Category: Projects
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Creating a Timeline with TimelineJS and JSON
This tutorial was written by Sarah DeLorme, Associate Digital Scholarship Librarian. The John LaFarge stained glass digital guide is a great way for users to explore the varied works of LaFarge in one accessible site. The two interactive timelines featured there help to visualize the chronology of LaFarge’s life and his work. These timelines are…
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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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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.…
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Exploratory Project: Connolly Linked Open Data
This past October, we launched The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a digital collection that features over 330 traditional tunes and songs collected by master fiddle player Séamus Connolly, Sullivan Artist in Residence in Irish Music at Boston College (2004 to 2015). In addition to the wonderful music, this collection contains rich metadata, which gives us the opportunity…
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The Boston College Libraries Remember Fr. Monan
On March 18, 2017, J. Donald Monan, SJ, died, and Boston College lost its modern architect. We at Boston College grieve his loss and do our best to carry his devotion to teaching, scholarship, and building communities into a new era. The Digital Scholarship Group has designed an exhibit in memory of Fr. Monan and…
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