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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.

Meet the 2021 CDH Senior Thesis Prize Honorees: William Ughetta

8 August 2021

William Ughetta ’21 creates a benchmarking tool for two databases of historic legal reports.

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CDH at ACH2021: Gissoo Doroudian Introduces Bona Fide

5 August 2021

Doroudian, User Experience Designer at the CDH, delivered a lightning talk on Bona Fide, a project in the concept stage that invites users to think about search engines in a new way. Comments welcome!

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Event Recap: New Languages for NLP Workshop I

22 July 2021

The series aims to expand natural language processing (NLP) resources to low-resource and historical languages.

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The Visualizing the Virus Digital Project Website is Now Live!

19 July 2021

Visualizing the Virus, co-sponsored by the CDH, is an interdisciplinary digital project through which one can visualize and understand the Coronavirus pandemic from a variety of perspectives.

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Meet the 2021 CDH Senior Thesis Prize Honorees: Lauren McGrath

14 July 2021

Lauren created a digital ethnography about urban Philadelphia neighborhoods and health crises.

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On Working at the CDH: A Note from Ara Eagan

8 July 2021

Ara Eagan ’21 reflects on two years as Undergraduate Communications Assistant at the CDH.

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Old project, new database — a milestone for the Princeton Geniza Project

1 July 2021

Reflections on a major milestone in the Princeton Geniza Project research partnership, including some of the challenges and preliminary insights from migrating the metadata into a relational database.

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Meet the 2021 CDH Senior Thesis Prize Honorees: Masha Miura

22 June 2021

Masha’s project uncovered connections between surveillance technologies and health data.

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Recordings Available: Crowdsourcing and the Humanities

11 June 2021

The series of roundtable discussions, held in April, built on the work of the Scribes of the Cairo Geniza crowdsourcing project.

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The Privacy Initiative - A Retrospective

1 June 2021

Toward the end of the 2020–21 academic year, we held the final event in our Privacy Initiative @ the CDH series.

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Reflecting on How We Work: An Interview with Hannah Stamler

28 May 2021

We checked in Hannah Stamler, a PhD candidate in History who was instrumental in organizing and leading the How We Work series, which engaged with the changing structures, expectations, and possibilities of university work.

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Announcing the 2021 CDH Senior Thesis Prize Winners

24 May 2021

Three members of the Class of 2021 earned recognition for their work in the interdisciplinary area between computer science and the humanities.

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