Digital Humanities
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Inquiries into culture, meaning, and human value meet emerging technologies and cutting-edge skills at Pratt Institute's School of Information

Author: Allison Nellis

Digital Art History in Practice Lightning Talks Review

On February 10th, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts held their Fine Arts Digital Art History Day as part of the 2016 DH Week. Presenters included Emily L. Spratt from Rutgers University, Louisa Wood Ruby, Samantha Deutch, and Ellen Prokop from the Frick. The day’s activities included a morning of engaging lightning talks with art historians and art research professional on their work that incorporates digital tools. The second half of the day featured a series of workshops on DH related tools such as CartoDB, Cytoscape, D3.js, and Zotero.

“Digitization: What is Lost and What is Found?” Review

On November 17th I attended “Digitization: What is Lost and What is Found?” held at New York University’s Center for the Humanities. This interdisciplinary panel featured four academics from different departments of New York University:  Sebastian Heath from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, W.Gerald Heverly a librarian for the classics at the Bobst Library, Elizabeth Hoffman…