New Course in Digital Humanities!
Inspired by my fellowship at the Scholars’ Lab last year, I am teaching a course in the History Department this coming spring called, HIST 4501 “From Vellum to Very Large Databases: Historical Sources...
View ArticleIntroducing DAVILA
Jean Bauer, former Scholars’ Lab Graduate Fellow in Digital Humanities announces: “I have just released my first open source project. HUZZAH!” DAVILA is a database schema visualization/annotation tool...
View Article2011-2012 Graduate Fellows’ Program
The Scholars’ Lab is proud to host, for the fourth year, a prestigious UVa Library Graduate Fellowship program in Digital Humanities. This fellowship is designed to support advanced graduate students...
View ArticleWelcoming our 2011/12 Graduate Fellows
The Scholars’ Lab is pleased to welcome our 2011/12 cohort of Graduate Fellows in Digital Humanities: Gabriel Hankins from the Department of English, Randi Lewis from the Corcoran Department of...
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grad student jobs in Scholars’ Lab R&D
Are you a maker? A builder? A tinkerer at heart? The Scholars’ Lab in Alderman Library seeks energetic and imaginative UVa graduate students from all disciplines looking to hone their digital skills....
View ArticleAda Lovelace Day 2011
On this Ada Lovelace Day, I’m looking forward and back. Here’s my full post in honor of humanities computing pioneer Susan Hockey (where you can also find links to past years’ posts on Johanna Drucker,...
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The Mappy Goodness that is GIS Day in the Scholars’ Lab
Every November on the Wednesday of Geography Awareness Week the world celebrates GIS Day. On that day in Charlottesville the geospatial community gathers in the Scholars’ Lab for mappy goodness. And...
View ArticleProject Management and Graduate Training
As if on cue, right after I posted last week to call for clear, concrete goals for Prism this semester, Bethany began last week’s meeting by asking for a Project Manager. Sarah Storti and I quickly...
View ArticleAll Hail the Workplan!: Accountability and Collaborative Research
In our first official meeting as Project Managers, Sarah and I drew a line on the whiteboard that had two distinct endpoints – a start and a finish. The start point was that day’s date, January 17th,...
View ArticleSlightly Better than Brain Dead
This post was inevitable, but I can’t say I was ready for it. In exactly one week, I will be leaving for Spain on a two-month dissertation research trip. In relation to this blog, this means that my...
View ArticleSeeking new Praxis Program fellows!
Last August, we announced a new, pilot initiative for the Scholars’ Lab — the creation of a Praxis Program, which would offer hands-on training to six UVa graduate students in digital humanities...
View ArticleDay of DH
Yesterday, as I’m sure you all know, was Day of DH, and it was my first year participating. I was only able to blog twice because as soon as I sat down to work on some design tasks for Praxis (choosing...
View ArticleAnnouncing Prism!
We are pleased to announce the official beta release of Prism, a tool for collecting and visualizing crowd-sourced interpretations of texts. In case you are new to this blog, you should know that Prism...
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Spatial In the Scholars’ Lab: Spring 2012
With classes over and finals behind us, let’s look back on the Spring 2012 semester with a spatial eye. Yes, January-May was a very mappy time in the Scholars’ Lab! University of Virginia Library...
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Announcing My Blog, Songs of the Victorians, and Augmented Notes
I’ve been having an excellent and productive time as a Scholars’ Lab Fellow: thanks to the amazing advice and support I’ve received from the Scholars’ Lab staff, I’ve been making good progress on my...
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Call for Applicants: UVa Graduate Fellowship in DH
The Scholars’ Lab is proud to host prestigious fellowship program for ABD graduate students doing significant and innovative work in the digital humanities at the University of Virginia. Supported by...
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