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In the cataclysmic nine years from 1914 to 1922, tsarist Russia disappeared from the map, fragmenting into regions, cities, and villages as an entire empire split into battle zones. Crushed by the Germans in World War I, Russia declined economically and demographically.
During the revolutions of 1917 and the ensuing civil war, the country fell to pieces. And yet, despite the bitter suffering, this was a time of remarkable creative expression, when all levels of Russian society were alive with literary and artistic invention. While political, social, and military perspectives on...
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Slavery and the University of Virginia School of Law is a project of the UVA Law Library that examines UVA Law’s historical connections to the institution of slavery from the Law School’s founding in 1819 to the outbreak of the Civil War. This work builds on the President’s Commmission on Slavery and the University with a particular focus on the inclusion of slavery in UVA’s legal curriculum. Illuminating how legal teaching and instruction at UVA applied to discussions of slavery in Virginia and the United States, the materials encompassed in this project will eventually include...
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From the Rotunda Library Online website:
Rotunda Library Online (RLO, ‘arlo’) is a bibliographical database designed to include short-title entries for every book (3,150 titles in approximately 8,100 volumes) shelved in the University of Virginia's first library. With the goal of being the standard bibliography and short-title catalog (RLO-STC) of the University's Rotunda Library, RLO allows users to enter the Rotunda's world through its earliest descriptions, catalogs, and lists.
The RLO database is written in PHP and MySQL and currently supports keyword searching and...
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From the website:
[Sean Tennant's] doctoral research concentrates on informing the long-standing historical discussion on “Romanization,” the phenomenon of cultural change in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Specifically, he is examining the remains of domestic architecture in the provinces of Britannia, Gaul, and Germania using a network-based approach to look for patterns in how space was used. Using a method called space syntax analysis, he is looking at culturally-specific patterns of space use and ultimately, broader regional patterns that might inform how we understand...
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ClockWork is a digital humanities sonification project developed by the 2015-2016 cohort of the Praxis Fellowship at the Scholars’ Lab of the University of Virginia. We were charged by the Scholars’ Lab with imagining time outside of the commonly-used framework of a timeline. We theorized the relationships between time, commodities, the purchasing power of wages, and the value systems that these relationships structure from our cross-disciplinary perspectives.
You are now in the virtual space that emerged from this challenge. This site has two primary...
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The EAFSD places biographical and professional information about all foreign service officers in a relational data structure. This data structure allows users to trace the early American governments' attempts to deploy and control their overseas representatives.
The database also recreates the correspondence networks that sprang up between the officers as they sought from each other the information and expertise necessary to fulfill their duties.
The system is also a key component of my dissertation, "Revolution Mongers: Launching the U.S. Foreign...
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Dodona Online (DOL) is a project whose main aim is to edit online all the oracular questions from Dodona. It will first include the 4216 new lamellae from the Evangelidis’ excavations, whose edition, which was long prepared by late researchers I. Vokotopoulou, S. Dakaris and A.-Ph. Christidis, was eventually published in 2013, thanks to the devoted efforts of S. Tselikas. Montreal is the epicentre of the project, but the team itself is scattered all over the world, mainly in Europe. It gathers the most eminent scholars of the...
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Participatory Media interactively engages with and presents participatory community media from the 1960s and 1970s. Through the discovery phase, the project will explore how to provide access to community-made, rare, and often publicly-funded moving images and their related archives; provide a model for community involvement in digital public humanities work, specifically participatory archival, curatorial, and exhibition work; and employ innovative technologies to enable digital participation on multiple levels. The final product of this discovery grant will be...
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As the events of Friday August 11th and Saturday August 12th, 2017 unfolded, Library staff at the University of Virginia actively watched the news and began capturing information from websites and social media. When Library administration met the following Tuesday morning, we were asked if we could create a site that allowed community members to contribute their photos and videos online. While the UVA Library had some experience documenting and collecting digital content after a major news event, this was the first time we attempted to create a collecting site...
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Take Back the Archive was a direct response to the publication, in November 2014, of the article "A Rape on Campus" in Rolling Stone magazine, a searing account set at UVA. It was an effort by faculty, librarians, designers, developers, and students to record and interpret the outcry that followed the publication of the article, which five months later was retracted by the magazine. By that time, however, the archive had moved beyond its initial aims to embrace a bigger goal: documenting the history and culture of sexual violence at UVa over time, from the...
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