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The DiRT Directory is a registry of digital research tools that draws upon the efforts on an international community of volunteers.  Over the last few months, the DiRT steering committee and editorial board, along with our partners at the City University of New York and the Agile Humanities Agency, have been hard at work finishing up a wide range of integrations and site improvements for DiRT.  Development work has been conducted with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Note: In this excerpt from a recent series of blog posts, first year History PhD student Brendan Mackie reflects on the applicability of content analysis to humanistic research.

Over these next few blog posts, I will write about how a method borrowed from the harder social sciences called content analysis might be useful for humanities scholars.

Members of the UC Berkeley digital humanities community gathered together with patrons of the Magnes Collection to celebrate the opening of a new exhibit, "The Future of Memory: Jewish Culture in the Digital Age”, as well as the kick-off of the Digital Humanities at Berkeley program on February 18th, 2015.

On March 26, Jennifer Stertzer, Senior Editor of the Papers of George Washington and Lecturer at the University of Virginia, will be giving a talk on "The Washington Papers: Revealing George Washington and His World Through Traditional Scholarship and Modern Technology" from 12-1 PM in the D-Lab Convening Room (356B Barrows).

Geospatial analysis, traditionally utilized in fields such as city planning, geography, and the environmental sciences, has been widely adopted as a digital humanities method.  Over the next few weeks, there will be numerous opportunities to receive discipline-specific perspectives on geospatial analysis and undertake some foundational training in these methods.