For Gainesville, the 2018 THATCamp will be THATCamp-News to be held the morning of 4/17, as attached to the IFLA News conference which is 4/18-19.  We welcome folks to the THATCamp-News planning process, and to introduce new folks to THATCamps.

Please register for THATCamp-News!

THATCamp-News will be 9am-12pm on 17 April (Tuesday), the morning before the IFLA International News Media Conference. THATCamp-News is a separate event. We hope that folks participating in THATCamp-News will also engage with the IFLA News conference. Please let us know what information we can provide on this potential event, or on any questions or concerns.

The format for this event will be:

• 9:15-9:30am: Registration, Welcome and opening remarks
• 9:30-10:30am: Lightning talks (6-7 minutes each)
  • #NoLaIBCita
  • #NoNazisAtUF organizers
  • Patrick Daglaris: Digital preservation through oral history.
  • April Hines on methods/uses of UF’s digital newspaper databases by students, challenges, barriers, usability, etc.
  • Melissa Jerome: Digitization of the Alligator
  • Patrick Reakes on the implications of copyright on news digitization
• 10:30-11am: Breakout discussion
• 11am-11:15am: Break
• 11:15am-12pm: An Introduction to TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) with Newspapers, with Dr. Megan Daly
• 12pm: Event ends. Time is open for lunch in groups, find friends and meetup!
• 4-6: No host DH Happy Hour at The Social