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Humanities
Computing Centers
Institute
for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia)
- Terrible interface with no clear explanation of what it is they do,
or links to resources managed through the Institute. Some of the subsites
at UVA are interesting. The
Digital Media Center (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html)
has a substantial database of digital images to support teaching and research
in the humanities, as well as support services for this. The projects
in The Virginia
Center For Digital History (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/)
presents material in a well organized, and visually pleasing manner. The
top level of the Special
Collections Digital Center (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html),
however, is poorly designed, though some of the exhibitions underneath
are well done. A general problem with the UVA pages is a lack of clear
organization as well as uniformity in presentation. (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/)
Computing in the Humanities and
Social Sciences (CHASS) (University of Toronto) - Wonderfully navigable
interface. The top level provides a clear overview of the site, and the
pages underneath branch to subcategories underneath them again, rather
than trying to cram everything onto one or a few pages. The site itself
doesn't offer any academic content, but works well as a jump station to
finding resources and material. There is also clear information about
support services and tutorials. (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/)
Humanities Computing at the
University of Georgia - Has a number of useful articles and guides
on what humanities computing is, how it is useful, and well annotated
links to tutorials, etc. (http://virtual.park.uga.edu/hc/)
School of Arts and Sciences Computing
(University of Pennsylvania) - Seems to provide the necessary links
and support services for faculty interested in teaching with technology.
With some digging one also gets to actual-content links, but only by jumping
to departmental homepages. Design is functional, but could be better.
A bare-bones approach. (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/)
The Humanities Advanced Technology
and Information Institute (University of Glasgow) - Operates humanities
computing courses for both students and faculty, as well as a couple of
research projects, one of which deals with Post Hoc Rescue of Digital
Material. (http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/)
Humanities Computing Unit (Oxford University) - Not a very good interface,
and seems quite limited in what they try to cover. Subunits include the
Centre for Textual Studies,
the Oxford Text Archive, and the
British National Corpus. And
that's pretty much it. Some local support services, and how-to online
instructions, but generally unexciting and underdeveloped. (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/)
The Centre for Computing
in the Humanities (CCH) (King's College, London) - Thin, though under
the "Resources" heading they have a similar approach to the
MSU Writing Center. (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/)
Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA
- A technical support service exclusively for UCLA. (http://www.cdh.ucla.edu/)
The Humanities Information Technologies
Research Programme (HIT) (University of Bergen) - "The HIT Centre
is a research and development centre for information technology within
the humanities, i.e. language, literature and cultural studies, aesthetical
subjects, history and philosophy." (http://www.hit.uib.no/english/)
Humanities
computing professional organizations
The
Association for Computers and the Humanities - The major professional
society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and
language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines,
and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual
materials. (http://www.ach.org/)
The Association
for History and Computing - An international organization which aims
to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of
historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. Has sub-branches
all over the world. (http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/histlink/index.html)
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