In February of 2018, MITH spent dedicated time talking about sustainability of digital projects with a team from the University of Pittsburgh’s Visual Media Workshop (VMW) as part of a focused user testing session for The Socio-Technical…continue reading
MITH is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the Spring 2019 Winnemore Digital Humanities Dissertation Fellowship. The Winnemore Fellowship provides support to a University of Maryland graduate student whose dissertation engages…continue reading
Given the strong response to our interest survey, MITH will be hosting an informational/organizational meeting to support the creation of a digital humanities/digital studies student group here at UMD. WHEN: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 WHEN: 3:00 PM…continue reading
We are delighted to announce the lineup for the Fall 2018 Digital Dialogue series. The series will begin with our Fall Mixer, Wednesday, September 12 at 12:30 pm. We will then have seven incredible sessions. All Digital Dialogues will be held at 1…continue reading
Students who do digital humanities at the University of Maryland are spread across many different organizational positions and units—just like the faculty, librarians, and staff with whom they take courses and collaborate on research. At MITH we are…continue reading
This post is part 2 in a series about social media data collection experiments conducted in Matt Kirschenbaum‘s Introduction to Digital Studies. Fred Turner’s interview with Logic Magazine1 was one of the first readings for MITH 610: Critical Topics…continue reading
This past spring Purdom Lindblad and I had the opportunity to participate in several praxis oriented sessions involving social media data collection and analysis for Matt Kirschenbaum's Introduction to Digital Studies (MITH 610). We thought that some…continue reading
Two new grants, a Research Continuity Micro-Grant from the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities and a Community Partnership Grant from the American Studies Association, will provide funds for a team of students to conduct new oral…continue reading
Raffaele Viglianti (MITH) and Stephen Henry (Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library) hosted the Music Encoding Conference last week (22 - 25 May 2018). For the first time, the conference had a theme: “Encoding and Performance,” which was well…continue reading
MITH is pleased to announce an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program for Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection. Unlocking the…continue reading
Monitoring Climate Data on the Web Ray Cha Software Project Manager Environmental Data and Governance Initiative MITH Conference Room 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Please join us on May 10 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm in MITH for a presentation by…continue reading
Arte Público Press, Recovery Project, Social Justice and DH Speaker Series Feb 15, 2018 · Houston, TX I want to frame my talk around a quote from Community Futures Lab co-director Rasheedah Phillips from her workshop “Time, Memory, and Justice in…continue reading
We are excited to have Roopika Risam on campus to kick off a weekend of digital humanities events between March 8 and 10th. Risam’s work focuses on the intersections between postcolonial, African American, and US ethnic studies, and the role of…continue reading
Interested in meeting and talking with other scholars in digital studies in the arts and humanities? Join us for a working meeting on regional DHcollaborations hosted by the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia, March 9th. The symposium aims…continue reading
MITH is very excited to announce our participation in the Ethics and Archiving the Web National Forum which will be taking place at the New Museum in New York City, March 22-24. This collaboration between Rhizome and the Documenting the Now project…continue reading
Led by the Digital Library Federation, Endangered Data Week, February 26 – March 2, is an international, collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions, to…continue reading
I’m posting a short series of a lightly edited posts from of my keynote for the University of Maryland Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum. Slides and talk are available through DRUM. This is Part 3 and the final post of the series. Read…continue reading
_I’m posting a short series of a lightly edited posts from of my keynote for the University of Maryland Library Research and Innovative Practice Forum. Slides and talk are available through DRUM. This is Part 2 of the series. Read Part 1. —Purdom_The…continue reading
MITH’s Spring 2018 Digital Dialogues season is about to get underway! Starting in mid-February with Jarrett Drake from Harvard, we have SIX amazing speakers covering a wide range of research specialties: Tuesday February 13, 2018: Jarrett Drake, Ph.D…continue reading
MITH Graduate Assistant, Call for Applications The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is seeking applications for a Graduate Assistant position for the Spring 2018 semester. This is an approximately 10-hour per week position…continue reading
MITH 498: Anatomy of DH Research Winter Term 2018: Jan 2 - 22 (click here to enroll) In-class meeting: Tuesdays / Thursdays 1 - 4:30 PM in 0301A Hornbake (MITH offices) Online or Team Time: Mondays / Wednesdays unless indicated by * Instructors…continue reading
MITH has wrapped up another fantastic Digital Dialogues season! This semester we got to hear about groundbreaking scholarly work on the history of segregation in the field of Library & Information Science (Nicole Cooke, October 3); research on how…continue reading
COLLEGE PARK, MD—The **Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities **at the University of Maryland and the Book Industry Study Group are pleased to announce Books.Files, a new project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assess the…continue reading
Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: A Panel and Workshop on Sound Studies & Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing Strategies Thursday November 2, 2017, 1:30 - 4:30pm MITH Conference Room 0301 Hornbake Library North College Park, MD…continue reading
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library invite you to participate in the 2018 Music Encoding Conference with the theme: “Encoding and Performance”. Date: 23 – 24 May 2018 (with pre…continue reading