After a few years’ hiatus, we are delighted to announce that the third Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference (CTDH) will take place on February 21-22, 2025 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. The conference will also mark a return to the in-person format after a virtual version in 2021. We seek participation from a broad range…
Category: Digital Scholarship
Profiles in Open: Di Luo
Di Luo, Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies, in collaboration with her students across several courses, first published Asian Art and Architecture: An Open Educational Resource in 2021. The image database continues to grow with each iteration of Luo’s courses. The database consists primarily of thematic mini-exhibitions authored by students in Luo’s…
Douglass Day 2024 Recap
Thank you to our community for contributing to the Douglass Day project! Over 90 faculty, staff, and students showed up to transcribe Frederick Douglass’ correspondence. Together, with other participating organizations around the world, we transcribed over 6,500 full documents! You can read about the event on the Connecticut College website. The “Yours Truly, Frederick Douglass” transcription…
Douglass Day 2024 Transcribe-a-thon
Connecticut College is hosting the annual Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon; together we will help the Douglass Day organizers transcribe all 8,731 pages of the Frederick Douglass Papers, 1841 to 1912 in one day! Come, bring a laptop, and contribute to a nation-wide celebration of Frederick Douglass by making the Frederick Douglass Papers accessible to students and…
Announcing CT Digital Scholarship Exchange Workshops
The Connecticut Digital Scholarship Exchange is a collaborative program hosted by Connecticut College and Trinity College. Designed to create opportunities for faculty to learn about digital scholarship, both institutions host workshops, tours, and other events to introduce interested faculty to different digital scholarship approaches and discuss core competencies in project management and sustainability. Fall Workshop…
Scholarship Support Services for Summer
Are you researching, writing, or creating this summer? Information Services’ Scholarship Support Services details the many ways we can assist you in achieving your scholarship goals. Whether you are working with novel methodologies and techniques, collaborating in new ways with colleagues and students, managing data requirements for grants, Information Services can partner with you to…
Last Night’s Faculty Showcase
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources. We heard about scholarly and creative work that lie outside the traditional journal and monograph publishing venues, innovative pedagogies that empower students to create and openly share information, and how technology can foster equity among students. Digital Scholarship …
Faculty Showcase of Digital Scholarship & Open Educational Resources
Three years in the planning! Join us for a demonstration of how digital technologies and open pedagogical practices can enhance teaching and research. Engage with faculty and their work, and gain inspiration for your own digital scholarship and open education projects. Presenters include: Chris Steiner, Anna Vallye, Andrea Lanoux, and members of the French and…
Open Access Week Day 2: Open Data
Today we’ll focus on open data as part of our series on International Open Access Week. What is open data? SPARC defines open data as “research data that is freely available on the internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyze, re-process, pass to software or use for any purpose without financial, legal, or technological…
International Open Access Week: New Guidelines for Federal Grants
Welcome to International Open Access Week 2022! To promote Open Access at Connecticut College, we are publishing one new post a day this week. The Open Access movement continues to grow. (Wait, back up! What is open access?) In addition to increased visibility and access, openness promotes research integrity, allows for wider and interdisciplinary collaboration,…