- UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio launches Health Story Hub, NEH-awarded digital project collaborationby Connor Hood on 12 Aug 2024
The University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio (DSPS) has launched a unique digital resource for educators, students, and community members. Health Story Hub is an open access website that offers a searchable database of stories about health, illness, and healing for […]
- UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio builds first-ever digital and searchable map of Principia Mathematica through multi-institutional, NEH-awarded grantby Donna Brooks on 10 Jun 2024
With a $281,104 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), researchers at the University of Iowa and Western Kentucky University collaborated to build the first-ever digital map and data table for all three volumes and 1,992 pages of Principia […]
- The Literary Heritage of Cornell College: Creating Digital Resources to Support Our Communityby Connor Hood on 6 May 2024
By Miranda Donnellan Archives are not infallible. As a librarian, this is a fact of life. But as a digital humanist, I am empowered to solve this problem. For my Public Digital Humanities Certificate capstone, under the guidance of Cornell College’s Professor Kirilka Stavreva, I created a […]
- The Literary Heritage of Cornell College: Using Digital Resources to Preserve the Past by Miranda Donnellanby Connor Hood on 7 Mar 2024
Archives are not infallible. Paper disintegrates, photos acidify, and even metal rusts and ages. Every librarian and archivist knows that preservation relies on prevention far more than restoration, but there is only so much control you can exert over nature’s most significant force: time. As a […]
- The Studio’s Senior Developer selected to receive 2023 Benton Awardby Connor Hood on 23 Jan 2024
The Studio’s Senior Developer Matthew Butler has been selected to receive the Arthur Benton University Librarian’s Award for Excellence. Butler has contributed significantly to the continued success and excellence of the Studio and the UI Libraries during his several years of service. Read more […]
- Women scientists in pre-WWII Tokyo: Lessons learnedby Lisa Nakahara on 8 Dec 2023
My capstone project for the Public Digital Humanities certificate focused on creating an interactive map of women scientists and academic institutions in pre-WWII Tokyo. The dominant narrative of modern Japan’s scientific journey has centered on the contributions of male scientists and male-only […]
- Shedding a Light on Women in Scienceby Lisa Nakahara on 9 Oct 2023
Not many people today can name women scientists other than Marie Curie. You may have watched Oppenheimer over the summer – do you remember the name of a woman scientist who joined him in Los Alamos? Sadly, chemist Lilli Hornig is far less known compared to the male scientists in the film such as […]
- The Studio’s Nikki White to Present at DLFby Connor Hood on 29 Aug 2023
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 […]
- Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio partners with faculty to map race-restrictive covenants in Greater St. Louisby Jay Bowen on 21 Jun 2023
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 […]
- Behind the scenes: On facing failure and preparing for a new beginningby PJ Zaborowski on 16 May 2023
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. […]
- Migration Mapping Journey: Engaging with digital tools and progressingby Ruva on 16 May 2023
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 […]
- Reflecting on digital publishing accessibility and academic publishingby mliu65 on 16 May 2023
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 […]
- Embracing flexibility in my capstone Projectby jennbeall on 4 May 2023
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 […]
- Words of Art: Archiving North Liberty Library Artistsby kmdaniel on 20 Apr 2023
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 […]
- Mapping Connections in the Zambezi Basin, Southern Africa by Ruva on 11 Apr 2023
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 […]
- Tales From Oil Countryby capennington on 30 Mar 2023
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 […]
- Mining for Medieval Messengersby PJ Zaborowski on 27 Mar 2023
My dissertation, “Messengers and Messages in Middle English Literature,” examines the under-explored role of messengers in fourteenth-century English romances, where they often prove to be crucial elements of the plot or interesting stand-ins for an authorial function. During my capstone […]
- Public Digital Humanities Capstone Post #1by mliu65 on 27 Mar 2023
I am in my last semester of coursework and currently working on my prospectus, which allows me more time to think about how my dissertation will take shape. In this project, I am developing codes to scrap data on two Chinese websites, Weibo (a social media platform) and Bilibili (a video-sharing […]
- The Studio is Collaborating on a Number of Project Grantsby Connor Hood on 8 Feb 2023
Over the next few years the Studio will offer its assistance and expertise from staff on the following digital projects. We look forward to working with these scholars on making their research more digital and accessible! “Principia Mathematica: A Critical Edition” Landon D.C. Elkind National […]
- Developing a Community Engaged, Digital Scholarship Practiceby lkcarpenter on 6 Dec 2022
At the beginning of the capstone, I wrestled with several queries. I felt lost and unsure about moving ahead with my project, Hobo Archive. I struggled with realigning the project’s relationship with its audiences. I used the majority of my capstone experience to communicate with my co-creators […]
- Pause, Reflect, and Reset: How Can We Best Support Digital Scholarship?by lkcarpenter on 30 Sep 2022
During the National Hobo Convention last month in Britt, IA, I spent three long days spreading the word about the digital archival project that leaders of the hoboing and I have worked on for nearly a year now. This project is called Hobo Archive. Many folks were not familiar with the work we are […]
- Digitally Reconstructing Ancient Architectural Spaces: Lessons Learnedby myataung on 13 May 2022
Earlier in the semester, I had been thinking about the challenges of incorporating sensory research into 3D modeling with a goal in mind to complete a 3D digital model of an artificial cave in a Roman villa, one of my case studies for my dissertation. Throughout the semester, I had a different set […]
- Dr. King’s visit to Waterloo, Iowa and Iowa City, Iowaby fmenezes on 7 Apr 2022
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King visited Iowa on three separate occasions, in 1959, 1962, and in 1967. The first visit in 1959 had been to Waterloo, Iowa, and then to Iowa City, Iowa. Waterloo residents have kept Dr. King’s visit alive in their memory compared to the general amnesia of […]
- Digitally Reconstructing Ancient Architectural Spaces: Challenges and Goalsby myataung on 7 Mar 2022
My project for the PDH certificate capstone involves a 3D digital reconstruction of art, architecture, and hydraulic amenities in the manmade dining cave at the villa owned by Roman Emperor Hadrian, using AutoCAD and 3Ds Max. This 3D model makes up one of the four case studies in my dissertation, […]
- Searching for Connection: Do LibGuides matter outside of libraries?by Heather Cooper on 18 Dec 2021
My capstone project for the Public Digital Humanities certificate focused on creating a digital subject guide, or LibGuide, that describes material in the Iowa Women’s Archives (IWA) related to histories of sexual harassment, intimate partner violence, and other sexual and gender-based violence. […]
- PDH Capstone: Braiding the Threadsby Nicholas Stroup on 14 Dec 2021
At the start of the capstone semester, I found myself following three disparate threads related to digital scholarship. The first was about determining when a digital project was complete. The second was about how digital work related to seeking external support. The third was about how to […]
- Meditating on Manuscript Mappingby pgmillr on 14 Dec 2021
As my time with the Digital Studio capstone project draws to a close, I can’t help but reflect on two major elements of my project this semester: how much I have managed to complete, and the challenges I’ve had working through the term. My goal for this semester was to improve upon and expand […]
- Semester Reflectionby Elizabeth Zak on 12 Dec 2021
I appreciated the opportunity to work on the Digital Humanities Capstone this semester. I chose to study vaccine misinformation visualizations throughout history. I have always been interested in misinformation visualizations, or images that convey mis- or disinformation. I chose to analyze […]
- Historicizing #MeTooby Heather Cooper on 20 Oct 2021
My Capstone project for the Public Digital Humanities certificate combines my background and interests in history, archives, and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies. As a historian and a gender scholar who thought about women’s sexual vulnerability in both my research and the courses I […]
- Understanding the Anti-Vaccination Movement through Imagery (Part 1)by Elizabeth Zak on 14 Oct 2021
My project focuses on anti-vaccination content in both textual and visual form. However, I have chosen to examine this content through visualization so that I may build a timeline detailing the evolution. I will similarly specifically explore how the internet has been used to accelerate and even […]
- PDH Capstone: Following the Threadsby Nicholas Stroup on 14 Oct 2021
When I began my wonderful entanglement with The Studio in 2018, I did not know what would result. I wanted to learn new digital methods, theorize about digital work in contemporary higher education, and become a bit more sophisticated when it came to doing work that would reach out beyond academic […]
- Returning to the Studio: A Timely Remixby atboge on 14 Oct 2021
It feels great to be “back.” In the summer of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had the privilege to serve as a Summer Fellow in the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio. The experience was unprecedented. Not only was it fully remote, but the fellowship represented my first […]
- Climbing a Ladder to Map a Book Cultureby pgmillr on 14 Oct 2021
One of my favorite devotional icons is known as the Ladder of Virtue. In Orthodox Churches, the image of devotees striving to climb a ladder as saintly onlookers cheer them on from clouds high above and demons attempt to pull them down with pitchforks has long appealed to me as an metaphor for […]
- Certificate Capstoneby borlnd on 5 May 2021
As I prepared to start my Public Digital Humanities capstone project, I began to reflect on the work I had done throughout the certificate and saw an opportunity to bring my work full circle. When I started the certificate, I learned technical skills not taught in my history coursework and began to […]
- Close Reading Distant Reading (and Vice Versa)by andrking on 23 Jul 2020
Andrew David King Public Digital Humanities Capstone student, Summer 2020 My Public Digital Humanities Certificate capstone project focuses on one prong of a two-pronged, ongoing endeavor in self-education pertaining to the application of DH methods in textual and literary criticism. My academic […]
- A SLIS Capstone Experience Part II: The Final Steps of “The Mysterious Film Print-Block Collection” from Galena, IL by Traci Brunsby Connor Hood on 29 May 2020
During the Spring 2020 semester, I researched and examined types of gender bias that could have been used in advertisements to promote and sell tickets Classic Hollywood films from the 1940’s to the 1950’s. For this research, I focused on a collection of film print blocks from Galena, IL, that […]
- The Interdisciplinary Avenues of Adjusting to the Circumstancesby Connor Hood on 21 May 2020
At the end of my Capstone experience and the certificate program I’m looking back at two semesters where I got to experience what it means to be engaged in the Digital Humanities, and even – with the second half of the spring semester being affected by the necessary Covid19 arrangements – […]
- Doing Digital Work From My One-Bedroom Apartmentby ajloup on 14 May 2020
The second half of the semester has been difficult for a million different reasons. Many of us are relegated to small apartments or bedrooms, some of us have roommates, and many of us are far from our loved ones, which makes this transition to working from home even tougher. My mother, sister, and […]
- Reflections on My Capstone Project Amid a Pandemicby tnguyen38 on 9 Apr 2020
For my Digital Humanities Capstone Project in the spring semester 2020, I’m investigating the topic of loneliness in cities. In particular, I’m interested in the question: “How friendly is a city for a lonely person?“ As loneliness spiked in urban areas in the past decade, experts and the […]
- Digital Diaries: Perfecting the Map and Professionalizing the Websiteby ajloup on 9 Apr 2020
I first came to the Studio in the summer of 2019. I had taken one graduate seminar where I got to create some of my own digital projects, and I wanted to learn more. After getting to craft my very own mapping project over the summer, I ended up taking two more courses that hadContinue reading […]
- Welcome to a SLIS Capstone Experience: A Mysterious Collection: Film Print-Block from Galena, Illby bru on 12 Mar 2020
Welcome to a SLIS Capstone Experience: Mysterious Collection: Film Print-Block from Galena, Ill Coming into this project, I was faced with a significant challenge: I did not have a large data-set or previous research coming into my Capstone experience. I knew however that I wanted to work on a […]
- DIY History Reaches 100K Pages Transcribed!by Connor Hood on 3 Mar 2020
DIY History began as an online experiment in Spring 2011 with the Civil War Diaries and Letters Transcription Project, and quickly became a trove of local, national, and international artifacts made available and searchable online. As we celebrate 100,000 pages transcribed, let’s look back on […]
- Introducing the Studio’s New GIS Specialist: Jay Bowenby Connor Hood on 11 Dec 2019
We are excited to announce that Jay Bowen will be joining the team in the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio as our new Geographic Information System Specialist on January 21st. Jay comes to us from his most recent role as a Senior Analyst with Quantum Spatial, Inc. in Lexington, […]
- Points on a Mapby mbgill on 9 Dec 2019
The end of another semester means another update to my map! This semester I focused closely on the first 30 locations in the text, ten from each category of location I determined, visited locations (gray), mentioned in poetry (blue), and mentioned in prose (yellow) . This covers chapters 1-9 for […]
- Reflections on the Digital Humanities Capstone Symposiumby dedinboro on 9 Dec 2019
Yesterday, I attended the Public Digital Humanities (DH) Capstone Symposium. The symposium represented the final step towards completing the Public Digital Humanities certificate. At the event, my colleagues discussed the digital projects they had worked on during the semester, as part of the […]
- About my Digital Humanities Capstone Project …by dedinboro on 9 Dec 2019
My research broadly examines Black women who traveled abroad for their education motives, either teaching, researching, or studying, during the 20th century. With the Digital Humanities (DH) Capstone Project, I wanted to utilize digital tools to explore, present, and interpret my research. My […]
- Eurasian Manuscripts – Keogh Fall 2019 DH Capstoneby keogh on 28 Oct 2019
For my DH Capstone semester, I am working on the usability and clarity for a website about manuscripts. It started here and now looks like this. The site is an outlet for materials discussed in the 2016 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, “Cultural and Textual Exchanges: The Manuscript Across Pre-Modern […]
- Back at it aGenjiby mbgill on 28 Oct 2019
Hello again! I’m continuing my work from the summer fellowship this semester as I work on my PDH Capstone with the Studio. This semester I am primarily focused on fleshing out the first thirty locations for my map. I’m still following my previously established large headings (visited in text, […]
- The Holy Land continuedby ascardina on 24 Oct 2019
This semester I’m entering a new phase of my Digital Humanities scholarship. My project is simultaneously the capstone to my Public Digital Humanities Certificate and the very first project for my Informatics Certificate, in the form of the final project for my Geographic Databases class. It […]
- Saving Susiana Capstone-Updateby Rachael Maxon on 6 May 2019
With the semester coming to a close, my Saving Susiana digital project is off to a great start. While I began the semester with grand idealism, practical constraints relating both to my associated qualifying paper and issues of audience of the project forced me time and time again to shift gears […]
- Digital tools for responding to writing: A Reviewby goldbe on 2 May 2019
Google Docs and Microsoft Office365 offer a variety of tools and features for collaborative writing and revision. However, my experience with them has felt lacking. I’ve found they fall short of the goal of inviting robust conversation around a piece of writing, where multiple reviewers can […]
- I Am _____: Digital Humanities Meets Digital Photographyby vascott on 29 Apr 2019
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 […]
- Revising in a Digital Spaceby goldbe on 3 Apr 2019
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 […]
- Saving Susiana Projectby Rachael Maxon on 11 Mar 2019
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 […]
- Public Engagement with a Digital Twistby vascott on 28 Feb 2019
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 […]
- Walt Whitman Archive Awarded NHPRC Grant!by Connor Hood on 18 Jun 2018
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has awarded a grant of $105,002 to the University of Iowa to support the Walt Whitman Archive’s project, “Fame and Infamy: Walt Whitman’s Correspondence, 1888-1892.” The correspondence project aims to collect, transcribe, […]
- LitCity is Live!by Connor Hood on 4 Apr 2018
For nearly a century, promising writers, many of whom have gone on to be well-known for their work around the world, have called Iowa City their home at some point in their life. It should come as no surprise that in 2008, this beacon for the written word was designated as a City of […]
- Fanzines, the Roots of SF, and the Dual Enrollment Classroomby Tom Keegan on 21 Feb 2018
The Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio proudly shares this guest blog post from Russell Aaronson of Coral Springs High School, Coral Springs, Florida, detailing his and his students use of the Hevelin Fanzine Collection in DIY History. * * * Clicking through The University of Iowa’s […]
- Saving Endangered Data: What Can Digital Humanists and Libraries Do?by Sarah Bond on 25 Apr 2017
In a blog post last week, I addressed Endangered Data Week and the history of political parties hiding, removing, or altogether abolishing public access to government documents. However, my post wasn’t alone in trying to shed light on this serious issue. In schools, universities, libraries, […]
- Neural Network Poetryby Matthew Butler on 14 Apr 2017
As you may know, April is national poetry month, an annual series of events by the Academy of American Poets to help support the appreciation of American poetry. If you’re looking for great book-length collections of poems, you might be interested in the Iowa Poetry Prize winners. Many of the […]