We are pleased to announce that Joseph Rhoads joined the Library on February 1st as our new Digital Repository Manager. Joseph was formerly the Digital Curator at the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeology Lab at the University of West Georgia where he led the development of an online, searchable, digital archive of documents, reports, maps, … Digital Repository Manager appointed
The Garibaldi panorama was created around 1860 by John James Story, and is one of the few remaining examples of this type of commercial entertainment. In 2007, with financial support from the Department of Italian Studies and Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown 66), the Brown University Library digitized the panorama and added it to the Garibaldi/Risorgimento … Digital Garabaldi Panorama Tours Italy
Jeffery T. Schanapp will give a talk entitled “In the stacks of the livebrary” at 5:30 on February 2nd, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the third talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2011 lecture series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center … “In the stacks of the livebrary”
Maximilian Schich of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, will be giving a talk on “Understanding the Ecology of Art History”, 4:00pm Tuesday, December 13th in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library. Within their work, art historians, archeologists, and their predecessors across centuries have accumulated large amounts of structured data, … Towards Understanding the Ecology of Art History
Richard White will give a talk entitled The Spatial Turn in History at 5:30pm on December 1st, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the second talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public … “The Spatial Turn in History” A Talk by Stanford Professor Richard White – Second Talk of the Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series
TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS), a digital humanities collaboration between the libraries of Brown University and Wheaton College, has been awarded a $250,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), to begin on December 1, 2011 and run for three years. The goal of TAPAS is to create … Digital Humanities Project Wins IMLS National Leadership Grant
The Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce that Jean Bauer began her duties as Digital Humanities Librarian on August 1st. Jean Bauer is a historian, database designer, and photographer. She holds degrees in history from the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, “Revolution Mongers: … Digital Humanities Librarian appointed
The Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce the publication of The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts. The collection, published out of the Brown Digital Repository (BDR), features 200 Quranic manuscript folios dating from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The flowering of Arabic calligraphy has its origins in the efforts of Muslim societies … The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts
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
