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Students and faculty interested in the online archive of Byzantine seals at Dumbarton Oaks, ways to digitally engage with Harvard Art Museums’ artworks, or video links to professors in different time zones only had to visit Harvard’s Barker Center on Nov. 29. There, from 3:30 to 6 p.m., a feast of digital technology was on display at the annual Arts & Humanities and Social Science Digital Technology Fair. The fair, in its third year, is an effort to highlight the wide range of digital resources available to scholars and students for teaching and research. Representatives from Harvard Libraries, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) IT Academic Technology Group, FAS IT Services and Support Group, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning were among the 23 Harvard organizations on hand to explain their digital projects and services. Alexander F. Parker, director of research computing in the humanities, has helped develop and run...