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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?

Coding with Unknowns

5 December 2019

A deeper dive into a bit of the code behind the Shakespeare and Company Project to explore how we might represent ambiguity in code when a machine requires certainty.

Spring 2020 Undergrad Courses on Data, Tech, and Digital Culture

3 December 2019

This Spring semester, Princeton is offering over a hundred undergraduate courses at the intersections of technology and culture. Disciplines and fields include the history of technology, digital humanities, media theory, applications in programming, science and technology studies (STS), and media art. View the comprehensive list of these courses below.

Visualizing Derrida

21 November 2019

For many digital humanities teams, the only thing better than bringing a successful project to life is seeing its underlying data put to use by other scholars. That's why, when the University of Michigan's Justin Joque tweeted about a visualization using data from Derrida's Margins, the CDH developers who built the project were delighted.

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Be our next Perkins Postdoc!

19 November 2019

Apply here to become our next Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Perkins Fellow.

Envisioning Slavic DH: A Visual Culture Workshop at the CDH

18 November 2019

Slavic Studies DH is having a moment. The energy has been building for some time: North American Slavists are joining the active DH affiliate group of our main professional organization (ASEEES), and DH initiatives are thriving across Russia. Slavic DHers from around the globe met at last summer’s major annual DH conference in Utrecht, speaking at the first-ever panel dedicated to issues specific to our field, and excitedly planning future collaborations.