Digital Humanities

Current projects cover different aspects of electronic publishing, markup schemas, text-mining and analysis, and music information retrieval. Digital humanities is an area of significant interest and growth as a complement to the CIRSS concentration in scientific communication.

Text-Encoding Initiative (TEI) Tite—TEI is a community-based effort to establish and maintain guidelines for encoding machine-readable texts for literary and linguistic study. This project aims to assess economies of scale for text encoding for digital projects and institutions of varying size.

Metadata Offer New Knowledge (MONK)—A multi-institution, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project to develop an environment for textual analysis and discovery through examination of various metadata hierarchies.

NORA—Web-based Text-mining Tools for the Humanities—A humanities text pattern analysis software development project that combined with the WordHoard project from Northwestern University and became MONK. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.