Other HI Scholarship

Our initiative seeks to catalyze the use of computers in humanities scholarship on the Texas A&M University campus. Here, we list a few of the many projects nationwide that are serving to encourage similar efforts on their campuses. This list should not be taken as definitive, but rather as illustration of the scope of results that can be achieved.

IATH: The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia)
The central mission of IATH, founded in 1992, is to provide scholars in the humanities with the time, the tools, and the techniques to produce lasting contributions to the human record, in electronic form. IATH annually selects a small number of Fellows who are provided with support that enables the preparation of electronic contributions. Dozens of these are highlighted on the Institute's Web pages. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/

MITH: The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (University of Maryland)
Beginning operations in Fall 1999, MITH's primary goal is to generate and foster innovative projects that respond to the traditional interests of the humanities while nurturing emerging modes of scholarship and learning. MITH provides support for the creation, deployment, and dissemination of technology-based scholarship and instruction. Examples include electronic archives, teaching applications, and research tools. http://www.mith.umd.edu/

STG: Scholarly Technology Group (Brown University)
Founded in 1993, the STG focuses on the related areas of (1) document architecture and markup systems, (2) humanities computing and textbase development, and (3) networked and multimedia communication and publishing. http://www.stg.brown.edu/

CCARH: Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (Stanford University)
Founded in 1984, CCARH's initial mission was to encode all of Bach's music into a form that computers could use. More broadly stated, its mission is the development of large databases of musical and textual materials for applications in research, teaching, and performance. http://www.ccarh.org/

Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University)
Beginning in 1985 with the goal of building a comprehensive resource of materials pertaining to ancient Greece and Rome, the Perseus project has evolved into a large-scale digital library. Recent activities include using its SGML/XML-encoded collection to create visualizations and other representations. Additionally, the project has broadened its scope to include other materials, both more recent (e.g., Tufts' History) but also more ancient (e.g., Papyri). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

HI Associations

Association for Computers in the Humanities

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

National Initiative For Networked Cultural Heritage

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)