Shelley-Godwin Archive

A digital resource comprising works of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. These manuscripts and early editions will be made freely available to the public through an innovative framework constituting a new model of best practice for research libraries. More

Digital Dialogues

Join us for our Fall speaker series. All talks are open to the public and attendees are invited to bring their own refreshments. Most talks take place at 12:30 pm, in the MITH conference room (0301 Hornbake Library). Check the schedule and follow us on Twitter @digdialog for updates . More

BitCurator

The BitCurator project, a joint effort led by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (SILS) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), will build, test, and analyze systems and software for incorporating digital forensics methods into the workflows of a variety of collecting institutions. More

ActiveOCR

Active OCR: Tightening the Loop in Human Computing for OCR Correction will develop a proof-of-concept application that will experiment with the use of active learning and other iterative techniques for the correction of eighteenth-century texts. More

Digital Mishnah

Digital Mishnah will create a digital edition of the Mishnah, a Jewish legal treatise from roughly 200 CE. Led by Hayim Lapin, Ph.D., Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of History at the University of Maryland, the project will encode the text in TEI, in order to provide a research tool for the collation and comparison of text. More

BrailleSC

In Making the Digital Humanities More Open, MITH will work with BrailleSC to undertake its second stage of development by designing and deploying a WordPress-based accessibility tool that will create braille content for end-users who are blind or low vision. More

ANGLES

ANGLES is a research project aimed at developing a lightweight, online XML editor tuned to the needs of the scholarly text encoding community. Combining the model of intensive code development (the “code sprint”) with participatory design exercises, testing, and feedback, ANGLES will create a working prototype of a new tool for working with TEI. More

Digital Humanities Incubator

The Digital Humanities Incubator is a program intended to help introduce University Libraries faculty, staff, and graduate assistants to digital humanities through a series of workshops, tutorials, “office hours,” and project consultations. More

More Projects

Neil Fraistat

January 16, 2013

MITH Welcomes New Staff Member

We are delighted to announce that Raffaele Viglianti will be joining MITH as a Research Programmer in early February 2013.

Raffaele comes to MITH from the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London (KCL), one of the foremost institutions in the world for digital research in the humanities, where he was most recently a Post-graduate Research Assistant. . . . Continue Reading

Trevor Munoz

December 19, 2012

Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Summer 2013 Workshop Now Accepting Applications

MITH is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the first Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on June 24-26, 2013. Visit the Institute Web site to complete an application.

Digital Humanities Data Curation is a series of workshops organized by MITH, the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at GSLIS. . . . Continue Reading