On February 12 and 14, 2021, thousands of people will celebrate Douglass Day. The event marks the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass by inviting members of the public to join an online crowdsourcing project. It’s a way to celebrate Black History Month with a digital twist! This year’s project focuses on the papers of Mary […]
Practical Geographic Information Systems (GIS): A Workshop Series Instructor: Zachary Silvia Date & Time: February 20, 2021; March 6, 2021; March 20, 2021; April 3, 2021; 12:00 – 2:30 pm Location: Zoom This workshop is the first in a series of four sessions aimed towards promoting the use of Geographic Imaging Systems (GIS) in the […]
Join us next week on Tuesday, Feb 2nd & Wed, Feb 3rd for our annual Tri-Co Hackathon! Please register here by Sunday, Jan 31st if you’d like to attend. About the TriCo Hackathon THE EVENT The Tri-Co Hackathon aims to bring teams of students from Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr together in collaborative learning through […]
One of the main components of the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows Program (DSSF) that drew me to apply was the archival research that I would be able to do. The past semester I had taken an introductory Museum Studies course where I worked in the archives to create an exhibition proposal. My group and I […]
Peyton Moriarty (’21), Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow This summer’s DSSF project, ‘24 ‘31 Students Study Race, rolls together education, funding, collaboration, and the highlighting of important events in Bryn Mawr’s past which are intensely relevant to the institution today. In pursuit of that past, our group conducted extensive research. Due to the pandemic situation, our research […]
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Instructor: Andrea Samz-Pustol Date & Time: Thursday, February 13th at 4:30pm Location: Canaday Computing Lab (Room 315) Description: Are you about to turn in a paper or presentation and your images need some editing? This workshop will teach basic skills such as cropping, color alteration, adding text, removal of text or […]
The Digital Scholarship Graduate Showcase Join the Digital Scholarship Graduate Fellows on February 17th for updates on the digital tools and resources they have learned and obtained this past year. Each presenter will briefly discuss the skills they have gained, relevant to their interests. Please join us on the 17th from 4:00-6:00 pm in […]
Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistants, Spring 2019 Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistantship is a paid internship that allows Bryn Mawr graduate students to develop digital competencies and build skill in tools relevant to their research. The Spring 2019 cohort explored topics ranging from web development and git to physical computing and computer vision. Jenni Glaser (Classics) I […]
Today, Del and I used the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express (pictured below) and making it little things to go on it online, on a website by Microsoft. Picture of the Adafruit Circuit Playground Express from Adafruit’s website We decided to make an adaptation of the Siren project using an editor similar to Scratch from MIT. […]
During the month of February, I and my fellow Digital Scholarship Research Assistants (DSRAs), Courtney Dalton and Linda Zhu, began to work on the 3D model of Dalton Hall for the History of Women in Science Project. Courtney and I worked at Special Collections over winter break researching accounts about both Dalton and science education […]