Born-Digital Materials at UVA’s Rare Book School
It's a privilege and thrill to be returning this week to teach for a second time at the University of Virginia's Rare Book School. My [...]
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Jul 2011
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Jul 2011
Digging into Data with Topic Models
I am a graduate student from the University of Michigan interning this summer at MITH, working on the topic modeling project that is underway here. [...]
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Jul 2011
MITH Welcomes New Assistant Director
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Guiliano as Assistant Director. As Assistant Director, Jennifer [...]
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Jul 2011
TILE 1.0
The TILE team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0. The Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a web-based tool for creating and editing [...]
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Jul 2011
MITH Awarded Amazon Web Services Grant
We are pleased to announce that MITH has been awarded an Amazon Web Services research grant for $7,500 to support our use of cloud computing [...]
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Jul 2011
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
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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Jul 2011
Project Bamboo: Building Shared Infrastructure for Humanities Research
Several MITH staff members are currently working on Project Bamboo, a partnership of ten research universities, led by University of California, Berkeley, and including Australian [...]
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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 [...]