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August 28, 2017
Job Opportunities with the DHLab If you have programming skills and an interest in humanistic data, apply to work in the Digital Humanities Lab! We are looking to hire Yale undergraduate and graduate students to work on a variety of exciting projects that are underway in the lab.   Call for Digital...
Image of Chaucer from the Takamiya Collection at Yale's Beinecke Library
August 28, 2017
The most impressive collection of medieval English manuscripts that had been in private hands will be on exhibition for the first time in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Four unique Chaucer manuscripts, numerous devotional rolls, and works as varied as Boethius...
Ta Kung Pao Full-text Database 大公報, 1902-1949
August 23, 2017
Yale University Library has acquired the access to a newspaper database for modern China: Ta Kung Pao Full-text Database 大公報, 1902-1949. The database allows unlimited concurrent users and has been added to the Library’s Quicksearch, Find a Database by Title, and Chinese Studies subject guide-...
August 18, 2017
The Yale digital humanities team participated in the 2017 DH Conference in Montreal from August 7-11. Highlighted projects by faculty and staff included:   Photogrammar, a platform for visualizing over 170,000 photographs taken during the Great Depression and World War II Ensemble, a crowdsourcing...
MGG Cover
August 18, 2017
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), the renowned music encyclopedia that has long been a core resource for music researchers, is now available online. MGG offers in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy and visual arts.  The...
August 17, 2017
Working on a data visualization in Tableau? Consider submitting it to Tableau's Student Visualization Assignment Contest. Entries will be evaluated based on creativity, analytical depth, design, and overall impact. Fall entries must be submitted between September 18 and December 5. For guidelines...
Sin Wan Pao 新聞報, 1893-1949
August 10, 2017
Yale University Library has acquired the access to a newspaper database of modern China: Sin Wan Pao 新聞報, 1893-1949. The database allows five concurrent users and has been added to the Library’s Quicksearch, Find a Database by Title, and Chinese Studies subject guide-Newspapers. Information of off-...

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