Led by metadata librarian Drew Facklam, the Reparative Metadata Workshop will include a presentation on guiding concepts and tools for creating reparative metadata and conducting surveys on existing metadata. ...

We are delighted to be have Nirmala Menon, Digital Humanities Professor from IIT Indore, as our visiting scholar this year! She is a Fullbright fellow assisting with Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). Please join us to hear Nirmala Menon discuss her research in a DH Open Office Hours. ...

Wikipedia is the most visited site on the Internet, as well as an open and free source of knowledge driven by a community of editors from all over the world! But Black women only make up a small portion of contributors and content subjects on Wikipedia. Join us to address these gaps in shared knowledge and knowledge-making, and edit Wikipedia articles about Black women who have shaped Boston histories from the colonial era to present times. ...

Join Colleen Nugent McLean, CDS Coordinator, for a discussion of her dissertation research. Her dissertation interrogates the colonial roots of modern British anti-Muslim racism, specifically the idea that Islam is inherently ‘fanatical,’ ‘violent,’ and ‘incompatible’ with the West. She uses digital text analysis, specifically word embedding models, to chart the construction of British anti-Muslim discourse across three case studies from the colonial period: the 1857 Rebellion in India, the battle of Omdurman and the Candia Massacre in late 1898, and the German-Ottoman declaration of jihad during the First World War. The Rushdie Affair in 1989 is often pointed to as the “start” of this discourse, and I argue that the rhetoric found in these colonial instances mirrors the modern language used during the Rushdie Affair. She uses word vector analysis on corpora of The Times of London to chart the consistent British association between fanaticism and Muslims. ...

For many digital scholarship research projects one of the first steps is digitizing analog and paper materials. Managing the digitization well is crucial to a successful digital project. Kim Kennedy, the Digital Production Librarian, will provide a hands-on workshop on digitizing analog and paper materials. Come hear how the library can help support your digitization plans and needs, as well as some of the interesting work of the Library’s Digital Production Services. ...

Please join us to hear Candace Hazlett, the Digital Scholarship ...