We are excited to share that the Studio’s Digital Humanities Research & Instruction Librarian Nikki White will present with a panel including, UI Libraries’ Wendy Robertson, Roxanne Shiraz from CUNY’s Graduate Center, and Laura Morreale at this year’s DLF Forum! The group “will present examples of current efforts to improve description and discovery of DHContinue reading “The Studio’s Nikki White to Present at DLF”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio partners with faculty to map race-restrictive covenants in Greater St. Louis
Earlier this year, our Geographic Information Specialist, Jay Bowen, worked with Colin Gordon at the Department of History to visualize his extensive research on racially restrictive covenants impacting residential parcels throughout Greater St. Louis in a new interactive map. With this map, users can explore parcel-by-parcel the historical proliferation of these covenant restrictions from 1870Continue reading “Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio partners with faculty to map race-restrictive covenants in Greater St. Louis”
Introducing the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio’s 2023 Summer Fellows
The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 11 graduate students have been selected for the 2023 Studio Summer Fellowship program. These individuals will soon take part in an 8-week course that provides mentored digital scholarship experience, as well as training in skillsContinue reading “Introducing the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio’s 2023 Summer Fellows”
Behind the scenes: On facing failure and preparing for a new beginning
My digital capstone experience has been a learning experience in the best possible way. That is to say that, while I didn’t accomplish nearly as much as I had hoped to get done, I did learn a great deal which will make my digital humanities work more effective and efficient in the future. Cleaning theContinue reading “Behind the scenes: On facing failure and preparing for a new beginning”
Migration Mapping Journey: Engaging with digital tools and progressing
For my QGis mapping project, I mapped the migration patterns of the Chewa and Chikunda ethnic groups to Zimbabwe between 1900-1970. The primary objective of my capstone project was to develop a map that helps illustrate and visualize the argument I make in my dissertation. The map was the best suitable visual mode because itContinue reading “Migration Mapping Journey: Engaging with digital tools and progressing”
Reflecting on digital publishing accessibility and academic publishing
My digital certificate journey is coming to an end. As I continue to work on my dissertation, I will continue to think about the skills I have learned working with the digital studio team. When I started my project, my goals were: 1. learn to scrape data from posts and comment sections from two mainContinue reading “Reflecting on digital publishing accessibility and academic publishing”
Embracing flexibility in my capstone Project
Working on my digital capstone project has been a lesson not only in creating digital exhibits, but in flexibility. During the summer of 2022 I thought that I had developed the perfect plan for a digital capstone. I wanted to do a theatre archiving project using the works of Iowa-born playwright Susan Glaspell. My initialContinue reading “Embracing flexibility in my capstone Project”
Words of Art: Archiving North Liberty Library Artists
Adding my graduate studies to my already packed schedule was not a decision I came to lightly. In addition to my studies at the University’s School of Library Information and Sciences (SLIS), I’m also employed full-time as a Public Services Librarian. These past two years, fast as they seem in retrospect, was a journey intoContinue reading “Words of Art: Archiving North Liberty Library Artists”
Mapping Connections in the Zambezi Basin, Southern Africa
I am a History Ph.D. student writing a dissertation that analyzes a migrant community in the Mazoe district of Zimbabwe in Africa. The Capstone project I am working on is a flow map that will become a part of my dissertation. Integral to the dissertation thesis I am developing are discussions of relationships between theContinue reading “Mapping Connections in the Zambezi Basin, Southern Africa “
Tales From Oil Country
As a historian, I sometimes struggle to portray different historical eras as they were experienced by the people who lived in them. Historical analyses reflect the historians’ modern biases, and there has been a conscious effort by the field to provide agency to the sources we study. This project is part of an effort toContinue reading “Tales From Oil Country”