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Ming Qing Women’s Writings

cbailey on Jan 19, 2013 11:01

Tagged with: database, digital archives, libraries
Posted in Bibliography, Cultural Archives & Curation, Major Projects, Projects, Resources, Texts & Languages

Nearly ten years ago, Dr. Grace Fong (McGill) began an ambitious digitization project that made accessible, some for the first time, close to 90 poetry collections produced by Chinese women writers during the Ming and Qing dynasties (spanning…

Searching; Visualized: “The Book History Bibliograph”

cbailey on Jan 08, 2013 18:14

Tagged with: collaboration, database, libraries, literary topology, text analysis, virtual environments
Posted in Cultural Archives & Curation, Knowledge Environments, Major Projects, Projects, Research, Tools Research, Visualization

With the increased interest in the material aspects of the book, the field of book history has seen rapid expansion in the past twenty years. An extremely broad area of research, the problem of finding sources in multiple languages…

Navigating the Digital Humanities: An Evening with the Experts

cbailey on Nov 12, 2012 17:12

Tagged with: ABQLA, Concordia University, digital archives, libraries, virtual environments
Posted in Events, Methods Research, Past Projects, People, Projects, Research, Talks

Presented on 8 November 2012 by the ABQLA (Association des bibliothécaires du Québec/Québec Library Association) College and Research Libraries division and the Digital Humanities at McGill, the “evening with the experts” was held at McGill’s Islamic Studies library and featured…