The staff of DiSC have worked with undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff on their works of digital scholarship. The following is a curated list of projects that we have contributed to as a part of GMU Libraries’ Fenwick Fellows program, as well as other projects we have created.
Anthologies of African American Writing created by Alok Yadav
This project is an enumerative bibliography of anthologies of African American literature. Debby Kermer and Wendy Mann worked on converting the data from a Word document to Excel, which was then imported into Omeka S using the CSV Import module. Wendy worked with Alok on creating a site in Omeka S. Alyssa Fahringer created accounts for Alok’s hired undergraduate researchers, and worked with them on adding and describing items.
Chile 1988 created by Jennifer Ashley
Chile 1988 examines the historic plebiscite vote that occurred in October of that year and is a digital archive of individual testimonies, television programming, and other audiovisual material. Wendy Mann, Ben Brands, and Stephanie Walters assisted Jen in finding resources to learn how to use the Omeka platform and they created a prototype site in Omeka S to show her how that content management system could work for her project. Ultimately Jen decided to have web designers build her site.
Appalachian Trail Histories created by Mills Kelly
This website includes exhibits that dissect the history of the Appalachian Trail, including how it was built and the role of the federal government in the creation of the Trail. Joy Suh assisted Mills by locating historic maps that are now a part of the site.
Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium (LFCC) Specimen Collection and Accession Records created by Andrea Weeks
This project was created to facilitate research using the Lord Fairfax Community College Herbarium. Wendy Mann and Alyssa Fahringer assisted Andrea by consulting with the digitization company on metadata creation. Alyssa created and configured the Omeka S installation, established a workflow for importing the digitized notebook pages and metadata into Omeka S, and linked relevant specimens in Omeka S to their accompanying records in the SERNEC Symbiota database.
East German Poster Database created by Samuel Clowes Huneke
This project makes information about the East German poster collection acquired by George Mason University Library’s Special Collections Research Center available to researchers and students through a searchable database. Alyssa Fahringer worked with Sam to create and configure the project’s Omeka S installation. Joy Suh created an overlay of East and West Germany and East and West Berlin.
GeoData@Mason: Accessing Geospatial Data and Maps, created by Joy Suh and Elaine Ding
GeoData@Mason, launched in 2021 by the University Libraries, allows users to search, preview and download geospatial data hosted by the Mason repository. Learn more about GeoData@Mason here.
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