We invite students of all majors to apply for a paid, full-time summer fellowship for work on a public-facing digital scholarship project related to the history of women in science at Bryn Mawr. Fellows will have the opportunity to work with IT professionals, librarians, archivists, and digital scholarship staff to develop skills in: Assessing and applying […]
On the morning of January 3rd, I made the short train ride from Downingtown to Bryn Mawr to begin my “Winternship” with Bryn Mawr’s Digital Scholarship department. Starting last semester, I, along with three other Digital Scholarship Research Assistants, began working on the History of Women in Science project, headed by postdoctoral fellow Jessica Linker. […]
Do you work with spatial data like maps and architectural plans, or geographical data from an archaeological project? Does your research involve networks, such as social connections between artistic communities or trade networks spanning the ancient world? Are you interested in analyzing text corpora, in English or another language? Do you have unruly data in […]
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.
The Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows program is an opportunity for Bryn Mawr undergraduates to learn digital scholarship methods and gain professional experience by applying their newfound skills to a collaborative local project. In 2017, four undergraduates designed and carried out a data visualization project related to the contents of the College Women portal. You can […]
As our fellowship is coming to an end, I would like to fill everyone in on how these last couple of weeks were spent in the Digital Media & Collaboration Lab. Taking a step back, I have come to realize how much I have grown as a person, as an academic, and as a learner. […]
We are now more than halfway through our fellowship and I couldn’t be happier to share some updates with everyone! This week has been filled with challenges and achievements that have further strengthened our DSSF cohort. Following a week of self-directed work over the 4th of July holiday, this week we kicked things off by […]
If you haven’t noticed from the title, a lot has been going on. While some of our projects this week were frustrating, they were all rewarding and exciting. The first item that we set out to complete on Monday was to add the finishing touches to our portfolio website, as well as the formidable task of […]
Words cannot begin to express my excitement today! Despite some technical difficulties while working on our portfolio websites, this has been an amazing week! We began with a quick refresher of HTML and CSS using a few tutorials hosted by the one and only CodeAcademy. After this the real work lay ahead. On Monday afternoon we had the […]
Claudia Zavala (’20) will be blogging about her experiences as a member of the 2017 Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship cohort. Our first week is coming to a close and I couldn’t be happier to fill everyone in on what has been going on in the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellowship (DSSF). Walking into the Digital Media […]