{"id":784,"date":"2014-12-09T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T11:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/?p=784"},"modified":"2014-12-12T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T19:00:40","slug":"recent-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/2014\/12\/09\/recent-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Digital Projects at Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a02013-2017 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation for\u00a0faculty-driven digital projects is part of the longer-term flowering of digital projects at Dickinson, all of which involve students as scholars collaborating with faculty in some way. The History department has been particularly active in this realm since the 1980s (Dickinson Chronicles, House Divided, Dickinson History Project), and there are substantial projects in the Classical Studies department (Dickinson College Commentaries), the language departments (The Mixxer), and in the Sociology department and the College Archives (Carlisle Indian Industrial School Project). Here are some\u00a0new and ongoing digital projects at Dickinson that the Digital Humanities Advisory Committee has been pleased to be able to support in recent months, thanks to the Mellon grant:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mark Aldrich (Spanish and Portuguese): creating a digital edition of the 1984 work <em>Andanzas de un mensajero fiero y pendenciero<\/em> by poet and artist Rafael P\u00e9rez Estrada.<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Belk (Mellon DH Postdoc): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpmags.org\/\">The\u00a0Pulp Magazines\u00a0Project<\/a>, a\u00a0full-text, searchable archive and database of\u00a0British and American Fiction Magazines from the early twentieth century.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Francese (Classical Studies): a digital version of T.D. Goodell\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dcc.dickinson.edu\/goodell\/English-Index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>School Grammar of Attic Greek<\/em><\/a>; database of <a href=\"http:\/\/dcc.dickinson.edu\/aeneid-vocabulary-list\" target=\"_blank\">Vergilian vocabulary<\/a>; multimedia edition of Vergil\u2019s <em>Aeneid<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Jim Gerencser (Archives), Susan Rose (Sociology), Malinda Triller Doran (Library): <a href=\"http:\/\/carlisleindian.dickinson.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center<\/a>: digitizing materials held at the U.S. National Archives; programming in Drupal to implement the various types of user interactivity.<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Sider Jost (English): <a href=\"http:\/\/dh.dickinson.edu\/18cpc\/\">Eighteenth-Century Poets Connect<\/a>, a Drupal database of patronage, authorship, and publication data from early 18th-century English\u00a0literature (1710-1730)<\/li>\n<li>Nicoletta Marini-Maio (Italian): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gendersexualityitaly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">gender\/sexuality\/italy<\/a> (g\/s\/i), an\u00a0online annual, peer-reviewed academic journal.<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Moten (History): <a href=\"http:\/\/dh.dickinson.edu\/vbm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visualizing Black Milwaukee<\/a>, a platform\u00a0to visualize (GIS mapping) the spatial dimensions of African American life in Milwaukee during the 1950s and 1960s.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Pinsker (History): <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">House Divided<\/a>: E-Book publication series; Videotaped panels \/ special exhibit for the \u201cUnderstanding Lincoln\u201d online course; video tour, virtual trip to President Lincoln\u2019s Cottage at the Soldiers\u2019 Home in Washington DC; multimedia edition of Lincoln\u2019s writings.<\/li>\n<li>Blake Wilson (Music): database of poetry incipits, poet, poetic forms, language, composer, music sources, literary sources, and bibliography and notes related to singing and song culture in Renaissance Florence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/2014\/05\/15\/mellon-grant-report-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a> lists activities related to the grant over its first year. Thanks to all the faculty who are doing this exciting work, and to the Mellon Foundation for fostering it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a02013-2017 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation for\u00a0faculty-driven digital projects is part of the longer-term flowering of digital projects at Dickinson, all of which involve students as scholars collaborating with faculty in some way. The History department has been particularly active in this realm since the 1980s (Dickinson Chronicles, House Divided, Dickinson History Project), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/digitalhumanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}