Crowdsourcing is a hot not-so-new trend that's been heralded as a solution for funding creative works of all kinds, from films to games to manufactured [...]
Thanks to a group of wonderful instructors and an energetic, passionate cohort of students from around the world, the first iteration of our intensive digital [...]
Social media is international: users from hundreds of different cultures and language backgrounds are generating and sharing content. As a result, language and national borders [...]
Designing and building information technologies involves an ethical component, as designers (consciously or un-) make values choices that influence the uses and impacts of their [...]
MITH is pleased to announce that Google has selected us as one of a hundred seventy seven mentoring organizations to participate in the 2013 Google [...]
In February 2012, as the new manager of DCMR, I was tasked with revamping the digitization center, increasing production, expanding services throughout the Libraries, and [...]
This post was written by Eric Cartier and also appears on the Special Collections blog. In mid-March, the Tools subgroup met FRED, our Forensic Recovery [...]
Museums as institutions of the 21st century have progressed quite a ways from the Wunderkammer of generations before. The 21st century museum takes the audience [...]
The BitCurator project (www.bitcurator.net), a joint research initiative of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park, [...]
In January 2012, the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston launched the Documents of 20th-Century [...]