News Cole Crawford | 08.01.2024 DARTH contributes to python-edtf library Cole recently upgraded the python-edtf package to implement the 2019 EDTF spec so DARTH projects can better store, sort, and display uncertain, partial, or otherwise incomplete dates Cole Crawford | 03.19.2024 The Amendments Project Featured in Congressional Research Service Fact Sheet The Congressional Research Service recently published a fact sheet on finding proposed constitutional amendments featuring The Amendments Project. Cole Crawford | 12.06.2023 Student Job: The Amendments Project Seeks Research Assistants Successful applicants will likely be History, Hist & Lit, Social Studies, or Government concentrators with a track in data science or experience scraping, cleaning, and manipulating web, tabular, and text data. Cole Crawford | 08.14.2023 Eileen Southern in Reviews in Digital Humanities Bethany Gareis (University of Tennessee) positively reviewed Eileen Southern and the Music of Black Americans in Vol. 4, No. 1/2 of “Reviews in Digital Humanities.” Cole Crawford | 07.05.2023 The Amendments Project Launches Jill Lepore’s The Amendments Project officially launched on July 4, 2023 with coverage in the New York Times and The New Yorker Cole Crawford | 05.12.2023 Mapping Color in History Hiring Digital Humanities Postdoc The Mapping Color in History project invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in digital humanities for the academic year 2023-2024. Cole Crawford | 05.06.2023 The Amendments Project awarded Inequality in America Initiative grant Jill Lepore’s The Amendments Project awarded Inequality in America Initiative grant Cole Crawford | 02.06.2023 Call for Papers: 2023 Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium Symposium proposals are due February 17 Cole Crawford | 01.15.2023 Call for Papers: IIIF Annual Conference 2023 Paper proposals for this year’s conference in Naples, Italy are due February 6 Cole Crawford | 01.15.2023 Mapping Color in History receives NEH ODH Level 3 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant Mapping Color in History received a $349,000 Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Cole Crawford | 02.14.2022 Multiple SHARIAsource and Program in Islamic Law Digital Humanities Positions The Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is currently hiring multiple positions to support their digital humanities and […] Cole Crawford | 05.18.2021 Spring 2021 Discovery Series Recap Just over a year ago, running an entirely virtual speaker series would have sounded crazy, but like all other areas […] Cole Crawford | 12.10.2020 Fall 2020 Discovery Series Recap The Harvard Discovery Series is a collaboration between the DSSG and Cabot Science Library which brings scholars on the frontiers of digital […] Cole Crawford | 04.28.2020 Multiple Program in Islamic Law Research Assistantships, Summer 2020 Cross-posted from https://pil.law.harvard.edu/ra-ships/ Professor Intisar Rabb and the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School are accepting applications for summer […] Cole Crawford | 03.30.2020 Position: ShariaSource / IQSS Data Science Fellow https://pil.law.harvard.edu/fellowships/ Title: Data Science Fellow School: Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area: Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) Position […] Cole Crawford | 03.03.2020 Barajas Dean's Innovation Fund 2020 Applications Now Open The Dean of Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce continued funding available for initiatives in the Digital Arts and […] Cole Crawford | 12.18.2019 Giza Project Wins “Reimagine Education” Award The Giza Project won a Gold Award for Best Educational App at the 2020 “Reimagine Education” Awards for “Digital Giza: […] Cole Crawford | 12.12.2019 Harvard Digital Scholarship Newsletter Can You Digital? is a new campus-wide digital scholarship newsletter, launched October 2019. The goal of the newsletter is to help […] Cole Crawford | 12.09.2019 Call for Applications: 2019-2020 DARTH Data Curation Grant Deadline: Friday, December 20, 2019 with rolling submissions until Friday, February 14, 2020. DARTH is excited to announce a new grant […] Cole Crawford | 06.12.2019 RA Position Available for Islamic Law projects (SQL, Python, datavis) Professor Rabb seeks CS student RAs for summer research on data visualization, SQL coding + Islamic law Professor Intisar Rabb […] Cole Crawford | 04.12.2018 DARTH Position Available: Student Software Developer Arts and Humanities Research Computing (DARTH) is hiring a student software developer to assist in Arts & Humanities faculty research […] Cole Crawford | 04.11.2018 DARTH Position Available: Media Intern Arts and Humanities Research Computing (DARTH) is hiring a media intern to assist in interviewing faculty who have received funding, […] artshumrc | 05.09.2017 Mapping the Movida Mapping the Movida: A Digital Humanities Project by: Vanessa Ceia Mapping the Movida is an open web archive and geo-spatial […] Christopher Morse | 04.22.2017 Research Databases and the Future of Digital Humanities Applications Introduction: Next Generation Research Computing Research computing within the arts and humanities has evolved in tandem with rapidly advancing digital […] Christopher Morse | 02.09.2017 Omeka Sugar: Tutorials for Digital Exhibits Serving up spoonfuls of knowledge to make work with Omeka go smoothly. Jeremy Guillette, Digital Scholarship Facilitator for the History […] Christopher Morse | 12.19.2016 Digital Japanese Literature: Aozora Bunko Introduction Aozora Bunko (青空文庫) is a digital archive of Japanese literature in the public domain. In addition to its web presence, […] Christopher Morse | 11.01.2016 Hacking the News: The NYTimes API Why just read the news when you can hack it? The above question posed by the New York Times makes an […] Christopher Morse | 10.18.2016 Hacking Mirador: Building Scholarly Scrapbooks Hacking Mirador is the first workshop of four in the Arts & Humanities Research Computing Fall 2016 Lunch & Learn series. The […] Christopher Morse | 09.26.2016 Homer and the Web At Harvard in the 1930s, Professor Milman Parry and his student, Albert Lord, revolutionized Homeric studies by proving that Homeric […] artshumrc | 09.08.2016 Visualisation des Billets Vendus Visualizing Theater History Visualisation des Billets Vendus, a data interactive created by Christophe Schuwey, Lecturer at Université de Fribourg (Switzerland), […] Christopher Morse | 08.15.2016 (Watching) 100 Years of Broadway Shows at Once Visualizing Broadway relies on multi-year data from the Internet Broadway Database and the Playbill Vault to tell a different history of Broadway shows and of […] Christopher Morse | 08.15.2016 Exploring Archives Charlie à Harvard Upon hearing the chilling news of the attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters and the Porte de Vincennes […] artshumrc | 08.06.2016 A Review of Selected Digital Humanities Centers and Initiatives (March 2016) Many believe that humanities computing, later called “digital humanities,” (DH) originated in 1949. It was the year when an Italian […] Christopher Morse | 04.05.2016 Harvard IIIF DARTH has just released its newest project in collaboration with the Harvard Library, the Harvard Art Museums, HarvardX, Harvard University Information Technology (Arts […] Christopher Morse | 02.17.2016 Ah humanity! “Ah humanity!” is an artwork one would prefer not to describe. [1] It is a polyvocal, multi-layered, “live” audiovisual project, best […] Christopher Morse | 07.21.2015 Dr. Michael Puett and the Power of Imagination Harvard Professor Michael Puett, inspired by the ancient Chinese text “Zhuangzi,” invites us to view the world from multiple perspectives […] artshumrc | 04.26.2015 Drawing Conclusions: The Dialogue of Cajamarca No description provided. artshumrc | 03.05.2015 The Origin of U.S. Fair Use Curious about the history of intellectual property? In celebration of Fair Use Week, the immensely talented artist and esteemed former […] Christopher Morse | 10.30.2014 How Trees Inspired a Model for Organizing Knowledge A new metaLab project is a study of the collection of trees at the Arnold Arboretum and the metadata built up around that collection for […] Sarah Searle | 07.01.2014 Focus: Vassiliki Rapti Dr. Vassiliki Rapti, Preceptor in Modern Greek, pushes the boundaries of digital media instruction in her classroom by engaging her […] artshumrc | 04.02.2014 Intellectual Property Resources On April 1st, 2014, DARTH Crimson hosted a discussion panel called Copyright and Copyleft on intellectual property issues in the […] artshumrc | 09.03.2013 Lynda @ Harvard Harvard University has partnered with Lynda.com to provide software tutorials to our community free of charge. To learn more about […] Nicole Legnani | 05.28.2013 Focus: Afsaneh Najmabadi Serendipity and artistry have guided Afsaneh Najmabadi in her quest to make the material culture of women in Qajar Iran […] Nicole Legnani | 05.28.2013 The Women Behind Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran Roya Amigh and I shared cake wrapped in tin foil and held mugs of tea to warm our hands on […] Nicole Legnani | 11.05.2012 Spotlight: Jean Ryoo For her senior thesis, Jean Ryoo created multimedia and “experiential” installation pieces that incorporated video and sculpture into spaces through […] Nicole Legnani | 10.02.2012 Bringing the Giza Pyramids to Life 3D or not 3D? That is the question. Egyptologists and digital artists discuss the advantages of navigating on screen through archaeological sites in 2D, versus donning 3D glasses for an even more immersive experience. Sarah Searle | 09.12.2012 Copyright & Alternative Licensing for Your Content Copyright The pamphlet “Copyright and Fair Use: A Guide for the Harvard Community”, written by Allan A. Ryan when he was […] Sarah Searle | 09.12.2012 Fair Use for Academics in the Digital Age Recently, DARTH Crimson met with Allan A. Ryan, Director of Intellectual Property at Harvard Business School Publishing, to discuss a […] artshumrc | 08.27.2012 Just What Is PixelSense? Watch this video for an explanation of how “PixelSense” works on the SUR40 and just what makes it special. artshumrc | 07.28.2012 Library Explorer WHAT IS LIBRARY EXPLORER? Library Explorer is a beta application developed by Brown University and the Harvard Library, built to […]