MITH and the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio is pleased to announce: the first MITH/Digital Humanities "Gender Mixer" on Monday, December 5, 12-1pm in 0135 Taliaferro. A collaboration between MITH and the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio, this is…continue reading
MITH is pleased to announce the receipt of a generous grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to support our work on the Shelley-Godwin Archive, under the supervision of MITH Director and Shelley scholar, Neil Fraistat. A recent recipient of…continue reading
[fusiontext]COLLEGE PARK -- The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has received a major collection of electronic literature and vintage computer hardware from pioneering hypertext author Bill Bly. Bly's generous donation…continue reading
As a professor in the humanities, I've spent a career committed to scholarly research. But I confess to having definite likes and dislikes. Here's what I like: going to the archives and rooting around looking at old documents, admiring early print…continue reading
Preserving Virtual Worlds 2 is an ongoing project funded by the IMLS that builds on the work of Preserving Virtual Worlds. Rachel Donahue, doctoral student at the University of Maryland iSchool and research assistant at MITH, recently wrote a post…continue reading
Every November, I mean to write fifty thousand words. Every November, something comes up that keeps me from doing it. This year, I'm doing it! I don't have any trips planned except for Thanksgiving. I don't have any activities outside work that take…continue reading
I've had the good fortune of being the graduate assistant for the Preserving Virtual Worlds (PVW) project for *mumble* years. The project is a partnership between MITH, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Stanford University, and the…continue reading
We are now seeking applications for MITH’s Winnemore Dissertation Fellowship. Applicants should be advanced graduate students whose dissertation includes innovative research agendas involving any substantive intersection between new media or new…continue reading
CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) has received a grant for $600,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project that creates and analyzes systems for archivists…continue reading
This blog describes my progress on a born-digital critical edition of the Mishnah. For the various audiences who might read this, let me break out the terms and discuss them further. Born-digital: An edition that uses or develops technology to record…continue reading
This past weekend I attended the Nebraska Digital Workshop hosted by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, future host of Digital Humanities 2013. This was the sixth year of this rather unique…continue reading
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to announce the appointment of Travis Brown as Assistant Director of Research and Development. Travis previously served as R&D Software Developer at MITH. As Assistant Director…continue reading
Later this week I will be attending the 2nd International Culture and Computing Conference at the University of Kyoto and presenting the paper "Diggable Data, Scalable Reading, and New Humanities Scholarship." Digital Humanities is rapidly gaining a…continue reading
I am pleased to report that the first phase of The Shelley-Godwin Archive is now underway. Wenfei (our intrepid intern) and I have begun to create electronic files for our diplomatic transcriptions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Percy Shelley’s…continue reading
At the University of Wuerzburg Seminar building, the same place that the TEI Conference Workshops are occurring, the Interedition group is hard at work finishing up prototypes and proofs of concept for our individual projects. Today is the last day…continue reading
My job is actually pretty simple. When people ask me what I do, I tell them I’m an English professor who teaches archivists about computers. What’s not to understand? Okay, there’s more to it than that. The official story is that I’m an Associate…continue reading
The past two days have been a flurry of coding, sometimes even going on to 1-2 in the morning. This group is highly enthusiastic about making progress in their individual groups. This energy has been pretty contagious and I've had less time for…continue reading
After several hours of hacking away, we've decided to head out for food and drinks. I have to say it is an experience to stay in a fancy hotel lounge and see the looks of hotel guests as they pass by the table of DH hackers and their laptops. There…continue reading
Our Bootcamp is continuing into its second day. This morning we broke up into two main hacker groups: those interested in Annotation tools and those interested in creating a (better) text editing tools. Due to my work with OAC, I'm in the Annotation…continue reading
After a long but pleasant flight, a shorter but even more pleasant train ride, and a scenic bus ride from the train station, I am finally at the University of Wuerzburg at the Interedition conference. It's exciting to be here with so many other…continue reading
I'm delighted to announce MITH as an official sponsor of the January 2012 THATCamp Games, a themed humanities and technology unconference covering the research, teaching, and playing of games of all kinds (read more about the idea of the unconference…continue reading
Tuesday, September 20th kicked-off our Digital Dialogues for the 2011-12 academic year. We had an excellent turnout for our talk given by Aditi Muralidharan, doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley, who spoke on the methods and challenges of text-analysis…continue reading
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is seeking a part-time Graduate Assistant to work on "BitCurator," a Mellon-funded digital humanities and archives project in collaboration with the School of Information and Library…continue reading
Fall is here! And with the new semester brings a stellar list of speakers for our fall Digital Dialogues. Digital Dialogues is a speaker series hosted by The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Talks are open to the public…continue reading
As another academic year begins, I have the happy opportunity of welcoming you all back to MITH for what promises to be another exciting, event-laden year. In the past, I’ve taken this opportunity to review some of the highlights from the previous…continue reading