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  • How Did They Make That? Learning Series (Fall 2024)

    How Did They Make That? Learning Series (Fall 2024)

    This year, the Digital Scholarship Group is taking inspiration from Miriam Posner’s famous blog post, How Did They Make That?, and offering a learning series on how specific digital scholarship and digital humanities projects were created. Our intention is to give people a greater sense of what it takes to do this work, including what skills are…

  • Summer Educational Video Series

    Summer Educational Video Series

    This summer, the DSG created a series of informative videos to help people understand aspects of DS, DH, and technology more broadly. We hope that our work will be helpful to BC and beyond and encourage the use of our videos in courses and resources such as finding aids. These videos are licensed under CC…

  • A Quick and Critical Dive into AI

    A Quick and Critical Dive into AI

    This summer, we are creating a series of informative videos to help people understand aspects of DS, DH, and technology more broadly. In this video, Dave Thomas provides critical and thought-provoking insights into AI.

  • It’s a Bird! It’s a Project! It’s a Bird Project!

    It’s a Bird! It’s a Project! It’s a Bird Project!

    You may have observed some seemingly odd experiments if you’ve walked past the Digital Studio this semester. What are all those flashing lights, and are those… birds? In reality, what you’re witnessing is an important contribution to undergraduate pedagogy here at BC. Hands-on time with specimens is a critical component of any Biology curriculum, especially…

  • Catholic Almanacs Project Getting Off The Ground

    Catholic Almanacs Project Getting Off The Ground

    One unexpectedly rich source about the history of Catholicism in the United States is a series of Catholic almanacs containing extensive data about US dioceses throughout the nineteenth century. Today, the almanacs are housed at Boston College Libraries, and some are digitized and made available by Villanova, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive. Now, as part…

  • Good Design is Everything

    Good Design is Everything

    The most lasting and impactful digital projects are those that find organizational, aesthetic, and technical harmony. Some consider a digital project’s user interface and organizational design less important than the design of its underpinning technology, such as a database. However, good digital project managers understand that interface and organizational design are at the heart of…