About IATH
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities was established by the University of Virginia in1992 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 University of Virginia's Electronic
Text Center co-host
the TEI Consortium (the other hosts are 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 recently
partnered 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 developing UVa's new MA in Digital Humanities.
IATH has signed cooperative research agreements with the Department of
Engineering of the University of Florence; and with the Archaeological
Superintendency of the City of Rome.
Consulting
IATH is pleased to offer consulting, programming, and data services to academic, cultural, non-profit, government, and business organizations. IATH's strengths 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 should be submitted to Prof. Bernard Frischer, IATH Director.