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Facilities and DH Guides

FACILITIES AT the BDHC

The Borderlands Digital Humanities Center includes a workshop space with video conferencing equipment to support up to 20 attendees and overflow seating available. The Center also include a mini-lab equipped with six workstations outfitted for specific digital research needs.

Mini-Lab hardware and specialized software

  • Dell Precision 7875 Tower (with ArcGIS Pro, MatLab, DaVinci Resolve Studio)
  • Dell Pro Max Tower T2 FCT2250 (with ArcGIS Pro, OxygenXML, ABBYY FineReader) - EPSON Perfections V850 Scanner
  • Mac Studio (with MatLab, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Final Cut Pro)
  • Mac Studio (with OxygenXLM, ABBYY FineReader) - EPSON Expression 13000XL Scanner
  • Mac Studio
  • Mac Mini

Software available on all workstations

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Airtable
  • AntConc
  • Audacity
  • BaseX
  • Blender
  • Gephi
  • Heurist
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • MongoDB
  • Mukurtu CMS
  • Neo4j
  • NLTK
  • Omeka S
  • pgAdmin
  • PostgreSQL
  • R and R Studio
  • SpaCy
  • Tableau Public
  • Transkribus OCR
  • Twine
  • Visual Code Studio

Web-based Tools Bookmarked on All Workstations

  • Ed
  • GitHub
  • Glitch
  • Google Colab
  • HathiTrust Digital Library
  • Hypothes.is
  • Internet Archive
  • Juxta Editions
  • Media Thread
  • Mirador Viewer
  • Neatline
  • Netlify
  • Notion
  • Omeka Classic
  • OpenRefine
  • OpenStreetMap
  • oTranscribe
  • Palladio
  • Reclaim Hosting
  • Recogito
  • Sketchfab
  • Soundcite.js
  • StoryMapJS
  • ThingLink
  • TimelineJS
  • Transkribus OCR
  • Trello
  • Tropy
  • VisualEyes
  • Voyant
  • Zotero Web Library

Related UTEP Facilities

UTEP offers several other research and production spaces that students and faculty interested in digital humanities work would find useful.

  • Special Collections: The UTEP Library Special Collections include approximately 750 manuscript collections. A select few of the image and manuscript collections have been highlighted to give you a sense of some of what exists there. Most are yet to be digitized and are rich resources for research and for develop digital archive and database projects.
  • The Learning Studio: UGLC 110 provides a studio space to create audio and video content in a studio setting. Faculty, staff, and students can reserve the space to record podcasts or videocasts with access to green screen and light board technology.
  • Gaia Maker’s Space: UGLC 202 offers a maker space fitted with a number of technologies including 3D printing, audio mixers, MySQL database software, 3D modeling and gaming software like Unity and Maya, and soon an AR/VR environment.
  • The Interactive Collaboration Lab: IDRB 2.217 provides touch visualization technology for display and manipulating data sets as well as virtual reality tools for immersive data visualizations.
  • The Visual Lab: IDRB 2.215 includes a high resolution visualization wall that allows researchers to share, analyze, and explore large data sets in a collaborative environment.
  • The Creative Team at InSPIRE: This team of media professionals collaborate with faculty and academic departments to build technology support projects.

Research Guides on DH

Many useful guides exist to support faculty and students developing their methodological practices in digital humanities.

If you are new to the field, there are many open access books and journals that explore the broader landscape of the field, but here are a few good starting points.

Connect With Us

The University of Texas at El Paso
College of Liberal Arts
University Library, Room 201
500 W University
El Paso, Texas 79968

E: bdhc@utep.edu
P: (915) 320-4743