Projects - Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio - The University of Iowa Libraries

Migration is Beautiful

Through life stories, interconnecting themes, and maps, visitors explore the contributions of Latina/os to Iowa’s economic, social, and cultural history, beginning with the settlement of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Iowa over a hundred years ago and extending to Puerto Rican Americans and Central Americans.

<p>This site exists to document and share the results of Professor Robert Bork’s ongoing inquiry into the geometry of art and architecture, which has deep roots.</p>

Geometries of Creation

This site exists to document and share the results of Professor Robert Bork’s ongoing inquiry into the geometry of art and architecture, which has deep roots.

<p>Medellín is best known for its worst times, when Pablo Escobar terrorized honest people, recruited children for his narcotrafficking, and upended a proud, hardworking social order. The transformation of Medellín since his death in 1993 has made Medellín a very different place. This project by Dept. of Spanish Prof. Kristine Munoz takes the form of a ride on the world-class Metro, the envy of Latin America, and shows some of Medellín’s triumphs today.</p>

Medellin After Escobar

Medellín is best known for its worst times, when Pablo Escobar terrorized honest people, recruited children for his narcotrafficking, and upended a proud, hardworking social order. The transformation of Medellín since his death in 1993 has made Medellín a very different place. This project by Dept. of Spanish Prof. Kristine Munoz takes the form of a ride on the world-class Metro, the envy of Latin America, and shows some of Medellín’s triumphs today.

Placing Segregation

Placing Segregation explores housing segregation and socioeconomic disparities across select nineteenth century American cities through interactive maps and interpretations. This digital edition puts historical census records into an interactive map application, allowing audiences to conduct all kinds of exploratory work such as searching records by name, filtering by occupational groups, or just clicking on points to read about various individuals.

Creative Alternatives

Creative Alternatives examines artists in East and West Berlin experimenting with action art (including performance, installation, and art “actions” in public space) in the decades surrounding German unification in 1989/90.

<p>Dividing the City documents the scope, timing, and geography of private racial restrictions on property in St. Louis and St. Louis County. Such restrictions were a key mechanism of racial segregation in the first half of the twentieth century. After the Supreme Court struck down explicitly racial zoning in 1917 (Buchanan v. Warley), local realtors, developers, and homeowners turned to the race-restrictive deed covenant as the next-best strategy.</p>

Dividing the City: Race-Restrictive Covenants in St. Louis and St. Louis County

Dividing the City documents the scope, timing, and geography of private racial restrictions on property in St. Louis and St. Louis County. Such restrictions were a key mechanism of racial segregation in the first half of the twentieth century. After the Supreme Court struck down explicitly racial zoning in 1917 (Buchanan v. Warley), local realtors, developers, and homeowners turned to the race-restrictive deed covenant as the next-best strategy.

<p>Professor Julie Hochstrasser resituates Dutch art and nurtures new ways of thinking about art and visual culture from the seventeenth century to today.</p>

Dutch in the World

Professor Julie Hochstrasser resituates Dutch art and nurtures new ways of thinking about art and visual culture from the seventeenth century to today.

<p>A science fiction video game that engages users in decision-making about allocations of responsibility for a stranded crew. Derived from Asha Bhandary’s care-based liberalism developed in Freedom to Care, and developed in collaboration with UI philosophy graduate students, the game can be used for educational purposes to prompt discussions about the role of care in systems of social cooperation. While they are navigating space dust and time-warp technology, users should also consider how gender and race shape our intuitions about who should act as a caregiver, who expects that their needs will be met, and how these assumptions influence the domain of freedom.</p>

Surviving the Indifferents

A science fiction video game that engages users in decision-making about allocations of responsibility for a stranded crew. Derived from Asha Bhandary’s care-based liberalism developed in Freedom to Care, and developed in collaboration with UI philosophy graduate students, the game can be used for educational purposes to prompt discussions about the role of care in systems of social cooperation. While they are navigating space dust and time-warp technology, users should also consider how gender and race shape our intuitions about who should act as a caregiver, who expects that their needs will be met, and how these assumptions influence the domain of freedom.

Uptight & Laid-back

Uptight & Laid-back: Iowa City in the 1960s, is an ongoing collaborative project developed by University Archivist David McCartney and the Studio. Curated topics pages and an interactive map map invite the public to explore an array of material associated with the campus and the community during this dynamic and turbulent decade.

Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project

The Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project charts the history of Iowa’s Carnegie libraries by creating a digital library of images and other documentary and statistical information. CLIP represents a partnership among students, staff, and faculty at The University of Iowa’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa’s library practitioners and members of Iowa communities. As materials are collected and made available in a database record for each community, it will be possible to more completely study and understand the history of Iowa’s Carnegie libraries in the context of their evolving communities.

<p>Mabbott Poe is an online resource based on the papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1898-1968), life-long numismatist; professor of English Literature; expert on the works of Milton, Whitman, and others; and, perhaps most famously, editor of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.</p>

Mabbott Poe Papers

Mabbott Poe is an online resource based on the papers of Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1898-1968), life-long numismatist; professor of English Literature; expert on the works of Milton, Whitman, and others; and, perhaps most famously, editor of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

<p>This project aims to catalogue the book and almanac illustrations of German painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg, linking available digital versions to a descriptive bibliography.</p>

J.H. Ramberg as Illustrator of Books and Almanacs | Johann Heinrich Ramberg als Almanach- und Buchillustrator

This project aims to catalogue the book and almanac illustrations of German painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg, linking available digital versions to a descriptive bibliography.

<p>&MIX is an initiative of the University of Iowa Libraries to encourage the creative reuse of public domain materials in the Iowa Digital Library by students and the general public.</p>

&Mix

&MIX is an initiative of the University of Iowa Libraries to encourage the creative reuse of public domain materials in the Iowa Digital Library by students and the general public.

Equity at Iowa

The Equity at Iowa project is a collaboration between Judith Pascoe (UI English Professor) and Wendy Robertson (University of Iowa Digital Scholarship Librarian), who are working with Nikki White (Digital Humanities Research and Instruction Librarian) and Ethan DeGross (Researcher/Developer) to explore the open data found in the Iowa State Employee Salary Book. In honor of Women’s History Month, each business day of March 2016, we will be pairing a digital photo from the Iowa Women’s Archive or University Archives with a bar chart or graph that makes visible gender differences in professional status and salary allocation, as well as patterns of change across time.

Death and Life at Bolores and the Sizandro Valley, Portugal

Death and Life at Bolores and the Sizandro Valley, Portugal showcases the archaeological research carried out by Professor Katina Lillios, University of Iowa students, and collaborators at the third millennium BCE burial at Bolores (Torres Vedras, Portugal) and investigations in the Sizandro Valley.

Iowa Labor History Oral Project

Iowa Labor History Oral Project(ILHOP) is one of the largest and longest-running, labor-focused oral history projects in the US.

<p>In the 1960s and early 1970s in Lower Manhattan, a tight-knit community of theatrical performers, playwrights, poets, musicians, video-makers, visual artists, activists, and gender rebels began smashing the status quo of American culture. This project takes a kaleidoscopic tour of the deeply interconnected alternative worlds and personalities that flourished in the city during this period.</p>

Downtown Pop Underground

In the 1960s and early 1970s in Lower Manhattan, a tight-knit community of theatrical performers, playwrights, poets, musicians, video-makers, visual artists, activists, and gender rebels began smashing the status quo of American culture. This project takes a kaleidoscopic tour of the deeply interconnected alternative worlds and personalities that flourished in the city during this period.

<p>This interactive version of Ludwig Wittegnstein’s philosophical work is built around a subway-style map with the aim of making it easier to navigate the sequences of statements laid out in the book. This is the first Tractatus website to provide a map of the book’s overall structure, and the only one that provides parallel access to the earlier versions of the text in the Prototractatus.</p>

Tractatus

This interactive version of Ludwig Wittegnstein’s philosophical work is built around a subway-style map with the aim of making it easier to navigate the sequences of statements laid out in the book. This is the first Tractatus website to provide a map of the book’s overall structure, and the only one that provides parallel access to the earlier versions of the text in the Prototractatus.

Examining News Media Literacy

Examining News Media Literacy explores the rise and development of news media literacy through an experimental social-news aggregation environment.

Program Era Project

The Program Era Project documents the aesthetic and cultural influence of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop by employing data visualization software to track connections between Workshop-affiliated writers and follow their migration into prominent positions at other creative writing programs.

Codex Conquest

Codex Conquest teaches students to recognize the most important printed books of Western civilization by their nation, century, genre, and current monetary value. Along the way, students learn world history and the scenarios that influence the shape of collections at institutions.

International Writing Program Map

The International Writing Program’s interactive map visualizes nearly 50 years of writerly participation on a global scale.

Atlas of Early Printing

The Atlas of Early Printing provides an interactive tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century.

Shell Oil's Deepwater Mission to Mars

Associate Professor Tyler Priest presents his new project Shell Oil’s Deepwater Mission to Mars. This ongoing live project features an extensive list of primary source material, audio, visual, a timeline, and interactive map showcasing oil and gas infrastructure. It also serves as a repository for oral histories and personal recollections.

Mapping Decline

Interactive maps help tell the story of Professor Colin Gordon’s Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. Four interactive series of maps, each touching on a major theme developed in the book, also include a selection of documents, linked from the maps or the accompanying text boxes.

Remappings

Remappings: Christians and Jews in Early England enables users to explore Jewish-Christian interaction in England during the middle ages and renaissance. Interactive maps are central to this project, which combines the accuracy of GIS technology with the rich aesthetics of early cartography

Women of Ancient History

An interactive, crowdsourced map, WOAH raises the visibility of women working in various fields associated with ancient history.

<p>A site exhbiting digitized medieval manuscripts, transcriptions, translations, and critical materials generated by Spanish Paleography workshop attendees.</p>

Meet the Manuscript

A site exhbiting digitized medieval manuscripts, transcriptions, translations, and critical materials generated by Spanish Paleography workshop attendees.

Fluxus Digital Collection

The Fluxus Digital Collection is an online archive that gathers an eclectic range of artworks by one of the most important movements of the twentieth century.

Shakeosphere

Shakeosphere allows users to visualize, map, and explore social networks in Shakespeare’s England and beyond, from 1473-1800. Our goal is to make it easy and intuitive to see and search the ways that books, letters, and other documents connected readers, writers, printers, publishers, and booksellers around the globe.

<p>This digital collection features folk tales of the Madurese people, the third largest ethnic population in Indonesia. Collected by Professor William Davies of The University of Iowa’s Department of Linguistics, these videos of native storytellers performing traditional and historical narratives are accompanied by four different kinds of written texts: the original Madurese, English and Indonesian translations, and an interlinear format which includes morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, the common format for linguistic analysis.</p>

Madurese Storytellers

This digital collection features folk tales of the Madurese people, the third largest ethnic population in Indonesia. Collected by Professor William Davies of The University of Iowa’s Department of Linguistics, these videos of native storytellers performing traditional and historical narratives are accompanied by four different kinds of written texts: the original Madurese, English and Indonesian translations, and an interlinear format which includes morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, the common format for linguistic analysis.

History Corps

History Corps is a graduate student-led, online digital and oral history project based out of the Department of History at the University of Iowa.

<p>This digital archive encompasses the oral histories from coffee pickers, farmers, hacendados (owners of vast farming land), women and teens from the mountainous western area of Puerto Rico known as the coffee zone. This archive is the first to record and preserve the coffee zone’s dialect and oral histories. The collection also include the ways in which women in the coffee industry have handled the micro-changes in their community, and how these changes have played a role in the preservation, and sometimes annihilation, of the coffee zone’s dialect.</p>

Coffee Zone

This digital archive encompasses the oral histories from coffee pickers, farmers, hacendados (owners of vast farming land), women and teens from the mountainous western area of Puerto Rico known as the coffee zone. This archive is the first to record and preserve the coffee zone’s dialect and oral histories. The collection also include the ways in which women in the coffee industry have handled the micro-changes in their community, and how these changes have played a role in the preservation, and sometimes annihilation, of the coffee zone’s dialect.

<p>This site traces the use of race restrictive deed covenants in Iowa in the first half of the twentieth century. Use the menu above to explore race restrictions in Johnson County and Black Hawk County, including maps of all the restricted parcels and subdivisions; copies of the restrictive agreements and covenants; and further background information on patterns of racial restriction in each setting.</p>

Mapping Segregation in Iowa

This site traces the use of race restrictive deed covenants in Iowa in the first half of the twentieth century. Use the menu above to explore race restrictions in Johnson County and Black Hawk County, including maps of all the restricted parcels and subdivisions; copies of the restrictive agreements and covenants; and further background information on patterns of racial restriction in each setting.

Scholarship@Iowa

Scholarship@Iowa showcases scholarship and scholarly resources related to diversity at The University of Iowa. It is our hope that students and faculty interested in diversity and the research in and around these historical underrepresented groups will explore our archives and find themselves and their Scholarship@Iowa.

Iowa History Connections

Iowa History Connections provides an online starting point for Iowa educators, students, and interested members of the public to access digital materials that explore the history of Iowa in word, image, and audio. IHC aims to further cultivate an appreciation for our rich Iowa history and to facilitate its inclusion across the social studies curriculum.

Oakdale Community Choir Site

Professor Mary Cohen’s Oakdale Community Choir site documents the activities of the choir which provides choral singing experiences for men (inside singers) in the general population of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center (Oakdale Prison) who are not restricted to their units and for women and men (outside singers) in the community who have an interest in learning more about issues in the prison system locally and across the state and nation.

The Books That Made Shakespeare

The Books that Made Shakespeare is a digital exhibition that allows you to learn about and explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays were printed and published, bought and sold, and collected and catalogued. This exhibit explores the books that made Shakespeare: the books he read and used, the books that preserved his works, and the books that shaped his reputation and reshaped his textual afterlives.

Invisible Hawkeyes

Invisible Hawkeyes chronicles black students who attended the University of Iowa. Helping these individuals’ stories to emerge more fully, this website reflects the experiences that defined African American presence at a white, public Midwestern university.

Under the Banner of Waverley

“Under the Banner of Waverley” maps where and when American towns named Waverly were founded, explores why the Waverley novels fascinated nineteenth-century readers, and illustrates how Walter Scott’s legacy continues today.

<p>This project brings together interviews from people living in immigrant and mixed-status communities throughout the rural heartland of the United States, and art from young artists to provide a fuller picture of enduring and traumatic impacts of large-scale immigration worksite raids in rural America.</p>

ICE in the Heartland: Community Impacts of Worksite Immigration Raids

This project brings together interviews from people living in immigrant and mixed-status communities throughout the rural heartland of the United States, and art from young artists to provide a fuller picture of enduring and traumatic impacts of large-scale immigration worksite raids in rural America.

Pull of Horses

Drawing upon a rich archive of visual materials, Professor Kim Marra’s Pull of Horses focuses on the effect of equine contact with human female bodies, which in particular, aroused concern, as mostly white upper- and middle-class women took up riding en masse in highly visible venues around New York City.

Paper Through Time

Professor and MacArthur Fellow, Tim Barrett explores the history, composition, craft, and conservation of paper through time.

<p>This online archive was developed to support German Iowa and the Global Midwest, a series of linked events exploring Iowa’s multicultural history through the largest group of European origin to settle in the state.</p>

Germans in Iowa

This online archive was developed to support German Iowa and the Global Midwest, a series of linked events exploring Iowa’s multicultural history through the largest group of European origin to settle in the state.

<p>This project highlights British choral composition from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It features profiles on contemporary British choral composers and a searchable database of their compositions and use of texts, with the aim of supporting education, assisting with repertoire selection when considering concert programs, and providing resources for research.</p>

UK Choral Composers

This project highlights British choral composition from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It features profiles on contemporary British choral composers and a searchable database of their compositions and use of texts, with the aim of supporting education, assisting with repertoire selection when considering concert programs, and providing resources for research.

LitCity

LitCity guides you on a tour of the highlights of Iowa City’s rich literary history.

<p>Amīr Najm al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253–c.1336) is hailed as one of the greatest Indian poets in the history of Persian literature. This project makes accessible a comprehensive documentation of archival and ethnographic sources which illuminate the biography and legacy of the poet as well as the reception history of his literary oeuvre.</p>

The Life and Works of Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253–c.1336)

Amīr Najm al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253–c.1336) is hailed as one of the greatest Indian poets in the history of Persian literature. This project makes accessible a comprehensive documentation of archival and ethnographic sources which illuminate the biography and legacy of the poet as well as the reception history of his literary oeuvre.

Hard Won, Not Done: A Salute to Iowa Women Politicians

This site is a celebration of Iowa women in politics. It will be regularly updated with new content.

<p>The UI Libraries’ participatory archives platform brings thousands of primary source documents to the public for crowdsourced interactivity. We’re appealing to the public to help us work with these documents by attaching text in the form of transcriptions, tags, and comments. By engaging volunteers to contribute effort toward large-scale goals, these mass quantities of digitized artifacts become searchable, allowing researchers to quickly seek out specific information, and general users to browse and enjoy the materials more easily.</p>

DIY History

The UI Libraries’ participatory archives platform brings thousands of primary source documents to the public for crowdsourced interactivity. We’re appealing to the public to help us work with these documents by attaching text in the form of transcriptions, tags, and comments. By engaging volunteers to contribute effort toward large-scale goals, these mass quantities of digitized artifacts become searchable, allowing researchers to quickly seek out specific information, and general users to browse and enjoy the materials more easily.

Explorer's Legacy

Explorer’s Legacy looks at the history and impact of Explorer I and UI professor James Van Allen’s role in the space race.

Women in Sport

Women in Sport is a research effort to digitize, interpret, and make available the sporting stories of Iowan girls and women.