Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

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The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is a leading digital humanities center that pursues disciplinary innovation and institutional transformation through applied research, public programming, and educational opportunities. Jointly supported by the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities and the University of Maryland Libraries, MITH engages in collaborative, interdisciplinary work at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. MITH specializes in text and image analytics for cultural heritage collections, data curation, digital preservation, linked data applications, and data publishing.

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    White Paper for Broadcasting Audiovisual Data: Using linked data and local authority aggregators to enhance discoverability for broadcasting collections
    (2023-11-27) Sapienza, Stephanie; Hoyt, Eric
    Broadcasting Audiovisual Data (BA/VD) is an initiative to enhance discoverability of archival radio collections using a linked open data framework to encourage the use of audiovisual collections inside and outside the academy. A partnership between MITH and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the project is an expansion of the previous NEH-funded project Unlocking the Airwaves. While Airwaves was centered on virtually reuniting one set of geographically separated collections, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters' (NAEB) paper and media collections, Broadcasting A/V Data connects the linked NAEB collections to three additional complementary collections of educational radio, community radio, and public radio history. These include The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) collections at UMD Libraries; the Wisconsin Public Radio (WHA) collections at University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries; and the WLB/KUOM collections at University of Minnesota Libraries. Educational and public broadcasting collections are a window into the history of the American experience. These collections are not just about unique content, they’re also about unique people and organizations. BA/VD uses people and organizations as connective tissue between siloed collections of historic educational radio to promote new discoveries not just about the history of broadcasting, but about the history of how Americans shared their stories with each other during some of our nation’s most culturally tumultuous decades. This project represents a substantial shift from thinking about collections through a content-centric lens to a network-centric lens. Now, instead of viewing the collections themselves as snapshots of a particular historical moment or trend, we can view them as products of networked knowledge flows governed by institutional structures and individual whimsy. The project created new access points to these four collections across Wikidata, the Social Networks and Archival Context Cooperative (SNAC) website, and Wikipedia, which help draw attention to and contextualize these collections for scholars, educators, journalists, and the general public. The project website includes a series of new exhibits curated by leading scholars in the field of broadcasting history, as well as a network visualization and a suite of simple tutorial videos and clear documentation for other stewards of cultural history who wish to implement our methods and workflows.
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    White Paper for Unlocking the Airwaves: Revitalizing an Early Public and Educational Radio Collection
    (2021-08-31) Sapienza, Stephanie; Hoyt, Eric; Fraimow, Rebecca; McShea, Megan; Perlman, Allison; Schnitker, Laura; Shepperd, Josh
    The forerunner of CPB and its arms, NPR and PBS, the NAEB developed and distributed educational radio programs and accompanying print materials to schools and communities across the United States. What’s more, the NAEB lobbied extensively to unlock the airwaves—to access precious frequency space—in order to bring the voices of poet Robert Frost, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and conservationist “Ranger Mac,” among many other individuals, into American homes and classrooms. The NAEB’s history is the dramatic story of idealists who believed in the utopian possibilities of technology for education and social uplift and who faced considerable challenges in pursuit of those goals, including economic depression, world war, and the scarcity of the electromagnetic spectrum. It’s a story that has much to tell us about 20th century American culture, as well as the 21st century’s environment of online educational technology and podcasting that we live in today. Despite its historic importance and contemporary relevance, most of the NAEB members’ programs were never heard again after their initial brief moments on the air. The archives for the radio programs and their related paper documentation have been split for over 25 years between two institutions: the University of Maryland and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Unlocking the Airwaves reunites the split collections, finally realizing the potential of the collections of the NAEB for exploration and and the broader public.
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    RBG Tweet Identifier Dataset
    (2020-09-25) Summers, Ed
    This is a dataset of tweet identifiers remembering the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.