This article reports on the ongoing social edition-building process. Using the social edition of the Devonshire Manuscript as a case study, the authors assess the scholarly potential of editing in public with contributions and feedback from the existing knowledge communities surrounding Wikibooks, Wikipedia, Twitter, and other social media spaces.…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

This syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]

Syllabus and schedule for Digital Storytelling, a graduate-level course taught by Jim McGrath in Spring 2017 at Brown University.

August Macke und Franz Marc pflegten bis zum Tod eine innige Freundschaft, die in
einem gemeinsam gemalten Bild einen fast utopischen Ausdruck fand: Das Paradies-
Fresko in Mackes Haus in Bonn. Das überlebensgroße Bild zeugt einerseits vom seltenen,
aber gelungenen Versuch einer künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit. Zum anderen
dokumentiert es die Su…[Read more]

The authors conducted a study of the use of Early English Books Online (EEBO) in research and teaching at one institution. The findings highlight the strengths and weaknesses of EEBO for research and teaching and the importance of librarian-faculty collaboration in instructing students to use large, electronic full-text primary-source corpora effectively.

Presentation for The Third Way conference paper at DH2017

Slides from The Third Way conference paper for DH2017

Tanto por el público al que se dirigen como por el tipo de producción que ofrecen, se hace necesaria una reflexión acerca de la misión de las redes sociales en el contexto académico. No sólo con el objetivo de poner en valor sus usos más frecuentes sino de su influencia en el rendimiento y aprovechamiento de tipo intelectual. Tras su aparic…[Read more]

Most intertextuality in classical poetry is unmarked, that is, it lacks objective signposts to make readers aware of the presence of references to existing texts. Intergeneric relationships can pose a particular problem as scholarship has long privileged intertextual relationships between works of the same genre. This paper treats the influence of…[Read more]

Syllabus for graduate-level course in Digital Public Humanities taught by Jim McGrath (postdoctoral fellow in Digital Public Humanities). Course is part of Brown’s Public Humanities M.A. Program (institutionally residing in the American Studies department). A primary feature of this course is a collaboration with the Providence Public Library…[Read more]

This poster documents recent work done at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Brown University) to survey the field of public humanities, create an institutional history of the Center through a digital collection of assets, and visualize particular points of emphasis in the intellectual history of the field…[Read more]

This poster reflects on the Association of Research Libraries’ (ARL) upcoming inaugural week-long Digital Scholarship Institute for library professionals. Held in June 2017 at Boston College, the Institute introduced librarians and staff who are not currently involved in digital scholarship to the methodologies and considerations of such work. T…[Read more]

In The Burns Antiphoner – From manuscript to interactive resource, Anna Kijas reports on a new project based around a 14th-century source, the Burns Antiphoner. In this project they focus on integrating and delivering images, metadata, and recorded audio and video to provide an in-depth look at the contents and experience of this particular s…[Read more]

This checklist is an offering to the digital humanities community by participants of the Digital Humanities 2017 panel “Copyright, Digital Humanities, and Global Geographies of Knowledge.”* Do you have suggestions for improving it? Please email vzafrin at bu edu. *ht…[Read more]

Founded by Dr. Robert Hollander, The Princeton Dante Project (2.0) (PDP) is a well-funded project that has received internal funding from Princeton University and external support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Edward T. Cone Foundation, and The Clover Foundation. The PDP has also benefited from two…[Read more]

The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its environs in the mid-17th century, at a time of…[Read more]

The Great Parchment Book of the Honourable the Irish Society is a major surviving historical record of the estates of the county of Londonderry (in modern day Northern Ireland). It contains key data about landholding and population in the Irish province of Ulster and the city of Londonderry and its environs in the mid-17th century, at a time of…[Read more]

This paper presents a newly funded international project for machine translation and automated analysis of ancient cuneiform 1 languages where NLP special ists and Assyriologists collaborate to create an information retrieval system for
Sumerian. This research is conceived in response to the need to translate large numbers of administrative texts…[Read more]