Written by Brown University Italian Studies scholar, Massimo Riva, Italian Shadows conceives of an archaeology of virtual reality through a set of unique optical devices from the pre-digital age. Focusing on four curious pieces of analog media—including Casanova’s voyeuristic polemoscope (or jealousy glass); an eighteenth century peep show box, the Mondo Novo; the Great Belzoni’s Aggrescopius, … Italian Shadows (Mellon Publication Project)
Zotero provides a great way to create and manage bibliography – however, sometimes it’s necessary or convenient to display bibliographic on a web page, selected and organized according to different subjects. We wanted to create an annotated bibliography and publish it using Scalar so that it could include other content, images, layout and design. We … Annotated Bibliography in Scalar using Zotero
The following documentation describes how the Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project queries a Zotero collection to retrieve and display bibliographic items. IIP maintains a corpus of inscriptions that are each encoded in a separate XML file according to the Epidoc customization of the TEI schema.
Last November I came to the Center for Digital Scholarship of Brown University as a Post-Doc and stayed until March. My stay was sponsored by the University of Barcelona and the CASB (Consortium for Advanced Studies of Barcelona) Fellowship Program. The experience has been so stimulating and a truly rewarding one thanks to the CDS … Guest Blog Post by Susanna Alls Torrent (Visiting Post-Doc)
CDS assisted Maddie High 16 for her summer UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) project. Maddie worked with Prof. Lisa Mignone (Classics) to make a topically organized, digital collection of images from Roman archaeological sites, based on photographs taken by Prof. MIgnone. Maddie began by working with Prof. Mignone to select images, and then digitized … Rome with a View – Undergraduate Research Projectd
CDS assisted Tori Lee ’14 with her summer UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) project. Tori continued work that she had begun in the summer of 2012, updating and adding inscriptions to Prof. John Bodel’s US Epigraphy project. This consisted of sorting through correspondence with museums and other collections that have holdings of ancient Greek … Epigraphy at Brown and across the US – Undergraduate Research Project
CDS sponsored Mary-Evelyn Farrior ’14 for her summer UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) project. She worked with Prof. John Bodel in Classics on a digital, structured version of a project he had begun on paper, tocollect and organize information about Roman funerals, as mentioned in Latin literature and historical writing of the Republic and … Funera Romana-Undergraduate Research Project
Friday April 19 Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, Brown University (Providence, RI) The Brown Library and the Center for Digital Scholarship are proud to host two presentations by the designers of the popular <oXygen/> XML Editor: Getting the Most out of <oXygen/> Customizing your <oXygen/> Working Environment We are very lucky that Syncro Soft’s George … Two Presentations on XML Editing Software
Back in March there was a call for short videos describing digital humanities centers. These videos would be displayed at the July annual members meeting for centerNet, an international network of Digital Humanities Centers. Since CDS is a member of centerNet, and I am the Executive Secretary for centerNet’s International Steering Committee, I asked if … The new CDS Video: Behind the Scenes
Lexicography Revisited: Dictionaries in the Age of Digital Humanities Toma Tasovac Center for Digital Humanities Belgrade 2pm, Wednesday April 27, Bopp Seminar Room, John Hay Library A dictionary is many things at once: a text, a tool, a model of language and a cultural object deeply embedded into the historical moment of its production. The … CHUG talk: Lexicography in the Age of Digital Humanities
