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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
The Shakespeare and Company Project: Check It Out
14 May 2020
The Project’s newest features, available on May 15, facilitate engagement with the lending library’s holdings. Users can track how often and when a book circulated among lending library members, and see which books circulated the most.
CDH Co-Hosts Day of DH Hangout
30 April 2020
When Digital Humanists around the world celebrated centerNet’s Day of DH 2020 on April 29, the Center for Digital Humanities did our part to spread the (virtual) DH enthusiasm.
While our offices may be closed...
29 April 2020
The CDH is still open, working together while hunkered down at home. We can be contacted via email (dhi-info@princeton.edu) or our consult form. Reach out if you're looking for input on a project, thinking about the coming academic year, or just want to talk.
April 29 is Day of DH!
28 April 2020
Join us at 2 pm EDT on April 29 for a Zoom hangout, co-hosted by CDH and our friends at Haverford, Rutgers, and Swarthmore, to recognize Day of DH, an international celebration of the work digital humanists do.
Our New Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Perkins Fellow!
20 April 2020
We are very excited to announce that Sierra Eckert will be joining us next year as the new Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Perkins Fellow in the Council of the Humanities! Sierra joins us from the Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature, where she is finishing her dissertation, The Research Aesthetic: Information and the Form of the Victorian Novel. Stay tuned for a full announcement in the months to come. We're all looking forward to collaborating with her soon!2018 Dissertation Prize Honoree Reflects on Research, Community
13 April 2020
Editor's Note: The deadline for the 2019 CDH Dissertation Prize has been extended to May 4, 2020.
Meet our new Research Software Developer, Kevin McElwee
13 April 2020
Hello there! My name is Kevin, and I'll be working for the CDH and Princeton University Libraries as a research software developer.Building Online Archives in African American History—Together
2 April 2020
From left, Perkins Postdoctoral Fellow Jim Casey and CDH University Administrative Fellows Elena M'Bouroukounda and Julia Grummitt pose with a birthday cake during Princeton's Douglass Day event. Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass did not know his birthday, so he chose February 14 to celebrate.
Graduate Fellows explore DH tools, professionalization
10 March 2020
Author’s Note: The application deadline for the fall 2020 cohort of Graduate Fellows has been extended to April 6, 2020. More information on the application process is available here.Infrastructure First, Shiny New Things Second
5 March 2020
In 2017, the Princeton Art Museum radically expanded public access to its collections, but not through free admission (it already had that) or special events (it had those, too). Instead, it quietly released a piece of vital digital infrastructure: an open API, giving the public access to collection metadata and images.
Linked Data More Than a Millennium Old
6 February 2020
Organizing and comparing more than 12,000 pages of text written by dynasties separated by one hundred and fifty years is no easy task. But this is exactly what Professor Anna Shields in Princeton's East Asian Studies (EAS) department and her team are working toward in their Tang History Database, with support from the Center for Digital Humanities' dataset curation grants.
Tracking the Sounds of Early Chinese Texts
19 December 2019
How did puns and clichés function in ancient societies? The Digital Intertextual Resonances in Early Chinese Texts (DIRECT) Project helps scholars of ancient China ask these kinds of questions and more, including: what did ancient Chinese sound like? How do these phonetic qualities highlight the ways in which similar sounds in ancient Chinese texts obfuscate their original meanings?