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Final Digital Scholarship Incubator Reflections: Abbie Levesque
This post is part of a series of final reflections from 2017 Digital Scholarship Incubator participants. Abbie Levesque: As a qualitative researcher in rhetoric and composition, I have a distinct experience with the project building experience in digital humanities work. Ridolfo and Hart-Davidson have begun inquiring into the intersections of the field, both of which…
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Final Digital Scholarship Incubator Reflections: L. Kelly Fitzpatrick
This post is part of a series of final reflections from 2017 Digital Scholarship Incubator participants. L. Kelly Fitzpatrick: In digital scholarship, we use technology to support our work – from the creation and process to the systems that share and disseminate it. My proposed project for this incubator focused on how we can adapt…
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Final Digital Scholarship Incubator Reflections: Katherine Kim
This post is part of a series of final reflections from 2017 Digital Scholarship Incubator participants. Katherine Kim: To be honest, this incubator has given me quite a few things to think about regarding digital humanities projects (especially related to their creation and use). Just like other types of projects, there are so many more…
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Representing Musicians in the SCCIM as a Network
We have made some strides since the last post where I described our initial work to represent relationships between musicians in The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music (SCCIM) as linked data and a network graph. Recently, Kelly and Meg completed their work in creating links between the artists and recordings in MusicBrainz and this…
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Scholarship Opportunity: Bookbuilders of Boston
We are excited to announce that the BC Libraries are offering a scholarship, sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. We are seeking a BC undergraduate or graduate student interested in exhibit displays and digital technologies to develop online versions of exhibitions. If selected for this project, you will develop technical expertise while learning about historical and…
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Visualizing racial disparity in Boston, c. 1970
During the spring and summer of this year, I collaborated on an exhibit, Desegregating Boston Schools: Crisis and Community Activism, 1963-1977, with Sarah Melton and Dr. Eric Weiskott. The main exhibit is at the John J. Burns Library, and a smaller complementary exhibit is on view in the Reading Room, Level 3, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr.…