Topic
Digital humanities
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The MIT Press releases a comprehensive report on open-source publishing software
Report catalogs, analyzes available open-source publishing software; warns open publishing must grapple with siloed development and community-owned ecosystems.
August 8, 2019 -
Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift
Program creates a new hub for pedagogy and research in time-based media.
June 12, 2019 -
MIT Program in Digital Humanities launches with $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant
Among the program's offerings, the Digital Humanities Lab applies computational tools to humanistic research — and builds a community fluent in both languages.
April 17, 2019 -
Innovating at the speed of light
Symposium speakers describe how colleges must meet the challenges of a rapidly emerging environment in which "computing is for everyone."
March 4, 2019 -
Collaborating for MIT’s Future poster session offers community insights and inspiration
For the fifth year, the poster session brought together colleagues from across MIT to learn about new projects and partnerships.
November 2, 2018 -
Celebrating Open Access Week
Knowledge Futures Group and the MIT Press team up to highlight ways to meet increasing demands for open access content.
October 25, 2018 -
MIT Press, Media Lab launch Knowledge Futures Group
First-of-its kind collaboration will leverage the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge.
September 27, 2018 -
MIT to conduct an environmental scan of open source publishing
Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable a landscape analysis and code audit of all known open source authoring and publishing platforms.
June 22, 2018 -
Making landmark texts in architecture and urban studies accessible to the world
National Endowment for the Humanties-Mellon Foundation Open Book Program grant will support the digitization and open accessibility of key MIT Press titles.
April 27, 2018 -
Garden of ideas
With a new multimedia website, landscape architecture professor Anne Whiston Spirn makes a secret garden public and explores how ideas create form.
March 8, 2018 -
MIT Press teams with Internet Archive and Arcadia to provide access to hundreds of backlist titles
Press' first major digitization endeavor ushers in a new era of access.
May 30, 2017 -
3 Questions: Jeffrey Ravel on bringing data to cultural history
MIT conference stems from data-rich historical project on French theater.
May 18, 2016 -
Report: How interactive documentaries represent a new form of innovation in digital journalism
MIT report represents the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.
November 19, 2015 -
MIT Libraries explore 17th-century postal archive in "Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered"
2,600 recently rediscovered early modern letters to be analyzed in groundbreaking international digital humanities project.
November 10, 2015 -
Innovative humanities MOOC, “Visualizing Japan,” nominated for the Japan Prize
In a Q&A, course co-founder Professor Shigeru Miyagawa discusses his unique online course and its impact on digital education.
September 25, 2015 -
Women's and Gender Studies "Women-in-STEM Edit-a-thon" honors former MIT President Charles Vest
April 30, 2014 -
New Annotation Studio tools translate an ancient literary practice into the digital age
January 15, 2014 -
Class on digital humanities premieres with tech-savvy approaches
New class offers MIT students the chance to pair technical know-how with real-world art and humanities projects at local museums.
December 4, 2013 -
Life in BASIC
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
January 2, 2013
