Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities

Current RCH News and Events

Please note, with our apologies, that this page is currently not being maintained. The entries below serve as a historical record of news and events from earlier years.

Past RCH News and Events

~ 2012 ~

January: NSF Cultural Anthropology grant awarded to Lisa Cliggett for the project, "Strategies of Data Archiving for Cultural Anthropology, Using Gwembe Tonga Research Project (GTRP) Data"

~ 2011 ~

May-December: Transition of RCH server infrastructure to a "virtual machine" (VM) cluster. Complete hardware and software upgrade of the workstations in the RCH Projects Office and "Digital Research Incubator" project lab and substantial physical reconfiguration of both work spaces.

~ 2010 ~

October: RCH co-sponsors (with the Center for Computational Sciences) the symposium "Open 2.0: Transparency and Open Access to Information", organized by the Information Communication Technology Collaborative (ICT Co-Lab) in the College of Communications and Information Studies as a part of Technology Week 2010.

August: Mellon Foundation grant awarded to Abigail Firey (as Co-PI; PI = James Ginther, St. Louis University) for the project The T-PEN Tool: Sustainability and Quality Control in Encoding Handwritten Texts.

August: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant awarded to Abigail Firey (as Co-PI; PI = James Ginther, St. Louis University) for the project The T-PEN Tool: Sustainability and Quality Control in Encoding Handwritten Texts.

June: NEH Scholarly Editions grant awarded to Jane Calvert for the John Dickinson Writings project. [official Dickinson project information site]

April: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship awarded to Abigail Firey for the The Carolingian Canon Law Project: Access, Analysis, and Editing Large Corpora of "Living" Texts.

February: RCH paticipates in the University of Kentucky Cyberinfrastructure Days in the Poster Session/Reception and the Network Resources Luncheon (organized by RCH director Lauersdorf as member of the CI Days Program Committee).

~ 2009 ~

November: NHPRC Publishing Historical Records: Colonial and Early National Period grant endorsement to Jane Calvert for the John Dickinson Writings project (see the NHPRC announcement). [official Dickinson project information site]

May-August: Complete hardware and software upgrade to the RCH network and the workstations in the RCH Projects Office and "Digital Research Incubator" project lab.

~ 2008 ~

July: International Shughni Language Workshop with visiting scholars from Khorog State University (Tajikistan) and members of the Linguistics Program at the University of Kentucky.

June: Five RCH-affiliated presentations (Lauersdorf, Porter, Rouhier-Willoughby, Rueda, Scaife) at the Digital Humanities 2008 Conference, in Oulu, Finland. [official abstract book]

May: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant awarded to Abigail Firey for the Carolingian Canon Law Project: A Collaborative Initiative. [official CCL project site]

March: In memoriam: A. Ross Scaife, former Director of RCH.

~ 2007 ~

October: "Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure", a workshop in collaboration with the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments and the Perseus Digital Library.

October: University of Kentucky Digital Scholarship Colloquium II organized by the RCH (with support from the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments). [watch the official videocast]

April: Fulbright Lecturing and Research fellowship awarded to Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby for the Russian Folk Religious Imagination project. [official RFRI project information site]

March: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up grant awarded to Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby for the Russian Folk Religious Imagination project. [official RFRI project information site]

March: University of Kentucky Digital Scholarship Colloquium I organized by the RCH (with support from the Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments and the University of Kentucky Libraries).