The Cleaners: Movie Night (Oct 30)
The Cleaners (2018) Please join us in MITH on October 30, 2019 (All Hallows' Eve Eve) from 6-8pm for a screening of The [...]
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Oct 2019
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Dec 2018
MITH welcomes T’Sey-Haye Preaster
We are excited to welcome T'Sey-Haye Preaster to the MITH team as the Project Coordinator for the second phase of the Documenting the Now project, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Oct 2018
Documenting the Now Phase 2
With a $1.2 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, Shift, and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) will collaborate to lead the ongoing work of the Documenting the Now project.
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Sep 2018
Umbra Search and the Future of Black Digital Platforms Pre-Conference
Together Umbra Search African American History and the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland organized a working meeting on digital collections and platforms focused on African American history and culture.
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Aug 2018
Little Big Data
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 [...]
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Feb 2018
Endangered Data Week, February 26 – March 2, 2018
Led by the Digital Library Federation, Endangered Data Week, February 26 – March 2, is an international, collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, [...]
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Nov 2017
Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: A Panel and Workshop
This panel and workshop, planned in conjunction with the 2017 Radio Preservation Task Force Conference, focused on innovative workflows for crowdsourcing linked data to build a web of data that can bridge collective heritage. Panelists discussed their work and research in crowdsourcing or linked open data for radio collections, followed by a Wikidata workshop demonstrating how it can be used to connect archival radio collections to a broader web-based community of knowledge.
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Sep 2017
DocNow and Rhizome receive IMLS National Forum grant!
We are thrilled to announce that Documenting the Now, MITH's Mellon-funded collaborative social media preservation initiative with Washington University and the University of California, [...]
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Jul 2017
Endangered Data Week
Led by the Digital Library Federation, Endangered Data Week, February 26 - March 2, 2018, is an international, collaborative effort, coordinated across campuses, nonprofits, libraries, citizen science initiatives, and cultural heritage institutions, to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. The goals of Endangered Data Week are to promote care for endangered collections by publicizing the availability of datasets; increasing critical engagement with them, including through visualization and analysis; and by encouraging political activism for open data policies and the fostering of data skills through workshops on curation, documentation and discovery, improved access, and preservation.
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Jan 2017
Tracking Changes With diffengine
Our most respected newspapers want their stories to be accurate because once the words are on paper, and the paper is in someone’s hands, there’s [...]