Tag: undergraduate research
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Digital Editions of Primary Documents: A Collaborative Modern Approach to Ancient Texts
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Claude Hanley, Stephanie Neville, Charlie Shufeider, and Alex Simrell (College of the Holy Cross) The Holy Cross Manuscripts, Inscriptions, and Documents (MID) Club encourages undergraduates to pursue original research, in collaboration with faculty members, in codicology, epigraphy, paleography, and various languages. Our research, focused on faithfully recording every scribal mark on various antique primary sources,…
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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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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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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…