Tag: Anna Kijas
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March 2019 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library
For the months of March and April, the O’Neill digital display (by the POP collection) will feature a curated “Women Also Know Data” visualization display to highlight diagrams, projects, and software developed by women over the last 160 years. Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is…
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February 2019 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library
For the rest of January through February, the O’Neill Library digital display (by the POP collection) will showcase a selection of data visualizations that covers a variety of topics, including health, politics, immigration as well as food. Each source is linked to the original site where you can further explore the associated data, visualization, or…
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Encoding the Thomas D. Craven Diary
In the spring of 2018, several library and archives staff from Thomas P. O’Neill (Nancy Adams, Meg Critch, Sarah DeLorme, Anna Kijas) and John J. Burns Library (Kathleen Monahan, Annalisa Moretti) began a collaborative transcription and encoding project of a 1917 diary written by Boston College student, Thomas D. Craven. This diary was written during the…
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A Shared Common Space for Digital Scholarship Projects
Over the past several years, the Digital Scholarship Group has developed and collaborated on multiple open access digital scholarship (DS) projects. Each DS project is developed with specific goals in mind and is built with different content, frameworks, programming languages, and design elements. In order to make our work discoverable and accessible, we promote and…
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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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