NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Digital Scholarship
Working with scholars to create digitally-engaged research
After a successful reunion for #dayofdh2020 of the participants of the NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities, we have planned another meetup. Date: Wednesday, 15 July 2020 Time: 1600/4pm (Abu Dhabi time) You can find blog posts about
Read More WIDH Virtual Meetup: July 15, 2020, 1600/4PM (Abu Dhabi time)
DayofDH will be celebrated again this year on Wednesday, 29 April. DayofDH is a global event when people working on topics in digital humanities share on social media (especially Twitter) the kinds of work they are doing. In order to
The inaugural Winter Institute in Digital Humanities (19-22 January 2020) is an event exploring the intersection of technology and the humanities. It will feature intensive courses led by global experts, as well as lectures and opportunities in community building in
Read More NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities 2020
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, David Wrisley, worked with students in his two fall 2018 classes to describe and archive their scholarship. In collaboration with NYU New York’s Digital Scholarship Services unit and the Center for Digital Scholarship in the
During the Fall 2017 semester, the CDS has been hosting three of Professor David Wrisley’s research assistants, all of whom are doing work on his various digital humanities projects. The first project is a continuation of his Linguistic Landscapes of
The CDS has recently become a partner in the Music and Sound Culture Research Group (MaSC) at NYU Abu Dhabi. The head of the CDS is a co-PI in one of the group’s recently funded projects, involving a muti-faceted approach
During the Spring 2017 semester, Visiting Arts Professor, Fawzia Afzal Khan, used NYU Web Publishing in order to create a multimedia learning space, and a publicly viewable forum, for her Muslim Popular Culture class. Staff from the Center for Digital Scholarship
Read More The Teaching with Technology Series: Muslim Popular Culture
To contribute to the worldwide Day of DH efforts, here’s a recap of some of the things that the Center for Digital Scholarship at NYU Abu Dhabi has been working on this year: Being inspired by the recent Digital Humanities Abu
What is the Digital Humanities Meet Up? It is an informal get together for anyone interested in, or just curious about, the digital humanities. It is co-sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Digital Scholarship and the Division
Read More NYU ABU DHABI DIGITAL HUMANITIES MEETUPS 2016-17 CONT’D
What is the Digital Humanities Meet Up? It is an informal get together for anyone interested in, or just curious about, the digital humanities. It is co-sponsored by the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Digital Scholarship and the Division of
Read More NYUAD’s first series of Digital Humanities Meetups 2016/17
Looking for a list of tools that can help you with the research process, or in developing posters for conferences, or to visualize your data? Check out this great list of resources (some free!) that our friends at Gallatin created:
One of the many services the Center for Digital Scholarship provides is access to high-quality preservation equipment, including flatbed and film negative scanners, and skilled staff that can help scholars use them. Recently, a team working with Theater Professor Ruben
As part of our effort to highlight interesting work being done by our faculty, we are launching a Teaching with Technology series on the CDS blog. We will occasionally write posts that feature NYUAD faculty using technology in interesting ways
Read More The CDS Teaching with Technology Series: Debra Levine
Arabic Collections Online, sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi, is a mass digitization project that aims to provide full-text access to thousands of Arabic language titles online, for free. The project is a collaborative effort among six university libraries, who have
Read More Arabic Collections Online: Digitizing Works from Around the World
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) celebrates its first birthday this month! A year ago we opened our doors to NYUAD faculty and in doing so launched a new space and suite of services not previously available at the university.
Read More Our first year: Reflecting on the past and looking ahead
During the fall semester, the CDS held a series of workshops related to digital tools and technologies. We scheduled sessions on a variety of topics, including data services tools such as Qualtrics, Stata and ArcGIS, introductory sessions on shooting video and
Welcome to the blog for the new Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) in the NYU Abu Dhabi Library! We’ll use this space as a way to feature the types of work that we do in the CDS as well as the
