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, recordings, photographs, and maps, the project presents Zimbabwean musical and cultural heritage in an interactive format. Sekuru’s Stories has been made possible with the …
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Mediate
Joel Burges, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
Tokkan Kozo
Joanne Bernardi, Professor of Japanese and Film and Media Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Architectural Biometrics
Architectural Biometrics is an interdisciplinary project at the University of Rochester. In this project, we use LIDAR scanning along with computer vision and image processing technologies to address humanistic concerns in architectural history. The Architectural Biometrics project aims to develop a computational tool that allows researchers to compare incredibly detailed 3D scans of buildings constructed …
Bragdon Train Station
Our project uses the digital environment to re-create both the structure and the experience of a building that no longer exists: the primary railroad station in Rochester, N.Y. between 1914 and 1963. The station’s architect — Claude Fayette Bragdon — was notable both for his designs and for his theoretical writings on space. Our project …
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 software program designed to create everything from single-panel cartoons to comic strips to full-length graphic novels. It is relatively easy to use; usually …
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. Each case study will carry a Creative Commons license which allows for the open exchange of ideas and materials to be reused, remixed, …
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Digital 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 in an environment where faculty, librarians, and Digital Scholarship Lab specialists could work together to inspire new collaborations. Over the course of two …
Joe Easterly, Digital Humanities Librarian
Joe Easterly is Digital Humanities Librarian at the Digital Scholarship Lab.
Public Art & Omeka
This past spring, Kim Hoffman & I were invited by the Memorial Art Gallery to lead a workshop on teaching with Omeka in high schools. In the months leading up to this workshop we racked our brains to come up with a sample collection of materials to use for the workshop. Ultimately we decided to …
Data Dictionary Generator
Aimed at the TEI editing community and intended to be run inside the XML Editor, the DDG generates profiles of every element and attribute appearing in a TEI file. Each entry includes a definition from the TEI Guidelines, a local, project-specific definition (if provided), and a brief snapshot of how the element or attribute is …
Sibley 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 accurate. A potential solution to this problem is to design a scalable, extensible, standards-based framework for publishing family papers and related photographic material …
Once 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 digitally-retouched Chinese-style traditional paintings, where students used Photoshop to insert themselves into the paintings. Scholar: Elya Jun Zhang Course: HIS142 Traditional China Website: http://zhang.digitalscholar.rochester.edu/china/
Izul Zulkarnain, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow
Iskandar (Izul) Zulkarnain was a Mellon/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Visual Studies at the University of Rochester. He completed his dissertation on Indonesian digital nationalism in 2015, with the support of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies also at the University …
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Some Collaborations
Humanities Lab- ENG 283 Media ABC Spring 2009 This class had a separate lab section where students used digital tools to explore new modes of humanities scholarship. Curriculum included the introduction to markup languages (xml, html and kml), website publishing, and photo editing for the web. Digital tools used included ftp, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, …