I’d like to propose a dork short to discuss Remembering Lincoln, the digital project I’m coordinating at Ford’s Theatre. Remembering Lincoln is bringing together responses to the Lincoln assassination from the 13 months after it took place. We are currently a bit over six months into a grant from IMLS to plan the project. In this dork short, I’m happy to discuss the project’s progress so far, touching on sometimes contentious discussions over crowdsourcing (broadly defined), recent audience research to define what we are doing for the final site, working with a dozen partner organizations, and launching a “preview” of the project–with an unexpected and exciting result.

I’d like to offer a session on “Workflow for Digital Humanities Publishing,” based on my experience working on the German Historical Institute’s Immigrant Entrepreneurship project, an online collection of biographical articles on German-American entrepreneurs (www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org). We rely on a combination of in-house staff and external authors and editors. It would be great to discuss some of the issues we’ve encountered with people who are working on, designing, or have completed similar projects, whether on a larger scale or a much smaller scale.

Barrie Howard has been involved in grant-funded digital humanities projects on both sides of the table for a decade. He will lead a breakout session on a range of issues from grant seeking to grants administration and project management. In the spirit of the THATcamp unconference format, he would like input from session participants on the format of the session as to whether it manifests as a Make, Talk, or Teach event. Barrie has created a dataset on grants funding of digital preservation projects from ca. 2000 to the present, and is interested in ways to expand and share the data.