DataRefuge is a public, collaborative project designed to address concerns about federal climate and environmental data. DataRefuge is also an initiative committed to identifying, assessing, prioritizing, securing, and distributing reliable copies of federal climate and environmental data so that it remains available to researchers. Data collected as part of the #DataRefuge initiative will be stored in multiple, trusted locations to help ensure continued accessibility. DataRefuge is a collaborative initiative between the Penn Libraries, University of Michigan Libraries, Internet Archive, Environmental Data Governance Initiative, and many others.
With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Always Already Computational will foster a strategic approach to developing, describing, providing access to, and encouraging reuse of library collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching in areas including but not limited to digital humanities, public history, digital history, data driven journalism, digital social science, and digital art history. To learn more about this project, visit the project website.
Developed to support the foreign language programs at Penn, the toolkit provides instructors with a selection of material available at the Penn Museum Archives written in foreign languages. Instructors are encouraged to use the tool to identify collections of interest for their courses. To browse the toolkit, visit our Omeka site.
During Summer 2016, the Digital Scholarship group supervised two Philadelphia high school interns who shadowed a number of museum employees to learn about careers in this field. During their visit, they selected some objects from the Museum's collections, the Cat's Cradles from Alaska, learned about techniques for curating digital museum content, and developed a digital exhibit of this rarely seen collection. The project was developed in StoryMap by Esri.
As part of our efforts to create new bulk download workflows and toolkits, we are actively developing a LexisNexis bulk download tool that will enable querying and downloading larger quantities of text files for analysis. To learn more about this project, contact Scott Enderle, Digital Humanities Specialist.
The Digital Scholarship Fellowship is a year-long collaborative program that integrates digital tools, theory, and methods with undergraduate academia. The aim of the program is to provide a stimulating and challenging experience for students interested in exploring digital scholarship, regardless of whether they have extensive experience using digital tools or are learning about digital scholarship for the first time. To learn more about the fellowship, including information about our current cohort and future application cycles, visit the fellowship website.
Beginning in Fall 2016, we are actively expanding the quantity and quality of data in the Penn Publisher Policy Database, an openly accessible database of journal publishers and their publishing policies and permissions. For more information about this project, contact the ScholarlyCommons team.
In Fall 2016, Digital Humanities Specialist Sasha Renninger acted as the library liaison to ARTH 501 Presenting the Past, taught by Holly Pittman and Renata Holod. She guided the class in creating a digital extension of the Penn Museum Middle East Galleries. The project was developed using Weebly.
Scott Enderle
Digital Humanities Specialist
enderlej@upenn.edu
Scott specializes in statistical text analysis, machine learning, and data visualization. Contact him with questions about using new technologies and large collections of data for humanities research and teaching.
Margaret Janz
Scholarly Communications and Data Curation Librarian
mjanz@upenn.edu
Margaret specializes in organizing, documenting, and saving data; contact her for questions about data management planning.
Kenny Whitebloom
Digital Scholarly Publishing Librarian
kenwhi@upenn.edu
Kenny manages the operations of ScholarlyCommons, a repository for the scholarly output of researchers at Penn. He specializes in digital publishing and open access. Contact Kenny if you’re interested in contributing to ScholarlyCommons, or if you would like to find out more.