Welcome Clay and Sayan
We are excited to welcome Clay Templeton and Sayan Bhattacharyya as graduate interns in residence at MITH for six weeks this summer. Clay is currently [...]
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Jul 2011
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Jul 2011
New Models for Scholarly Communication
The Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) is currently convening for their ninth annual meeting at the University of Virginia, July 13-15, 2011. Funded by the Andrew [...]
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Jun 2011
You Say Tomayto, I Say Tomahto: Announcing the Visual Accent and Dialect Archive (VADA)
Why do residents in the Italian neighborhood of Philadelphia pronounce words like “home” and “hoagie” in a Scottish dialect? Questions such as these have long [...]
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Jun 2011
Accessing the DLC from a Distance?
My previous posts on The Deena Larsen Collection (DLC) focused on visiting the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) in person and interacting [...]
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Jun 2011
MITH Welcomes New Associate Director
The University of Maryland Libraries and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities are very pleased to announce the joint appointment of Trevor Muñoz [...]
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Jun 2011
NEA Grant to Build Music Theater Online: 1866-1923
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) continues to produce groundbreaking work in the performing arts. We are pleased to announce that we [...]
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Jun 2011
Hands on the DLC: Finding and Finding Aids
“…it is a true hybrid collection. It is not just a collection of digital materials.” MITH Associate Director Matt Kirschenbaum Before opening the display cases, [...]
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Jun 2011
Frankenstein Goes Digital: Recent NEH Award to Build Shelley-Godwin Archive
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, also titled The Modern Prometheus, stands as one of the most widely read novels of the Romantic era since its publication [...]
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Jun 2011
The Deena Larsen Collection as a Research Test Bed
“We were interested in the collection as a research test bed and so we wanted a set of born-digital materials we could actually work with, [...]
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May 2011
Visiting the Deena Larsen Collection
“Collecting and hoarding, it turns out, are very important activities, since too few of our cultural institutions and repositories are yet engaged with acquiring and [...]