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9 Feb 2012

Born-Digital Literary Materials

By |2019-01-15T10:33:11-05:00Feb 9, 2012|

This project consisted of a series of site visits and planning meetings among personnel working with the born-digital components of three significant collections of literary material: the Salman Rushdie papers at Emory University's Woodruff Library, the Michael Joyce Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Deena Larsen Collection at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.

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9 Feb 2012

Ajax XML Encoder (AXE)

By |2019-05-13T17:01:14-04:00Feb 9, 2012|

AXE is a web-based tool for "tagging" text, video, audio, and image files with XML metadata, a process that is now a necessary but onerous first step in the production of digital material.

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7 Feb 2012

Collaborative Ajax-Based Modeling Platform

By |2019-05-13T17:54:40-04:00Feb 7, 2012|

CAMP stands for 'Collaborative, Ajax-Based, Modeling Platform.' As the name suggests, this tool is an open source, collaborative, 3-dimensional modeler that allows users with very little experience to generate a 3-dimensional model in their web browser which they can then allow other users to both view and edit. The tool was initially used to construct an international database of pre-nineteenth century theater buildings, but was designed to be intentionally generic so that scholars interested in structures of any sort could easily port it into their own projects.

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7 Feb 2012

Dickinson Electronic Archives

By |2019-05-14T12:12:38-04:00Feb 7, 2012|

The Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA) is a website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work.

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7 Feb 2012

Foreign Literatures in America

By |2017-02-05T21:25:44-05:00Feb 7, 2012|

Foreign Literatures in America (FLA) is a project devoted to the recovery and understanding of the significance of foreign authored literary works, as well as immigrant authored literary works, in the U.S. throughout U.S. history. FLA pursues this goal by offering various means of studying the reception of foreign and immigrant authored literary works in the U.S., in interdisciplinary terms that encompass literature, culture, politics, history, and international relations.

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7 Feb 2012

MITH’s Vintage Computers

By |2019-01-15T10:33:49-05:00Feb 7, 2012|

MITH's Vintage Computers is a website devoted to MITH's sizable (and growing) collection of vintage computers, retro software, and other artifacts from the early era of personal computing. The centerpiece of the site is a considered metadata and modeling approach to computing hardware, whereby individual components of the vintage machines are documented, contextualized within their relation to the system as a whole, and expressed using Dublin Core. The site gathers links to other recent MITH projects in born-digital cultural heritage, and serves as a clearing house for our expanding portfolio in this area. It also includes newly written non-specialist’s documentation for the FC5025 Floppy Disk Controller, a device used to retrieve data off of obsolescent media formats.

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7 Feb 2012

Our Americas Archive Partnership

By |2019-01-15T10:34:04-05:00Feb 7, 2012|

The Our Americas Archive Partnership is a collaboration between MITH's Early Americas Digital Archive and Rice University's Americas Archive, Rice's Humanities Research Center, Rice's Fondren Library and the library at Instituto Mora in Mexico. Its goal is to make digitally available texts written in or about the Americas that represent the full range and complexity of a multilingual "Americas" including Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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7 Feb 2012

Deena Larsen Collection

By |2019-05-14T12:10:04-04:00Feb 7, 2012|

MITH received the gift of Deena Larsen's personal collection of early-era personal computers and software in May 2007. Deena is an author and new media visionary who has been active in the creative electronic writing community nearly since its inception in the 1980s. In addition to being a writer and thinker, Deena has also been a collector and an amateur archivist (or, as we say of amateurs, a hoarder). Deena's collection at MITH furnishes us with invaluable source material which will further both our in-house research in digital curation and preservation, as well as function as a primary resource for researchers interested in early hypertext and electronic literature.

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7 Feb 2012

Text-Image Linking Environment

By |2019-01-15T10:54:26-05:00Feb 7, 2012|

The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing image-based electronic editions and digital archives of humanities texts.

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7 Feb 2012

Theatre Finder

By |2017-02-05T21:25:46-05:00Feb 7, 2012|

Theatre Finder is a collaboratively edited, peer reviewed, online database of historic theatre architecture from the Minoan “theatrical areas” on the island of Crete, to the last theatre built before 1815.

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This is an archive of the MITH website as of October 2020. Our live site is located at mith.umd.edu.

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