Preserving Virtual SNES Games
I had originally planned to use this post to log my adventures in desoldering the CPU from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), but, alas, the [...]
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Oct 2012
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Oct 2012
Drowning in Texts
The comments on the Digital Mishnah demo deserve a full response (although the short response is: thank you and, in almost all cases, I agree). [...]
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Oct 2012
Cancelled: Tara McPherson: "Theory in the Machine, or, A Feminist in a Software Lab"
Tara McPherson
USC’s School of Cinematic Arts
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:00 am
Update: This talk has been canceled due to Hurricane Sandy. How did a feminist film scholar trained in post-structuralist theory end up running a software [...]
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Oct 2012
Amanda French: “Sheesh, What’s With All the THATCamps?”
Amanda French
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
2:30 pm
THATCamps (The Humanities And Technology Camp) are a rapidly growing set of user-generated unconferences for technologists and humanities professionals. THATCamps are Collaborative: Everyone participates, including [...]
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Oct 2012
We Descended: Processing the Bill Bly Collection with the UMD Born-Digital Working Group
This post was co-authored by members of the Born-Digital Working Group. In early September of 2012 the University of Maryland Libraries and the Maryland Institute [...]
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Sep 2012
Ethan Watrall: “Archaeology and the Big Tent of the Digital Humanities”
Ethan Watrall
Anthropology; MATRIX; Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative
MITH Conference Room
Thursday, October 4, 2012
12:30 pm
Recently, there has been much discussion about “the big tent” as a metaphor to define and delineate the boundaries of the Digital Humanities. This metaphor [...]
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Sep 2012
Janet Murray: “Inventing the Medium as a Humanistic Practice: from deconstruction to meta-construction”
Janet Murray
Graduate Program in Digital Media, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:30 pm
The advent of digital modes of representation has been changing humanistic practices for three decades, most recently in the emergence of a new cohort of [...]
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Sep 2012
NEH Project Director’s Meeting: Lessons for Promoting your Project
Today, the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities hosted project directors from 34 different projects representing recent awards from the Institutes for [...]
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Sep 2012
Bill Lefurgy: “Digital Preservation: A Role for Public Libraries”
Bill Lefurgy
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress
MITH Conference Room
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:30 pm
Public libraries have a long tradition of serving as a knowledge base for their communities and for the nation as a whole. The change flowing [...]
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Sep 2012
Julia Flanders: “Small TEI Projects on a Large Scale: TAPAS”
Julia Flanders
Brown University Library
MITH Conference Room
Friday, September 21, 2012
3:30 pm
co-sponsored by the Department of English
The TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS) is tackling one of the trickiest problems of scholarly text encoding. How can we provide robust, large-scale [...]