Woman's Exponent: A Quick and Dirty Topic Model Digital Matters, in collaboration with BYU's Office of Digital Humanities, is embarking on a project exploring Woman's Exponent, a newspaper that ran from the late 19th Century to early 20th Century. We're hoping to launch in conjunction with Better Days 2020,...

14 June, 2019

Project: Poemage   Discipline: School of Computing & Department of English Katharine Coles, Distinguished Professor, Department of English Julie Gonnering Lein, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Nina McCurdy, Doctoral Student, School of Computing Miriah Meyer, Associate Professor, School of Computing     What is Poemage? This post is part of a series highlighting current digital scholarship projects...

10 June, 2019

My Postdoc at Digital Matters In my work as a digital humanist, I spend a lot of my time counting things—words, documents, topics, citations, hours spent getting even my simple bits of code to work. In describing to friends, family, and students what Digital Matters is,...

30 May, 2019

Jace Brittain comes to us from the English Department, where he is working on a PhD in Creative Writing.   Briefly describe your project and the challenges, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome in the execution of it. What were the professional, academic, and personal motivations underlying your...

13 May, 2019

Tiana Birrell comes to Digital Matters from the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in Environmental Humanities.     Briefly describe your project and the challenges, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome in the execution of it. What were the professional, academic, and personal...

13 May, 2019

Please come visit Digital Matters in Protospace to view and interact with Tiana Birrell's art installation, Drifting through the Digital, where she "seeks to emphasize the materiality of the digital realm and highlight its agency within the landscape and local economies." Her exhibit is located just...

30 April, 2019

What is SongHelix? This post is part of a series highlighting current digital scholarship projects at the University of Utah. Today we are looking at SongHelix, a searchable database of art songs intended for vocal artists to build their repertoire of music for performance. This excerpt from SongHelix’s...

30 April, 2019