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Page 1: Digital Humanities Working Group - Princeton University · Center for Digital Research in the Humanities "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

Digital HumanitiesWorking Groupat Princeton University

Oct 13, 2011

Page 2: Digital Humanities Working Group - Princeton University · Center for Digital Research in the Humanities "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

DH Center CharacteristicsResearch/scholarship

● Stanford Lit Lab Services, tools, and resources for the community

● CHNM● Perseus Digital Library Project (Tufts)● Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Education, information and outreach

● MITH Research support, hosting and training

● UVA Scholars' Lab Archiving, repositories and markup

● Brown, ● Nebraska

Page 3: Digital Humanities Working Group - Princeton University · Center for Digital Research in the Humanities "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

Research/scholarshipStanford Lit Lab...discusses, designs, and pursues literary research of a digital and quantitative nature. "Typically, our research takes the form of a group 'experiment,' and extends over a period of one or two years." "At the Lab, all research is collaborative"...Nebraska offers faculty and post-doctoral "eighteen-month fellowship in interdisciplinary digital humanities research"

Page 4: Digital Humanities Working Group - Princeton University · Center for Digital Research in the Humanities "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

Services/resources for the communityPerseus Digital Library Project (Tufts) ...digital collection covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

● "Since...1985, the Perseus Digital Library Project has explored what happens when libraries move online."

● "a non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University." (but very much affliated with Comp.Sci)

● encourages research using this dataset Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy alternative reference work to print publications (inspired by Routledge Ency.Phil which in 1998 cost $3000 and was out of date when published)

● mirrored at other institutions - interesting

Page 5: Digital Humanities Working Group - Princeton University · Center for Digital Research in the Humanities "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

Education, information and outreachMaryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

● "an applied think tank for the digital humanities "● "Ultimately, MITH is a destination, a place to drop in, log on, create, think,

write, and above all, connect." ● "team-consultations for faculty digital projects, weekly Digital Dialogues

(brown bags), frequent visiting speakers, courses taught in our seminar room, and ongoing interaction among fellows, students, and staff. Many of our events are open to the public."

● "Our work unfolds in a generous physical space, complemented by programs and events that include team-consultations for faculty digital projects, weekly Digital Dialogues (brown bags), frequent visiting speakers, courses taught in our seminar room, and ongoing interaction among fellows, students, and staff. Many of our events are open to the public."

Brown's WWP

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Research support, hosting and trainingUVA Scholars' Lab

● Focus on space, equipment, and software: ..."an open, inviting space "..."31 high-end PC workstations"... list of software on the website.

● "Scanning Helpsheet"

UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research● pictures of equipment on website?● "center provides training for use of Windows Media,

OmniPage Pro, and other encoding software"

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Research support, hosting and training

DH group at Stanford Humanities Center● "combine advanced technology with humanities research to look at data in

new ways, discovering trends that once would have taken years to uncover."

Sample projects: ● Mapping the Republic of Letters - '"mapping" the Republic of Letters, by

plotting the geographic data for the senders and receivers of correspondences'

Run by:Open to:Events: SHC organizes lectures, conferences and extensive series of workshops (not all DH). http://shc.stanford.edu/videos-digital/digital-humanities/

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Archiving, repositories and markupCenter for Digital Scholarship - Brown University

● formed in 2009 through the merger of the the Library’s Center for Digital Initiatives (CDI) with two units formerly administered by Brown’s central computing group (CIS) — the Scholarly Technology Group (STG) and the Women Writers Project (WWP).

● provides "a platform to use, publish, and curate data and digital collections across the disciplines"

● Women Writers Project

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Archiving, repositories and markupUniversity of Nebraska–LincolnCenter for Digital Research in the Humanities�

● "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

● "Creating unique digital content, developing tools to assist scholars in text analysis and visualization"

● "offers forums, workshops, and research fellowships for faculty and students in the area of digital scholarship"

● focus on projects, technical assistance, equipment, software, scanning (!)

Page 10: Digital Humanities Working Group - Princeton University · Center for Digital Research in the Humanities "Joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences"

Archiving, repositories and markupUniversity of Nebraska CDRH

Sample projects: Walt Whitman Archive, Envisaging the West

Run by: digital initiatives & special collections within the library, departments of English and history

Open to: mainly faculty, but student projects welcome

Events: general colloquia on DH (evaluation of digital work, new tools, etc.), ongoing seminars connected to projects

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Project Lifespan

MITH projects guidelines

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy mirroring