MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) held its first meeting yesterday at Northwestern and here we are, complete with cool swag, courtesy of Stefan Sinclair and Stan Ruecker. Maryland (MITH and HCIL) MONKs pictured are Tanya Clement and Matt Kirschenbaum (fourth and third from right, standing) and Catherine Plaisant (third from right, kneeling).

The project directors are Martin Mueller and John Unsworth, standing and kneeling far right respectively. This group, almost twenty strong, includes project members from six institutions across the US and Canada, faculty, researchers, and graduate students, in disciplines ranging from English literature to library and information science to HCI. (A snapshot of 21st century interdisciplinary collaboration.)

A MITH Digital Dialogue
Tuesday, February 27, 12:30-1:45
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135

“Xerographers of the Mind: The Lost Idea of the Photocopy”
by LISA GITELMAN

Part of a larger in-progress project on textual interface, "Xerographers of the Mind" seeks to recover the idea of the photocopy, an idea so lately corrupted by our intuitive knowledge of things digital. To do so, it addresses famous photocopies of the 1960s and 1970s — especially the Pentagon Papers — illustrating ways in which documentary reproduction is a construct both dynamic and diverse. Your reflections and suggestions will be welcomed.

LISA GITELMAN is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Catholic University. She is the author of Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines (Stanford 1999) and Always Already New: Media , History, and the Data of Culture (MIT 2006) as well as the co-editor of New Media, 1740-1914 (MIT 2003).

Coming up @MITH, March 6: Catherine Hays Zabriskie and Janel Brennan-Tillmann (ARHU), “Applying Web 2.0 tools to Instruction: Collaborative Website Development with Wikis and Managing Information Overload with RSS Feeds.”

View MITH’s complete Spring Speakers Schedule here:

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_spring_2007.pdf

Free and open to the public.

Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-8927).

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 & 6, 2007. Through a competitive process, selected early-career scholars will be invited to present their work in digital humanities. Full details are available here.

MITH Fellow Silvia Mejia’s documentary film Just a Click Away (part of her dissertation work) has been selected as one of the official screenings at the upcoming Society for Cinema and Media Studies national conference in Chicago, March 8-11. Congratulations to Silvia!

Registration is now open for the Electronic Literature Organization and MITH’s May 3rd public symposium on The Future of Electronic Literature. Keynotes are N. Katherine Hayles (UCLA) and Kenneth Thibodeau (National Archives), but that’s just the beginning of the list of terrific people who will be in attendance.

Registration is free for University of Maryland students, staff and faculty, but all attendees must still register. Space is limited, so reserve early!