Welcome
Welcome to the first issue of the Bryn Mawr Digital Scholarship newsletter. Much has happened since the Digital Scholarship Program began last fall, and we’re excited to share news of past and upcoming opportunities and events with you. We expect this newsletter to be released one to two times per semester and once in the summer. We hope you find them useful, but if you’d prefer not to receive further newsletters, you may unsubscribe below.
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About
The newly established Digital Scholarship Program facilitates collaborations among Bryn Mawr community members engaged in scholarly digital work. We provide consultations, workshops, and communities of learning for those interested or already engaged in research that takes advantage of digital methods such as digital publishing, digital exhibits & archives, GIS & mapping, data visualization, network analysis, textual analysis, and more.
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11/15: LITS Digital Bryn Mawr Call for Proposals for Seed Grants
We invite Bryn Mawr faculty, staff, and graduate students to apply for seed grants to support digital teaching, learning, or research activities—broadly construed. Digital Bryn Mawr seed grants are intended to advance engagement with digital technologies, regardless of an individual’s prior experience or expertise. We welcome proposals from absolute beginners, seasoned experts, and everyone in between. Each year, we are able to support a number of small proposals for professional development, projects costing less than $5,000 or requiring a modest amount of staff time, or projects that are still in initial phases of design and development. We are also able to support a smaller number of large projects that have moved beyond the conceptualization and initiation phases and that require more time and/or financial support.
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History of Women in Science
Over the next two years, Digital Scholarship & Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica Linker will be leading an exciting collaborative project about the history of women in science. For the pilot phase (2017-18), we are working with four undergraduate Digital Scholarship Research Assistants to reconstruct Dalton Hall’s original laboratory space in 3D and fill it with interactive content. The project will contextualize reconstructed 3D spaces and archival objects with original research and pedagogical exercises from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Users will be able to access scholarly writing and teaching resources by navigating through the spaces where women worked and engaging with the instruments and materials they used.
We are currently seeking faculty and graduate student collaborators to produce research and pedagogical content around various charismatic 3D artifacts. If you are interested in gaining professional experience in digital scholarship, or believe work on this project could be incorporated into your teaching, please contact Jessica Linker ( jlinker@brynmawr.edu). |
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Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows
This summer, Mimi Benkoussa (’19, Computer Science), Madeline Perry (’19, Psychology), Nathália Santos (’18, Economics & Political Science), and Claudia Zavala (’20, Growth and Structure of Cities) became the first cohort of the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows Program. The program, led by Alicia Peaker (Digital Scholarship Specialist) and Stella Fritzell (Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistant, Classics), offers opportunities for Bryn Mawr students to learn digital scholarship methods and gain professional experience by applying their newfound skills to a local project. Over the course of eight weeks, the fellows worked together to design, plan, and implement a digital scholarship data visualization project based on the College Women portal. They have since presented their work in several venues including at the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference. See the project in action, learn more about the Digital Scholarship Summer Program, or read DSRA Claudia Zavala's weekly blog about her experience in the program.
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Welcome to New Faculty!
LITS & Digital Scholarship welcomed new faculty to the college in August. Incoming faculty from various departments were introduced to the variety of resources and programming we provide through the Digital Scholarship Program and through LITS. This was also the first public announcement of the History of Women in Science project to the Bryn Mawr Community. We enjoyed speaking with faculty about plans to integrate digital scholarship into teaching, or to craft new digital projects. If you're a continuing faculty member, or didn't get a chance to speak with us at the new faculty orientation, we invite you to schedule a consultation to discuss your digital scholarship interests and needs.
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Grad Group Project & Presentation
Last spring, Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistants Elena Gittleman (History of Art), Stella Fritzell (Classics), Nathanael Roesch (History of Art), Rachel Starry (Archaeology), and Andrew Tharler (Archaeology) designed, created, and launched an interactive map of Carpenter Library’s carrels. As many patrons may know, students are able to check out books to their carrels for easy reference while ensuring that these books remain accessible to other patrons. The Carpenter Carrel Project allows users to explore a snapshot of the number and range of books housed at each carrel. Rachel and Andrew, presenting on their methods and findings at a Graduate Community of Learning session earlier this year, shared two unexpected findings of the project: the graduate students were more interdisciplinary and read more widely than they had postulated, and the carrels belonging to students taking exams were clearly identifiable based on the volume and concentration of subjects of the books checked out. Learn more about the project and explore the map. |
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R Community of Learning
Rachel Starry, a graduate student in Archaeology, has been leading the R Community of Learning, held on Wednesdays and Fridays, 1:30 to 2:30pm, this semester. R is an open source programming language designed for statistical computing. However, it has broad applications for a number of disciplines. Workshops are open to interested individuals (faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates) regardless of one’s background in programming, or focus of study. Topics from this semester include web scraping, organizing data, generating plots, and various demos of R’s ever-growing package library. In conjunction with the workshops, Rachel maintains a robust Zotero library of resources and activities. |
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Alicia Peaker (Ph.D., Northeastern University) came to Bryn Mawr in 2016 as the Digital Scholarship Specialist. Over the past year, she has been helping to build the Bryn Mawr digital scholarship community through a number of new programs and events for faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students. At the same time, she has been collaborating with colleagues in LITS to build the technical infrastructure needed to support robust digital scholarship projects.
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This year, we’re joined by Digital Scholarship & Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Jessica Linker who comes to us from University of Connecticut where she recently completed a PhD in History. Her research examines women’s modes of scientific practice in early America. Over the next two years, she will be leading a collaborative digital scholarship project around the material histories of women in science at Bryn Mawr.
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Alicia and Jessica collaborate with colleagues across LITS, with expertise in a wide range of fields, to further digital scholarship at the College.
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R Community of Learning
Nov 10, 2017
1:30-2:30 P.M.
DMCL (Carp)
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Building Digital Exhibitions
Nov 10, 2017
3-4 P.M.
DMCL (Carp)
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Coffee & Research Slam
Dec 1, 2017
3-4 P.M.
DMCL (Carp)
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