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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
