Events

Accessible Future Workshop 2

WorkshopTraining Institute
DAY 1 8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and Coffee 9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome Session 1: Led by Dr. Tina Herzberg 9:15 – 9:45 am Philip M. Ferguson, Emily Nusbaum, “Disability Studies: What Is It?”, Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities…
University of Texas, Austin, TX

Reading, Rereading, Recovering Electronic Literature

Workshop
Please join us for a panel with Joanne Archer (University of Maryland Libraries), Jeremy Douglass (UC Santa Barbara), Dene Grigar (Washington State University Vancouver), Kari Kraus (University of Maryland), Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin…
MITH Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library

Accessible Future Workshop 1

WorkshopTraining Institute
Northeastern University, Boston, MA

DHDC Workshop #2

Training Institute
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…
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

A Special MITH Unconference

Other Event
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 Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library

U.K. Rollout

Symposium
The University of Manchester, School of Computer Science

DHDC Workshop #1

Training Institute
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…
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

U.S. East Coast Rollout

Symposium
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…
McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park

Shared HorizonsData, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities

Symposium
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…
University of Maryland, College Park

Shared Horizons Opening Reception

Other Event
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…
Residence of the Deputy Head of Mission, 2934 Edgevale Terrace NW, Washington DC 20008
Frances C. Arrillaga Center, Stanford University

Personal Digital Archiving 2013 Conference

Conference
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…
University of Maryland, College Park

Digital Humanities Winter Insitute

Training Institute
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…
University of Maryland

Capstone Celebration

Workshop
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…
MITH Conference Room

Workshop #4: Project Development Principles

Workshop
**NOTE** This workshop was repeated on December 3, 2012
MITH Conference Room

Workshop #3: Preparing & Working with Data

Workshop
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…
MITH Conference Room

Topic Modeling Workshop

Workshop
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…
University of Maryland, College Park

Workshop #2: Developing Research Ideas

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
MITH Conference Room

New Space Reception: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Other Event
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…
0301 Hornbake Library

Workshop #1: Introduction to Digital Humanities

Workshop
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…

API Workshop

Workshop
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…
MITH Conference Room

Off the TracksLaying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars

Workshop
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…
McKeldin Library, University of Maryland

Computer Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections

Other Event
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…
MITH, University of Maryland

Digital Humanities and African American/African Diaspora Studies

Conference
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…
University of Maryland, College Park

The Future of Electronic Literature

ConferenceSymposium
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…
McKeldin Library, Special Events Room, University of Maryland

Planning a Coalition of Digital Humanities Centers

Conference
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…
NEH Headquarters (Washington, DC)

CoffeeHouse Conversation: Stan Ruecker

Other Event
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…
MITH Conference Room

Coffeehouse Conversation on Scholarly Electronic Publishing

Other Event
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…

Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam

Other Event
On April 24, 2004, the University of Maryland held its annual open house for the state’s citizens, Maryland Day, and the David C. Driskell Center and MITH co-produced the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam, an event designed to bring high school students…

Digital Directions Residential Seminar, July 14-Aug 1, 2003

Workshop
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…