Emory Center for Digital Scholarship

12/12/2023

Tom Hanks Recreates Apollo15 Experiment: Flashback to 1971 and Dave Scott's moon hammer-feather test on the moon🌒. Last week, Tom Hanks demonstrated the classic experiment live on the Graham Norton Show to promote the London exhibition 'The Moonwalkers' that he produced. Read more here:

On August 2nd, 1971, Dave Scott performed a live television demonstration of the hammer-feather drop test on the moon. Four hundred years earlier, Galileo had concluded that when a feather and a ha…

08/09/2023

Announcing KIPP DAWSON: THE STRUGGLE IS THE VICTORY, an interactive digital repository led by Bailey Elizabeth Betik of Kipp Dawson's life-long work as an activist on the frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam anti-war movement, women’s movement, gay liberation movement, labor movement, and education justice movement. Read more here: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/kipp_dawson/

07/26/2023

“Every town has a story to tell.”

We are excited to hightlight launch of “Social Studies Storytelling in Statesboro” on OpenTour! Georgia Southern University undergraduate elementary education students, in tandem with faculty and local public history experts, are bringing Statesboro’s history to life with a new digital walking tour. Read more and take the tour yourself here:
https://news.georgiasouthern.edu/2023/05/25/social-studies-storytelling-in-statesboro-kicks-off-on-may-27/

06/29/2023

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) is excited to share the news that the Coffee County Historical Society (CCHS) has gotten a 2023 Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) for the CCHS’s OpenTour Overcoming Segregation: A Journey Through Coffee County’s Forgotten Stories (https://georgia-humanities.opentour.site/overcoming-segregation)!

Check out the full story here: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/overcoming-segregation/

The CCHS created their OpenTour through our partnership between ECDS’s OpenTour Builder software and Georgia Humanities’s Digital Tour Initiative.
OpenTour Builder is an open source software platform for building geospatial tours that are optimized for mobile devices. With this tool, tour builders can easily create interactive, attractive tours that guide users from stop to stop using their smartphone’s GPS and OpenTour Builder’s native Google Maps instructions. At each location, the designer can include images, video, text, and external links to provide historical and cultural context, tying that information to the physical space. You can check out some other ECDS OpenTour projects here.

06/08/2023

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! Professional Development Asynchronous Course for Pedagogy and Remote Teaching: Emory Foundations for Online Teaching (EFOT), June 12th – July 23rd.

Apply here: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfuSa-a7J.../viewform

For questions, contact Kaelyn McAdams ([email protected]).

02/27/2023

To best support faculty in creating public-facing displays of scholarship, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship is now opening applications for free faculty website builds for simple, professional academic websites. This opportunity is ideal for faculty and staff members with upcoming publications, research interventions, or pedagogical findings who would like to strengthen their digital footprint and online presence. Examples of similar websites can be found below:

https://www.audreytruschke.com/
cynthiablakeley.com/
keboehm.org/

At the moment, ECDS can provide these services for up to 10 applicants for 2023. Please submit applications by March 27.

Successful applicants will be notified of their status by April 1. Keep in mind that average site creation can fall between 6-12 weeks depending on content and scale. ECDS will meet with successful applicants to provide free consultation, design, and build services for their proposed website. ECDS will also guide training for successful applicants to be able to maintain their own site post-build.

Apply here! https://tinyurl.com/ECDSkickstartapp

01/30/2023

Doctoral fellowship opportunity! We are looking for a David R. Scott Digital Humanities Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year.

The fellow must be a Laney Graduate School doctoral candidate in good standing within their 5th-7th year of study. The fellow’s responsibilities, which require 16 hours a week, will include supporting the development of the Apollo 15 Learning Hub, the objective of which is to assemble, preserve, and make available primary source records of Apollo for research, education, history, and as an example of a unique human endeavor.

The application is due February 28th. Please find more information on the role responsibilities, requirements, and how to apply on Emory's website here: https://lnkd.in/g8F-2V7B

The Laney Graduate School and several Emory partners offer fellowships to advanced graduate students. Guidelines or links to relevant web pages will be posted as they become available. 

11/29/2022

ECDS partners with Dr. Tracy L. Scott on the Apollo 15 Learning Hub to assemble, preserve, and make available primary source records of Apollo 15 for research, education, and preservation as an example of a unique human endeavor.

Find out more about Scott's related research project, on her newly launched project blog https://tracylscott.org/!

11/22/2022

ECDS is partnering with UI/UX experts from Yonsei University to develop an interactive website for the OpenWorld Atlanta project. Funded by a grant from the Halle Institute, an ECDS team is currently in Seoul, South Korea and had the chance to present the project to Emory President Fenves.

Thank you to our ECDS team in Seoul which includes Michael Page, Jay Varner, Alexander Cors! We appreciate your hard work.

In the picture from left to right: Jeffrey Lesser, Director of the Halle Institute, Keeheon Lee, Yonsei University, Emory President Gregory Fenves, Alexander Cors, ECDS, Josh Newton, Vice President for Advancement

11/07/2022

We are thrilled that the Atlanta Studies journal featured our very own Joanna Mundy's article on the OpenTour Builder platform last Friday!

Joanna eloquently explains the immense value of OpenTour, "The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) aims to enrich people’s understanding of the Atlanta region and its history through the creation of OpenTour Builder, an open source software platform for building geospatial tours that are optimized for mobile devices. Using the OpenTour platform, local histories can be tied more closely to the places in which people lived and acted. By tying the telling of these stories to their historical spaces, Atlanta’s layered history, formed by different time periods, populations, themes, and events, can be better understood by current residents and visitors. Public history organizations that study history applied in the real-world can now broadly share local histories by creating curated tours using ECDS’s web-based application, accessed by URL through a web-browser."

📘Learn more about OpenTour's development and use by checking out the full article titled: "OpenTour Builder: an open source platform for highlighting Atlanta stories in the lived environment of the city" on the Atlanta Studies website here: https://atlantastudies.org/2022/11/03/opentour-builder-an-open-source-platform-for-highlighting-atlanta-stories-in-the-lived-environment-of-the-city/

The individual stories that combine to form the history of Atlanta take place across the neighborhoods and landscapes of the city, some of which are remaining and some lost to urban development over time. Over time, construction projects have obliterated areas of Atlanta along with the traces of

10/28/2022

ICYMI: Our very own Steven Bransford spoke at yesterday's Authors Reception about ECDS's role in helping to create a 3-D model of the Marie-Séraphique, which was a Trans-Atlantic ship active in the trade of enslaved persons from 1769 to 1774.

To learn more visit https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/modeling-the-marie-seraphique/

10/25/2022

During we are celebrating Emory authors who have published open access books or journal articles over the last year!

On Thursday, October 27th, we invite you to an Open Access Authors Reception which will include brief remarks from our very own Steven Bransford! The reception will be held from 4-6pm at the Jones Room on the 3rd floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library.

RSVP at this here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-access-authors-reception-tickets-418250748247 or by scanning the QR code below