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== Significance == | == Significance == |
Revision as of 12:58, 28 September 2011
Contents |
History
- Founded in 1999
- Funded by a major Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
- A collaborative effort between University of Maryland’s College of Arts and Humanities, Libraries, and Office of Information Technology
Overview & Purpose
- Operates as a meeting place and think tank for the digital humanities
- Promotes, provides, and encourages innovative research surrounding text mining, data analysis, and visualization techniques
- Equally concerned with the genesis, structure, and preservation of electronic literature, digital games, and virtual worlds
- Provides a variety of media such as podcasts, on-line videos, slide shows, and scholarly talks that discuss current issues within humanities computing
- A physical and electronic home to a wide variety of digital humanities projects and events
- Showcases projects which span various fields and are interdisciplinary by nature
- Internationally recognized and distinguished by the cultural diversity it promotes and embodies through projects such as The Visual Accent & Dialect Archive
Audience
MITH offers a diverse set of projects that is sure to interest a broad range of audiences. What follows are just a few of the projects currently associated with the Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities.