[Asis-l] HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Uncamp Pre-Registration Open

[J. Stephen Downie]

PRE-REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - DUE AUG 1st!
HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) UnCamp
A 1.5 Day Event
Sept 10-11, 2012
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN


*HTRC*
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research 
center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of 
Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the 
technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text 
that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and 
cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the 
growing digital record of human knowledge.


*HTRC Uncamp*
The first annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 2012 at
Indiana University in Bloomington. The UnCamp is different: it is part
hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part 
community building, and a part informational, all structured in the 
dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. It has visionary 
speakers mixed with boot-camp activities and hands-on sessions with HTRC 
infrastructure and tools. Through the
HTRC Data API, attendees will be able to browse and run applications
(yours or ours) against the full 2.8M volumes of the public domain 
corpus of HathiTrust. Bloomington is lovely in September and the IU 
campus is noted as one of the most beautiful public university campuses 
in the nation.

*Who should attend?*
The HTRC UnCamp is targeted to the digital humanities tool developers, 
researchers and librarians, and graduate students.

/We anticipate more registrations than our facilities are able to 
accommodate. We will accept pre-registrations through August 1, 2012, 
then send invitations to register./

*Registration*
The Uncamp will have a minimal registration fee to make the
UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend. We anticipate
registration at $75.00.

* Pre-Registration due August 1, 2012
<http://d2i.indiana.edu/webforms/htrc-uncamp-pre/>
http://d2i.indiana.edu/webforms/htrc-uncamp-pre
* HTRC will send invitations to register by August 10, 2012
* Registration and Registration Fee will be due by August 15, 2012

*Travel*
We recommend lodging at the Indiana Memorial Union. Participants who
plan to fly to the UnCamp should use Indianapolis International Airport
IND and shuttle to Bloomington, IN (about 45 minutes). HTRC anticipates 
funding a small number of travel grants to diversify attendance from 
within an organization.

For more information: http://d2i.indiana.edu/htrc/uncamp2012

Official HTRC website: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc

If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Robert
Ping, HTRC Project Manager:

<robping at indiana.edu> or 812 345-1065 (cell).

Looking forward to seeing you in Bloomington!

Cheers,
Beth Plale, HTRC Co-director, Indiana University
J. Stephen Downie, HTRC Co-director, University of Illinois
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    "Research funding makes the world a better place"
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J. Stephen Downie, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[Vox/Voicemail] (217) 649-3839
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