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 is working Professor James Green, and in collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the National Archive of Brazil, and the State University of Maring (UEM) on a project, called “Opening the Archives,” to digitize, index, and make accessible the State Department’s declassified documents relating to U.S.-Brazilian relations from the turbulent 1960s, … “Opening the Archives” on the Brazilian military dictatorship
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
This semester, two classes are being regularly taught in the new Digital Scholarship Lab, along with a variety of ad hoc sessions. The first regular class is Professor Massimo Riva‘sThe Many Faces of Casanova (ITAL1400J). Casanova’s long life as an icon of literature, art, film, and theater make him a good subject to to apply … Taking the Digital Scholarship Lab through its paces
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
On March 1st of 2012, Bruce Boucek joined the Library as the new Social Sciences Data Librarian. In his first 3 months with the library Bruce has already contributed to a number of different projects. Beyond working with data and analysis he has a strong interest in the visualization of data and the use of … Dealing with Data Spring/Summer 2012 Cover Graphic
The Center for Digital Scholarship recently completed a NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to create a set of experimental tools for analyzing TEI texts using the SEASR framework. SEASR lets users arrange and manipulate small computational “components” in series to allow data to be ingested, analyzed, transformed, and visualized. CDS produced about three dozen of … TEI Tools for SEASR
We are pleased to announce that Joseph Rhoads joined the Library on February 1st as our new Digital Repository Manager. Joseph was formerly the Digital Curator at the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeology Lab at the University of West Georgia where he led the development of an online, searchable, digital archive of documents, reports, maps, … Digital Repository Manager appointed
