Projects – Digital Scholarship @ Bryn Mawr College

The digital scholarship program supports Bryn Mawr community members in pursuing and publishing public-facing digital scholarship research. Many of these projects are supported through Digital Bryn Mawr Project Grants and represent collaborative work between faculty, students, and staff. Here’s a selection of current and recent projects we have supported:

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Paul Thomas Annotated: In the Margins

Paul Thomas Annotated: In the Margins is a work-in-progress to create an open-access resource devoted to the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. Our project involves annotating, scene by scene, screenshots from each of his ten narrative films to date. Screenshots have IIIF capabilities, metadata and annotation in a customized static site.

Modeling a Divided Berlin: Parallel Lives in a Multilingual City

This project is an ongoing collaboration between Digital Scholarship, the Makerspace, led by faculty in the German Department and the Russian Department. Phase one, a trilingual map experience that showcases the history of a divided Berlin. Phase two includes a set of tactile 3D models of neighborhoods in Berlin that will be used in language classes.

100 Thousand Billion Bryn Mawrs

Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s 1961 project, 100 Thousand Billion Poems, this project uses creative constraints to generate 100 Thousand Billion possible undergraduate curricula for Bryn Mawr College. Using a Flask app, google forms, and crowd-sourced answers, the site selects random elements to build a curriculum.

Germantown YWCA: A Social History of a Building

A collaboration between the Cities department, Praxis, the Friends for the Restoration of the Germantown YWCA, and the 2024 Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows, this is a community-sourced archive featuring collections, stories, and visualizations of the Germantown YWCA building and organization.

Encyclopedia of the Dog: An Annotated Edition of Sasha Sokolov’s Between Dog and Wolf