Project Collaborations
Winter Institute in Digital Humanities
The Digital Scholarship and Preservation program is co-founder and co-host of the Winter Institute in Digital Humanities, an event aimed at researchers and educators interested in the intersection of technology and the humanities. Now in its third iteration, the Winter Institute has drawn instructors and scholars worldwide to engage in an intensive digital humanities learning environment. The Winter Institute features hands-on courses, lunchtime presentations, a poster session, cultural and academic visits, and networking opportunities.
Topics addressed in the courses vary from year to year. Recent offerings have focused on computational analysis of cultural heritage, artificial intelligence and the classroom, spatial analysis of societies, Arabic text analysis, and the data of culture. The courses share a common vision of how the digital has changed and continues to change, the way that we learn, teach, do research, and disseminate knowledge. Certain courses also address new responsibilities and horizons for the arts and humanities in an age of automation.
To stay in touch about these and other similar events, consider joining our NYUAD Digital Humanities listserv by sending a request to nyuad.dh@nyu.edu.
Music and Sound Cultures Research Group
As partners in the Music and Sound Cultures research group, we created a digital compendium of regional heritage music for computational analysis using a collections-as-data approach. We also capture and preserve sound culture materials about the Arab Mashriq, accessible via our preservation repository. This collection continues to grow, expanding our collection of audio materials with the Andrew Eisenberg collection of East African commercial sound recordings.
The Capstone Archives
The Capstone Archives is an accumulating collection of NYUAD Capstone senior research projects, beginning with the Class of 2014, which the Archives and Special Collections department partners with the Digital Scholarship and Preservation program to make accessible as an online digital collection. A living, growing digital archive that represents a diverse sampling of the research, innovation, and creative endeavors of NYUAD undergraduate students, the online collection includes open Capstone project essays and reports. For questions about submitting your Capstone project or other related questions, contact nyuad.archive@nyu.edu for assistance. Graduate students should contact the Graduate Program Office for questions and information about Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Arabic Collections Online
The Digital Scholarship and Preservation program is the home of the Arabic Collections Online project at NYUAD, a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO provides digital access to nearly 18,000 volumes across 10,473 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries, including NYU Libraries, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, American University in Cairo, American University of Beirut, United Arab Emirates National Archives, and Qatar National Library.