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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…
Read MoreLessons 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…
Read MoreDH 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…
Read MoreReviewing 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…
Read MoreIntroduction 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…
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