NYCDH is happy to announce the Annual NYCDH Week, February 7-11, 2022. Taking place at institutions home throughout New York City everywhere (again!), NYCDH Week gives individuals who are interested in digital humanities an opportunity to learn new techniques and skills, hear about DH projects, and become part of a vibrant and diverse community of…
Before she joined LC Labs, Eileen J. Manchester was an English teacher. In her classroom, the word “derivative” had a negative connotation. To be derivative was to be overly indebted to another idea and thus to lack ingenuity and creativity. When applied to datasets, however, “derivatives” abound. In fact, as you’ll see, derivative datasets sometimes…
“Mapping Fiction” is an exhibition The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens focused on the ways authors and mapmakers have built compelling fictional worlds. On view in the Library’s West Hall (Jan. 15–May 22, 2022), the exhibition is timed to coincide with the centennial of the publication of James Joyce’s groundbreaking 1922 modernist novel,…