The University of Iowa Graduate College and the UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio are excited to announce that 14 graduate students have been selected for the 2019 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 Summer 2019 Studio Fellows”
Category Archives: Digital Scholarship & Publishing
I Am _____: Digital Humanities Meets Digital Photography
As I mentioned in my first post, my DH capstone project is a little different than most. In a few months, I will run a weeklong summer camp, in partnership with the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IWYP). Participants—all of whom will be young women—will talk about body image, explore the function of photography as anContinue reading “I Am _____: Digital Humanities Meets Digital Photography”
Revising in a Digital Space
Two semesters ago, I had the opportunity to co-teach a course in the College of Education with my advisor and another graduate student. This course, Approaches to Teaching Writing, is designed to give foundation and practical knowledge and praxis to students who might be teaching writing in their future. Most of our students were aimingContinue reading “Revising in a Digital Space”
Saving Susiana Project
The project I am presently pursuing revolves around the ancient site of Susa, Modern Sush, also known as Suse, Shush, and Susiana. The site, has been excavated sporadically since 1897 by French Archaeologists under the Ministry of Culture, the latest occurring in 2010. Susa has largely been left out of the Near-Eastern literature, even thoughContinue reading “Saving Susiana Project”
Public Engagement with a Digital Twist
My PDH certificate capstone project isn’t like most. I’m not building an interactive map or an archive, and I’m not learning R (thank goodness). Rather, I’m using WordPress as a tool to increase audience and add permanence to what would otherwise be a small, ephemeral project. Here’s the rundown: In July 2019, I will runContinue reading “Public Engagement with a Digital Twist”
The Ethics of Open Access Digital Archives
After familiarizing myself with Mukurtu CMS throughout my Studio fellowship this summer, it became increasingly necessary to address issues of open access, organizational principles, and ethics in building a digital archive for the Transgender Oral History Project of Iowa (TOPI). To learn more about the project, please read my original blog post about my summerContinue reading “The Ethics of Open Access Digital Archives”
Dance For Screens: It’s Alive!
As a concept, making Dance For Screens seemed completely doable: make some choreography, capture it on film, edit that footage into a series of short screendances and then implement those screendances on a couple of cell phones for an interactive installation. Simple, right? Not quite. Each aspect of this project came loaded with a itsContinue reading “Dance For Screens: It’s Alive!”
Building a Digital Archive
As a summer fellow in the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, I have focused on building the structure of a digital archive for the Transgender Oral History Project of Iowa (TOPI). The mission of TOPI is to recognize, collect, preserve, and celebrate the lives and stories of transgender and gender non-conforming people within the UniversityContinue reading “Building a Digital Archive”
It’s Unfinished: Certainty and the Digital Exhibition
For me, grad school, and especially the process of dissertating, has involved not knowing what I’m doing a lot of the time. I don’t think that experience is atypical, but this fellowship semester has been a period when I felt like I knew what I was doing—I was making a website about a Boston periodicalContinue reading “It’s Unfinished: Certainty and the Digital Exhibition”
Looking back, looking ahead
The past few weeks at the Studio have been a unique learning experience as I now have more familiarity and better working proficiency with Audacity and WordPress—tools that I am using in my project. Since I am building a multimedia archive of the stories of South Asians residing in the Middle East, I have conductedContinue reading “Looking back, looking ahead”