Center for Digital Scholarship

The Center for Digital Scholarship promotes the use of American Philosophical Society Library collections through digitization, digital humanities, and the development of innovative library software.

The Center for Digital Scholarship promotes the holdings of the APS Library through digitization, digital humanities, and the development of tools and software. We partner with scholars, institutions, and students from across the country.

We explore what digital scholarship means in a small, independent research library. We ask questions about our role within the field of digital scholarship, and we find answers through practice and experimentation.

Fellows, Interns, and Partners

Fellows

Cynthia Heider, Temple University
Martin L. Levitt Fellow, 2017
Project: "Transforming Benjamin Franklin Post Office Book into Open Data"


Steve Marti, University of Delaware
Digital Humanities Fellow, 2017
Project: “Visualizing Admission: The Admission Book of Eastern State as Dataset”


Annette Joseph-Gabriel, University of Arizona
Digital Humanities Fellow, 2017
Project: “Mapping Marronage: Visualizing Transatlantic Networks of Freedom”


A.J. Blandford, Rutgers University.
Digital Humanities Fellow, 2016
Project: “Labor and the Visualization of Knowledge in American Geological Surveys, 17801860”


Sarah Ketchley, University of Washington
Digital Humanities Fellow, 2016
Project: “Visualizing ‘Golden Age’ Nile Travel: The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project”

 

Interns

Ben Weinstein, Washington College
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience Summer Intern, 2017
Project: Digitizing and Data Stewardship of Indentured Records
Link: http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/record-indentures-individuals-bound-out-apprentices-servants-etc


Chelsea Reed, Temple University
Digital Library Intern, 20162017
Project: Digitizing the William Parker Foulke Papers


John Giganti, Rutgers University
Digital Library Intern, 2016
Project: Digitizing the William Parker Foulke Papers


Robert Teel, Washington College
C. V. Starr Intern, 2015
Project: “Too Near Where History Is Being Made: Henry Howard Houston II In a Time of War”
Link: http://diglib.amphilsoc.org/labs/houston/


Grace DiAgostino, Temple University
Digital Library Intern, 2015
Project: Digitizing the Eastern State Penitentiary Collection
Link: http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.365.P381p-ead.xml


Alina Josan, Drexel University
Digital Library Intern, 20142015
Project: “Joining the Fray: Mapping a World of Paine”
Link: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/labs/join-the-fray/


Stephanie Lampkin, University of Delaware
Digital Library Intern, 2014
Project: “Colonization in the Foulke Papers“
Link: https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/gallery-colonization-foulke

 

Partners

Haverford College Libraries
Project: Quaker Networks Explorer
Extend and generalize the open data platform developed at Haverford by including Quaker-related content from the APS Library.


Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
Project: Prison-Related Open Data Share

 

News and Updates

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