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Esther Ok

American Heritage Vegetables - 0 views

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    This website is for the American Heritage Vegetable project, a digital humanities program dedicated to documenting the cultivation practices and cookery of vegetables in the American kitchen. It also shares what kind of vegetables are in the market during different time periods. The information is collected from sources such as agricultural journals, gardening encyclopedias, and even horticultural manuals. With the American Heritage Vegetables project people can learn how we eat, what we eat, and the way American cuisine has changed throughout history.
Ryan McClure

Humanities and Technology Unite! - 0 views

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    The NEH Office of Digital Humanities joined together with the Museum of the City of New York in October to put on a panel presentation. This presentation was over the museum's effort to create a massive collection of digitized photographs. The presentation also covered how using technology can help cultural heritage organizations to enrich an improve access to collections of cultural heritage items.
kcoats

Medical Heritage Library - 1 views

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    The MHL's focus is to digitize and make available a large scale collection of rare medical journals, books, articles, and films. Their goal is to make it a free, open access journal of historical, established, and highly-qualified medical material to advance contemporary understanding of the medical field along with common knowledge of humanity. A majority of the contributors are university libraries, including Harvard an Yale. It is not a forum to publish current or contemporary research and articles.
Ryan McClure

The Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the Digital Study of Vernacular Music - 0 views

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    The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection is an archive of audio recordings, documents, film footage, and photographs from the Special Collections Library at Northwestern University. The archive's purpose is to preserve the collection, present it to a wider audience, interpret its significance and importance, and allow users to learn more about the cultural heritage and history in the digital age. It is also functioning as a sort of prototype for an historically-infused digital folk music festival and a research workshop.
Ryan McClure

Announcing 5 New Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (July 2012) - 0 views

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    The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities announces 5 institutes that will receive government grants to further their research. Included are the University of Texas at Austin's HiPSTAS, the University of Maryland, College Park's Digital Humanities Data Curation, George Mason University's Another Week | Another Tool - A Digital Humanities Barnraising, Folger Shakespeare Library's Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: "Early Modern Digital Agendas," and Arkansas State University's Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice.
Angela Moultry

Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs project - 1 views

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    The Digital Public lIbrary of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project intedned to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available free or charge to all. With the Hubs Pilot, the DPLA will undertake the first efforts to establish a national network out of these and other promising intitives bringing together digitaized content from across the country into a singlr access for end users.
aearhart

Digitised WWI diary launched at Trinity | TechCentral.ie - 0 views

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    Website TechLife reports of a diary written during the Great War by a mother of an Irish soldier that is now digitized and transcribed. This diary is shared by the students of a Digital Humanities class of Trinity College Dublin. By dispersing this diary to the public, people can now have a greater understanding about Ireland's cultural heritage. Moreover, it is now a model of what would have been otherwise seen infrequently by the average person.
aearhart

Digital Humanities: from geek enclave to global engagement | News & Events | Manche... - 0 views

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    This is a page of information on Claire Warwick, who is a professor of digital humanities and head of the department of information studies at University College London. Warwick's main research interests are the uses of digital resources in humanities and cultural heritage, reading in physical and digital environments, and the use of social networking in research. Warwick opened the event Annual Research Programme, an event free and open to the public.
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