The following remarks are a slightly modified version of a presentation made by MITH Director, Neil Fraistat, for the TILTS Symposium Roundtable: “WHAT IS DIGITAL HUMANITIES?” In order to open conversation on this topic, Fraistat draws together quotations from some of the most recent statements on the subject and articulates…
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Beginning February 15th, Digital Dialogues returns to MITH on Tuesday afternoons from 12:30-1:45PM during the academic semester. Digital Dialogues are an occasion for discussion, presentation, and intellectual exchange. Guests are welcome to bring their lunches and all talks are open to the public. At this time we’d like to announce…
MITH is proud to announce that Maria Velazquez, a University of Maryland, College Park PhD student in American Studies, as our spring 2011 member for MITH’s Winnemore Digital Humanities Dissertation Fellows program. Each spring semester MITH provides support to a graduate student whose dissertation engages the intersections between new media…
Current Positions in the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory (ETCL)
The ETCL (http://etcl.uvic.ca/) and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project at the University of Victoria have a number of exciting opportunities for candidates with a background in literary and textual studies, expertise in computing, and an understanding of the digital humanities.
ETCL team members are self-starters and self-managers [...]
The recent workshop “Off the Tracks—Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars” held on January 20th and 21st, 2011 at MITH was an extreme success and we are grateful to our now former Associate Director, Doug Reside and current Research Associate, Tanya Clement for their leadership. One of the most…
Despite the recent icy weather and the relative quiet of campus during winter term, MITH continues to remain a center of activity in the world of digital humanities. On Monday January 17, MITH welcomed an advanced seminar on TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) funded by the NEH and conducted by the…
The MITH barn raising finished last week with resounding success. As previously reported, the group (participants listed in the early blog entry here) split into two teams: one working to extend the tei-ann plugin for CKEditor (http://sourceforge.net/projects/teiann/) to allow for TEI-lite annotations, and one building an XML source editor with…
I’ve said a few controversial things over the course of my career, and it seems to me that if you are so honored as to have other people talking about what you said, you should probably sit back and let people respond without trying to defend yourself against every countercharge. But I’m worried that my [...]
The attached paper, titled “Supporting the Scholarly Edition in Electronic Form,” was written by ETCL members Meagan Timney, Cara Leitch, and Ray Siemens. The paper was recently featured in the MLA Panel for the New Variorum Shakespeare…
There is a great deal of coverage around the internet from the recent Modern Language Association convention regarding digital humanities. Here are links to two recent articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education that mention MITH: “Pannapacker at MLA: Digital Humanities Triumphant?” https://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/pannapacker-at-mla-digital-humanities-triumphant/30915 “Hard Times Sharpen the MLA’s Lens on…
[I'm pleased to offer a transcript of my pithy, underdeveloped position paper at the "History and Future of Digital Humanities" panel at the 2011 MLA. The panel, which was organized and expertly chaired by Kathleen Fitzpatrick from Pomona, included Alan Liu from UC Santa Barbara, Tara McPherson from USC, Kathy Harris from San Jose State, [...]
[This is a talk I gave as part of panel entitled "Digging into Data" at the 2011 MLA. I was joined by Glenn Roe (of ARTFL) and Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria. My talk was called, "The Meandering through Textuality Challenge: Reflections on the Humane Archive."] Digging into literature? Really? The word evokes [...]
Day 3 of the barn-raising is underway. During the first two days of the project, Susan Brown and James Chartrand came down from Canada to meet in person with the team from MITH. Hugh Cayless and Jon Deering joined us via Skype. We began with a Skyped-in presentation by Dan…
Work led by MITH on a Mellon-funded symposium and CLIR report on Digital Forensics and Born-Digital Content in Cultural Heritage Collections has been recognized by the Library of Congress in its year-end roundup of Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments in 2010! (Also mentioned is our work on the Preserving Virtual…
