Projects
0Tokkan Kozo
Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
0Mediate
Joel Burges, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
0Sekuru’s Stories
Sekuru’s Stories is a public digital humanities project featuring the renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba. Bringing Sekuru Chigamba’s oral narratives, or nhoroondo, together with musical transcriptions,
0LSF-ASL Website and App
Guillame Chastel, Senior Lecturer, American Sign Language (ASL) Langue des Signes Française (LSF) Program
0Viewing the Temple of Jupiter
Elizabeth Colantoni, Associate Professor of Classics, Department of Religion and Classics
0Classical Mechanics
Douglas Cline, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
0Hunt-Lenox Globe in 3D
Gregory Heyworth, Associate Professor of English and Textual Science, Director, Lazarus Project
0The Ward Project
Bob Minckley, Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology
0Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History
River Campus Libraries and the Out Alliance
0Reenvisioning Japan
Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture (REJ) is an online critical archive of tourism, travel, and educational ephemera that documents changing images of Japan and its
0Sibley Watson Digital Archive
When family documents are scattered in multiple repositories over many decades, it becomes a scholarly challenge to assess the scope of materials available and to create critical narratives which are complete and
0In The Field
In The Field brings networking among social scientists into the 21st century. Our goal is to create and maintain an interactive website that will enable political scientists – and, ultimately, all social
0Once Upon a Plaque in China
Created by students in the course “HIS142: Traditional China”, students created digital plaques (imagine an engraved “Golden Plaque” like the Pioneer Plaque that was launched into space by NASA in 1972), and
0Virtual St. George’s
Virtual St. George’s will combine the historical precision of a community study across twelve generations (1612-1900) with 3D renderings of the townscape at various key years (1620, 1660, 1700, 1775, 1812, 1865)
0Seward Family Digital Archive
The Seward Family Digital Archive draws on manuscripts, letters, and other materials housed in the William Henry Seward Papers, the largest and most frequently cited manuscript collection in Rare Books, Special Collections,
Services
Digital Scholar
“Digital Scholar” is a hosted web platform powered by Reclaim Hosting that facilitates quick and easy deployment of digital scholarship projects. Applications available include WordPress, Scalar, Omeka, mediawiki, and Drupal, to name a few.
Lab Notes
Teaching Writing with Comic Books
Multimodal composition is core to the first-year writing curriculum at the University of Rochester. Alongside term papers, students create short movies, interactive websites, comic strips, and more. Comic Life (comiclife.com) is a
DigITaL: Digital Ideas for Teaching & Learning
DigITaL is an interactive and educational portal where instructors can share and access reviews, tutorials, and other materials related to bringing new technologies into the classroom, for use in their own teaching.
0Presenting on Mediate at ACH
ACH and Mediate The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) Conference took place at the Marriott City Center in Pittsburgh, PA, July 32-26, 2019. While this conference might seem out of
0Imaging Ancient Roman Tablets
Supporting Research In the fall of 2018, I was part of a small research team, comprised of Classics Professor Nicholas Gresens, undergrads Elise Lia, ’20, and Shaim Mahir, ’21, that traveled to
0Digital Pedagogy Workshop 2019
Thoughtful Pedagogy, Innovative Projects The digital pedagogy workshop series began in August 2018 as a means to cultivate a learning community around digital pedagogy among the University of Rochester faculty and staff
0Tokkan Kozo
Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
0Library Consortium Receives Grant to Support Data and Digital Literacy
Ninety percent of the world’s data is only two years old, and the tools, methods, and platforms to explore and use it are continually evolving. The overwhelming pace at which information and
0Dynamic Maps Using CSV, Google Earth, KML and ArcGIS Online
In Fall 2018, Professor Molly Ball’s History 252: Immigration in the Americas students developed original research based on archival and primary sources to explore how Rochester’s own immigrant history can not only
0Digitizing on a Big Scale: the NAMES Project’s AIDS Memorial Quilt
At the occasion of the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation collaborated with the Digital Scholarship Lab to create a new digital reproduction of the University of
0Visualizing Sea Levels- GIS Class Exercise
The Digital Scholarship Lab collaborated with professor Carmala Garzione (Earth and Environmental Sciences) to create an exercise for her sedimentology course to examine sea level change’s impact on geologic formation. The goals