Digital Humanities Lab

New Haven Students Visit the Lab

The Digital Humanities Lab welcomed junior high and high school students from around the New Haven area for a workshop on DH. Following a tour of the lab and a discussion of old and new media, students learned about the Photogrammar project and participated in a scavenger hunt to find images of American life during the Great Depression and World War II.

The workshop was led by Catherine DeRose (Outreach Manager for the DHLab) and Lauren Tilton (PhD Candidate in American Studies).

Summer/Fall DH Funding

The Digital Humanities Lab is excited to announce a new round of Seed Grants to support digital humanities research over the summer and fall. These grants may be used to hire a developer, create a digital corpus, or host a workshop.

Photogrammar Wins ACLS Grant!

Congratulations to Yale's Photogrammar team on receiving one of ACLS's first-ever Digital Extension Grants! ACLS developed the new program "to foster diverse communities of users around the most compelling approaches to digital inquiry." Photogrammar was one of five projects selected. With the grant, Photogrammar will be able to add new features, integrate additional archives into the collection, and reach new audiences.

Principal Investigator
Laura Wexler

Digital Editing Workshop

"Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Roll"

Sterling Memorial Library, March 11 & 12

Office Hours Workshop on APIs

Coffee and Code Workshop: APIs

April 26, 2:00pm in the Digital Humanities Lab (SML 316)

During Office Hours, DH Developer Douglas Duhaime led an informal, live coding session during which he walked through approaches to requesting data from historical and bibliographic APIs. He discussed the process of building up and sending queries algorithmically, as well as parsing results in both JSON and XML formats. Together, participants practiced on the Google Books API and the Wikipedia API, two valuable resources for researchers working with various digital materials.

Seed Grants

Seed Grants support digital humanities projects in their planning and implementation phases. The number of grants available each year will vary based on the number of received applications. Seed Grants fall into three types: Software Development, Corpus Creation, and Workshops. Applicants may apply for only one grant per application cycle, regardless of track.