We are thrilled to announce that Carla Peterson, professor of English at the University of Maryland and MITH Faculty Fellow has won a 2011 New York City Book Award from the New York Society Library for her recent book Black Gotham: A Family History…continue reading
For the past six to seven months I have been leading the way for developing what we hope will be the first full blooded Foreign Literatures in America (FLA) archive based on receptions of Russian authors. While Peter Mallios has given Foreign…continue reading
Why do informal hackathons matter in the Digital Humanities community? I argue that the answer can be found by reading the (soon to be written and released) proceedings of the Interedition Symposium: Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and…continue reading
On Monday, April 9th CUNY TV show host Brian Lehrer will interview Carla Peterson on her book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City (Yale University Press, 2011) and the Black Gotham Digital Archive…continue reading
Underlying all of the scholarly work in a digital humanities project is the digital, something that tends to be swept under the rug along with managing a DH center. I want to spend a little time today talking about how we are approaching the…continue reading
Often in working on a project, we tend to focus on the series of day-to-day tasks and the minutiae and forget the greater issues and implications inherent in what you are doing. What I appreciate about these blog posts is that they give us space to…continue reading
I've been thinking a lot lately about the significance of small projects in an increasingly large-scale DH environment. We seem almost inherently to know the value of "big data:" scale changes the name of the game. Still, what about the smaller…continue reading
The University will be performing maintenance on our web servers this coming weekend (31 March). This should not affect any web sites on our servers, but such maintenance has caused problems in the past for a small set of older sites. If after this…continue reading
Over the past several weeks since my first blog post about researching digital scholarly editions, I have begun to consider how I could apply the lessons learned from my literature review to a digital scholarly edition of Katherine Anne Porter's…continue reading
MITH is delighted to announce four awards from the 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Start Up Grant Competition: Active OCR: Tightening the Loop in Human Computing for OCR Correction, led by Assistant Director…continue reading
I found this note in the Harry A. Williamson Papers at the Schomburg Center while doing research for Black Gotham. It’s a central document in my “cluster” on the New York City draft riots and uncovers a fascinating story. The first part of the story…continue reading
This week I will be one of the participants at a three-day workshop on “Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities” co-sponsored by the Centre for Digital Editions at the University of Würzburg and the Brown University Center for…continue reading
I had been holding out for my next post for a new Digital Mishnah website, courtesy of MITH, and a new collation demo hosted on it, but, that will be for my next post, deo volente. Since my last confession, I have: Submitted a paper that details…continue reading
Dc Read-In FlyerThis Saturday from 2:00-4:00PM, Matthew Kirschenbaum, MITH Associate Director and professor of English, will be participating in "From the Stone Age to the Digital Age," a panel discussion about the history of reading -- past, present…continue reading
MITH is excited to announce the release of the newest iteration of our website. As you browse through the site, you will see revised content and a fresh design that we hope will make it easier for you to navigate through our projects, staff pages…continue reading
I am defending my dissertation this semester. When I have successfully completed this task, I will be required by the University of Maryland to submit a copy of it to be held in perpetuity by the university's library system. In fact, just about…continue reading
Wednesday, March 7th at 4:30pm Carla Peterson, Ph.D, professor of English, MITH Faculty Fellow, and director of the Black Gotham Archive, will be giving a talk as part of the University of Maryland Libraries' Speaking of Books... Conversations with…continue reading
The "editor-narrator" of an electronic text "must also become an editor-narrator-librarian of the fluid text 'reading room' wherein all full texts of all versions of a work are stored…Editors need to create a text lab [fusion_builder_container…continue reading
The first thing you hear, or at least that you should hear, when you present an idea for a digital humanities project to someone already familiar with the field is this: "That's great! What does your data set look like?" Actually, that's the reaction…continue reading
Our own Neil Fraistat, MITH Director, is featured in today’s The Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Read _column. While Neil finds food for thought in The New Yorker’s investigative profiles, and brilliant digital humanities scholarship in Kathleen…continue reading
In celebration of Black History Month, this week the University of Maryland is profiling Carla Peterson, professor of English and MITH Faculty Fellow, on her research project, Black Gotham Archive. In "Online Archive to Share Stories of 19th Century…continue reading
Last week, Carla Peterson, professor of English and a MITH Faculty Fellow, was featured by The New York Times City Room "Taking Questions" series on her book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City…continue reading
It's been an interesting couple of weeks at the Foreign Literatures in America project, as we've really begun to set sail as concerns both the Russian literary reception archive and the Modern British literary archive. Though the projects are large…continue reading
MITH's strategic mission, as stated on the About MITH page, is to be the "University’s . Put another way, a local center for all things related to digital knowledge in the humanities. This means that we go out and spread out expertise in development…continue reading
Carla Peterson, professor of English and a MITH Faculty Fellow, is being featured this week by The New York Times City Room "Taking Questions" series on her recent book, Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New…continue reading