Digital Scholarship Commons

If you're in the Atlanta area and are interested in the digital humanities, please join us for a brown-bag lunch at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, in Jazzman's Cafe, in the basement of Woodruff Library. We'll get to know each other, share some ideas, and start talking about how we and our institutions might work together.

All are welcome! Please RSVP to stewart.varner@emory.edu.

Scott Townsend, our Digital Scholarship Commons assistant, spent the last few months learning HTML and CSS, the basic tools for creating a website. He did a great job, so I asked him to write a little bit about his experience building his very first website. —Miriam Posner, Mellon postdoctoral fellow, Digital Scholarship Commons

On Friday, March 18th more than 200 digital humanists — scholars, librarians, administrators, and others — all around the world documented what they do over the course of a day. It's an annual project called Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities. The goal is to help clarify in concrete terms what, exactly, it means to be a digital humanist.

You can follow along in a few different ways.

Here at the Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), we get a lot of questions from scholars who want to create online exhibits. Maybe they want to post a set of primary sources online, or maybe they want to talk about a collection of documents. Building a separate exhibit site for everyone would be a ton of work. Luckily, there's Omeka: an easy (and free) way for people to build their own online exhibits.

I asked DiSC's awesome undergrad employee, Graham Stewart, to poke around the Omeka system to learn how it works. I liked talking with him so much about it that I asked Graham to write a blog post to introduce others to Omeka, too. —Miriam Posner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Scholarship Commons.

by Graham Stewart

I think the best way to describe Omeka is to compare it to one of those late night infomercials with those items that you’re not really quite sure would be useful. In this case, Omeka is one of those products you have to have.

By Brian Croxall, Chris Pollette, and Miriam Posner

Michael Page, Kwesi Degraft-Hanson and Kyle Thayer recently discussed their collaborative project, Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale, that utilizes library resources and ties humanistic inquiry with geographic investigation, mapping, and 3D technology http://southernspaces.org/2010/unearthing-weeping-time-savannahs-ten-broeck-race-course-and-1859-slave-sale