Category: #BUDSC15
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Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED): Promoting Public Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
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Nabil Kashyap and Roberto Vargas (Swarthmore College) Swarthmore Projects for Educational Exploration and Development (SPEED) is an initiative jointly administered by Swarthmore Libraries and Information Technology Services. Loosely based on the agile development model, SPEED provides dedicated staff and student intern support for accepted proposals during an eight-week summer period in order to design and…
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No money? No credit? No problem! Building A Successful Digital Scholarship Fellowship Program With Limited Resources
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Michael Zarafonetis (Haverford College) The Haverford College Digital Scholarship Fellows program launched in the fall of 2014, and is set to enter year two in the fall of 2015. The program is a collaboration of Haverford Libraries Digital Scholarship, the Office of Academic Resources, the Center for Career and Professional Advising, and the Writing Center.…
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A Room of One’s Own: Creating Place for the Queer Studies History at Denison University
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Sheilah Wilson and Shannon Robinson (Denison University) The Queer Studies program at Denison University has a history that includes: inception in 2000, a close call with dissolution in 2009, and the current re-emergence with many highly engaged students and faculty contributing to the thriving program. In 2014, a grant was awarded to create a digital…
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Using Historypin to Engage Students at the Archives
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Donna Baker (Albert Gore Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University) In the 2013 spring semester, the Albert Gore Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University uploaded material to Historypin, a crowdsource platform for historical materials. Instead of populating the center’s profile with collection highlights selected by staff, the students of Dr. Mary Hoffschwelle’s Tennessee…
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The Musical Geography of 1924 Paris: Archival Research through Collaborative Mapping
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Philip Claussen, Natalie Kopp, and Breanna Olson (St. Olaf College) Though sound is at the center of music historical research, the sounds of the past remain elusive to scholars and students. Traditional media through which scholarship works – including books and lectures – offer at best a remote, second-hand experience of the concerts, personalities, and…
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Friendship and Diversity: Philosophical and Geographical Considerations
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Sheila Lintott and Melissa Eng (Bucknell University) Employing an interdisciplinary approach involving philosophy and geography, we are investigating diversity in friendship given the claim that friendship is circumstantial. We begin our study by distributing a three-part survey to students at Bucknell University in order to gather a variety of data types. The quantitative web-based questionnaire aims to…
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Models of Student Engagement in DH at Lafayette College
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Emily McGinn, Feevan Megersa, Jethro Israel, and Ian Morse (Lafayette College) In developing the digital humanities efforts on campus, Lafayette’s Digital Scholarship Services has been extending its focus from faculty driven projects to also include student research through our DH in the Classroom initiative and our DH Summer Scholars Program, an intensive internship where students…
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From Historic Buildings to Murder and Mayhem: The Evolution of Wooster Digital History
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Katherine Holt, Anna Claspy, Brandon Bell, and Colleen Gilfether (The College of Wooster) For three summers teams of undergraduates from the College of Wooster have been at work on Wooster Digital History (www.woosterhistory.org), a project that has grown from curated exhibits to more mature collections, mapping exercises, and web-based town tours. The project began as…