Category Archives: Digital Humanities

ICT (Information and Computing technology) Guides is a new service being offered by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) at King’s College, London. It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging best-practice digital … Continue reading →

N I N E S stands for a Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship, a scholarly organization in British and American nineteenth-century studies supported by a software development group assembling a suite of critical and editorial tools for digital scholarship. … Continue reading →

Call for Proposals The Nebraska Digital Workshop October 5 & 6, 2007 http://cdrh.unl.edu The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska’s Lincoln (UNL) will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 … Continue reading →

“Stanford Syllabus is a central, online repository for Stanford class syllabi. It is a project from Stanford’s Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy and developed by Academic Computing. The goal is for students and their advisors to browse through syllabi … Continue reading →

Google is digitizing books from University of Michigan. UMich is a founding member of the “Making of America” project, a digital library of 19th century materials. What could make this partnership even better? Google Maps. Here’s an example: take a … Continue reading →

East Asian Center for Informatics in Humanities Proceedings available at: http://coe21.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/tei-day/tei-day2006.html Topics: * TEI Day in Kyoto and activities of the TEI OHYA Kazushi (Tsurumi University), Christian Wittern (Kyoto University) * Why was and is TEI unknown in Japan and … Continue reading →

Middlebury College History Dept.’s announcement banning citing of Wikipedia in student papers has resulted in a flurry of articles and posts. While many teachers see this as a “teaching moment” others consider Wikipedia yet another teaching roadblock thrown up by … Continue reading →

Text Analysis has long been a staple of the humanities computing diet. Its use, however, is not limited to scholars of literature. Here’s an example of how text analysis in a graphical presentation can provide some interesting data. The New … Continue reading →

What Is the Purpose of an Electronic Portfolio? Is the Answer the Key to Your Successful Implementation? ” As the director of Spelman’s newly-instituted Electronic Portfolio Project (SpEl.Folio), I’ve come to realize that a central question of our project is, … Continue reading →

MITH Digital Dialogues Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has begun podcasting their Digital Dialogues seminar series: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/digitaldialogue/podcasts.php Three available so far: – Rice University’s Chuck Henry on scholarly electronic publishing, – Brown University’s Vika Zafrin on collaboration … Continue reading →