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At Pitt-Greensburg, digital humanities students work in teams on projects, several of which have been repurposed and continued over two or more semesters. Since the launch of our Digital Studies Certificate program in 2015, we have offered a two-semester sequence of coding courses, Coding and Digital Archives and Coding and Data Visualization, each of which offers complementary experience in the XML family of languages and investigating digital humanities research questions with code. Our program gives students the option to take just one or both of these two courses in any order, and this sequencing gives returning students the opportunity if they wish to continue a project they helped to launch in a previous semester, usually with a new project team. Several of the projects here ceased development with the termination of a semester (especially those constructed prior to 2015), but others have continued active development.

Spring 2020

Coding and Data Visualization

Fall 2019

Coding and Digital Archives

Spring 2019

Coding and Data Visualization

Fall 2018

Coding and Digital Archives

Spring 2018

Coding and Data Visualization

Spring 2018 Greensburg students present their projects together with students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus in the Cathedral of Learning on Friday morning April 19 beginning at 9am, according to the posted presentation schedule.

Digital Humanities Advanced Praxis Group

In addition to the Coding and Data Visualization class, a group of advanced students from Greensburg and Pittsburgh met virtually once per week in Spring 2018 to review and refresh their skills and to build new projects and update their ongoing work on newtfire. The new projects include:

Additionally, the Advanced Praxis Group supervised Melissa Klamer, a member of the Digital Mitford project team and PhD student at Michigan State University, in her learning of TEI and the XML family of languages to develop her digital edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s journal for her PhD thesis. Ongoing projects continued by members of the Advanced Praxis group this semester include Hamilton led by Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer and the Lope de Vega Project led by Prof. Stacey Triplette.

Fall 2017

Coding and Digital Archives

This semester, the students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus worked with newtFire course materials, developed projects on newtfire, and advised on each other's work. We list Pittsburgh projects together with Greensburg student projects.

Greensburg:
Pittsburgh:

Spring 2017

Coding and Data Visualization

Fall 2016

Coding and Digital Archives

Spring 2016

Coding and Data Visualization
Digital Humanities Project Showcase Schedule
During the week of April 18-22, Pitt-Greensburg students presented their semester Digital Humanities projects together with students in Prof. David J. Birnbaum’s Computational Methods in the Humanities course. The event presented a conference opportunity for the Pittsburgh and Greensburg Digital Humanities students to share their work, respond to questions, and gain feedback from each other and from instructors in both courses as they completed their project work for the semester.

Fall 2015

Coding and Digital Archives

Fall 2014

Digital Humanities

Fall 2013

Digital Humanities

Students’ project work involved expanding the Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures site, launched in Spring 2013 by a student-faculty team from two University of Pittsburgh campuses.