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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…

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…

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…

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…

On July 15, 2025, the Centers for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and the Humanities Center jointly hosted the first workshop in the Digital Practice Workshop Series. This workshop was focused on metadata and ethical considerations of metadata. Led by Shireen Zaineb, the Humanities Center Digital Project Archivist, and Colleen Nugent McLean, the Centers for Digital Scholarship…

On June 17, 2025, members of Northeastern’s digital scholarship community gathered in the Centers for Digital Scholarship for the first CDS open house event. The gathering centered the CDS community who gathered over snacks to increase connections across the projects and to highlight the “neighborhood” of the CDS. After an initial informal gathering, the group…

The Caribbean Digital XII 4-5 December 2025 Northeastern University Boston, MA Deadline for proposals: June 30, 2025 Conference website: The Caribbean Digital  Beginning in 2014, The Caribbean Digital has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as a historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the…

The Centers for Digital Scholarship at the Northeastern University Library is now the home to the relaunched publication Digital Humanities Now! DHNow is an experimental, edited publication that highlights and distributes important digital humanities scholarship and news of interest to the DH community. Since its launch in 2009, DHNow has been experimenting with ways to…

We were delighted to host the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science’s panel on rethinking archival practices in our large presentation space on February 26, 2025 led by Professor Gordon Henry. The panel discussed how the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan set out on a project to ground archival knowledge in indigenous…