For this month’s #ChronAmParty, we are looking at some of Nebraska’s Black newspapers, the Omaha Monitor, the Omaha Guide, and Lincoln’s The Voice, along with one of our newly digitized papers, The Powder Keg. The earliest of these papers is The Monitor (later Omaha Monitor), which ran 1915-1928. In an era when most papers had…
Read More February #ChronAmParty: The Monitor, Guide, and Voice NewspapersAfter years of stringing together #ChronAmParty posts, featuring #CreepySantas or #FashionPlates, for this month’s #ChronAmParty we are trying a new format. Our theme is #RetroFuturism in honor of January’s National Science Fiction Day, celebrated annually on January 2. Nebraska’s newspapers occasionally featured serialized Science Fiction stories, such as The North Platte Weekly Tribune’s publication of…
Read More RetroFuturism ChronAmParty: Science Fiction in Nebraska’s Historic NewspapersFor the past several months, I’ve joined the fast-paced and exhilarating world of the CDRH dev team! Here are some reflections from that time, in no particular order. Working on multiple projects keeps things interesting from a content perspective, but it can also be very helpful for development. You’ll often find something in one project’s…
Read More Reflections from a Temporary DeveloperAfter what felt like a very long spring, summer and fall seemed to fly by! Despite the fast passage of time, the CDRH team has quite a bit of news to share with you about our activities of the past few months. Personnel Changes After 40 years at the university, Kay Walter is retiring from…
Read More Summer and Fall 2020 in the CDRHAre you thinking of digital humanities (DH) as a career? There are many different routes you can use to get into DH, including lots of non-academic positions in museums, genealogy research, art, and public history. In academia, DH is often a team effort undertaken by faculty and staff. Today, we’re going to talk to you…
Read More The Career Paths of CDRH StaffJust as it impacted so many people and organizations this spring, Covid-19 has fundamentally changed how the CDRH team works with each other day to day. In mid-March, carrying houseplants and microfilm readers and in some cases entire desktop computers, we vacated the CDRH and set up home workstations. Despite the new circumstances, we’ve been…
Read More Spring 2020 (not) in the CDRHUntil late 2019, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) had no multilingual sites. Despite creating and maintaining dozens of sites with content spanning disciplines, the only projects that even came close were the Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary, and The Good Person: Excerpts from the Yorùbá Proverb Treasury. Though both of these…
Read More Cartas a la Familia: A Lesson in Internationalization
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Happy 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! Not all of us can plant a tree or do other restorative work for Earth Day, and in the face of large-scale problems to solve we don’t always feel like the small things we do to help (reducing the amount of water or electricity we use) matter. But the…
Read More Plant a Tree in the Command LineIt’s hard to believe that DH Afternoons, a forum celebrating digital humanities work being done at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is already in its second year. It’s harder yet to believe that the second year is halfway over! Over the past year and a half we have seen great presentations from wonderful scholars in our…
Read More DH Afternoons Recap: Fall 2019In September 2015, we launched the O Say Can You See: Early Washington D.C., Law & Family website (OSCYS) [http://earlywashingtondc.org]. The site had an interactive network component, where users could easily see how a petitioner not only had relationships to attorneys and defendants, but to a web of family members and social connections involved in…
Read More Land of Confusion: A Relationship Visualization Experiment