Tuesday, February 14, 12:30-1:45PM MITH Conference Room, B0135 McKeldin Library Co-sponsored by the Department of English “Knowledge and Meaning in the Information Age: A Humanist Perspective on Wikipedia” by MELANIE KILL Over the past decade, Wikipedia has drawn together a community of volunteer editors, translators, and programmers who have created . . .
Research & Projects
Steinschneider Bibliographic Database
The Steinschneider Bibliographic Database is a digitized relational database for the study of pre-modern Jewish philosophy, science, and belles-lettres, based on the standard reference-work,...
Deena Larsen Collection
In May of 2007, MITH received the extraordinary gift of Deena Larsen's personal collection of early-era personal computers and software. Deena is an author and new media visionary...
Archimedes Palimpsest
This thirteenth century prayer book contains erased texts that were written several centuries earlier, including two treatises by Archimedes that can be found nowhere else, The...
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has produced an interactive interface for...
API Workshop
During February 2011, MITH hosted a workshop on developing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for the Digital Humanities. The workshop gathered 60 digital humanities scholars,...
Events & Community
Extremely Visible and Incredibly Close Reading of Logos
The Foreign Literatures in America (FLA) project’s intellectual goals present a graphic design challenge marked by a delicate balance. We’re creating an archive that will demonstrate how the idea of Americanness has been shaped by actors beyond those traditionally labelled “American”; how do we create a logo and other graphic . . .
The DLC is Back!
The Deena Larsen Collection (DLC) is back up and running. Thank you for your patience while we fixed the website.
Former MITHer Doug Reside Featured in The New York Times
Former MITH Associate Director Doug Reside, now Digital Curator for the Performing Arts at the New York Public Library, was recently covered by Jennifer Schuessler in “Tale of the Floppy Disks: How Jonathan Larsen Created ‘Rent’” on The New York Times Arts Beat blog. The article highlights Doug’s research on . . .