Welcome to our Fall 2023 roster of digital humanities workshops and events. Details and registration links are posted below. Alternatively, please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to explore a wider range of offerings from the Libraries, including data science and qualitative data streams. Reserve your spot to receive Zoom links and do-ahead software downloads and workshop materials. Workshops #BlkDH: Into to Timeline JS Tuesday, October 17, 12:00-1:30 p.m., online (Instructor: Tajah Ebram) Register Repeat workshop TBA TimelineJS is an open-source tool for building visually rich, interactive timelines. This workshop will offer an overview of how to generate a timeline using Timeline JS and howRead More →

Download a PDF copy. Overview The New Brunswick Libraries (NBL) Graduate Specialist Program provides opportunities for Rutgers–New Brunswick graduate students to use and develop their skills in a variety of methodologies while working with the Libraries to deliver consulting, workshops, and training. NBL hires Graduate Specialists to provide support to researchers in topics and methods of growing importance in the scholarly world. Graduate Specialists help the Libraries to expand the range of services offered by bringing advanced skill sets in the latest research methods and tools. Additionally, the Graduate Specialist Program helps the graduate students by giving them a place to prove and hone theirRead More →

The Rutgers Digital Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce the recipients of its graduate seed grants for 2023–2024: Laura De Moya-Guerra (History) The Community Archive of the Chinese in Barranquilla, Colombia: a digitized collection of records from a community archive at risk of loss and underrepresentation. Jeongeun Park (History) Archives II Record Group 242 “Records Captured in Korea” Item Locator: a searchable database of Korea-related records in Record Group 242 (National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized) at Archives II. The DH Initiative gratefully acknowledges the support of the School of Arts and Sciences for the seed grant program. Grant recipients will present their workRead More →

On March 23, 2023, we held our third or fourth Digital Humanities Showcase (depending on how you count), resurrecting an old tradition of gathering the Rutgers DH community, plus friends, to share their findings on a range of topics under the “big tent.”1 In the interest of keeping the conversation going, I am sharing this year’s program, with slides linked where I have the authors’ permission. For the institutional historians among you, be sure to compare it to the 2014 program, and to those of the intervening years, represented by the gallery below. Enjoy! 2023 Program Lightning Round “Expanding Family Ties: Digital Storytelling Tools &Read More →