Events
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Black History Month Crowdsourcing event
Join us on Tuesday, February 26th from noon to 2 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Studio for a Black History Month Crowdsourcing event. Bring your lunch and a laptop (limited chromebooks will be available) and help contribute to efforts to make archives celebrating black history more publicly available. Participants may choose among projects hosted by the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, and other sites to transcribe manuscript collections or help create and edit Wikipedia entries to increase awareness of important women in black history as part of the Women in Red campaign. No previous skill required. Snacks provided. Please contact Mary Mahoney with any questions at Mary.Mahoney@trincoll.edu Sample Projects: Projects from…
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“Expanding Access, Activism, and Advocacy” at the Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference
By Jeff Liszka and Mary Mahoney This year’s Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference (#BUDSC18) brought together interested parties to discuss current research and practice guided by the theme “Expanding Access, Activism, and Advocacy.” Faculty, researchers, librarians, artists, educational technologists, students, and administrators gathered to share ideas about access inspired by the expansive definition provided by conference organizers: “accessible formats and technologies, access through universal design for learning, access to a mode of expression, access to stories that might not otherwise be heard or that might be lost over time, access to understanding and knowledge once considered beyond reach.“ The resulting presentations, talks, and project demonstrations reflected this theme, highlighting work that…
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WITT Symposium Wednesday, December 12
On Wednesday, December 12th Educational Technology & Research Services will host a Winter Institute on Teaching with Technology, a half-day event with sessions on teaching with film, annotating online with Hypothes.is, using PollEverywhere, OneSearch, and more. At lunch, Roopika Risam (Salem State) will give a talk on “Torn Apart/Separados,” a rapid-response project that highlights the potential of digital humanities methods for anticolonial social justice work. This event will take place from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in LITC 181. For more information, please contact Amy Harrell. Preliminary program 9:00 Welcome remarks 9:05 Using Poll Everywhere (Cheryl Cape, Luke Phelan, presenters). See a demonstration of this audience polling tool you can use in the…
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Brook Danielle Lillehaugen on Digital Scholarship & Collaboration with Stake-Holding Communities
We’re very pleased to announce that Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, assistant professor of linguistics at Haverford College, will give a presentation at Trinity College (Hartford) on Monday, October 1, 2018 at 4.30 in LITC 181. Her talk is entitled “Digital scholarship and collaboration with stake-holding communities: Ticha, a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec,” and will be followed by a small reception. Her lecture is free and open to the public. Lillehaugen specializes in Zapotec languages in both modern and historical forms, and is particularly interested (for this talk) in how the digital humanities and social media might be used (or not) in documenting, language revitalizing, and collaborating with stake-holding speech communities. The…
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Some Resources on Course Packs & Copyright
On June 27 at noon, Information Services had an initial conversation about course packs. Here are some resources that were mentioned during that conversation: Stanford’s Copyright & Fair Use site, in particular the page on academic coursepacks SensusAccess (file converter for accessibility): http://commons.trincoll.edu/trinedtech/sensusaccess/ Hypothes.is (web annotation tool): https://web.hypothes.is (You can see hypothes.is in action in our summer reading group) Photo of some course packs lying around Jason’s office by . . . well, by Jason.