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As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of BC’s African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS), the BlackBC allows online and mobile users to discover and explore black BC’s complex history on campus, in Boston, and in the nation. It mines anecdotal and informal resources as well as BC archives to commemorate the presence and contributions of black BC, and to document how this community participates in Boston’s black communities. The site will continue to be expanded in future semesters in collaboration with students and faculty in the AADS program.

Collaborator(s): Dr. Rhonda Frederick, Department of English and African & African Diaspora Studies

In putting together an annotated digital scholarly edition of The Court & Kitchin of Elizabeth [1664], a text held by the Burns Library, we aim to accumulate skills for producing digital projects that we can pass on independently to future students and classes.  As an openly accessible resource not available in digitized form elsewhere, our edition of this text will complement other scholarly endeavors in the area of early modern recipes and food studies intended for researchers and students alike by showing the political, social, and uniquely satirical dimensions of one such cookbook. A link to the project will be provided upon its completion.

Collaborator(s): Andy Crow (Boston College), Deanna Malvesti Danforth (Boston College), Emma Atwood (University of Montevallo), Mary Crane (Boston College), Laura Sterrett (Boston College), Margaret Summerfield (Boston College)

The Lost Choir Book Project uses innovative 3D modeling technology and TEI/XML encoding to document the only surviving copy of an atlas-sized book of sacred music published in 1620 in Salamanca, Spain, by printer Susana Muñoz. The project will make a serious contribution to the history of music printing in early modern Iberia through the creation of a digital edition of the newly-discovered Bruceña volume with accompanying essays, as well as incorporate digital facsimiles of archival documents and accompanying transcriptions attesting to this remarkable pioneer of the printing of sacred music. A link to the project will be provided upon its completion.

Collaborator(s): Dr. Michael Noone, Department of Music; Museu da Terra de Miranda, Portugal

The FWWCP Digital Collection is a representation of over 30 years of working-class writing and publishing created by groups within The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (FWWCP).  The FWWCP groups included writing about class that intersected with discussions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, mental health, food and culture, education and much more. The collections are an expanding work-in-progresss, organized by regions in England and expanding to include other countries, administrative documents, FEDeration Magazines, and more. A link to the project will be provided when it is ready for public presentation.

Collaborator(s): Dr. Jessica Pauszek, Department of English

Mirror of Race focuses on images from 1839-1876, spanning approximately forty years before, during and, after the Civil War, which demonstrates how race was a much more fluid and ambiguous concept than we may now assume. Through a combination of a freely explorable general collection and specific thematic exhibitions, Mirror of Race encourages viewers to reexamine how they see others and themselves by reflecting upon the categories of race that we employ almost automatically in our daily lives.

The Jesuit Online Necrology is an open, collaborative, and fully searchable database of personal information for the more than 32,000 men who died as members of the Society of Jesus between 1814 and 1970, built in collaboration with the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu in Rome, the Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies and the Woodstock Theological Library at Georgetown. This database provides the dates of birth, entry, and death for all the men who lived and died as Jesuits in the century and a half following the order’s restoration and includes interactive maps and data visualizations answering questions focused on the lives of these men.

The Jesuit Online Necrology project is currently in beta. The editors of the Jesuit Online Necrology welcome comments, corrections to records, suggestions for new content or features, and general feedback from users at jesuitportal@bc.edu.