Berkeley digital humanities at the MLA and Data Science Faire
Digital humanities research at Berkeley will be well represented at the MLA convention in Chicago, January 9-12, 2014, with Berkeley scholars participating in the following sessions:
Choosing a platform for your project website
Learning HTML is no longer a requirement for building a website for your project. There are many platforms-- general-purpose platforms and ones tailored to specific kinds of projects-- that allow you to build much more sophisticated project sites than would be possible if you were building from scratch. When choosing a platform for your project website, the major factors to consider include functionality, familiarity, community, support, and cost.
Discovering digital humanities on campus
Campus resources can be both exciting and dizzying. As a new graduate student at UC Berkeley, I spent most of my first semester lost in a sea of academic resources, departments, research centers, and events. I realize now that many of my meaningful connections I made revolved around the burgeoning community of digital humanities here at UC Berkeley.