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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Princeton’s Digital Humanists Introduce “Unsolved Data Problems” to Data and Computer Scientists
2 April 2019
What computational challenges can a historian of the medieval Middle East, a scholar of Victorian poetry, and an experimental musician pose to a room of computer and data scientists? On March 13, three members of Princeton’s humanities faculty presented their landmark digital humanities projects in a panel discussion called “Unsolved Data Problems.”
Building Bridges with Data
2 April 2019
How do we ethically engage with physical (print) archives in the 21st century? How do we access, create, and maintain archives for global change? In short, how do we build transcontinental bridges across cultures and institutions through a shared interest in archival data?
Princeton Prosody Archive Launches a Bold New Site
27 March 2019
The thousands of digitized works in the Princeton Prosody Archive are now publicly available on the archive's new and improved website. The searchable site means centuries' worth of texts are right at your fingertips.
CDH and CST Collaborate as They Play with Data!
18 March 2019
Play is not just for kids. It can benefit scholars, too.
DH Strategist Job Opening!
13 March 2019
Join the CDH team as a DH Strategist to help raise the level of digital humanities research, awareness, and integration at Princeton, and to promote the work of the CDH to the broader community"Year of Data" Presents: A Panel on Unsolved Data Problems
5 March 2019
Can computer and data science answer the complex questions raised by humanities data?
The Extraordinary Adventures of a First-time Researcher in the Land of Russian Archives
5 March 2019
Jianing Zhao (‘20), Slavic major and member of Princeton’s Slavic DH Working Group writes about a recent archival trip to Russia with CDH Assistant Director Natalia Ermolaev. Jianing and Natalia are working on a digital humanities project about the Turgenev Library, the Russian library in Paris. The project is inspired in part by the Shakespeare and Co. Project, a collaboration between Joshua Kotin (English) and the CDH. Jianing’s DH work will be part of her senior thesis.Explore New Ways to Play with Data!
19 February 2019
The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and the Council on Science and Technology (CST) invite you to come play with us!
Teaching DH
11 February 2019
Miranda Marraccini, PhD student in Princeton’s Department of English, was a CDH Graduate Fellow in 2017-2018, and has received several CDH grants for her project, Victoria Press Circle. In this post, Miranda talks about her experience as a DH teacher.
Curating Plague Data
6 February 2019
How can a CDH Dataset Curation Grant help you with your research? Merle Eisenberg received a Dataset Curation Grant for his project “The Justinianic Plague and the End of Antiquity.” Merle defended his dissertation in Princeton's Department of History in summer 2018, and was a Postgraduate Research Associate (PGRA) affiliated with the CDH in Fall 2018.
Spring CDH Grant Opportunities
5 February 2019
Mark your calendars for the Center for Digital Humanities Spring 2019 grant deadlines! Funding is available to support projects at various stages that encourage new scholarship in digital humanities and critical engagement with humanities data.