The Digital Publishing in the Humanities Initiative, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Office, and Emory Universities Allied for Essential Medicines are hosting a film-screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship, followed by a discussion panel on the film. The screening and panel will take place on Tuesday, February 19 from 6:30pm-8:30pm in […]
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural “Conversations in Digital Accessibilities” events, we are excited to have Dr. Stephanie S. Rosen of the University of Michigan join us on February 11 and 12 for a series of events focused on image descriptions and digital publishing. On Monday, February 11, from 9:00 am – 11:00 […]
Dr. Stephanie Rosen, Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library will lead a facilitated roundtable discussion on “Accessibility & Publishing, Scholarship, & Digital Media” over breakfast. This discussion will examine the issue of accessibility in the contexts of digital scholarship, publishing, and media and will center on the question of how […]
Stephanie Rosen, Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library, will lead a hands-on workshop on digital accessibility basics for higher education contexts, with a focus on describing visual resources. Participants will have the opportunity to try their hand at describing images to gain an understanding of how subject matter expertise and […]
The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative are participating in a pilot program for Manifold, a new platform for creating enhanced digital books. Manifold was developed at the University of Minnesota Press, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is being adopted by a number of university […]
Scholars and students in the Digital Visualization Lab at Emory’s Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) have been working on extracting building footprints and city infrastructure features from a 1878 and a 1930 atlas of the city of Atlanta for several years. The first goal of this initiative was to build a geodatabase built from our understanding […]
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