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== Significance ==
== Significance ==

Revision as of 12:58, 28 September 2011

Contents

History

MITH home page
  • 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

MITH podcast page
  • 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.

Literary Projects:

Archival Projects:

Theatre & Dance Projects:

Significance

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