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Digital Scholarship

Digital Scholarship is a term that could probably defined in a dozen different ways if you asked a group of people to define it. It's a somewhat elusive concept, but for me, it's finding new connections between ideas that were previously unknown, using a tools and techniques that were not previously available using a little expertise from programmers, digital librarians and an array of other folks. What does this look like?

I've put together a few samples below. Some make use of data analysis, while others apply newer metadata applications to bring an idea into a new level of understanding and research. This goes beyond a digital repository that simply provides access to material, but allows a whole new level of interpretation and use.

Here are a list of some of my favorites:

Belfast Group Poetry Networks: showing an interactive network of a group of writers, and how we can now make new mappings of the connections within the group

Linked Jazz: a research project that uses Linked Data to make connections between a group of jazz artists

Hidden Patterns of the Civil War: Mapping and text mining components surrounding the Civil War, using newspapers and other primary source documents

Willa Cather Digital Archive: A truly unique digital archive that has text analysis and mapping features to a single author's body of work

NYPL Map Warper: A tool that allows users to digitally align historical maps to a modern map




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