The Harris Broadsides from the Harris Collection of Poetry and Plays, is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of American life, and includes poetry of every description, 18th and 19th century ballads, verse describing newsworthy events, poetic … New project released: Harris Broadsides
The BDH‘s Digitial Archive was recently featured in the Scout Report: Since 1891, the Brown Daily Herald has chronicled “political protest, athletic wins and losses, curricular changes, and students’ initiative.” Recently, Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and the Herald began working together to create this digital archive of the paper. On the site, visitors … Brown Daily Herald Digital Archive Featured in Scout Report
CDS has organized a table at the ALA midwinter meeting in Boston (January 15-18, 2010) on “Showcasing Digital Humanities”, which will include eight other digital humanities centers, projects, and publishers. It promises to be an interesting event. The table is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, to enable digital humanities centers and … Digital Humanities table at ALA Midwinter
The Women Writers Project recently added fourteen new texts to Women Writers Online, its collection of women’s writing in English published before 1850. Highlights of the latest additions include Ann Cooke’s translation ofThe Sermons of Barnardine Ochine (1570), Eliza Haywood’sThe British Recluse (1722), Sarah Pennington’sAn Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters (1773), Susanna Rowson’sThe … New texts added to Women Writers Online
The Center for Digital Scholarship, with the support of the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program, is developing a suite of tools for exploring TEI-encoded texts using the SEASR software framework. SEASR provides a flexible, online environment in which to create and share research tools. The TEI tools for SEASR will enable scholars to parse … TEI and SEASR – Semantically rich tools for text exploration
