Carl Milofsky and Brianna Derr (Bucknell University) This poster presents the Bucknell University Northern Ireland Archive (also here), which makes available video and analytic notes from the Bucknell in Northern Ireland Program. This is a three-week, study-abroad program based in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. More than 120 hours of tapes were recorded between 2002 and 2005. They include […]
Stories of the Susquehanna Documentary Series
John LaLoggia and Laura Lujan (Bucknell University) The Stories of the Susquehanna Documentary Series is a public history project in which Bucknell University students discover and unfold the stories of Susquehanna River Valley communities in a 26-minute documentary film. The first documentary in the series, “Utopian Dreams,” will be broadcast by public television station, WVIA. […]
Coloring the Gem City: Redlining and the Legacy of Discriminatory Housing in Dayton, Ohio 1900-Present
Eric Rhodes (History, Class of 2016, Antioch College) “In 1988, Douglas Massey found the housing patterns in Dayton and its suburbs to be the third most racially segregated among the fifty largest metropolitain areas in the United States. According to Massey, the metropolitan areas with higher levels of racial segregation than Dayton were Cleveland, Ohio, […]
The Korean War Memory Tour: More Than Just A Public History Road Trip
Levi Fox (Ph.D. Student in Public History, Temple University) The Korean War Memory Tour is a digital-hybrid project that I started in May of 2015 in preparation for a dissertation research trip. The centerpiece of the project is a WordPress blog that I’ve used to share my findings state-by-state on public memory of the so-called […]
Ab Urbe Ef icta: Reconstructing Livy’s Rome
Haley Tilt (Classics, Class of 2016, Reed College) The works of the Roman historian Livy describe monuments that stood intact, monuments lost, and monuments forever altered by Rome’s changing political landscape. Using modern mapping and visualization technology, I have designed and implemented a website that allows users to visualize these monumentspresent and absentthat Livy described and historicized. The website […]
Solution Based Press Freedom Project
Ian Morse (Lafayette College) Current press freedom indices conflate myriad problems and measures into single values. When searching for solutions to press freedom violations, believing that all countries suffer from similar afflictions is counterproductive. I approached this project in search of solution-oriented measures that could suggest which political, legal, economic, and social factors had the […]
Stories of the Susquehanna Documentary Series
Laura Lujan (Bucknell University) The Stories of the Susquehanna Documentary Series is a public history project in which Bucknell University students discover and unfold the stories of Susquehanna River Valley communities in a 26-minute documentary film. The first documentary in the series, “Utopian Dreams,” will be broadcast by public television station, WVIA. The students involved […]
Designing Digital Scholarship: Visual Interface Prototyping Strategies for Scholarship Beyond the Printed Page
Amy Papaelias (State University of New York at New Paltz) How can undergraduate studies in graphic design prepare students for engagement in public scholarship and the digital humanities? As part of a Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) at SUNY New Paltz, BFA graphic design major Megan Doty collaborated with Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Amy […]
Cinemablography
Mark Young and Anthony Watkins (Messiah College) From an ordinary stack of ungraded film analysis papers was born an idea: what if, instead of just writing about film production theory, students could collaborate to demonstrate what they had learned by turning papers into films? Cinemablography is the Messiah College Communication Department’s experimental answer to this question. […]
Global Crossroads: Designing an Open Research Platform
Christopher Gilman and Carey Sargent (Occidental College) Occidental College’s Global Crossroads is a custom designed web application and two-story media installation that allows students and faculty to create and display multimedia projects. The design of the web app is oriented toward iterative, open research process, the construction of academic argumentation, and interactive sharing and annotation […]
Towards a Model for Digital Scholarship in Film Studies: The Internet Archive as a Pedagogical Tool
Dimitrios Latsis (Internet Archive) This demonstration will highlight the resources and tools offered by the Internet Archive for film scholars and filmmakers who wish to incorporate digital pedagogy in their classroom. The Internet Archive is the world’s largest electronic repository of knowledge incorporating books, journals, video, audio, software and images. It has consistently advocated for […]
Encoding Maggie: Serendipity and Scholarship
Alyssa Russell and Kathryn Tomasek (Wheaton College) In summer 2015, Russell and Tomasek collaborated on two projects that use the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Tomasek’s longstanding project featuring account books offered the initial focus for the research, and the method employed to introduce Russell to the TEI Guidelines offered her an unexpected […]
Fallingwater Digital: How One of the World’s Greatest Houses, Digital tools, and Collaboration Created Powerful Student Engagement
Janice Mann (Bucknell University) In the spring semester of 2015 I offered a project-based course focused on Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated Fallingwater, built in the Laurel Highlands about 40 miles away from Pittsburg for department store magnate Edgar Kaufmann in 1935. Although the class used Falllingwater as a point of departure, it was interdisciplinary in […]
Visualizing the Poetry of Michael Field
Sarah Kersh, Kathleen Jarman, and Georgia Christman (Dickinson College) During the summer of 2015, the Mellon Foundation Digital Humanities grant at Dickinson College, funded a project to produce an online, annotated edition of a volume of poems written by Michael Field and entitled Sight and Song (1892). “Michael Field” is actually the pseudonym of two […]
Visualizing Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
Thomas Beasley and Suné Swart (Bucknell University) In this project demo, we will share Visualizing Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (VNAM), a web-based application for generating dynamic visualizations of all varieties of networks in the ancient world and exposing the primary evidence on which they are based. VNAM makes it possible to see and explore, […]
Creating a Digital Environment for Engaging Students, Teachers, and Researchers in Medieval Literature
Michael McGuire and Olga Scrivner (Indiana University) Medieval literature in the digital community is in general underrepresented and when available often exists in less interactive and useable forms such as raw archived images. This is especially problematic for less commonly studied languages where fewer people are able to read and interpret the original text. Although […]
Tempo of the Times
Benjamin Draves and Vincent Demarco (Lafayette College) Tempo of the Times looks to connect social shifts with fundamental changes in musical compositions. Powered by the Echo Nest, this project uses macroeconomic metrics and musical metrics that vary in sophistication in an attempt understand how artist’s work change with respect to the societal climate. Strong correlations […]
Making the Process Public: Collaboration, Performance Pedagogy, and Digital Director’s Books
Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson (Bucknell University) Where are the intersections between digital scholarship and live performance pedagogy? Can digitizing some of the craft and process of theatre making offer opportunities for collaboration that can exceed what we have done in the past? Join Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson as she details how digital literacy can be taught hand […]
Dreaming Too Big?: How Cross- and Intra-Institutional Collaboration Saved “Reading New York”
Melissa Dinsman (University of Notre Dame) and Elizabeth Rodrigues (Temple University) “Reading New York” is a collaborative digital research and teaching tool that has already failed twice and sparked a blog about DH failings. Now in its third iteration and on its second title, “Reading New York” has begun to gain momentum all thanks to […]
Building (Digital) Bridges: A Collaboration between Research and Teaching-Centered Institutions
Christina Boyles (University of Iowa) While many digital humanities projects involve collaboration, few have combined the efforts of large research institutions and small liberal arts colleges. With the assistance of the Mellon Foundation, however, the University of Iowa and Grinnell College have established such a partnership, seeking “to weave the digital humanities more deeply and […]