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<\/a><\/div>UI Libraries, history professor launch interactive public digital humanities website<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 13 May 2026 <\/small>A collaborative digital humanities project supported by the University of Iowa Libraries has launched. A Just and True Return (JTR) is led by Cory Young, assistant professor in the UI Department of History.\u00a0 Developed with technical support from the Libraries\u2019 Digital Scholarship and Publishing […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>Iowa, Maryland law schools launch Genetic Privacy Map<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 24 Jul 2025 <\/small>The University of Iowa Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio is excited to announce the launch of Genetic Privacy in the U.S.: Insurance and Law Enforcement Use, a collaborative digital project developed with the University of Iowa College of Law and the University of Maryland […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>In collaboration with the Iowa Women\u2019s Archive, Our Rightful Place is now open to explore<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 10 Apr 2025 <\/small>We are pleased to announce the launch of Our Rightful Place in collaboration with the University of Iowa Libraries\u00a0Iowa Women\u2019s Archives. This digital collection of oral history interviews, data visualizations, archival stories, and more celebrates the history of women in Iowa politics. This […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio launches Health Story Hub, NEH-awarded digital project collaboration<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 12 Aug 2024 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>UI Libraries Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio builds first-ever digital and searchable map of Principia Mathematica through multi-institutional, NEH-awarded grant<\/a><\/span>by Donna Brooks<\/a> on 10 Jun 2024 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>The Literary Heritage of Cornell College: Creating Digital Resources to Support Our Community<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 6 May 2024 <\/small>By Miranda Donnellan Archives are not infallible.\u00a0 As a librarian, this is a fact of life. But as a digital humanist, I am empowered to solve this problem.\u00a0 For my Public Digital Humanities Certificate capstone, under the guidance of Cornell College\u2019s Professor Kirilka Stavreva, I created a […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>The Literary Heritage of Cornell College: Using Digital Resources to Preserve the Past by Miranda Donnellan<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 7 Mar 2024 <\/small>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\u2019s most significant force: time. As a […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>The Studio\u2019s Senior Developer selected to receive 2023 Benton Award<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 23 Jan 2024 <\/small>The Studio\u2019s Senior Developer Matthew Butler has been selected to receive the Arthur Benton University Librarian\u2019s 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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>Women scientists in pre-WWII Tokyo: Lessons learned<\/a><\/span>by Lisa Nakahara<\/a> on 8 Dec 2023 <\/small>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\u2019s scientific journey has centered on the contributions of male scientists and male-only […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>Shedding a Light on Women in Science<\/a><\/span>by Lisa Nakahara<\/a> on 9 Oct 2023 <\/small>Not many people today can name women scientists other than Marie Curie. You may have watched Oppenheimer over the summer \u2013 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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>The Studio\u2019s Nikki White to Present at DLF<\/a><\/span>by Connor Hood<\/a> on 29 Aug 2023 <\/small>We are excited to share that the Studio\u2019s Digital Humanities Research & Instruction Librarian Nikki White will present with a panel including, UI Libraries\u2019 Wendy Robertson, Roxanne Shiraz from CUNY\u2019s Graduate Center, and Laura Morreale at this year\u2019s DLF Forum! The group \u201cwill […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio partners with faculty to map race-restrictive covenants in Greater St. Louis<\/a><\/span>by Jay Bowen<\/a> on 21 Jun 2023 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>Behind the scenes: On facing failure and preparing for a new beginning<\/a><\/span>by PJ Zaborowski<\/a> on 16 May 2023 <\/small>My digital capstone experience has been a learning experience in the best possible way. That is to say that, while I didn\u2019t 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. […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>Migration Mapping Journey: Engaging with digital tools and progressing<\/a><\/span>by Ruva<\/a> on 16 May 2023 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>Reflecting on digital publishing accessibility and academic publishing<\/a><\/span>by mliu65<\/a> on 16 May 2023 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>Embracing flexibility in my capstone Project<\/a><\/span>by jennbeall<\/a> on 4 May 2023 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
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<\/a><\/div>Words of Art: Archiving North Liberty Library Artists<\/a><\/span>by kmdaniel<\/a> on 20 Apr 2023 <\/small>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\u2019s School of Library Information and Sciences (SLIS), I\u2019m also employed full-time as a Public Services Librarian. These past two years, fast as they seem in […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>Mapping Connections in the Zambezi Basin, Southern Africa\u00a0<\/a><\/span>by Ruva<\/a> on 11 Apr 2023 <\/small>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 […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>
<\/a><\/div>Tales From Oil Country<\/a><\/span>by capennington<\/a> on 30 Mar 2023 <\/small>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\u2019 modern biases, and there has been a conscious effort by the field to provide agency to the sources we study.\u00a0\u00a0 This […]<\/p><\/div><\/li>