The Atlantic has posted an online image gallery which uses some images from The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection. In August 1923, William Dana Reynolds, with his wife Vera Hunt Reynolds and their young daughter Helen, embarked from Honolulu on the Japanese steamship Taiyo Maru, bound for … The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
The Computers in the Humanities Users Group and the Brown University Library present: Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections David Smith Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 15 Bopp Room, John Hay Library Concerted scanning projects are making significant amounts of data … Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections
In honor of the centennial celebration of the John Hay Library, Dr. Vartan Gregorian will address Information and Knowledge in an Age of Technology. Introduction by President Ruth J. Simmons Reception to follow at the John Hay Library Thursday, March 17, 2011 4 PM Sayles Hall, Brown University
This year’s conference theme is “Organizing Knowledge”, and focuses on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The Keynote lecture will be by Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College: “Teaching the New American Renaissance and Margaret Fuller”. The conference’s full schedule is now available. Women in the Archives is co-sponsored by the … Women in the Archives: a Conference on the Role of Archival Materials in the Study and Teaching of Early Women’s Writing
