CIRCA:Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
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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
- Archives and showcases projects that span various fields and are interdisciplinary by nature
- MITH is 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 are sure to interest a broad range of audiences. Digital humanists, scholars, educators, technologists, and intellectuals will find a myriad of projects worth investigating. 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:
Again, these projects are just a sample of the ones that can be found at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Be sure to check out the others, including those that are archived at MITH.
