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Just 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 CDRH
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Until 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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In 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
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(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
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[This post is also available on the Day of DH’s blog] Hello!  My name is Jessica Dussault and I am a programmer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).  Let me tell you a little about my Day of DH 2017 which was, if you can tell from…

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