Martha Rust (NYU) recently organized an inspiring conference on digital tools called “The Past Has Arrived: The Digital Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” The tools discussed usefully supplement books in both teaching and scholarship. Annotation tools like Digital MappaeMundi allow users to annotate and link images and texts. In the image below, downloaded from the [...]
–Report contributed to 4Humanities by Jessica Meyer When budget season hits the federal government and the debate begins about where and how to cut spending, a perennial favorite target is the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and its s…
| | (Via the Lt-Antiq list)A searchable database of the published evidence for statuary and inscribed statue bases set up after AD 284, that were new, newly dedicated, or newly re-worked. It includes all published evidence for statuary produced, …
Please join us in a celebration of the wide range of innovative, media-rich projects created by students this year at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
The St Cuthbert Gospel has featured much in the news recently, following its acquisition by the British Library. This pocket gospel-book, still in its original red leather binding, is a miraculous survival from 7th-century England. and has an extraordinary history, having been found in St Cuthbert’s coffin when it was opened in 1104. You are warmly invited to join Simon Keynes (Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Cambridge) and Michael Sadgrove (Dean of Durham), when they explain why this is one of the world’s most remarkable books. This event takes place at the British Library on Tuesday, 15…
Inspiration: I believe we take meaning for granted. We assume that words and concepts retain their value across time and space in order to make sweeping generalizations of people, belief systems, and even media forms. As a society, we tend to extol the…
[This post was originally written for and published on the NASSR Graduate Student Caucus blog on April 9, 2012. In my attempt to get back into the HASTAC blogging groove, I'm reposting it here. It's not really old material yet, and this is a forum full...
[This post was originally written for and published on the NASSR Graduate Student Caucus blog on April 9, 2012. In my attempt to get back into the HASTAC blogging groove, I'm reposting it here. It's not really old material yet, and this is a forum full...
Would you like to take a look at the term project of my first year seminar course in digital antiquity at Carleton University? Now’s your chance! Last winter, Terence Clark and Matt Betts, curators at the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau Quebec, saw on this blog that we were experimenting with 123D Catch (then called [...]
Thanks to LJ infoDOCKET : "Georgetown Law Library Finds 38 Percent of Online Documents Disappear from Web Pages Within Five Years"
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The Maruti Ertiga exteriors are hugely ripped off from the Maruti Suzuki SX4 and in fact the Ertiga looks like the extended version of the same. The effort was to encapsulate as much space within the exteriors to keep the car compact and easy to maneuv…
With the Titanic anniversary this year, Chiqui Esteban dug up graphics back from the time of the event. This one …
