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Interview with Cara Hullings and Hailey Punis from the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP)
Cara Hullings is the project coordinator for DAILP. Hailey Punis is an undergraduate English major with a minor in Writing and Art. They both work for the Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP). Cara and Hailey spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, about their work with DAILP and how community care is central…
Leveraging Digitized Materials from the Northeastern University’s Archives and Special Collections
This workshop was part of the 2025-26 Digital Practice Workshop Series, an ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and Humanities Center that centers topics relating to digital archive and digital humanities. The series is intended to strengthen collaboration between Snell Library and CSSH. In addition to its abundant collection of analog materials…
Leveraging Media History to Improve Modern Journalism
We were delighted to host the Center for Transformative Media’s event “Leveraging Media History to Improve Modern Journalism” in our large presentation space! The event featured a conversation between Molly Brown, the Reference and Outreach Archivist at Northeastern, and Andre Stark, an Emmy-winning writer, director, and producer and co-owner of The Bay State Banner, moderated…
Reviewing the October Projects of the Zooniverse Challenge
The Zooniverse Challenge at Northeastern is a part of the crowdsourcing efforts of the Centers for Digital Scholarship. In December, there will be a crowdsourcing workshop open to Northeastern community faculty, staff, and students to learn more about Zooniverse, and how to start a Zooniverse project. As the intern for the CDS Crowdsourcing Initiative, I…
Interview with the Digital Transgender Archive’s Boston Lab Lead, Faith Maldonado
Faith Maldonado is a second year PhD student in the English department on the literature track. She is also the Lab Lead for Boston’s Digital Transgender Archive lab. She is broadly interested in gender, and her research interests are in gender and sexuality within post-colonial and semi-colonial literature. Faith spoke with Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS…
Lessons Learned in Collaborative Research: a ReXPO Workshop
As part of the Digital Practice Workshop Series co-sponsored by the Centers for Digital Scholarship and the Humanities Center, we were delighted to host Andrew Henson and Peter Fan for their event “Lessons Learned in Collaborative Research: a ReXPO Workshop.” Taking place on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 in our Critical Making Lab, the event highlighted…
DH Open Office Hours: Halima Haruna
We were delighted to host the Digital Scholarship Group’s DH Open Office Hours works in progress talk with Halima Haruna, a PhD Student in Northeastern’s History Department and Boston Research Center Research Associate on October 7, 2025! Halima discussed the current state of her dissertation research, which focuses on pensions claims made by African-American Civil…
Reviewing the First Month of the Zooniverse Challenge
My name is Emily Jones (she/her), and I’m the Zooniverse intern this semester at the Center for Digital Scholarship. I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in Library and Information Science at Simmons University with a concentration in Cultural Heritage Informatics. In my role, I’ll be creating documentation on how to establish Zooniverse projects at Northeastern…
Introduction to AirTable Workshop
On Wednesday September 24, 2025, DSG Data Engineer Joel Lee led an introductory workshop on AirTable, a database-spreadsheet hybrid. AirTable is software that allows you to represent relational databases. According to Joel, AirTable is a database application that looks like a spreadsheet. Since databases can be more inaccessible to non-tech people, AirTable has the functionality…
DH Open Office Hours: Boston Research Center
On Wednesday September 17, 2025, the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a DH Open Office Hours event on the current state of the Boston Research Center (BRC) in the presentation space within the Centers for Digital Scholarship. Caitlin Pollock, the DSG Associate Director, and Tieanna Graphenreed, the Community History and Digitization Specialist at the Boston Public…