Category: #BUDSC14
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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…
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St. Bonaventure Cemetery: Introducing History Students to GIS
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Phillip Payne, Dennis Frank, Jason Damon, and Michael Specht (St. Bonaventure University) During the Spring 2014 semester students enrolled in History 419: Digital History and Archival Practices built a map of St. Bonaventure Cemetery using geographic information systems technology (GIS). Students used archival materials and created a map that will be useful to the community.…
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Harrisburg’s City Beautiful Movement: Mapping the Growth and Transformation of the Pennsylvania State Capital
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David Pettegrew, Jeff Erikson, Rachel Carey, and Rachel Morris (Messiah College), Albert Sarvis and Dan Stolyarov (Harrisburg University of Science and Technology) In spring 2014, faculty and students from Messiah College and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology launched a new digital initiative to document the rapid growth and transformation of Harrisburg through its City…
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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…
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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…
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Old Records, New Questions, New Collaborations: The Easton Library Company Database at Lafayette College
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Chris Phillips, Eric Luhrs and Alena Principato (Lafayette) In 2010 Phillips and Luhrs began work on a database of borrowing records from the Easton Library Company, which operated from 1811 to 1862. With fifty years of records to transcribe and analyze, and little collective experience developing such a library history project, they planned the database…
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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…
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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…
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The Masquerade Project
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Brittany Allen and Kyle Raudensky (Bucknell University) The Masquerade Project is a an educational video game developed by Professor Ghislaine McDayter in collaboration with Brittany Allen and Kyle Raudensky. The concept of the game is create an immersive environment in which players are transported to an 18th-century masquerade ball, and through that experience learn about…
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A Proper Motion Census of Ophiuchus
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Damon Frezza and Katelyn Allers (Bucknell University) How are stars born? One of the least understood stages in a star’s evolution is its formation. In order to study star formation we must look deep into dense clouds of dust and gas called nebulae. One such nebula is Rho Ophiuchus and, at a distance of 130…
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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…
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ePortfolio at Sweet Briar: Engaging / Assessing / Exploring
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Julie Kane (Sweet Briar College) At Sweet Briar, we are beginning our second year of full rollout with our ePortfolio platform, Digication. We first ran a small pilot, capped at ~300, and started in earnest last year, requiring all incoming students to use ePortfolio as they arrived. I ask every incoming student to create her…
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Learning as Playing: an Interactive Archive of 17th- to 19th-Century Metamorphic Children’s Books
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Sandra Stelts, Linda Friend, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, and Carlos Rosas (Penn State University) We propose to demonstrate the genesis of an animated, interactive, Web-based archive of selected 17th- to 19th-century moveable books by and for children on the theme of transformation (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/flapbooks.html or http://sites.psu.edu/play/). These rare, fragile, little-documented metamorphic books, combining aspects of books, prints, and…
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Undergraduate Digital Scholarship: CLASS as a Model for Digital Humanities Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
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Janet Thomas Simons, Gregory Lord and Kerri Grimaldi (Hamilton College) Culture, Liberal Arts, and Society Scholars (CLASS) is an undergraduate research internship program in the digital humanities awarded to students through Hamilton College’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi). CLASS is based on three-broad areas of scholarly inquiry and their intersection with digital technologies: 1) Culture, 2)…
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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…
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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…
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Long-Distance Dedication: Consortial Collaboration at Scale
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Jacob Heil (The Five Colleges of Ohio) In the libraries of the Five Colleges of Ohio, a project-centered Mellon grant has given the consortium an opportunity to encourage the development of faculty-led, digital, pedagogical projects. Building on an initiative that was focused on digital collections, this latest grant is more focused on tying digital methodologies…
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Imagining the Global: Digital Field Scholarship on Global Themes in the Northwest Five Consortium
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Jim Proctor (Lewis & Clark College) Though liberal arts colleges are often viewed as an escape from the world, Northwest Five Consortium (NW5C) students routinely engage in local, regional, and international field sites, and our institutions pride themselves on how these experiences help cultivate global leaders. Yet the global is a challenging realm, arguably not…
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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…
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Teaching Presence on the Rise: Engaging Undergraduate Students in Online Courses
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Kim Lacey and James Bowers (Saginaw Valley State) Online learning has grown dramatically over the past few years and has become an increasing part of most higher education institutions’ overall strategy. However, due to the assumed lack of interaction and low engagement within online learning environments, hesitation over the quality of digital content delivery is…