Dear fellow readers, My name is Andrei Papancea and I am an international student from Romania, pursuing a Master’s in Computer Science. When I first came to New York and more specifically to Columbia, I was overwhelmed with the amount of things that I could and had to do. Slowly though, I got to realize […]
ELN Incorporation Into Research
Over the course of about 2 months, I have been researching not only currently available electronic lab notebooks (ELN’s), but comparing and contrasting the characteristics of these notebooks to learn more about how they will fit in to the overall flow of an experimental design. My first step in finding an ideal ELN was to […]
Mapping the Medieval Perspective
Greetings, digital scholars, I’m Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, and am delighted to introduce myself as a Digital Centers Intern for the Digital Social Sciences Center this year. I just arrived at Columbia from the University of Virginia, where I studied English Literature and Medieval Studies with a focus on Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic texts. I caught the […]
Meet the 2013-14 Digital Center Interns!
The 2013-14 Digital Center Interns have been hired and are already hard at work on their projects. Our six interns are: Zack Al-Witri, working in the Digital Social Science Center Francis Hittinger, working in the Digital Humanities Center Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, working in the Digital Social Science Center Wendell Marsh, working in the Digital Humanities […]
Melanchthon, Manutius, Marginalia
In 1517, the printing house of the renowned humanist printer, Aldus Manutius (1449-1515), published the second edition of a two-volume set of Homer’s Works. During his lifetime, Manutius contributed much to the art of printing: a clear to read Greek typeface, italic type, and the modern usage of the semicolon and comma. His primary mission, […]
Workshop: How to Get Your Article Published
Columbia University Libraries Presents: Behind the scenes at Cell Press: How to Get Your Article Published An Author Workshop with Boyana Konforti, Editor Cell Reports, Cell Press DATE: Wednesday April, 17th 2013 TIME: 12:00pm – 1:30pm LOCATION: Davis Auditorium Free Pizza Lunch to follow workshop Identify the most appropriate journal, and understand how the peer review […]
The Art of the Index
A sample index So I was in class the other week when my professor mentioned the book she’d just finished. It was her first: to be published in the next year by a reputable academic publisher. I’m so happy I’ve finished the book. You’d never think that the worse part of the whole thing is […]
Opening the Gates to the Ivory Tower
Image source: Wikimedia commons. Lately I’ve been surprised by how much I’ve had to learn about the morals and politics of web publishing, in addition to the technical skills like xml coding, or the protocols for marking up Greek and Latin inscriptions and other documents. But as I prepare data about the ancient world for […]
Building a website with WordPress and its plugins
As you may know, we are now constructing a website to vote for the hottest 3D models in Columbia University. As a newcomer in the field, I found the task nothing easy. Therefore, I feel obliged to introduce WordPress, or more specifically, its plugins, to you, for all the time they have saved me. WordPress […]
Columbia MESAAS presents “Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis” – Get Involved!
From dh+css google group: As a part of the upcoming Columbia MESAAS graduate student conference “Paradigmatic Conflict and Crisis” (Feb. 28 and March 1), there will be a roundtable entitled “Decolonizing the Digital Humanities?” focusing on methods for scholars who specialize in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa and who use approaches often associated with the Digital Humanities. The group is still looking […]