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HIV and the Network Society

Published by Alison Moore


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This blog post was contributed by Sophia Han, a former Digital Fellow in the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. 

We continue our conversation with Professor McKinney, discussing their upcoming collaboration with DHIL on a searchable database tool to surface connections in the No More Silence data set.  

Reimagining the sound of scholarship: Interview with Hannah McGregor Part 2

Published by Alison Moore


This blog post was contributed by Sophia Han, a former Digital Fellow in the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. 

This interview is the second of a series with Hannah McGregor, co-director of the Amplify Podcast Network. We continue the conversation around scholarly podcasting and what it means to preserve and share scholarly work using digital tools.

The DHIL's New Digital Fellow: Kenny Chakola

Published by Rebecca Dowson

With the DHIL team working remotely these days, I had an opportunity to conduct a couple of online interviews with our new members. First up is our newest digital fellow: Kenny Chakola. After working as a systems analyst at Wells Fargo, Kenny is pursuing a Master’s degree in computer science and is passionate about playing with data in a way that makes a positive impact. His areas of interest include data engineering, data analytics, data science and data visualisation.

 

Meet the DHIL's new digital fellow

Published by Rebecca Dowson

Hi, I’m Alex, and I’m the DHIL’s newest digital fellow. Though I’ve spent years learning various digital humanities tools in an amateur setting--thanks Tumblr!--my formal experience with DH has been very short; I fell into it rather than consciously choosing it as a research avenue. I was first introduced to the digital humanities in Spring 2018, and was set to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) during that same summer. Still, I hadn’t even considered it for my own research until I was beginning to flesh out a research plan, and realized that my entire thesis rests on my ability to use different digital humanities tools. Since that realization, I’ve been slowly growing my arsenal of DH tools for various research and non-research related endeavours. 

Building Better Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum Labs

Published by Rebecca Dowson

British Library Labs

On February 25, 2019, the DHIL was excited to host a keynote and workshop by Mahendra Mahey, British Library Labs (BL Labs) Manager. The British Library is one of the largest reference libraries in the world, created in 1753 as a part of the British Museum and made a separate institution in 1973. BL Labs is a part of the British Library’s Digital Scholarship team, and it works to connect researchers, artists, and educators with the BL’s digital collections in innovative ways.

Make-believe: The secret library of M. Prud’homme -- a rare collection of fakes!

Published by Rebecca Dowson

We are very excited to announce the launch of The Prud’homme Library, a physical and digital exhibition of artworks and artefacts recently discovered in the attic of a Saskatchewan farmhouse. The exhibition is a remarkable collection of fakes and forgeries, ranging from rare vases to space exploration logs, false obituaries to oil paintings. It is believed that an anonymous donor left a small wooden crate on the porch of the Bishop of Prince Albert Diocese, Msgr. Joseph Henri Prud’homme’s Palace in the late 1920s.