Author: digischol

  • BlackBC (in progress)

    BlackBC (in progress)

    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…

  • Diego de Bruceña’s Lost Choir Book (in progress)

    Diego de Bruceña’s Lost Choir Book (in progress)

    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…

  • FWWCP Digital Collection (in progress)

    FWWCP Digital Collection (in progress)

    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.…

  • Jesuit Online Necrology

    Jesuit Online Necrology

    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…

  • 3D Models in the Classroom: Every Rock has a Story

    3D Models in the Classroom: Every Rock has a Story

    In collaboration with CDIL, the DS team digitized a series of rock specimens utilized in Prof. Ethan Baxter’s Fall 2021 Earth and Environmental Sciences class, Every Rock has a Story, to be used in interactive videos and, eventually AR experiences. A total of approximately 35 rocks were digitized (see examples), a subsample of the more…

  • Apple’s Reality Composer, a Free AR App

    Apple’s Reality Composer, a Free AR App

    In collaboration with the Center for Digital Innovation in Learning (CDIL), Digital Scholarship and the BC Libraries have begun exploring the use of AR experiences in teaching and research. As part of this effort, we have been experimenting with Apple’s Reality Composer, a free AR app that allows for the creation of basic AR experiences…