Author: Carrie Pirmann
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Week 8 Recap: Reflecting on a Summer’s Work
DSSRF17 ended a week ago, and since then I’ve been trying to gather my thoughts about the summer (and our spring prep work), and cohesively reflect on the past eight weeks. It may sound cliche, but DSSRF has truly been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career as a librarian. Courtney pointed this…
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Week 7 Recap: On the Road Again!
What’s summer without road trips? On Monday, we took #dssrf17 on the road again, this time visiting our digital scholarship peers at Gettysburg College. We were inspired to start the DSSRF program after seeing librarians and students from Gettysburg and Lafayette present at last year’s Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, so this was a perfect…
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Week 4 Recap: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (or, DSSRF Takes a Road Trip)
Week 4 marked the halfway point of our program, and fittingly we spent this week finishing up our review of tools. Monday we worked with timeline and mapping applications, including TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, and Timemapper. They all work on very similar infrastructure, although TimelineJS is more well-developed than the other two, and each platform allows for…
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Week 3 Recap: Data is Everywhere, and Everything is Data
I’ve spent the past week mulling over the concept of data visualization — honing in more on the first word, data. What exactly is data, anyway? What do we consider to be data in the context of digital scholarship? I don’t want to go deeply into the rabbit hole here, but as I’ve delved more…
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Recapping Week 1
After months of planning and anticipation, DSSRF 2017 got off to a great start this past week. Our four fellows are full of energy, enthusiasm, and curiosity. One of the things that’s interesting about our cohort is that Tyler and Justin have some background in digital scholarship and digital humanities, while Rennie and Minglu are…