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Digital Posters

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Creating an Online Environment for Displaying Historic Pennsylvania German Texts

Michael McGuire (Indiana University)

This digital scholarship project aims to provide digital access to historical texts and other documents written in Pennsylvania German. Texts will be presented in parallel with different orthographic versions of the original in addition to English translations and notes. The layout of the project will be similar to the Flamenca Digital Scholarship Project but will use a different web interface. Texts will be encoded using TEI P5 guidelines and displayed in parallel using a customized version of Versioning Machine as an underlying interface. Versioning Machine is an open source software that allows different columns such as two versions of the same text to be displayed in parallel.

While viewed as important from a perspective of linguistics, literary studies, digital humanities, literature, poetry, historical texts and other documents written in Pennsylvania German are often difficult to access. Many, if not most of them are not digitally available on the internet and there are often few hard copies available in libraries or archives. For my dissertation project, I am building a linguistic corpus of Pennsylvania German and have already scanned and digitizing several texts. This project will provide a more interactive and user-friendly interface for teaching and research. Among many others, these include columns and articles from newspapers such as The Middleburg Post, the Lebanon Daily, The Pennsylvania Dutchman, Allentown Call or works from writers such Henry Harbaugh, Abraham R Horne, Harvey Miller, T.H. Harter (Boonastiel) and others. In addition to helping with linguistic analysis, texts displayed with this project could be useful for literary analysis, historical study, digital humanities as well as other forms of digital scholarship.

Michael McGuire is a grad student in linguistics at Indiana University and is currently designing a corpus of Pennsylvania German as a dissertation project. He also worked at Bucknell University in Digital Scholarship & Pedagogy as a student assistant developing and editing web tools and other software for digital scholarship projects. Lately, his research has focused on computational linguistics and natural language processing but he remains very interested in other areas of linguistics and digital scholarship. Along with Olga Scrivner and others, Michael has also worked on and continues to help maintain the Flamenca Digital Scholarship Project. For more information, visit Michael’s website: http://cl.indiana.edu/~mpmcguir/

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This is Why We Fight: Student Activism at Gettysburg College

Lauren White (Gettysburg College)

“This is Why We Fight” is an interactive timeline of student-led social justice movements at Gettysburg College. For each event on the timeline, there is a summary of the events and an explanation its significance, both locally and nationally. Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow Lauren White’s interest in this project was sparked by the amount of campus activism Gettysburg and other campuses witnessed in the 2015-2016 school year regarding racism on college campuses and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Using Scalar and TimelineJS, this project documents an integral part of college history, and also attests to the merit of those students who fight for their own rights or support those with less privilege than themselves. The timeline will continue to expand, using crowdsourcing to collect stories of Gettysburg students and alumni.

Lauren White is a junior at Gettysburg College double majoring in English and Environmental Studies, and minoring in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. This past summer, Lauren worked as a Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow with Musselman Library and created an interactive timeline of student-led social justice movements at Gettysburg College. Her interests include advancing diversity in the digital humanities and interdisciplinary scholarship.

This is Why We Fight: Student Activism at Gettysburg College

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Your Friend and Classmate: Following the West Point Class of June 1861 Through the American Civil War

Julia Wall (Gettysburg College)

June 24th, 1861, 34 young men graduated from the United States Military Academy a year early to answer the need for more officers in the United States Army. Four had already dropped out of their class before graduation to join the Confederacy, and three more resigned to join the rebelling forces. Of these 38 men, only 28 would live to see the end of the war. Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow Julia Wall’s project “Your Friend and Classmate” tells the story of these cadets, collectively and individually, based on a yearbook that belonged to William H. Harris, one of the June 1861 cadets. In that yearbook, Harris annotated the pictures of his classmates with what the cadets did in the war, keeping up with those that he could. Using the yearbook and Harris’ annotations, Wall created a Scalar site incorporating StoryMapJS and TimelineJS to track the activities of each cadet.

Julia Wall is a sophomore at Gettysburg College. She is majoring in History with a focus on Military History and minoring in Civil War Era Studies. As a Digital Scholarship Summer Fellow at Musselman Library, she created a database of West Point cadets of the class of June 1861 including interactive timelines for each cadet and a comprehensive map of battles.

Your Friend and Classmate: Following the West Point Class of June 1861 Through the American Civil War