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The Library partners with WCAS to support humanities doctoral students
University Library and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences are engaged in an experimental joint effort to provide extensive support for computing projects developed by doctoral students in the humanities. The Humanities Computing Testbed, funded by WCAS and currently housed in the Digital Media Services unit of the Marjorie I. Mitchell Multimedia Center, is focusing this year on multimedia production and text markup. Oliver Haynold, a doctoral candidate in history, is the 2004-05 Testbed graduate student assistant.
Haynold's work so far has ranged from intensive consultation on a high-resolution monochromatic art image scanning project to a three-part, hands-on seminar on LaTeX. LaTex is a digital typesetting system based on the open source TeX system developed by Donald Knuth in the 1970s. Haynold has also devised instructions for integrating digital video into academic papers, written a UNICODE primer, and built a utility to convert a set of digital images into a PowerPoint presentation.
The Testbed is still actively seeking new projects. Doctoral students and faculty in humanities disciplines may read more about past projects, upcoming training, and consultation opportunities at http://www.library.northwestern.edu/blog/humcomp/.
Claire Stewart