{"id":3358,"date":"2011-08-01T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2011-08-01T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:05:58","slug":"brown-university-library-hires-new-digital-humanities-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/brown-university-library-hires-new-digital-humanities-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Library Hires New Digital Humanities Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3359\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2011\/08\/01\/brown-university-library-hires-new-digital-humanities-librarian\/bauer_jean\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3359\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2012\/04\/Bauer_Jean-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It is our pleasure to welcome Jean Bauer as our new Digital Humanities Librarian. Jean Bauer is a historian, database designer, and photographer.  She holds degrees in history from the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, &#8220;Revolution Mongers: Launching the U.S. Foreign Service, 1775-1825.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean has worked for the Archives of the New York Philharmonic and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Library and has held research fellowships at  the University of Virginia Library&#8217;s Digital Scholars&#8217; Lab and NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).  She has also transcribed, translated, and decrypted letters for The Papers of James Madison, designed a database for The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, and served as Design Researcher for Documents Compass, a digital consulting organization for documentary editors.<\/p>\n<p>Jean is the lead developer of two open source projects: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanbauer.com\/davila.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DAVILA<\/a>, a relational database schema visualization and annotation tool, and <a href=\"http:\/\/projectquincy.rubyforge.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Quincy<\/a>, a Ruby on Rails application with a MySQL database that uses information about people, places, and organizations to trace how social networks and institutions develop over time and through space. The flagship application for Project Quincy is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eafsd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Early American Foreign Service Database<\/a>, which allows researchers to trace Early American diplomats, consuls, special agents, and their clerks all over the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is our pleasure to welcome Jean Bauer as our new Digital Humanities Librarian. Jean Bauer is a historian, database designer, and photographer. She holds degrees in history from the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, &#8220;Revolution Mongers: Launching the U.S. Foreign Service, 1775-1825.&#8221; Jean has <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/brown-university-library-hires-new-digital-humanities-librarian\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Brown University Library Hires New Digital Humanities Librarian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-transitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}