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PennDesign preservationists complete digital documentation of PA.’s slatelands
Matero_Hinchman

John Hinchman and Frank Matero (Photo courtesy of PennDesign)

PennDesign preservationists complete digital documentation of PA.’s slatelands

Frank Matero and John Hinchman’s website detailing the industrial landscape of the Pennsylvania Slate Belt, a 22-square-mile expanse of quarries, towns, transportation networks, and industrial wreckage, serves as a historical preservation tool via digital humanities.

Penn Today Staff

Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
Penn professor Karen Redrobe

Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

  • Q&A

    • Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center

    In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.
    Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill
    Penn School of Design professor Francesca Ammon

    Francesca Russello Ammon, a PennDesign assistant professor of city and regional planning, focused on Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood for her research on historic preservation. (Photo by Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania Communications)

    Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill

    The histories of more than 1,500 properties in a storied Philadelphia neighborhood are now accessible on the new website, “Preserving Society Hill.” Working with digital-humanities specialists in the Price Lab and the Libraries, PennDesign’s Francesca Ammon created an interactive map to document this innovative case study in urban renewal.
    Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world
    BiblioPhilly manuscript

    Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world

    Leveraging the University’s expertise with technology and rare centuries-old manuscripts, Penn Libraries is digitizing and cataloging medieval and early modern texts from 15 Philadelphia-area institutions. The three-year project is known as BiblioPhilly.
    Digital Humanities for Social Good
    Inside Higher Ed

    Digital Humanities for Social Good

    Penn’s Data Refuge project, which archives public climate-change data, was highlighted as an example of digital humanities work “responding to our contemporary moment.”

    Reclaiming a fragmented history
    Cairo Geniza

    Reclaiming a fragmented history

    Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to sort and transcribe handwriting on thousands of documents discarded hundreds of years ago, known as the Cairo Geniza.
    Digital humanities ‘summer camp’ comes to Penn
    The University of Pennsylvania hosted the 2018 Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching conference.

    As part of a session led by Dot Porter, curator of digital research services (not pictured), conference participants visited the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image, a digitization lab located in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Digital imaging specialist Chris Lippa (left) explained the process of digitizing materials like the book in his hand.

    Digital humanities ‘summer camp’ comes to Penn

    The Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries hosted HILT, an annual national training institute that brings together professionals from a number of disciplines.

    Michele W. Berger

    From Doctoral Study to … Digital Humanities
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    From Doctoral Study to … Digital Humanities

    The School of Arts and Sciences’ Stewart Varner explained that “digital humanities” isn’t technically a field on its own. “But,” said Varner, “it is often treated as such by people who consider themselves digital humanists as well as those who adamantly do not.”

    Want to Change Facebook? Don’t Delete Your Account—Use It for Good
    Quartz

    Want to Change Facebook? Don’t Delete Your Account—Use It for Good

    The Annenberg School for Communication’s Sandra González-Bailón and Ph.D. candidate Ashley E. Gorham wrote that the movement to delete Facebook profiles to protest privacy violations is self-defeating. The authors say that a more effective option would be using the site as a tool to deliver a collective demand for democratization.

    Three grants allow Penn libraries to digitize major collections

    • Three grants allow Penn libraries to digitize major collections

    Penn Libraries is collaborating with the Council on Library Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in offering three grants to digitize materials and collections for the global public to access.

    Sara Leavens