Boston College Digital Scholarship

About People

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
Sarah Melton

Head of Digital Scholarship

More accessible scholarship.

    Jiebei Luo
    Jiebei Luo

    Data Services Librarian

      John O'Connor
      John O'Connor

      Scholarly Communications Librarian

      Campus outreach and scholarly communications

        Allison Xu
        Allison Xu

        Data and Visualization Librarian

          Gabe Feldstein
          Gabe Feldstein

          Digital Publishing and Outreach Specialist

            Projects

            You'll love our work. Check it out!

            What's Going On?

            See blog
            New digital resource: 19th century petition letters for Jesuit mission assignments
            A set of original handwritten letters housed in the Jesuit Archive in Rome has been scanned and transcribed and is…
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            March Data Service Workshops: Census 2020
            Every 10 years, the United States conducts its nationwide census.  Starting in January in the most remote parts of Alaska,…
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            New Sound Equipment in the Faculty Preview Room
            As the spring 2020 semester commences, O'Neill Library will be offering recording options in a revamped space. The Digital Studio,…
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            Contact us

            Address
            Boston College, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Library, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
            Contact
            E-mail: digschol-ggroup@bc.edu

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