Laura O'Brien
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Laura O'Brien
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Academic librarian @ Wellesley College. I read / post about #DigitalHumanities, #library #InformationLiteracy

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Ditto! we'd love to acquire one as well
August 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'll ask my Storymap users on campus if they've seen this before and if I hear anything I'll let you know. Good luck!
August 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I'm not 100% sure what process you were using (I'm on Mac, not Windows), but is it something like this? It looks they are using a Zoomify function in Photoshop to make tiles hosted in Github. It's 5 year old documentation, but I didn't find much more current bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.ed...
bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Thank you! I'm checking back through your #DHMakes posts for the basics, but I'm sure there's much more to it. Did you rely on Gephi for the initial spatialization? (If you ever write your project up anywhere, let me know! It's beautiful as is of course)
July 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I LOVE this! I want to show this to my DH network analysis class this fall--I would love if someone made a physicalization of a network for their final project!
July 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Laura O'Brien
To put it another way—no one in power in 2025—not politicians, not tech oligarchs, not business tycoons—seem in the least concerned that AI might challenge them or our power structures—& that is an important media history distinction we should notice & learn from, practically & intellectually (3/4)
July 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I think there can be some implicit hierarchy. youtu.be/T8dVdye559E?...
File types hanging out
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Paviwala compiled a dataset from Chaudhuri (1976) and Bowen (2005) on the commodities dealt with by East India Trading Company and their values. Disambiguating and merging data categories across decades and respective scholarly interests #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Finally we have
Building a Digital Trade Archive: Visualizing British East India Company Data (1660–1834) with Munirmahedi Paviwala (Boston College) #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I love a data schema 🤗 #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Students working on this large-scale DH project develop research skills and regional expertise that lets them help disambiguate which people with the same/similar names are indeed the same individual #BostonDH25
April 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Next up is Turning Almanacs into Data with Ashlyn Stewart, Joanna Schroeder, Yuchen Xiong (Boston College) #BostonDH25 digitizing 19th c Catholic Directories, with information on dioceses and Catholics across the U.S.
April 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM