Blog
- Clojure Libraries in ODH
- November 28, 2022 /Tory Anderson
My work with The Office of Digital Humanities is as a senior web developer. My teams and I build applications in the Clojure programming language1 to serve the college of Humanities and the Office of Digital Humanities, and utility libraries that serve the university and the broader developer community. Here …
- Knowledge at Play
- October 29, 2022 /Michael Call
In her 2007 New Yorker piece “The Meaning of Life,” Jill Lepore tells the story of the classic American board game The Game of Life, whose first iteration was developed by the Massachusetts engraver Milton Bradley in 1860. Lepore argues that each subsequent version of the game can be read …
- WordCruncher – Evolving to meet the needs of students and faculty
- September 12, 2022 /Jason Dzubak
Over the last 40 years, students and scholars have used WordCruncher to search, study, and analyze various digital texts ranging from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Peanuts comics to baseball statistics. From time to time, we are asked by researchers if WordCruncher can perform a specific function or help …
- How to Avoid Getting Burned by Technology (Or: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way)
- August 18, 2022 /Jeremy Browne
Stepping Into The Trap Nearly 20 years ago I was a bright-eyed graduate student splitting time between Dr. Michael Bush’s ARCLITE Lab and Dr. Kirk Belnap’s National Middle East Language Resource Center. Among other responsibilities, I served as an advisor for those groups’ technology decisions, and those decisions were often …
- Goodbye Hummedia! …Hello Y-video!
- May 16, 2022 /Rob Reynolds
We are currently planning to shut down Hummedia at the end of the summer, and there are a few simple steps required of you to have your collections ready on Y-video for Fall semester (or earlier, if you like).
- Digital Transformation for The College of Humanities
- May 3, 2022 /John Cheng
Office of Digital Humanities has been providing exceptional service to faculty member in the College of Humanities. One of services is content management solution, which is especially essential for the college and faculty.
- Digital Humanities Utah
- March 4, 2022 /Brian Croxall
Last week, the Office of Digital Humanities hosted the sixth Digital Humanities Utah (DHU) symposium. DHU began in 2016 as an opportunity to gather people from universities around the state—and from the larger region—to discuss the work that they were doing on/in digital scholarship, digital scholarly communication, and more.
- The College of Humanities’ Custom Software Shop
- February 16, 2022 /Devin Asay
A few weeks ago, as I was packing up to move to a new office, I came across a looseleaf binder that I had put together nearly 25 years ago, a few years into my career at BYU.
- The Peanuts Comics Transcription Project
- January 18, 2022 /Jesse Vincent
Comic strips are not generally analyzed because of the difficulty of converting handwritten images into a digital version. Perhaps one of the most difficult comic strips to analyze is Peanuts, an American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz from 1950 to 2000.