Mary Elings, Head of Digital Collections at the Bancroft Library, recently presented a talk, “Archives-Based Digital Humanities Projects: Transformative Potential at Institutions Large and Small” at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). 
The Center for Tebtunis Papyri will be co-hosting a workshop on Digital Humanities and Egyptology with the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Organized by Rita Lucarelli, Assistant Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the workshop will explore topics of digital collaboration, collections metadata, 3D visualization.
First session (open to public)
The Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group and Computing and the Practice of History will be co-hosting Ted Underwood on February 12th for two special events at the D-Lab. Trained as a Romanticist, Ted teaches 18th and 19th century British literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research combines information science and literary criticism by applying machine learning algorithms to large digital collections.
Prosopography, the identification and disambiguation of name instances and the study of the interactions and life histories of the people involved, is at the core of many humanities research agendas. Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS) is a digital tool kit for the disambiguation of namesakes in text corpora, computation of social network metrics, and generation of interactive visualizations of those networks.
Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, invites our community and campus partners to celebrate the launch of this new program. Read about current and upcoming initiatives here.
Digital Humanities at Berkeley is happy to announce that Claudia von Vacano will be serving as Project Director. Claudia brings 14 years of program management experience, working nearly 10 years at the University of California. While working at various educational institutions, she managed multi-million dollar budgets and successfully implemented large-scale projects.