Center for Digital Humanities - USM

Digital Humanities education, projects, and more at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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"Voyant as a tool is super helpful to analyze & understand essays, or any text document in general, especially saving on study time” states freshman Krish Bhattarai. He credits his new knowledge of this digital tool to attending the GDHS in April. View at https://t.co/kHSu5rtEFO

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Join us for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium watch party on April 13-14 from 8-5 and Transcribe-athon on April 15 in the Cook Library @ USM. Send your RSVP for this event here:
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Check out the Global DH Symposium Schedule here:
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"No overthinking, no theory. Just follow and start transcribing.” This is how Avantika Mittapally, Digital Developer for the MS Digital Humanities Hub, describes the Hub’s new Transcription Training Guide video. Just visit https://t.co/pJGHavMZab & start from home today!

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Learn what inspired Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day while making his handwritten notes more accessible to others! This week's Hub transcription spotlight is Keat's original 1963 Caldecott Speech. (View Children's Lit- Doc 1). Sign up and transcribe at https://t.co/pJGHavMZab.

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Help us make history more accessible by transcribing documents at home! This week’s MS Digital Humanities Hub Community Transcription spotlight is a 1964 Civil Rights document referencing the signing of the Civil Rights Bill. Sign up & transcribe at https://t.co/pJGHavNwZJ.

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The Mississippi Community Cookbook Project catalogs all the known community cookbooks published in Mississippi prior to 1970. Great to explore for Mississippi history, women's history, or vintage recipes. Visit https://t.co/vZVYcgWOwk

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Transcription Volunteers Needed-The Hub is partnering with USM's McCain Library & Archives to foster transcription of items from the McCain & DeGrummond collections. Documents are related to the military, Jimmie Rodger's, children's literacy & more. Visit https://t.co/pJGHavMZab

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The MS Digital Humanities Hub is excited to have distributed funds totaling $290,000 statewide to 12 selected entities that will digitize and showcase community-based cultural and historical materials. To see the list of recipients and their scope, visit https://t.co/f3dvD1vShR

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From New Orleans to Hattiesburg and Meridian, the Hub has been traveling to share our mission to provide resources and training so that Mississippi institutions can pursue community-based projects that preserve our state's history. Check it out https://t.co/eRaA5VCnNm

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Dr. Andrew McSorley, whose research focuses on artificial intelligence, text analysis, and the convergence of digital tools and creative writing, has joined the MS Digital Humanities Hub at Southern Miss as Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar. Visit https://t.co/eb1Z0HrD10

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Katherine Frisch, a former public librarian with nearly a decade of experience, has joined the Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub at The University of Southern Mississippi as the Hub and Center for Digital Humanities manager. To view the full story visit https://t.co/eb1Z0HrD10

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Participants of the recent Hub DH workshop discuss ways they are implementing new ideas gleaned during the event. To view the entire blog post with descriptions of these growing programs across Mississippi, visit https://t.co/eb1Z0Hr5bs. #MSDigiHub

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MS Digital Humanities Hub residency participants learned digitization & preservation as well as DH fundamentals such as data management, website development, TEI mark-up, audio technology & podcasting, video interviewing, photogrammetry, & writing grants. https://t.co/fIkVwo3bWZ

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Join tomorrow - Thurs., 7/17 - to watch the Mapping Freedom 2025 cohort present their research during the End-of-Program Research Symposium!

This will begin at 1PM in Gonzales Auditorium (Liberal Arts Building 108), located on USM’s Hattiesburg campus.

#SouthernMiss #nsfreu

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Beginning at 1PM on Thursday, July 17, Mapping Freedom NSF-REU summer 2025 participants will present their program research during the “End-of-Program” Research Symposium, in Gonzales Auditorium (Liberal Arts Building 108), located on USM’s Hattiesburg campus. 1/

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Learn more about #MappingFreedomUSM and the symposium at https://t.co/uB6W6v533M. 4/4

#SouthernMiss #nsfreu

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Beginning at 1PM on Thursday, July 17, Mapping Freedom NSF-REU summer 2025 participants will present their program research during the “End-of-Program” Research Symposium, in Gonzales Auditorium (Liberal Arts Building 108), located on USM’s Hattiesburg campus. 1/

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Thank you to @USM_GradSchool, USM School of Humanities, University Libraries at Southern Miss, @usmcsce, and the USM School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences for co-sponsoring the symposium. 3/

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Making Connections Conference friends joined us in announcing that Hub grant applications are now being accepted. Mississippi public institutions & non-profits looking to partner with us on community-based digitization projects are encouraged to apply. https://t.co/Ij2kvkfcR9.

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From oversized docs, fragile books to artifacts, the Mississippi Digital Library will be offering training at the 2025 Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub residency on how to utilize scanners, software & other equipment for digitization. See our blog at https://t.co/eb1Z0Hr5bs