Kent State University's Research Center for Educational Technology site for K12 teachers, students and visitors to map out local history sites using wireless mobile devices and barcodes.
Using textmining and mapping to visualize primary sources on the Civil War era in Richmond, VA via graphs, maps and models.
Drama in the Delta, Digitally Reenacting Civil Rights Performances at Arkansas' Wartime Camps for Japanese Americans
3D digital role-playing game reconstructing the 2 US concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II - players navigate two levels of racial segregation to experience rebellious performances from judo combat and blues music to kabuki plays and drag shows
Project Directors: Dr. Emily Roxworthy (Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego) and Amit Chourasia (Head of Visualization Services Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center)
Other universities involved:
undergraduates from MIT and UC-SanDiego
graduate students from UC-SanDiego
historians from U Cincinnati, UVa, King's College (London), U Arkansas-LittleRock, UC-SanDiego
"at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) is a joint initiative of the University Libraries and the College of Arts & Sciences. The Center advances interdisciplinary research in the humanities by creating unique digital content, developing tools to assist scholars in text analysis and visualization, and encouraging the use (and refinement) of international standards for humanities computing. CDRH? offers forums, workshops, and research fellowships for faculty and students in the area of digital scholarship. Though the primary responsibility of the Center is to work with humanists, the CDRH will provide advice to faculty in the social sciences and sciences engaged in interdisciplinary projects that may cross over into the humanities.
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
319 Love Library
P.O. Box 884100
Lincoln NE, 68588-4100
Contact
Phone: (402) 472-4547
E-mail: cdrh@unl.edu
Hours
Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. "
Annenberg Innovation Lab focusing on social networking, future of journalism on digital devices, geo-tagging for local journalism etc - looking at future software and business ideas re journalism and communications... vs. MIT's Media Lab with Henry Jenkins inventing new technologies/appliances
International digital humanities community building