Digital Scholarship Achievements from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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The Digital Scholarship Program has moved to a brand new department in LITS called Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management, led by Alicia Peaker. The Digital Scholarship Program will continue to grow and evolve as part of this new team with the added benefit of being more closely associated with the new Critical Making program and Makerspace (currently under construction) and with Bryn Mawr's digital collections and archives.
Classics student Stella Fritzell traveled to Las Vegas in October for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2018 forum. She joined students and staff of various institutions on a panel considering fair compensation of visible and invisible student labor in Digital Scholarship work. Stella spoke specifically about her experience as a member of Bryn Mawr’s Graduate Student Community of Learning, as well as her time spent developing the Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows program, a summer fellowship for undergraduate students that recently completed its second year.
Jessica Linker (CLIR Humanities and Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow) received a Digital Bryn Mawr seed grant to attend the week-long course “Teaching History of the Book” at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia in August 2018. Jessica Linker also presented on the panel “Seeing Clearly in Three Dimensions in 3D Technologies and Libraries” at the Digital Library Federation in October 2018. Dr. Linker has also successfully secured a Mellon grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to support a 3D/VR symposium to be held at Carnegie Mellon University in June 2019.
Jessica Linker and Digital Scholarship Undergraduate Research Assistants Elia Anagnostou, Tanjuma Haque, Courtney Dalton, and Linda Zhu presented on “The Making of the History of Women in Science Project: A Student-Centered Approach to 3D Technology and Digital Scholarship,” at the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference in October 2018. Their presentation highlighted their work building interactive, 3D models of the places where women practiced science at Bryn Mawr in the late nineteenth-century. Jessica Linker was also invited to lecture on “Women in the Virtual Laboratory: 3D Tech for Historical Inquiry” at Wellesley College in November 2018. As part of a multi-day visit, Dr. Linker and the Digital Scholarship Undergraduate Research Assistants led multiple workshops and attended courses related to 3D digital scholarship projects and productions.
Alicia Peaker (Director of Digital Scholarship, Critical Making, and Digital Collections Management) presented on a panel discussing a Pennsylvania Consortium for the Liberal Arts grant-funded project “Sustainable Digital Scholarship Summer Programs through Consortial Collaboration” at the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference in October 2018. Alicia Peaker was also invited to speak on “Fostering Digital Scholarship at Bryn Mawr College,” as part of the National Institute Standards Organization (NISO) virtual conference on “Technology’s Impact on Scholarly Research Processes in the Library” in October 2018.
Alicia Peaker and Beth Seltzer (Academic Technology Specialist) were invited to Hunter College’s Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching (ACERT) to speak about their work on A Domain of One’s Own, which offers all Bryn Mawr community members the opportunity to have their own web space (domain) to create website or host web applications, including digital scholarship projects.
Graduate Students are eligible and encouraged to apply for Digital Bryn Mawr seed grants (https://www.brynmawr.edu/lits/digital-bryn-mawr-seed-grants) to support digital teaching, learning, or research activities—broadly construed. The next deadline for proposals is February 15, 2019. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact Alicia Peaker or Jenny Spohrer who can consult on funding priorities and give feedback on proposal drafts.
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