A Queer Decade
A Queer Decade is a Spring Lecture Series sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. MITH's archive features links into the video galleries of both 2003 and 2004's guest lecturers. All videos are presented in Quicktime format.
AXE: Ajax XML Encoder
Doug Reside
The Ajax XML Encoder (AXE), developed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), will revolutionize the production of electronic editions and digital archives. AXE, the first item in MITH’s proposed toolkit for the digital humanities, is a web-based tool for "tagging" text, video, audio, and image files with XML metadata, a process that is now a necessary but onerous first step in the production of digital material.
Beckett directs Beckett
In 1985 Samuel Beckett directed "Waiting for Godot", "Krapp's Last Tape" and "Endgame" as stage pieces with the San Quentin Players. All three productions were grouped together under the overall title "Beckett Directs Beckett." As such they toured throughout Europe and in some parts of Asia to wide acclaim. Furthermore, each time a new tour was organized for these productions, after sometimes lengthy lacunae, Beckett has, with the assistance of Walter Asmus, and/or Alan Mandell, brought them back to performance level.
Business Russian
This exciting Web-based language learning project has been developed jointly by the Maryland Institute for Technology for the Humanities (MITH) and the development team at Russnet. Russnet is a Russian-Language field resource center which provides Russian-language learning services and products - information, language modules, courses, materials, in-service teacher training, databases, discussion forums, and gateways to other Russian language resources.
Center for East Asians Studies
In addition to administering the undergraduate Certificate Program in East Asian Studies, the Center provides information on courses and public events and presents lectures, creative performances and exhibitions, scholarly conferences, and film series for the University and larger community. The Center also engages in fund raising for library resources, staff expansion, outreach programs, non-print teaching materials, and student scholarships and internships.
centerNet
Neil Fraistat, Matthew Kirschenbaum
centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action that will benefit digital humanities and allied fields in general, and center
Deena Larsen Collection
MITH
In May of 2007, MITH received the extraordinary gift of Deena Larsen's personal collection of early-era personal computers and software. Deena is an author and new media visionary who has been active in the creative electronic writing community nearly since its inception in the 1980s.
Dickinson Electronic Archives
The Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA) is a website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work. The DEA is produced by the Dickinson Editing Collective, with an executive editor, a general editor, two associate editors, a project manager, and a technical editor working collaboratively with one another and with numerous coeditors, staff, and users.
Digital Dialogues
MITH
Digital Dialogues is MITH's signature events program. Held almost every week while the academic semesters are in session, and (almost) always on the same day and time--Tuesdays, 12:30-1:45--Digital Dialogues is an occasion for discussion, presentation, and intellectual exchange that you can build into your weekly schedule.
DISC: A Disabilities Studies Academic Community
The DISC website is an international, interdisciplinary, user-generated, digital forum providing support, collegial networks, and information that sustains a disability studies academic community and promotes disability studies in a humanities focus. DISC is built by the disability studies community through your contributions of information. Begin by signing yourself in as a user and contributor.
Early Americas Digital Archive
Ralph Bauer
The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) under the general editorship of Professor Ralph Bauer, at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Emily Dickinson: Technology and Mythobiography
With this project, Carol Burbank hopes to use Director, Photoshop, and various sound editing resources to create a template that allows us to perceive--not Dickinson, already encoded and lost to us as icon, as history, as metaphor, meshed in the ways we perform our narratives--but the haunting of perception's loss and gain through mobile and sensual representations of our relationships with the poet's work.
Feminism and Writing Technologies
Katie King began thinking about feminism and writing technologies while working in the early 80s on her dissertation, which was on academic editorial practices and feminist political practices making these interesting literary objects sometimes called "poems." She looked specifically at the literary productions and literary histories of Emily Dickinson and Audre Lorde and the social and institutional practices that shaped their work to look like what folks in their time periods and cohorts of action would call "poems."
Flare Productions, Inc.
Flare Productions is a not-for-profit filmmaking organization founded to produce artistic, deeply-researched, lively and engaging films which can be viewed with enjoyment both by people who already know a great deal about a subject and those who are being introduced to it for the first time.
Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
ELO
The Electronic Literature Organization’s Future of Electronic Literature Symposium at MITH at the University of Maryland, College Park, was a great event, bringing together e-lit writers, scholars, and an interested public together for an open mouse/open mic, a daylong symposium, and an ELO board meeting.
Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam
An archive of the Quicktime movie clips filmed during the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Slam, an event featured at Maryland Day, 2004. The event was sponsored by MITH and the David C. Driskell Center.
Hughes@100
Links to video excerpts of these MITH-sponsored events in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America's most impactful literary forces.
LGBT Studies
The LGBT Studies Program, like the programs and departments in Afro-American Studies, Asian American Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin-American Studies, and Women's Studies that preceded it, is part of the institution's broad and deep effort to transform curricula to reflect new developments in multicultural scholarship and to provide students with a set of educational experiences that convey some sense of the diversity of human cultures.
Mapping the Missions
Making use of text encoding, image mapping, and interactive media technology, the atlas will explore the missions' evolution from remote colonial-era missionary settlements to UNESCO World Heritage sites. A parallel objective is the integration of textual and visual sources in humanistic scholarship.
MONK Project
MITH
MONK is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. It supports both micro analyses of the verbal texture of an individual text and macro analyses that let you locate texts in the context of a large document space consisting of hundreds or thousands of other texts.
MultiLingual Thesaurus for Medieval Studies
MLTMS is an open source reference tool that will be made available to producers of reference works in medieval studies, both large and small, in a non-profit way both for application and for adaptation to provide enhanced functionality.
Narratives that Heal
This project addresses the creative process as it is framed and experienced in many cultures. The personal narratives that constitute the main corpus of data were gathered during three decades of field research in Ghana, Hawai’i, and Latin America. These stories reflect several themes or patterns identifying the journeys that have led the teller towards integrating creative processes into daily life.
Our Americas Digital Archive
MITH
The Our Americas Archive Partnership is a collaboration between University of Maryland's Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Maryland's Early Americas Digital Archive and Rice University's Humanities Research Center, Fondren Library and Americas Digital Archive. Its goal is to make digitally available texts written in or about the Americas that represent the full range and complexity of a multilingual "Americas" including Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Preserving Virtual Worlds
MITH
The Preserving Virtual Worlds project will explore methods for preserving digital games, interactive fiction, and shared realtime virtual spaces. Major activities will include developing basic standards for metadata and content representation and conducting a series of archiving case studies for early video games and electronic literature, as well as Second Life, the popular and influential multi-user online world.
RCCS: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
RCCS was originally founded by David Silver in 1996 at the University of Maryland, where it received generous support from the Department of American Studies.
Reading at Risk
Quicktime movie clips filmed during the "Reading at Risk" panel discussion held at the University of Maryland's McKeldin Library in the Fall of 2004, sponsored by MITH and the Department of English.
Rethinking the Americas Teaching History
Rethinking the Americas Teaching History was an educational outreach project created as a collaboration between the University of Maryland's Department of History, the David C. Driskell Center, and Montgomery County Public Schools.
Romantic Circles
MITH
Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture. It is published by the University of Maryland and supported, in part, by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the English Departments of Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Maryland.
Saraka and Nation
Merle Collins
Concerned, thematically, with postcolonial cultural formations, and in particular the experience of the African Diaspora, the project will trace connections between cultures of Africans in the Americas and sites of memory in Africa.
Soweto `76, A Living Digital Archive
Angel David Nieves
Soweto ’76 begins to address the ways in which the creation of new digital archives can help to foster a social justice-based agenda for marginalized communities, particularly those in South Africa’s former all-Black townships.
Steinschneider Bibliographic Database
Charles H. Manekin
The project plans to create a digitized relational database for the study of pre-modern Jewish philosophy, science, and belles-lettres, based on the standard reference-work, Die Hebraeischen Ubersetzungen des Mittelalters und dir Juden als Dolmetscher (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Interpreters, henceforth HU). While the SBD is geared primarily for scholars, it will have immediate pedagogic value in college courses and for Jewish high schools.
The Sound of the Emperor's Voice: Japanese Creative Responses to the Allied Occupation
This site combines artist's reactions to the occupation with material that contextualizes these responses. Access is currently restricted to University of Maryland students and faculty.
University Slots, Maryland Day 2004
Featured at MITH on Maryland Day 2004, this application features MITH's projects as items on a slot machine, giving everyone the chance to try their luck at the costs and payoffs of education. (This application may not be supported by certain browsers)
Virtual Lightbox
Matthew Kirschenbaum
The Virtual Lightbox is a software tool for comparing images online. Though its target audience is in the academic humanities and the library and museum community, we expect the Lightbox to find users far removed from this sphere; indeed, we anticipate it will be of interest to anyone for whom images constitute an important data type.
Women's Studies Database
The University of Maryland Women's Studies Database, begun in September 1992, serves those people interested in the women's studies profession and in general women's issues.
Yintong
Yintong is a working prototype of a full-scale database of characters in the GuÇŽngyùn 廣韻, a major dictionary dating from 1008 C.E. All data was entered into the database by me and I am responsible for any necessary corrections in future. YÄ«ntÅng has been endorsed by the T‘ang Studies Society and a mirror site is now being set up at the American Oriental Society, where future development may take place.
