New Website

With the new semester, we have a new website for the Digital Humanities Commons. The DH village green. The area where we can all come together on common ground that belongs to no one and everyone. With that in mind, we've moved almost all of the old content to this new site and added a few capabilities to support the Commons.

The most important thing to notice is the User Login area in the right sidebar. There are two links there. The first, "Log in using your TAMU Netid/Password," is what you should use if you are affiliated with Texas A&M University and have a NetID. This link will send you through CAS, the central authentication service managed by Computing and Information Services (CIS).

Several areas of this site require you to be affiliated with TAMU, and CAS is the easiest way to establish that affiliation. It also means you don't need to add yet another username and password to your collection of accounts.

One of the new areas open to TAMU-affiliated users is digital humanities blogging. If you are working in the digital humanities at Texas A&M University and would like to make this your blogging home for DH-related topics, send us a note (category of DH Computing Resources).

We are rolling out a new set of computer services to support emerging digital humanities projects. We plan to post instructions and forms for requesting those resources by Spring Break. These services include an interactive UNIX shell, a sandbox PostgreSQL database, simple web services, file sharing, and a wide array of programming languages and data/text processing tools.

We also have a half dozen workshop topics in the works. We will be posting dates and descriptions as we finalize them. Possible topics range from the very abstract (how to build an interactive narrative) to the very concrete (introduction to UNIX) to the very practical (data processing).

Do you have a topic you'd like to see as a workshop? Perhaps a favorite programming language or software package that you use (or want to use) in a DH project? Feel free to leave a comment (and remember to log in using your NetID/password so you don't need to create yet another account).