Events + Community
Adeline Koh: “Digitizing Chinese Englishmen: Archival Silences, Digital Recovery, and Creating a Nineteenth Century “Postcolonial” Archive”
In this talk, Koh presents Digitizing Chinese Englishmen, a digital project that documents the creation of a group of “Asian Victorians” during the nineteenth century within the British Empire in Southeast Asia. While digital scholarship on the nineteenth century has proliferated in the past ten years, few projects that focus on the influence of Empire on Victorian culture currently exist. . . . Continue Reading
The Born Digital Working Group Divides and Conquers
Back in October, we introduced the MITH/UM Libraries Born Digital Working Group (BDWG) with a post about processing the Bill Bly Collection. Since then we’ve firmed up our goals (“start collecting/working with diverse born digital materials in the libraries” being a bit nebulous and… huge) and divided ourselves into sub-groups to conquer them. Goals and groups decided upon, we’re going to try to give bi-weekly updates on our work, cross-posted to the MITH and Special Collections blogs. . . . Continue Reading