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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
2019 Senior Thesis Prize: Call for Nominations
1 May 2019
The Center for Digital Humanities is now accepting nominations for our 2019 Senior Thesis Prize, to be awarded to the thesis that best directly utilizes, engages with, or contributes to the field of digital humanities. The prize may be received by up to two students and carries an award of $1,500.Congratulations to our Spring 2019 Seed Grant Winners!
24 April 2019
Congratulations to the recipients of Spring 2019 CDH Seed Grants! This semester, awards were given to faculty and librarians to support a variety of endeavors related to digitally-inflected scholarship and inquiry.
Archives, Data, and the Digital
24 April 2019
How do we ethically engage with physical (print) archives in the twenty first 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?
Meet our Dataset Curation Grant Winners 2019-2020
17 April 2019
Each year, the CDH awards several Dataset Curation Grants to Princeton researchers who are experimenting with humanities data. These grants provide training in the tools and techniques of data curation as well as funding to cover project costs and salaries for student collaborators. We are excited to announce our grantees for the 2019-20 academic year. Their projects express in different ways how new forms of argument, interpretation, and description can emerge from making, using, and maintaining data in the 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!