Center for Digital Scholarship
Content related to projects, digitization efforts, or initiatives of the Center for Digital Scholarship.
April 15, 2021
Last spring, as part of the Open Data Initiative at the Center for Digital Scholarship, I worked with some of Philadelphia’s earliest, and possibly one...
March 31, 2021
Two newly digitized letters from the Julia Rush Letters, 1776-1809 were recently added to the American Philosophical Society’s digital library. As functionality and design testing...
March 25, 2021
The Center for Digital Scholarship is delighted to announce " Visualizing Colonial Philadelphia," an exciting look at historical urbanization created by 2020 APS Digital Humanities...
February 17, 2021
Since starting Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding, one word that has been on my mind is metadata. Metadata, as it relates to...
January 7, 2021
Welcome to the first monthly update on the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society’s new IMLS grant, Revolutionary City: A Portal to the...
December 17, 2020
In summer 2020, the APS received support to continue developing the Franklin Ledgers Project through a National Endowment for the Humanities: CARES grant. The APS...
September 29, 2020
This summer I spent my time as an Experiential Fellow with the Center for Digital Scholarship cleaning and organizing James Madison’s meteorological dataset for the...
September 29, 2020
Who made climate records in early America? This question drew me to work with the Madison meteorological records this summer as Martin L. Levitt Fellow...