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By Dana Wheeles on February 26, 2013
[Cross-posted at juxtasoftware.org] Every now and then I like to browse the project list at DHCommons.org, just to get an idea of what kind of work is being done in digital scholarship around the world. This really paid off recently, when I stumbled upon Digital Thoreau, an engaging and well-structured site created by a group from SUNY-Geneseo. This […]
Posted in american studies, collation, digital humanities, juxtacommons, scholarship, text, text encoding | Tagged tei, thoreau |
By Sarah Storti on February 20, 2013
A long, long time ago I wrote a blog post about how this year’s NINES Fellows were going to be working on a digital project called The Shelley-Godwin Archive. Back then we were particularly excited about the project because it was going to be a collaborative one–we needed to figure out how (or whether!) two groups […]
Posted in romanticism, scholarly projects, scholarship, text encoding | Tagged collaboration, SGA |
By Elizabeth Fox on October 8, 2012
About a week ago, in the between SGA phone calls and Juxta testing, I found myself looking at another digital product: Twitter. In particular, I found myself reading tweets and retweets, blog posts and articles about what has since become known as #twittergate. (I have to take a moment here to thank Annie Swafford, who […]
Posted in digital humanities, informal musings, scholarship |
By Sarah Storti on October 1, 2012
Hello there, dear reader. It feels strange to be writing to you on the NINES site, instead of on the UVa Scholars’ Lab blog where I spent all of last year as a fellow in the brand-new Praxis Program. It feels particularly déjà vu-ish to be writing about collaboration, because that was pretty much all […]
Posted in scholarship, text encoding | Tagged collaboration, project management, SGA |
By Dana Wheeles on June 18, 2012
Our image this week shows a view from NINES’ own home institution, the University of Virginia, where the ousting of President Teresa Sullivan last week has lead to a larger debate about the role of universities and higher education in the 21st century. This photo comes from the Pageant of America collection at the New York […]
Posted in american studies, scholarship | Tagged virginia |
By heatherbowlby on February 19, 2012
Heather Bowlby is a PhD student in Victorian Literature at the University of Virginia and 2011-2012 NINES Fellow. In a recent article in The Chronicle, “How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship,” Gary Olson addresses the role of emerging digital methodologies in efforts to reform humanities scholarship. The increasing call to refashion humanities research by means […]
Posted in digital humanities, informal musings, miscellaneous, scholarship |
By Dana Wheeles on May 18, 2011
Course offerings for Rare Book School at the University of Virginia have been listed, including “Digitizing the Historical Record,” taught by NINES Director Andrew Stauffer (Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia) and Senior Advisor Bethany Nowviskie (Director of Digital Research & Scholarship for the University of Virginia Library). Other available courses include: […]
Posted in digital humanities, scholarship, text encoding |
By Dana Wheeles on October 4, 2010
***Edited, 10/11/2010 to correct DHSI tuition rates. The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation in different disciplines. As a sponsor for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2011, NINES is […]
Posted in digital humanities, events, scholarship, workshop |