The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), in partnership with the University of Maryland Libraries, is pleased to announce our selection as a National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) host site. This program offers an…continue reading
Back in October, we introduced the MITH/UM Libraries Born Digital Working Group (BDWG) with a post about processing the Bill Bly Collection. Since then we’ve firmed up our goals ("start collecting/working with diverse born digital materials in the…continue reading
We are delighted to announce that Raffaele Viglianti will be joining MITH as a Research Programmer in early February 2013. Raffaele comes to MITH from the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London (KCL), one of the foremost…continue reading
MITH is currently seeking applications for two part-time (10 hours per week) positions as Text-Encoders to join the Shelley-Godwin Archive project. Due to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Shelley-Godwin Archive is…continue reading
MITH is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the first Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), at the University of Illinois…continue reading
Topic modeling in (and on) the humanities has been the subject of a number of blog posts and online conversations over the past few weeks, including this article by Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood, which provides a very clear introduction to the…continue reading
Adrian Hamins-Puertolas and Adam Elrafei are students in Team POLITIC, an undergraduate research team in the University of Maryland’s GEMSTONE honors research-focused honors college, mentored by MITH Faculty Fellow Peter Mallios. Our undergraduate…continue reading
I am delighted to announce that David B. Searls will be joining us as the featured keynote for the Shared Horizons symposia. David was a Senior Vice President at GlaxoSmithKline, where he led the bioinformatics group for 13 years. He is now an…continue reading
A few weeks ago I began putting together MITH’s new digital curation workstation. The primary reason for the workstation was to build a testbed for the BitCurator environment, an open source suite of digital forensics (DF) tools that have been…continue reading
I had promised to respond to comments on the Digital Mishnah demo, so, at long last, here goes. Request for greater highlighting of collation options (Tim Finney). In fact, CollateX has several alignment methods built into libraries that can be…continue reading
Roughly one year ago members of the BitCurator Professional Experts Panel (PEP) met at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) to help further refine the scope and priorities of the BitCurator project, and ensure that our…continue reading
If you haven't heard of Open Annotation, then you’re missing out on the greatest thing since virtual sliced bread. Something as simple as saying, “this should be associated with that,” is powerful. The simple things often are. We’re used to blogs…continue reading
Manpreet Khural is an undergraduate member of the Gemstone POLITIC undergraduate research team, led by MITH Faculty Fellow Peter Mallios. As we, Team POLITIC of Gemstone, make progress in the effort of utilizing data mining tools such as Weka, it…continue reading
Shared Horizons solicits applications to attend this two-day National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Symposium **Date: **Wednesday, April 10- Friday, April 12, 2013 **Location: **University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland USA **Applications…continue reading
MITH will be closed on Monday, October 29th and Tuesday, October 30th as will the University of Maryland College Park. We will re-open for business on Wednesday, October 31st at 9 am.continue reading
In preparation for MITH's NEH-funded Topic Modeling for Humanities Research workshop, which is just over a week away, we'd like to highlight some resources associated with the workshop—as well as some of the recent conversations we've been following…continue reading
I had originally planned to use this post to log my adventures in desoldering the CPU from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), but, alas, the campus couriers are holding the all-important solder sucker hostage. Instead, I'll talk a little bit…continue reading
The comments on the Digital Mishnah demo deserve a full response (although the short response is: thank you and, in almost all cases, I agree). However, for this post I want to report on progress in getting and identifying texts for the extended demo…continue reading
This post was co-authored by members of the Born-Digital Working Group. In early September of 2012 the University of Maryland Libraries and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) joined forces to launch its Born-Digital…continue reading
Today, the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities hosted project directors from 34 different projects representing recent awards from the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, the Digital Humanities…continue reading
On Wednesday, September 5th, MITH invited friends and colleagues present and past to help us celebrate our move to a new, sunlit space. Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) Dan Cohen gave the keynote, highlighting…continue reading
Yesterday (September 5th), we celebrated the dedication of our new space in Hornbake Library. Celebrating with us was a very special guest: Testudo! Below you will find a gallery of attendee portraits with Testudo, as well as a picture of the beloved…continue reading
I am pleased to say that with a lot of work on a lot of people’s part, there is now a live demo of the Digital Mishnah Project. The demo is just that: a demonstration of possible functionalities.This post will outline some of the features that were…continue reading
As part of our Digital Dialogue series, we're offering a small number of spaces for graduate students, staff, and junior faculty to join our speakers for lunch. This is a great opportunity to engage directly with the speakers and discuss their work…continue reading