Do you want to create a digital collection of 3D objects? Statues, vases, coins, inscriptions, or anything else you may want to study professionally?

This workshop will demonstrate live 3D scanning using 5 of the state-of-the-art 3D scanners (by Artec3D, Occipital, Microsoft, Autodesk, and Cyberware) and play with real examples of 3D printed objects. The workshop will answer the following questions:

• How can I scan in 3D for free or with low budget?
• What type of 3D scanner should I use?
• How to disseminate my 3D collection on-line as an open-access digital collection?
• How to print in 3D my scanned objects with low budget?
• What type of 3D printer should I use and what parameters should I choose?

You will play with the 3D scanners and learn how to use them and play with several 3D printed objects to understand the differences between the various 3D scanning and 3D printing technologies.

In August of 2013, the UF George A Smathers Libraries received a $325,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspapers. The UF libraries are working in conjunction with the library system at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a program created from a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress. As part of our participation in the program we are digitizing newspapers from both Florida and Puerto Rico that were published between 1836 and 1922. With this session I hope to inform you of what the project entails, the overall process, as well as update you on our progress thus far.

Every time I work on an online exhibit, it seems that a timeline would enhance the content and sometimes could even cover the entire exhibit.  An interactive timeline would be even better.  In this session, we look at a variety of timeline applications available online, some free, some not, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each, and consider different ways timelines can be used in or as online exhibits and as tools for course assignments.  Applications will include, but not be limited to, Tiki-Toki, Dipity, Capzles, and MyHistro.

Omeka continues to be a popular content management platform for scholars, libraries, and museums interested in displaying digital objects or content. Its flexibility and search features make it attractive to a range of users with various interests.

This session aims to discuss Omeka as a tool and the types of plug-ins, for example, it contains.  It also aims to examine a few applied cases, such as  Digital Archiving Resources, Florida Memory, and Samsula Historical Archive, where it has been used successfully in and outside the classroom, and to better understand its limitations and possibilities.

A number of textually-oriented DH projects are using TEI (the Text Encoding Initiative) as a data format, and so far the easiest way to get TEI out to the reader is via TEI Boilerplate.  Boilerplate was designed with customization in mind, and there are some good examples online, like the Petrarchive, which goes beyond custom colors and fonts by using the CSS switcher and <choice> blocks to allow the reader to switch between a transcription and edited text.  Beyond customization, there is room for improvement: the default installation of Boilerplate is slow to load, throws some Javascript errors (relating to JQuery BlockUI, which might be part of the speed problem), and uses an outdated version of JQuery (1.10.2, while the latest is 2.1.3).  I’d like to propose a hacking session in which we sit down with our copies of Boilerplate and our favorite text editors or IDE’s to address any or all of the following:

1. gain some collective, hands-on experience in customizing Boilerplate,
2. try to speed up Boilerplate (perhaps by fixing those BlockUI errors?), and
3. modernize our Boilerplate installations by upgrading JQuery to the latest version, fixing anything that breaks along the way.

This session would be more praxis than theory, but we should be able to generalize from our experiences; bring a laptop, not a tablet, and bring a copy of a TEI project you’d like to share and work on customizing together with the group.