I like Adam’s idea of the two sessions–I think that would be very helpful and interesting to many levels of experience.

Here’s a quick list of the tools I’ve been using:

• RAP (RDF API for PHP)
• ARC (a lighterweight PHP API)
• SIMILE was mentioned below, I’ve spent the most time with PiggyBank, Exhibit, and Solvent
  
• IsaViz graph editor
• Protege ontology editor
• Twinkle quick SPARQL querier
• Tabulator FF extension for browsing Linked Data (see also the Semantic Radar from the SIOC project)
• Speaking of SIOC, there’s also their PHP API

I’ve tinkered a bit with the Geonames and DBpedia services, but haven’t really integrated them into anything yet.

I’d love to talk with anyone who’s set up a Virtuoso server for their RDF work. Anyone tried this out?

I’ll follow up on the post about the F/OSS DH Infrastructure to say that I’ll be very interested to hear about projects using RDF, and to talk about a couple of my projects using it.  One project is scraping the Atom feed out of our WPMU installation to RDFize it all and make it accessible in a variety of ways; another is an ontology for describing universities from the viewpoint of the actual teaching and studying (i.e., not just saying such-and-such a class is taught by Dr. X, but also what texts etc. they study, what tools they use in the course of study, etc.).

I’ll through this out, too–is there any interest/desire for some of the people already using RDF to get together to do a tutorial/workshop/something-or-other for the curious about RDF, SPARQL, ontologies, etc?

Back in November, I was brought in as the first DH lead developer for the TAMU College of Liberal Arts because a growing number of faculty are wanting to do something with digital humanities, they didn’t have anyone available who could interface between the faculty and the technologies, and they were wanting to leverage the open source community. The easiest way to produce open source is to pay someone.

(more…)

Adam Solove asked about space details for THATCamp to help with brainstorming before the camp, so here it goes:

Research 1 has wireless access throughout the building. We currently have five spaces reserved:

• Conference room to hold 20-25 people, with projector, whiteboards with markers
• Conference room to hold 15-20 people, with projector, whiteboards with markers
• Conference table in a CHNM workspace (in front of my office actually!) that could hold 10 people fairly comfortably. Has a LCD TV hooked up to a G5 Powermac, but could easily be attached to a laptop. Whiteboards with markers.
• Conference table in a CHNM workspace that could hold 10 people fairly comfortably. No projector or tv, though, but we could figure something out with this.
• Computer lab that could comfortably hold 20-25 people. Widescreen TV mounted on wall, attached to a Powermac G5. Also has a GameCube, if someone wants to start a MarioKart tournament!

Welcome to the THATCamp website! We have a few plans in the works for adding features to the site. If you twitter, use the tag #thatcamp in your tweets and we can create an aggregated list of tweets. When blogging on your own site, or uploading relevant pictures to Flickr, tag them with “thatcamp” so other campers can find them too.

If you’ve registered, you’re free to contribute posts to this blog. Anything goes: live-blogging sessions, posts on organizing sessions, post-camp drinks, finding a ride to campus, interesting websites or tools, whatever! Dave and I will be using the blog primarily to keep campers updated on pre-camp plans and announcements.