Blog
Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Join us Thursday for Day of DH!
23 April 2021
The annual event, a project of centerNet, invites DH experts and enthusiasts around the world to share how they work and what they're working on.
Rebecca Munson Appointed Assistant Director of the CDH
21 April 2021
Rebecca’s new role at the CDH both builds on her past work with Princeton graduate students and draws from her expertise in project management.
Event Recap: Ethical Stewardship of Indigenous Material Culture
13 April 2021
On March 26, 2021, the CDH Indigenous Studies Digital Humanities Working Group and Princeton University Library hosted Dr. Trevor James Bond, the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at Washington State University Libraries.
Registration Is Here: Browse Our Curated Course List!
9 April 2021
The following are Fall 2021 course offerings that deal with topics at the intersection of technology and culture, provide hands-on computational instruction, and/or give students the opportunity to consider the value of digital humanities methods.
“New Languages for NLP” Scholars Will Bring Global Perspectives to Text Analysis
26 March 2021
Announcing ten language teams selected to participate in The New Languages for NLP: Building Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Humanities series of workshops, held at CDH and funded by the NEH.
Mistakes to avoid when using Twitter data for the first time
19 March 2021
I just finished putting a lot of time into collecting, cleaning, and analyzing Fortune 100 tweets from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After a few thousand tweets, I hit plenty of hurdles and corner cases. Below I’ve listed some mistakes that I’ve encountered while working with the Twitter API.
Douglass Day Events Explore Education and Advocacy
23 February 2021
CDH hosted two events on February 13 to recognize Douglass Day, an annual celebration of Black history in honor of Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday.
Introducing How We Work
23 February 2021
Next month, the CDH kicks off How We Work, a new series for graduate students on the theme of work. How do you pursue “traditional” careers in a changing educational landscape? Is there anything truly “alternative” about alt-ac? What do university employees do on a daily basis?Is a spreadsheet a database?
11 February 2021
What does it look like to use Google Sheets as a lightweight relational database? Read about an experiment with this on the Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project.
Join Us for Douglass Day, February 13!
7 February 2021
We are celebrating Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday with two events focusing on the relationship between education and activism. You are invited!
Shakespeare and Company Project Publishes Updated Datasets
1 February 2021
On Monday, the Shakespeare and Company Project team reached an important milestone: we published updated data exports.
CDH Becomes DARIAH’s First U.S. Cooperating Partner
31 January 2021
DARIAH, formed in 2014 as as European Research Infrastructure Consortium, facilitates arts and humanities research by coordinating working groups, assembling educational materials, collaborating with research organizations, and connecting scholars across Europe and beyond.