After 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 CDRHJust 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(This blog post is a companion to the Digital Humanities 2018 Conference presentation titled “Legacy No Longer: Designing Sustainable Systems for Website Development” co-authored by Jessica Dussault and Greg Tunink) View Slides | Ver en español a través de Google Translate The Problem The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University…
Read More A new way to publish: The CDRH API[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] We laid out a fairly ambitious work plan for 6-8 weeks, so it’s unsurprising we could not finish everything we hoped to accomplish. We have a host of features to add, and have laid the…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part 3: Future Goals[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Press, has recently redesigned and relaunched the award-winning Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This relaunch keeps all of…
Read More Lewis and Clark: Going to the Source[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, September 12, 2016 on Github Pages] I’ve been sitting on this blog post for several months now, so my apologies for a rather late update! In May the dev team (Karin, Greg, and I) headed to Kansas City for the Ruby on Rails 2016 conference. Most of our dev team…
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