About IATH
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities was established in 1992 to provide researchers in the arts and humanities with an opportunity to employ sophisticated technical support and advanced computer technology in the service of their scholarship. IATH maintains dozens of Windows and Macintosh computers in a separate subdomain of the University's network. IATH also supports and maintains a wide array of software, including XML editing and publishing software, imaging, rendering, and 3D Modeling software, an anonymous ftp site, internet servers and servlet engines, and e-mail discussion groups.
Academic Alliances
IATH and the Electronic Text Center co-host the TEI Consortium (along
with the University of Bergen's Humanities Information Technology Centre,
Brown University's Scholarly Technologies Group, and Oxford University's
Humanities Computing Unit).
IATH hosts the Majordomo distribution and Hypermail
Archive for Humanist, the long-running and widely read email discussion
group for humanities computing, edited by Willard McCarty. IATH is currently
partnering with the Library's Digital Library Research and Development
Group on a three-year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
called "Supporting Digital Scholarship",
to investigate technical and policy problems raised when libraries collect
born-digital scholarly research.
A number of IATH staff and faculty are
involved in the developing Media Studies Program, and particularly the
proposed new curriculum for an MA in Digital Humanities.
Consulting
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia is pleased to offer consulting, programming, and data services to academic, cultural, non-profit, government, and business organizations. IATH's strenghts are in the following areas:
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML), especially with the TEI and EAD DTDs
- XML-related technologies (XSLT, servlets, etc.)
- Web-accessible relational databases (especially Postgres with JDBC)
- Java and Perl programming
- Unicode
- 3D computer modeling of cultural heritage sites
Requests for IATH consulting services are to be submitted to Prof. Bernard Frischer, IATH Director.