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By Meaghan Carthy The opportunity to learn computational/data literacy or library skills can be exceedingly difficult to come by, especially for those who face barriers in knowing where to start or find and/or finding an inclusive and welcoming community to foster...

By Elizabeth Parke It was in 2016, as the newly hired University of Toronto, Digital Humanities Network - Council for Library and  Information Resources (CLIR) postdoctoral fellow that I first learned about The Carpentries. The Carpentries: Data, Software, and...

CDHI grad fellow Tia Sager provides a recap of Lightning Lunch #5, “Power, Inequality, and DH”.

CDHI grad fellow Tracy O’Brien provides a recap of Lightning Lunch #4, “DH Beyond the Human.”

CDHI grad fellow Ian Turner provides a recap of Lightning Lunch #2, “The Spatial Turn in the Humanities”.

Reading can be a solitary activity—an interior conversation between reader and author. Often this conversation unfolds as marginalia. While I typically read with a notebook next to me, much of my thoughts and reactions to what I read are overlayed directly on the text. An underlined phrase, a scribbled connection, a stray exclamation point reflecting the thrill of being surprised (amazing!) or feeling righteously indignant (how dare he!?!). While I’ve experimented with the highlighting and comment features offered by different pdf readers, these have never felt as satisfying as the closeness of scribbling my reflections alongside the text that prompted them.

Earlier in October, I had the pleasure of having my private world of pen and paper marginalia broadened by the concept of social annotation.

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The CDHI’s vision is to forge a new paradigm of digital humanities scholarship at that emphasizes the issues of power, social justice, and critical theory.

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