Posts by Colleen Nugent
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…
Read MoreDH 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…
Read MoreDigital Practice Workshop Series: Metadata
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…
Read MoreCDS Open House Recap
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…
Read MoreCFP: The Caribbean Digital XII
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…
Read MoreDigital Humanities Now Relaunched from the CDS!
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…
Read MoreGrounding Archival Knowledge: Maawn Doobiigeng in the Library
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…
Read MoreDH Open Office Hours: Digital Accessibility
On April 29, 2025, the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a DH Open Office Hours event on digital accessibility in the presentation space within the Centers for Digital Scholarship. Digital accessibility is an important aspect of digital projects that helps keep research equitable and available to everyone. Chloe Lee, the DSG Accessibility Co-Op, provided an introduction…
Read MoreDH Open Office Hours: Digitization
On April 23, 2025, the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a DH Open Office Hours event on an introduction to digitization in the presentation space within the Centers for Digital Scholarship. For many digital scholarship research projects one of the first steps is digitizing analog and paper materials. Managing digitization well is crucial to a successful…
Read MoreWorkshop: Expressive Art Therapy
We were delighted to host the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science’s workshop on expressive art therapy in our Critical Making Lab on March 27, 2025. The event went great in our small-scale lab space, and to read more about it please see this NULab blog post.
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