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Advancing Research, Learning and Digital Collection Building in the College with Collaboration and Partnership

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Sabra Statham, Eric Novotny and Katie Falvo (Penn State University) Collaborative projects can be an excellent way for Universities to create research opportunities and support student learning. The People’s Contest Civil War Era Digital Archiving Project is a partnership between the Penn State Libraries and the Richards Civil War Center. The project pairs librarians with […]

Analog Library Books and Digital Scholarly Collaboration

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Kyle Roberts and Evan Thompson (Loyola U of Chicago) Historic library books have proven a fruitful site for digital scholarly collaboration at Loyola University Chicago. The Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project (http://jesuitlibrariesprovenanceproject.com/) was launched in March 2014 to bring together students, curators, and faculty to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original […]

Anvil Academic: Stories from the front lines of evaluating born digital scholarship

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Mike Roy (Middlebury College) and Charles Henry (CLIR) In the electronically networked world of contemporary scholarship, the traditional role of the publisher as gatekeeper and paid distributor of scholarly argument is no longer tenable. Yet the editorial services a publisher provides to authors and the filtering service it provides to readers and promotion-and-tenure committees are […]

Authoritarianism and Development: A Spatial Analysis of Uganda by Sub-County

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John Doces and Erik Heinemann (Bucknell University) In Africa, a common theme in development is that authoritarianism has been detrimental to development. In particular, arguments about the nature of this relationship focus on the role of the African “Big Man” and the effect of patronage politics viewing the situation as one in which people connected […]

Between Public History and Geohistory: Teaching From, and About, Lost Urban Landscapes

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Linda Aleci (Franklin & Marshall College) This paper describes “Curating the City”, an experimental undergraduate seminar, and nascent digital humanities project, at Franklin & Marshall College. The project is undertaken in collaboration with the Phillips Museum of Art, the Lancaster County Historical Society, a Lancaster-based urban planning firm, and a cohort of users active on […]

Bringing Bank Street’s Progressive Pedagogy to iTunes U: A Collaborative Effort Across the College

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Steven Goss and Lindsey Wyckoff (Bank Street College of Education) This project is a collaboration between the Bank Street College Archives, Online Programs, and faculty members of The Graduate School of Education and The School for Children to produce and deliver educational resources for classroom teaching and learning. This work started as an institutional mini-grant […]

Collaboration and Outreach through the Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Notre Dame

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Matthew Sisk and Alexander Papson (University of Notre Dame) Library-based digital scholarship centers are increasingly seen as a way to foster collaboration across the university and make new digital tools available for teaching and research. In September of 2013, the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) was launched in the Hesburgh Library at the University of […]

Collaboration, Not Chaos: Managing Collaborative Project Work

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Mike Zarafonetis and Laurie Allen (Haverford College) The flexibility and small size of the liberal arts college library naturally leads to collaboration across institutional lines, and even more so in the creation of digital scholarship. This summer, Haverford College Libraries undertook multiple cross-departmental and institutional digital projects, each with its own challenges. Three of these […]

Collaborative Annotations: Using Annotation Studio to Foster Writing and Thinking in a Learning Community

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Ethna Lay (Hofstra University) My students’ report real success using MIT’s Annotation Studio, working with it as solo commentators or in the sharing of group work. Strong annotation skills support reading, writing, and critical thinking, especially when students have the opportunity to annotate collectively, a digital collaboration made possible by Annotation Studio. What is also […]

A Database of One’s Own: A Faculty/Student Project in Digital Literary Analysis

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Constance Walker and Erin Winter (Carleton College) How can big data and digital humanities tools expand our knowledge of literary history and literary texts? My current research explores this important question by using such tools to study a little-studied or known set of lyric poems about the arts by British women writers, written between 1660-1900. […]

Design Mobility: Architects with iPads

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Madis Pihlak (Penn State University) A Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 class was taught at Penn State Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture using iPads based on the study of design mobility. The student body was almost entirely made up of fifth year architecture students. The seminar format was broad ranging and dealt with […]

Designing Collaboration and Pedagogy into a Network for Digital Scholarship and Public Deliberation

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Mark Fisher, Chris Long, Andre Avilez, and Kris Klotz (Penn State University), Dean Rehberger and Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State University) The Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ) is designed to be an open space for community discourse, deliberation, and action that is informed by scholarly standards while also being responsive to the interests of diverse publics. Among […]

The Digital Opportunities: Train Students for Historical Research in the Digital Age

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Song Chen (Bucknell University) To train students for research is a challenge. It is more so in the field of non-Western history because of the additional language barriers. The conventional answer to this challenge is translation. Since the late nineteenth century, missionaries and scholars have been translating classical works from Chinese intellectual and literary traditions. […]

Digital Rome: Researching and Teaching Ancient Roman Urbanism with Student-Created 3D Visualizations

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Thomas Morton (Swarthmore College) Over 675 ancient Roman municipal entities are known from across North Africa; however, most of the scholarship is in French, German, and Italian and thus out of reach for most students. The question becomes, how does one engage students with the innovative architecture and urbanism that occurred in this part of […]

Environmental Activism in Central PA

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Amanda Wooden, Nicole Bakeman, and Jaclyn Tules (Bucknell University) Over the past five years, Bucknell University has made a strategic investment in integrating GIS and digital scholarship across the undergraduate curriculum in teaching and research.  We believe that applying GIS and digital scholarship methods broadens and deepens the learning experience for faculty and students alike […]

Expanding Public Access to Knowledge: Introducing the DPLA

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Annie Johnson (Lehigh University) The Digital Public Library of America is a unique content portal designed for students, teachers, scholars, and the public. It provides free access to a wide variety of digital materials from a national network of libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions. The idea behind the project is simple: although many […]

Foreign Language Flipped Classrooms – Scaffolding Grammar Knowledge Anytime, Anywhere

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Ching-Hsuan Wu (Ohio Wesleyan University) The presentation introduces a collaborative pedagogical project that aims to improve and promote the digitalized interface of teaching and learning in studies of foreign languages for liberal arts colleges through the concept of the flipped classroom. The goal of the project is to develop a digital collection of self-directed grammar […]