Our GIS Day celebration this year will provide a hands-on workshop featuring mapping in the humanities for non-ArcGIS users. In this workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to explore a mapping platform that contains and compares historical maps of Boston in the past century, produce demographic maps from their own data, and learn how to […]
This year, as the campus and BC Libraries take a sharper look at social justice issues, our workshops will use race and diversity (e.g. US Census) data to explore both the affordances and constraints of tools and strategies for transforming data into narratives and images. We hope you can join us! Curating Digital Exhibits with […]
On May 1, 2019 the Digital Scholarship Group hosted an Open House that featured the work of several faculty, graduate students, and librarians. Here is a brief overview of the presentations with links to slides and other materials shared kindly by the presenters. Richard L. Sweeney (Assistant Professor, Economics Department) who participated in this past […]
Happy International Open Access Week 2018! Established by SPARC and partners in the student community in 2008, International Open Access Week is an opportunity to take action in making openness the default for research—to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research, and turn breakthroughs into better lives. Open Access Week 2018 runs October 22–28, 2018. […]
Boston College and Boston University Libraries are pleased to announce OpenCon 2018 Boston. This year’s event will feature a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. We are excited to welcome the film’s producer and director Jason Schmitt for a panel discussion. Additionally, we are currently seeking proposals for the following: • 20 – 25 […]
We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group. If you’re following along at home, we’ve set up a hypothes.is group for annotations. September 11 & 12: Digital Humanities in the Popular Press Allington, Daniel, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia. “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of […]
We’re pleased to announce that Boston College will serve as a local host for the 2018 Mozilla Global Sprint on May 10–11. The sprint is a two-day hackathon that encourages participants to contribute to open source projects in support of a healthy internet: “As part of a global movement to make the Internet better, safer, […]
The Boston College Libraries Digital Scholarship Group invites students, faculty, and staff at Boston College to join the Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group. We welcome participants at all levels; no previous experience with digital humanities is required. If you are interested in participating, please complete the application form below. We will offer two sections […]
The Digital Scholarship Group is excited to announce the inaugural Boston Digital Humanities Week, March 12–16, 2018. Come join colleagues from Northeastern University, Tufts University, Harvard, MIT, and Boston University for a week of free workshops, meetups, and lectures. To see the full list of events, visit is.gd/bostondhweek2018. At Boston College, we’ll be hosting workshops […]
Our Spring 2018 event schedule is now live. Join us this semester for Coffee & Code workshops on copyright, digital exhibits, mapping, and more! We’ll also continue to offer our Collaborative TEI sessions for those interested in learning more about text encoding. All sessions take place in the Digital Studio, room 205 in O’Neill Library. […]
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