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On February 11, 2022, we held a discussion of how to conceptualize and plan a digital humanities project, led by DH Initiative faculty members Andrew Goldstone, Francesca Giannetti, Paul Israel, Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and Sean Silver. The workshop was especially aimed at graduate students planning to apply for a Digital Humanities Seed Grant (due March 1). A video recording of the session is available here. The workshop handout is reproduced below, together with a few additional notes on other resources and example projects (include past seed grant recipients) mentioned in the discussion. Key considerations What is the research question? What story do you want to tell?Read More →

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Please join the Digital Humanities initiative for these events in Spring 2022. Also check our calendar for a full schedule including DH workshops offered by the Rutgers Library. Note: please check back for updated information; events may be in-person, remote, or hybrid as pandemic circumstances and university policies dictate. NEH Office of Digital Humanities Virtual Visit Friday, January 28, 12 p.m. (remote) In this virtual workshop, Elizabeth Tran, Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities’s Office of Digital Humanities, will help us better understand which programs at the NEH can support digital humanities projects (and other digital projects), how to write aRead More →

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We are back for the next pandemic installment of digital humanities programming. This online-only schedule of events includes several new offerings based on feedback from our past workshops, for which we are grateful. We continue to use the LibCal reservation system together with the rest of the New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program. Please go to dh.rutgers.edu/calendar or to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to reserve your spot (the information is the same in both places). The digital humanities workshops will be taught by Wafa Isfahani and Caterina Agostini, Digital Humanities Graduate Specialists, and Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian. Watch this list for newer additions later in February. NoteRead More →

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Hello, digital humanists! Welcome to our online only schedule of Fall 2020 workshops. We are using a different reservation system this time around, and we are joining forces with the New Brunswick Libraries Graduate Specialist Program in order to show the full spectrum of offerings in advanced digital research methods, be you a quant, qual, or a little-of-both person. Please head over to libcal.rutgers.edu/calendar/nblworkshops to reserve your spot. Filter by category “digital humanities” to see the workshops below. The digital humanities workshops will be taught by Caterina Agostini, Digital Humanities Graduate Research Specialist, and Francesca Giannetti, Digital Humanities Librarian. Note by FG on 2020-10-04: AddedRead More →

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The Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) at Rutgers provides a number of computing resources and training services to facilitate research computing needs across the university. Amarel is OARC’s high performance computing environment. It can be accessed from any personal computer, and it offers Rutgers scholars additional resources for pursuing computational projects. Motivations for Use Why might a humanist use, let alone need, high performance computing? One might assume the answer has something to do with “big data,” but this phrase can be misleading given the many different methods and data formats found in the digital humanities. The more useful question to ask is rather:Read More →