MITH is delighted to announce that ten Digital Dialogues video podcasts from 2013 are now available. Here is a full list: **October 29, 2013: **Nicole Saylor, Head, American Folklife Center Archive Archiving Folk Culture in the Digital Age **October…continue reading
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland's Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) announces the launch of the Shelley-Godwin Archive (S-GA), a new digital resource that allows scholars, students and the public to explore in one place…continue reading
MITH is accepting nominations for potential speakers for our Digital Dialogues series in the Spring 2014 semester. Digital Dialogues is MITH’s signature events program, held almost every week while the academic semester is in session. Digital…continue reading
WHERE: 0301 Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park WHEN: Friday, October 4, 2013 TIME: 10:00 am TWITTER: #dhkeepson Congress may shut down, but Digital Humanities can’t be stopped! Join the Maryland Institute for Technology in the…continue reading
The Future of Information Alliance (FIA) Robert W. Deutsch Foundation 2013-2014 Seed Grant Competition Help solve the information challenges of today's world. Student teams work with faculty mentors and FIA Partners on real world problems. Four teams…continue reading
MITH is delighted to announce our fall 2013 slate of Digital Dialogues speakers. All events are held in the MITH Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library, University of Maryland. September 17th 12:30-2 pm Chris Prom Assistant University Archivist…continue reading
We are quite a way through GSoC! It has been very interesting and informative experience until now. MITHgrid is a very powerful library because it places data at the center of its activities. It is very structured taking into the fact that JavaScript…continue reading
MITH is pleased to announce the addition of Stephanie Sapienza to our team! Stephanie has joined us as a Project Manager and is working with the entire MITH team to coordinate and implement research and development projects, public programs and…continue reading
Maryland Institute for Technology for in the Humanities (MITH) is looking for a creative undergraduate or graduate assistant specializing in graphic design. This is a great learning opportunity and a chance to work with a design professional to…continue reading
MEI to VexFlow is a JavaScript library used to render music notation encoded according to the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) format. MEI is a community-driven effort to create a commonly-accepted, digital, symbolic representation of music notation…continue reading
MITH is delighted to announce that it has received an award from the 2013 National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) competition for the Building an Accessible…continue reading
During the weeks of April 14 - May 3, I was fortunate to spend my MLIS practicum at MITH under the supervision of Trevor Munoz. My main reason for applying to MITH as a potential practicum site was my background in the digital humanities and library…continue reading
MITH is delighted to welcome Heather Froehlich of the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) for an lecture entitled "To any count, to all counts, to what is man": finding patterns of gender in Early Modern" on July 2nd at 3 pm in MITH's Conference…continue reading
I am really excited to be part of MITH team and I am thankful to James Smith for selecting me to work on augmenting MITHgrid to make it more powerful and popular among developers. MITHgrid is a JavaScript framework for building data-oriented, event…continue reading
Margo Padilla will join MITH and the University of Maryland Libraries this fall as a member of the inaugural class of the National Digital Stewardship Residents. The National Digital Stewardship Residency program is an initiative of The Library of…continue reading
MEI to VexFlow is a JavaScript library used to render music notation encoded according to the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) format. MEI is a community-driven effort to create a commonly-accepted, digital, symbolic representation of music notation…continue reading
Out of the blue, an archivist gets a call from the husband of a famous scientist who has recently passed away. He wants to donate materials to the archives that can help people to understand and learn about her research. The archivist visits their…continue reading
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland is seeking an experienced project manager who will provide coordination and management for research projects and initiatives in the digital humanities. The Project…continue reading
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 humanities training institute was a great success when it was held in January 2013. We were…continue reading
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 Summer of Code (GSoC). Google is offering students a stipend to work with MITH and other organizations…continue reading
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 of Evidence Device. The subject lines we’ve shared since then (e.g., “tinkering with FRED today…continue reading
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, and the School of Information and Library Science at the…continue reading
Before getting to the first post from our Policy & Procedures Group, I'd like to sharing a link to Jennie Levine Knies' "Alas, poor Metadata!" post. I neglected to post it at the time it was written--sorry, Jennie! The following post was written by…continue reading
We have released a new version of the demo. Much of the change is in styling and branding, but there are new texts added, some new views, and a new naming convention. New** texts.** Gradually, I am replacing the sample files with just Bava Metsi’a Ch…continue reading
MITH is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the U.S. East Coast Open Annotation Data Model Rollout on Monday, May 6th. This meeting is free, but registration is required due to space limitations. Lunch will be provided. Visit the rollout page…continue reading
