Blog

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.

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.  

The Researcher and the Mysterious Note on the Library Card

7 November 2019

Who knew that something as innocuous as a library lending record could be connected to the life of a refugee escaping during a time of war?

Reminder: Graduate Fellowship Applications due today!

15 October 2019

Time is running out to apply to join the spring 2020 cohort of  Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities!

Drinks, dinner, and discussion at the Ada Lovelace Day Grad Mixer

8 October 2019

The CDH, in partnership with the Graduate Student Government, invites you to join us for a special happy hour at Campus Club (Thursday, October 10 from 5-7pm).

Cultivating Princeton's Data Landscape: Annual Report, 2018–2019

30 September 2019

What does it mean to treat poetry, brain scans and library borrowing records alike as “data”? Today, we analyze rich and complicated data produced in the humanities at scale with computational tools such as natural language processing, network analysis, and machine learning. Likewise, data scientists rely on humanists for political and historical context that helps make their work more equitable and just. During 2018-19, the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) dedicated its energies to bringing various disciplinary voices at Princeton together to examine how data is transforming our academic fields and our society. We called this initiative “Year of Data,” and held over twenty events — lectures, symposia, conferences, workshops — with campus partners in the humanities, arts, data and computer science, social science, and library and archives.

Who Counts? Data Citizenship course offers a look at “data literacy” in a digital world

20 September 2019

Who or what gets counted in the production and maintenance of data today? How does data change depending on who does the counting? When visibility entails vulnerability, how might counting become a dangerous activity?

Still Speaking in Code

23 August 2019

A Digital Humanities origin story. Inspired by Speaking in Code, the 2013 DH developer summit on tacit knowledge.

Document ALL the things!

12 August 2019

We are pleased to share project charters from 2016 to 2019 and software agreement documents.