Events

Carrying out computational research with digital materials requires that both scholars and information professionals understand how to manage and curate data over its entire lifetime of interest. Participants will learn how to: Model humanities data…

Presentations (in order of appearance) Jennifer Guiliano, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities: Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University: Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth…

MITH is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the U.S. East Coast Open Annotation Data Model Rollout on Monday, May 6. This meeting is free, but registration is required due to space limitations. Lunch will be provided. Visit the rollout page…

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities** **(MITH), working in cooperation with the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes for Health, and…

Awarded via a National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman’s Cooperative Agreement, Shared Horizons: Data, BioMedicine, and the Digital Humanities will explore collaboration, research methodologies, and the interpretation of evidence arising from…

The Personal Digital Archiving conference will provide a two-day-long opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the field of personal archiving to convene for presentations and networking. The conference supports a broad community of…

MITH hosted the first annual Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI), from Monday, January 7, 2013, to Friday, January 11, 2013, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. We were delighted to be expanding the model pioneered by the…

Join us for a capstone celebration and hear your colleagues' project proposals #### Monday, December 17, 1:00-3:00 PM This year's round of the Digital Humanities Incubator workshop series is drawing to a close. To celebrate everyone's great work…

**NOTE** This workshop was repeated on December 3, 2012

Plan for the workshop: Data on the Web Hunting and Gathering (data dumps, screen scraping & web crawling, APIs) Searching & Sorting (operating system tools, programming languages) Structured Data Example/Case Study (data for topic modeling) **NOTE…

Topic Modeling for Humanities Research, a one-day workshop directed by Assistant Director of MITH Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, received a Level 1 Digital Humanities start up from the National Endowment for the Humanities on April 19, 2011. The workshop…

Plan for the workshop: “Research” as an approach to your work The four parts of an idea Exercise: generating ideas Your ideas & the DH Incubator **NOTE** This workshop was repeated on October 15, 2012

After twelve years in McKeldin Library, staff expansion and research growth called for a more robust space in 2012. We transformed a significantly larger, sunlit, open-floor space in Hornbake Library, neighboring Nonprint Media Services, and the…

Workshop Goals: Be conversant with contemporary definitions of DH Be aware of the scope & variety of DH approaches Understand the outlines of what work is involved in “doing DH” Be able to articulate some ideas for how DH might be applied in your…

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities hosted a two-day workshop on developing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for the digital humanities. The workshop gathered 50 digital humanities scholars and developers, who along with…

Tanya Clement and Doug Reside led a workshop on professionalization in digital humanities centers called, “Off the Tracks—Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars.” The workshop addressed the rapidly emerging phenomenon of alternative…

Invitational meeting at the University of Maryland May 14-15, 2010 funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a report, entitled Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections, to be published by the Council…

This conference will address the increasing centrality of digitization to the archiving of materials, as well as the growth of digital technology in the teaching, scholarship and artistic production in the field of African American/African Diaspora…

The Electronic Literature Organization's Future of Electronic Literature Symposium at MITH at the University of Maryland, College Park was an event that brought e-lit writers, scholars, and an interested public together for an open mouse/open mic, a…

Funded by a grant from the NEH, the purpose of this meeting was respond to the ACLS Cyberinfrastructure Commission’s call for digital humanities centers to become key nodes of cyberinfrastructure in the United States. The summit was especially…

Stan Ruecker, Assistant Professor of Humanities Computing at the University of Alberta and a member of the Mellon-funded Nora Text Mining and Visualization project MITH and HCIL participate in, will be visiting the campus on Thursday, June 8. Ruecker…

On Wednesday, March 29, 3:30-4:45, MITH will inaugurate its occasional Coffeehouse Conversations series with a roundtable on Scholarly Electronic Publishing. The discussion will be facilitated by Katie King (Associate Professor of Women’s Studies…

Digital Directions, a program jointly sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, is a challenging summer seminar for high school students. Digital…

In the face of the Great Depression, democracy receded from many places around the world. Even in the United States, where commitments to democracy were of relatively long standing, many Americans in the 1930s openly admired the efficiency of…

The first regime of Brazil’s Getulio Vargas is often compared with other authoritarian regimes of the 1930s. In many ways, this makes perfect sense: between 1937 and 1945, Vargas abolished political parties and suspended civil liberties. He brooked…

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europe, Africa, and the Americas came together to create new societies and economies. Central to that new world history—perhaps the first true world history—was the institution of slavery, as slaves…

Digital Directions, a program jointly sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, is a challenging summer seminar for high school students. Digital…