Events

On August 15 and 16, 2022, the DSL organized a hybrid (remote/in-person) gathering of scholars, librarians, and designers to explore possibilities for the Deep Mapping Middletown (DMM) project. Drawing upon a selection of archival materials and background data, each participant proposed a plan for the project and considered the challenges such an undertaking will face.  Short…
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On November 1, 2023, Jim Connolly and John Fillwak presented “Deep Mapping Middletown: Representing Ethnographic Data Spatially” to the ACM Sigspatial International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities in Seattle Washington.  They discussed the challenges and opportunities involved in the incorporation of ethnographic descriptions into 3D simulations. 

Kalani CraigSeptember 18, 2019 On Thursday, September 18, 2019, Kalani Craig, Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University, introduced BSU faculty, staff and students to Net.Create, a network analysis tool developed for both digital history and digital pedagogy research teams. Craig leads a team developing Net.Create, an NSF-funded multi-user network…
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April 19-30, 2021 Ball State hosted the Library Circulation History Workshop from April 19-30, 2021. Its aim was to make historic library circulation data more accessible and more analytically powerful. Over the past two decades, a number of digital projects have provided scholars and the public access to a rich body of evidence derived from…
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On Thursday, April 18, 2019 in AB 021B, the DSL and IDIA hosted a Digital Feed talk by Matthew Brennan about the uses of Virtual Reality in Art History. VR offers unique and interesting implications for education in the fields of Art and Architectural History. Brennan, a member of the Research Faculty in the School…
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Bernard Frischer, “Rome Reborn: 3D Reconstructions as Tools for Discovery” Digital Scholarship Lecture Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 7:30 PM Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building, Ball State University The Rome Reborn project is an international initiative launched in 1996 by Dr. Bernard Frischer, Professor of Informatics at Indiana University. It presents a 3D reconstruction of ancient…
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DSL Public Talk: “Seeing the Nation: Digital Humanities, Documentary, and the Construction of Social History” Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond Thursday, February 14, 2019, 4:00 p.m. AJ 225 Lauren Tilton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond, will present a talk about the Photogrammar project titled “Seeing the Nation: Digital Humanities, Documentary,…
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DSL Public Talk: Digital Urban Design Jeff Berg, Arup October 12, 2018, 4:00 PM AB 100 Lecture Hall IDIA Lab research fellow, Jeff Berg visited campus for a Digital Scholarship Lab lecture – jointly hosted by the Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning. Berg is the Senior Digital Designer for Arup, an international…
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DSL Workshop: Big Data and Smart Computing Shoen Wu & Spencer Davis Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 2:00-3:30 PM GIS Research and Map Collection, Bracken Library Room 224 This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce potential users to Ball State’s new computation capacity. This NSF-funded resource provides the infrastructure necessary to conduct research on big data…
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On February 14, 2019 at noon in the Letterman Building, Room 104, the Digital Scholarship Lab hosted a Digital Feed about the use of computational techniques for analyzing visual culture, including film and video. Lauren Tilton, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Richmond, discussed a digital research tool that she has developed…
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