Boston College Libraries Digital Scholarship

About

The Boston College Libraries Digital Scholarship Group connects people, ideas, and projects.

We explore and document new tools and support teaching and research in a variety of areas that utilize broad methodologies in the digital humanities.

As we document our paths, clear logistical hurdles, and share our outcomes, we look forward to discovering ways of building on our existing projects.

Core Tenets

We Aim to Build Experience and Community

We explore, document, and share the pros and cons of using technology for different applications, noting important caveats and lessons learned, based on our experience with real projects -- we don't simply link you to the homepage of tools or completed projects.

We are Experimental

We are committed to exploring and documenting new tools and methods with you, expanding our capacity as we do. We don't limit our efforts to a specific set of supported technologies, but are interested in finding and addressing changing needs on campus. We act as a node in the growing community of digital scholarship.

We are Open

Digital scholarship should be an open endeavor. As we dabble and explore, we are transparent about our process whenever possible — including what we don't know, frustrations, and dead ends. We also support the use of open source tools and the creation of open access scholarship. See what we're up to on GitHub.

We Teach, Support, and Collaborate

We aspire to expand the community of digital scholarship practitioners at Boston College, not act as a home for outsourced digital projects. We are teachers, consultants, and collaborators. We are particularly invested in collaborative projects that include pedagogically-rich student involvement or that transcend individual semesters and the boundaries of the institution.

People

Meet the members of the Digital Scholarship Group

Sarah Melton

Head of Digital Scholarship

More accessible scholarship.

Anna Kijas

Digital Scholarship Librarian

All about the process.

Chelcie Rowell

Digital Scholarship Librarian & History Liaison

Librarian. Humanist. Technologist.

Stephen Sturgeon

Digital Scholarship Librarian & English Liaison

Textual scholarship and book history.

Sarah DeLorme

Associate Digital Scholarship Librarian

Collaboration and building community.

John O'Connor

eScholarship Repository Librarian

Campus outreach and scholarly communications

Allison Xu

Data and Visualization Librarian

Projects

You'll love our work. Check it out!

What's Going On?

See blog

October 2018 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

During Open Access October, the O’Neill Library digital display (by the POP collection) will showcase a selection of data visualizations that use open data about weather, climate, the environment, and of course, baseball! Each source is linked to the original site where you can further explore the associated data, visualization, or literature. Climate Ready Boston Map […]