Department, it looks as if Wollongong University will be pressing ahead with major work on their network on the 13th of July.

This seems to mean that there will be no free wifi available on campus, and also that the PCs linked to the projectors won’t have internet access, and might possibly work at all.

So we need to bring our own internet.

Who is able and willing to provide wifi access either through wireless phone tethering or through a portable wireless hotspot.

Please use the comments section below to report on what you can bring. The target is 30.

Tally so far: 13.

Ok, so the t-shirt order will be happening this afternoon! Thoughts on the design: comments will be open in 4pm AEST.

If you register before 4pm on Wednesday the 3rd of July, you can have a free THATCamp #OzHA2013 t-shirt*!!

Pictures coming soon.

* You must actually come and pick it up on the day.

As many campers will be busy in the week leading up to THATCamp #OzHA2013, we’re suggesting that you start posting your session proposals now.

Once you’ve registered for THATCamp #OzHA2013, you can propose a session by posting on this blog.

Take a look at the Propose Page for more information about how to propose a session, and the types of sessions usually proposed.

Registrations are now open!

Once you’ve registered, you can propose a session.

We’ve also started populating the rest of the website.

See you in Wollongong.