The Cleaners: Movie Night (Oct 30)
The Cleaners (2018) Please join us in MITH on October 30, 2019 (All Hallows' Eve Eve) from 6-8pm for a screening of The [...]
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Oct 2019
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Sep 2019
OpenITI AOCP: The Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project
With generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, OpenITI AOCP will create a new digital text production pipeline for Persian and Arabic texts. OpenITI AOCP will catalyze the digitization of the Persian and Arabic written traditions by addressing the central technical and organizational impediments stymying the development of improved OCR for Arabic-script languages.
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Apr 2019
Measuring Impact of Digital Repositories – Simon Tanner
Measuring Impact of Digital Repositories Open, Collaborative Research: Developing the Balanced Value Impact Model to Assess the Impact of Digital Repositories Thursday, April 25, 11 [...]
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Dec 2018
MITH welcomes T’Sey-Haye Preaster
We are excited to welcome T'Sey-Haye Preaster to the MITH team as the Project Coordinator for the second phase of the Documenting the Now project, generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Oct 2018
Documenting the Now Phase 2
With a $1.2 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, Shift, and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) will collaborate to lead the ongoing work of the Documenting the Now project.
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Oct 2018
Reckoning with Digital Projects: MITH Makes a Roadmap
In February of 2018, MITH spent dedicated time talking about sustainability of digital projects with a team from the University of Pittsburgh’s Visual Media Workshop [...]
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Sep 2018
Umbra Search and the Future of Black Digital Platforms Pre-Conference
Together Umbra Search African American History and the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland organized a working meeting on digital collections and platforms focused on African American history and culture.
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Aug 2018
#Engineering: A Data Story
This post is part 2 in a series about social media data collection experiments conducted in Matt Kirschenbaum‘s Introduction to Digital Studies. Fred Turner’s interview [...]
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Aug 2018
Little Big Data
This past spring Purdom Lindblad and I had the opportunity to participate in several praxis oriented sessions involving social media data collection and analysis for [...]
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May 2018
Unlocking the Airwaves
Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection is a multi-institutional collaboration between MITH, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the University Libraries at the University of Maryland, with collaborative support from the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH/Library of Congress, and the Radio Preservation Task Force. The goal of the project is to create a comprehensive online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).