Sekuru’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, 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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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, …