…I find the time to start blogging on my day. It’s 2:15 pm German time and I had to teach from 08:15 to 13:15 with only three 15 min. breaks in between. Wednesday is the hardest, Monday and Tuesday are free, although some courses will only start end of April.
Now out for a meeting. Some photos will be attached later to this post …
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Office in the morning
Empty foyer: I wasn't too early, I was late...
when I decided joining, rather applying to join, the day of digital humanities, I thought it would be a good day to contribute as it looked as if it would be quite an ordinary day.
Guess what? It wasn’t at all
During the last weeks the 18th of March became the most updated entry in my calendar. First, I decided to join workshops at the fossgis2009 in Hannover. Conferences are ideal for blogging, aren’t they? But then I just had to forget about it when the teaching schedule was published by the department. And in the end an interesting meeting with a group of researchers in Mainz was set up to occupy the afternoon.
I returned late yesterday evening from Hannover. The trainride at least allowed me to finish my presentations for today. I’ll post a bit on fossgis and teaching details as well as other topics that made my day in individual entries. Tomorrow morning I’ll return early to the conference, so at least I’ll have the pleasure to learn about the processing of raster data with gdal and the implementation of OGC-WSF-T specification in GeoServer.
One more thing: I had the idea at least to follow up the DayofDH by subscribing the feed in my netvibes reader. When I first opened it, there already were 200+ posts. I’m really looking forward to see the benchmark for future days of digital humanities. Congrats to the Alberta team!
Computer Pool THALES, serving SQL classes from 8:00-10:30
Already last year, when I started here in Mainz I was wondering, why the computer-pools used for teaching are named after Roman emperors. The sysadmins even tried to do it alphabetically, starting of course with: AUGUSTUS. So what about B then. They decided to send students to BALBINUS followed by CLAUDIUS.
Now, our department moved to a brand new building and I soon found out, that they somehow kept up the tradition but chaning to Greek philosophers. I did not make out any structure nor system in the naming, but teaching in THALES or SOKRATES feels good for someone who initially started a career as a classical archaeologist.
There are servers around at our institute named APOLLO or less history-conscious FRANZ and I was wondering about the nomenclature of computers in Digital Humanities departments. Is it worth studying?