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Progress Update: The Data Visualization Community of Learning

  The D3.js community of learning is meeting weekly this semester on Zoom at Wednesdays from 12-1:30pm. If you are interested in receiving updates (whether or not you can attend meetings) and weekly reminders about our meetings, please sign up here. First, you might be wondering what a community of learning is, or how a […]

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Representing Digital Histories and Overcoming My Fear of Computer Science

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 […]

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Tangential Stories; Avoiding (some of) the Rabbit Holes of Research

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 […]

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Spring 2020 Digital Scholarship Workshops

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 […]

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Digital Scholarship Graduate Showcase

  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 […]

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Reflections on Digital Scholarship

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 […]

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Apply to be a Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow (2019)

About the DSSF program The Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows program is a paid, full-time summer internship opportunity for Bryn Mawr students to learn digital research and publication methods and gain professional experience by collaborating on a public-facing digital scholarship project. Over the course of ten weeks, fellows explore key issues and methods in digital scholarship, […]

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Adafruit Circuit Playground Express

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. […]

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Transforming the Historical into Digital

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 […]

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Turning Data into Discoveries: Using R in a Humanities Dissertation

By Rachel Starry When I first started working on my dissertation project, all I really knew was that I wanted to explore cities. Roman architecture has a lasting presence in the landscapes of places as far removed from each other as Scotland and Libya, and along with the growth of trade and communication networks under […]