1968: The Whole World Was Watching is an educational resource for secondary school students and teachers as well as for scholarly research on the period. Members of the sophomore class at South Kingstown High School interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections of the year 1968. Their stories, which include the narrators' experiences of the Vietnam War, the struggle for civil rights, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as well as many more personal memories, are a living chronicle of one of the most tumultuous years in United States history.

STG was involved in several phases of the development of 1968: The Whole World Was Watching. They assisted in procuring grant funding and provided project support for research and oral history interviews at South Kingstown High School. They also designed and produced the website. The site development took place during the summer of 1998. A grant from NetTech supported the work of four students: Sara Grady, James Barnes, Joanna Epstein, and Daniel Perlin. They digitized audio tapes of all the interviews reviewed, corrected, and edited the students' transcripts and produced additional content, including a timeline, thematic pages, and a glossary linked from terms in the narratives.

1968: The Whole World Was Watching is the second oral history project that STG undertook with the teachers and students of South Kingstown High School. The first one, What did you do in the War Grandma, was turned into a website based on the collection of student essays published in a booklet. One audio file and full transcript were included as an example, to demonstrate potential. The 1968 project was planned as a digital project from the outset; students recorded their interviews, produced transcripts and stories based on transcripts, knowing that these would be presented in an online publication. The result was a rich set of materials that demonstrated how student work could form the basis of a rich and informative digital oral history project.

This project was presented extensively at schools and conferences, and generated a great deal of interest, as it was an early example of community based oral history online.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• People involved: David Reville, Linda Wood (South Kingstown High School), Sharon Schmid (South Kingstown High School)
• Departments involved: STG (Computing and Information Services)
• Type of project: Design and methodology
• Research Domains: Interface design, Repository development and data curation
• Funding: Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (http://www.rihumanities.org) NetTech (Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium)
• Project URL: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/
• Documentation: Notes about the Project

Anna and Laura Tirocchi were two Italian dressmakers who worked in Providence, RI during the first part of the 20th c. The contents of the Tirocchi sisters' dressmaking shop were given to the RISD Museum in 1989. The shop had been untouched since it closed in 1947 and contained haute couture garments and fabrics along with ledgers, correspondence, and other records of the art, craft, and business of fashion from the first half of the twentieth century. In January 2001, the RISD museum mounted an exhibition that showcased not only the fashions and materials, but also highlighted the collection as an unparalleled resource for understanding many wide-ranging historical issues, including Italian immigration, women as workers and consumers, and the transition from hand production of garments to ready-to-wear clothing.

STG developed an extensive web site to accompany the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's exhibition, based on a script initially drafted by Art historian Margaret Blagg Weaver. The site includes the material that formed part of the exhibition. It also contains searchable databases of business records and customer correspondence, and as well as lesson plans.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• People involved: Susan Hay (External Consultant), Sara Grady (STG), David Reville (STG)
• Departments involved: STG (Computing and Information Services)
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources, Design and methodology
• Research Domains: Digital collection development, Information architecture and modeling
• Funding: National Council for the Humanities (mainly for the RISD exhibition, but also for the website) Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities (mainly for the website)
• Project URL: http://tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/
• Documentation: Credits and Notes

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/amotherscry/

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/askb/

The Aravaipa project arose out of research by Karl Jacoby on the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871, exploring the complex cultural and historical perspectives on this event through a set of primary source documents that includes letters, trial documents, interviews, newspaper articles, and transcriptions from O'odham calendar sticks. These materials were digitized, transcribed, and encoded in TEI/XML. The project integrates these archival documents with critical and contextual materials.

CDS staff digitized the primary source materials and created the metadata to permit their ingestion into the Brown digital repository. They also trained Karl Jacoby and his students in text encoding, and provided advice and consultation during the transcription and encoding process. CDS staff worked with Brown's Student Technology Assistants program to assist them in creating a project site that integrates documentary materials from the digital repository within a critical context.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• People involved: Giovanna Roz (STA program), Ann Caldwell (CDS), Patrick Yott (CDS), Karl Jacoby (Faculty lead), Julia Flanders (WWP)
• Departments involved: History
• Type of project: Electronic publication
• Research Domains: Electronic publishing, Repository development and data curation
• Funding: Student Technology Assistant Summer Grant
• Project URL: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Aravaipa/

This website was developed by students at Brown University working with James N. Green (Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History) and is hosted by the Brown University Library.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/beyondcarnival/

The Decameron consists of a hundred stories in Italian, told from the point of view of ten young Florentines who, in the early summer of the year 1348, had taken refuge in the countryside to escape the plague in the city. In 1994-1995, Massimo Riva, together with his graduate and undergraduate students, began to compile the Decameron Web, modeling it on the Victorian Web. His goal was to develop a teaching tool that presented the text of Boccaccio's Decameron accompanied by secondary material about the author and medieval Italy.

In 1997, the Decameron Web received an NEH grant, and STG worked with Massimo Riva and his students and project managers to enhance it. STG's primary contribution was the encoding of the Italian and English of the Decameron in SGML, and its deployment using a powerful search engine.

STG developed a DTD based on TEI-Lite for the Decameron text. STG staff encoded portions of the text and supervised further work by graduate students in the Italian Studies Department. Dynaweb 4.1 was used to deliver the SGML encoded text from the STG web server. The structural encoding permitted searching on selected structural units, such as whole text, frame, novelle. All named characters and geographic locations in the text were tagged and could be retrieved by means of an index that specified attributes relevant for scholarly research and teaching, such as gender, occupation, and social role of each named character.

STG's involvement with the Decameron Web continued and contributed to the development of further functionality, including the use of metadata to classify secondary sources and the automation of linking between the text and resource materials.

In 2001, STG offered DTD development and SGML consulting for the publication of two of Boccaccio's minor works: the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta and the Corbaccio. Light SGML encoding was done by Vika Zafrin, Italian Studies graduate student and the text was delivered and searched from the SGML source using Dynaweb 4.1.

Since that time, the Italian and English texts have been converted from SGML to XML, and are no longer being served by the Dynaweb software. STG worked with Vika Zafrin and the staff of the Decameron Project to implement a simpler system using php and standard, open source XML software.

In 2009 and 2010, the Decameron Web was redesigned and updated to have a more contemporary look, to conform to current HTML standards, and to work with updated HTML technologies such as javascript.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Vika Zafrin (Graduate Student), Elli Mylonas (STG), Giovanna Roz (STG), Massimo Riva (Primary Investigator), Michael Hemment (Project Manager), Mike Papio (Scholar)
• Departments involved: Italian Studies
• Type of project: Design and methodology, Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Markup theories and technologies, Information architecture and modeling
• Funding:National Endowment for the Humanities
• Related Links:The Decameron Web Home Page

Thanks to the bequest of Col. Church, the Library’s holdings on Brazil not only increased considerably in number but could offer scholars the necessary core volumes on the history and exploration of the region from the colonial period through the dawn of the 20th Century.

Since then the Library has continued to build its Brazilian collection thanks to significant and subject-specific donations as well as systematic acquisitions plans that support the research needs of Brown and world scholars alike with newly published materials.

The mission of the Brasiliana Collection is two-fold:
• To support the curriculum of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, as well as faculty and students associated to the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Department of History, the Department of Africana Studies, the Program in Public Health, the Center for Environmental Studies, and other academic units in the humanities and social sciences that foster research on Brazil.
• To support the research of a community of scholars who travel to Brown to consult a world-class collection of materials on Brazil.

With the branding and development of the Brasiliana Collection, Brown University Library is committed to become the premier academic collection for Brazilian Studies outside of Brazil. This commitment is based on the University’s excellent Portuguese language and Lusophone literature programs (including an undergraduate concentration and graduate programs leading to master’s and Ph.D. degrees); strength in the social sciences; pre-existing unique library collections; and faculty members and visiting scholars who are internationally recognized leaders in their disciplines.

The Brasiliana Collection focuses on Brazilian literature, history, education, anthropology, cross-cultural studies, race relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, environmental studies, music, public policy, sociology and Portuguese second-language acquisition.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/brasiliana/

Although Vargas flirted with an alliance with Germany in the late 1930s and considered remaining neutral in World War II, Brazil ultimately became an active participant in the war on the side of the Allies. During this period of tremendous political and social change, Vargas reconfigured politics and significantly strengthened the role of the State in developing economic and social policies. He also encouraged new notions of nationalism, promoted ideas of racial democracy, and expanded the State’s presence in the cultural arena.

Ousted from power in 1945, Vargas returned through a democratic election in 1950 with a populist program that relied on working-class and urban middle-class support as he nationalized oil production and other essential industries and carried out social programs that benefitted the lower classes. Pressured by the military and other opponents to leave office in 1954 before the end of his mandate, Vargas responded to that ultimatum by dramatically committing suicide in his bedroom at the presidential palace. A million people mourned his death on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Many historians have argued that the nationalist, anti-imperialist, and pro-working class policies that his anointed successor President João Goulart promoted in the early 1960s were among the reasons that the military carried out a coup d’état in 1964 and remained in the control of the State for twenty-one years.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/brazilundervargas/

The Catskills Institute website was developed by Phil Brown and his colleagues at the Catskills Institute. to disseminate information about conferences and the photographs, memorabilia and memoirs they have collected. Additionally, the site collected queries about people and places in the Catskills resort communities, as well as news of publications, films, and other events.

Phil Brown received a Scholarly Grant to make the Catskills site more interactive, sustainable and to put a selection of the Catskills materials in Brown's digital repository, making it easier to search the photographs and ephemera.

The CDI undertook to digitize over 100 objects and incorporate them into the Digital Repository.

STG redesigned the site and refactored the HTML files to make them more usable. A Drupal forum is being configured so that it's easier to post queries. The site contains links and search forms for the objects in the repository.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Elli Mylonas (STG), Phil Brown (Faculty lead), Kerri Hicks (STG)
• Departments involved: Sociology
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Digital collection development, Interface design
• Project URL:http://catskills.brown.edu/

“Chronicles of Brunonia” presents historical narratives of life at Brown University, spawned by the archival documents in John Hay Library and the Rhode Island Historical Society, and written by undergraduates. Most of the narratives here were written in creative nonfiction workshops taught by Beth Taylor in the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. The Nonfiction Writing Program teaches nonfiction in all its many sub-genres — the academic essay, journalism, and creative nonfiction (memoir, literary journalism, lyric essay, historical narrative, travel essay, science writing, and cultural critique). Students in Taylor’s creative nonfiction workshops work with reference librarians in the Hay to find primary and secondary sources to help them visualize and corroborate the facts of a person, event, or phenomenon in Brown’s history. In the workshop they draft and revise their story through several iterations with the help of suggestions from peers and the instructor. The end result is a shaped, fact-checked narrative that blends the scholarly methods of research and reflection with the storytelling techniques of narration, plot, scene, and characterization. All sources are carefully cited and linked from this site to the digitized original source (if available).

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Beth Taylor (Primary Investigator)
• Departments involved: English
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/cob/

Clyde Davenport is an old-time fiddler and banjo player from south-central Kentucky. In 1990, Brown University ethnomusicologist Jeff Titon recorded music and interviews with Mr. Davenport and his family. He then created a multimedia, hypertextual, Hypercard stack with links to brief essays about Davenport's music and fellow musicians, photographs, and recordings of several of Davenport's tunes. As a demonstration of the capabilities of the Web, Geoffrey Bilder converted the Hypercard stack to HTML in 1995, including the sound and image files. STG still hosts the Clyde Davenport project as a website. This is an example of a very early web project.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Geoffrey Bilder (STG), Jeff Titon (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Music
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/davenport/

Wendy Chun's Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006) examines the relationship of control and freedom in the way we think of networks and the internet. Chun wanted to have an electronic companion to the book which would appear when the book was published. The website consists of a limited portion of the book, provocatively presented so as to invite the reader to interact with and think about the subject matter of the book. STG, working with two students, who did the lion's share of the work, implemented a website that mirrored the structure of Control and Freedom, and presented the introduction of each chapter in a meaningful and innovative manner. Despite its use of special effects, this whole website conformed to web accessibility standards in use at the time of publication. The designer for the project was Rolando Peñate (Brown '08) and the programmer was Owen Strain (Brown '08). The project was produced in collaboration with the Student Technology Assistants Program (Brown Instructional Technology Group).

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Elli Mylonas (STG), Wendy Chun (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Modern Culture and Media
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Electronic publishing, New media theory
• Project URL:http://www.controlandfreedom.net/
• Related Links:MIT Press link

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Paul Buele (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Sociology
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/cultural_correspondence/

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Matt Garcia (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Race and Ethnicity
• Project URL:http://www.brown.edu/Research/Coachella/

• A comprehensive timeline of Brazilian political, social, economic, and cultural history.
• Images, discussion questions, essays, and charts organized according to topic within each chapter.
• Theme pages with information on recurring threads within Brazilian history.
• A glossary of terms found in Skidmore’s textbook
• A list of recommended historic literature and films on key themes.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/fivecenturiesofchange/

The Online Catasto of 1427 is a web-searchable version of tax data for the city of Florence in 1427-29 based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480. The Online Catasto provides the same information that is contained in the print volumes currently in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, but adds some variables that are not present in those volumes. As an early example of the capabilities of the WWW, Geoffrey Bilder converted the existing data of the Florentine Catasto from David Herlihy's original database files into Sybase, and developed a web-based search capability that provided for complex queries and statistical views of tax data, households, occupations, and assets. In 1999, Burr Litchfield and Anthony Molho were awarded an NEH grant to clean up, supplement and publish more of Herlihy's original research. When the work of supplementing and checking the additional information was complete, STG worked with Litchfield to publish the new data, structuring a database and developing an interface for the new materials. STG also consulted with Litchfield on an ongoing basis about the former and future formatting and organization of the new information.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Elli Mylonas (STG), Geoffrey Bilder (STG), Anthony Molho (Faculty lead), Carole Mah (STG), R. Burr Litchfield (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: History
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling, Interface design
• Funding: NEH PA-23264-99 ($70,420)
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto

This site gives access to a data base with information about office holders of the Florentine Republic during its 250-year history (1282-1532). It was developed initially by David Herlihy at Harvard and Brown Universities, and then completed in 2001 under the direction of R. Burr Litchfield and Anthony Molho at Brown with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access. Following up on and extending work done for the Online Catasto, STG collaborated with Litchfield to publish the Tratte data, comprising over 81,000 records. This work included designing and implementing a new database and developing an interface for the new data. During the course of the grant new materials were found in the archives in Florence and were added to the existing Tratte records. In 2002, STG worked with Burr Litchfield under an STG faculty grant, to add supplementary materials to the Tratte database, and to finetune the interface to the existing databases, taking into account what we learned from several years of use and user experience.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: R. Burr Litchfield (Faculty lead), Carole Mah (STG), Elli Mylonas (STG), Anthony Molho (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: History
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources, Design and methodology
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Funding: This project has had several phases. It received initial funding through NEH PA-23264-99 ($70,420), and was completed as part of an STG Faculty Grant.
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/tratte/

This site gives access to a data base with information about office holders of the Florentine Republic during its 250-year history (1282-1532). It was developed initially by David Herlihy at Harvard and Brown Universities, and then completed in 2001 under the direction of R. Burr Litchfield and Anthony Molho at Brown with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access. Following up on and extending work done for the Online Catasto, STG collaborated with Litchfield to publish the Tratte data, comprising over 81,000 records. This work included designing and implementing a new database and developing an interface for the new data. During the course of the grant new materials were found in the archives in Florence and were added to the existing Tratte records. In 2002, STG worked with Burr Litchfield under an STG faculty grant, to add supplementary materials to the Tratte database, and to finetune the interface to the existing databases, taking into account what we learned from several years of use and user experience.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Departments involved: John Nicholas Brown Center
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/digital_scholarship/fox_point/

During 2002, Susan Smulyan and James Campbell, together with students and colleagues at Brown and its sister school Tougaloo College did research in the Tougaloo archives to gather materials documenting the Civil Rights movement. This lead to further student research in both the Brown and Tougaloo archives exploring the relationship between the two schools. The faculty and students felt that the best way to publish this research was in digital form, so as to reach the widest possible audience. The projects were designed to be digital from their inception. Materials were scanned as soon as they were selected, and the students created metadata records for each piece of evidence. They also wrote topic essays to contextualize and explain the materials they had collected. STG worked with the faculty and students to determine a metadata information model, and to design metadata templates for the source materials. STG then implemented the Freedom Now! website, which includes the topic essays written by the students, and the underlying database.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Kerri Hicks (STG), Julia Flanders (STG)
• Departments involved: American Civilization, Africana Studies
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Metadata standards and practices, Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/FreedomNow/

During 2002, Susan Smulyan and James Campbell, together with students and colleagues at Brown and its sister school Tougaloo College did research in the Tougaloo archives to gather materials documenting the Civil Rights movement. This lead to further student research in both the Brown and Tougaloo archives exploring the relationship between the two schools. The faculty and students felt that the best way to publish this research was in digital form, so as to reach the widest possible audience. The projects were designed to be digital from their inception. Materials were scanned as soon as they were selected, and the students created metadata records for each piece of evidence. They also wrote topic essays to contextualize and explain the materials they had collected. STG worked with the faculty and students to determine a metadata information model, and to design metadata templates for the source materials. STG then implemented the Freedom Now! website, which includes the topic essays written by the students, and the underlying database.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Peter Harrington (Curator), Massimo Riva (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Italian Studies, Library (Special Collections)
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/garibaldi/

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Kerry Smith (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: History
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto/

This project, a digital version of physical exhibit, reproduces illustrations of El Quijote created before the turn of the 20th century and printed in editions held in the Brown University Library. Visitors will be able to access numerous renditions of Don Quixote by Charles-Antoine Coypel, John Vanderbank, Antonio Carnicero, José Brunete, François Marie Isidore Queverdo, Manuel Peleguer, José Rivelles y Helip, Robert Smirke, Henry Liverseege, Pierre Choquet, Thomas Stothard, Richard Westall, Gustave Doré, and Gustave Pierre Eugène Staal to name a few.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Project URL:http://library.brown.edu/cds/quixote/

The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make accessible all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE). There are about 15,000 of these inscriptions, written primarily in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, and pagans. They range from imperial declarations on monumental architecture to notices of donations in synagogues to humble names scratched on ossuaries, and include everything in between. These inscriptions are an invaluable resource for historical investigation, as they provide information that is frequently not available in the extant literary texts.

Michael Satlow began work on this project before he came to Brown University and had developed a DTD and prototype web presence for the inscriptions. At Brown, he received an STG Faculty Grant to continue development on the corpus.

In addition to providing DTD-consulting and markup strategy advice for this extensive database, STG also pioneered the use of heretofore under-utilized open source XML tools to provide a powerful, flexible web searching interface to the inscriptions and to the metadata about the inscriptions. In so doing, we had to develop strategies for dealing with storage, searching, and browser rendering of complex Unicode data. We also developed a MySQL bibliography database and a browsing and editing interface to the database that collaborators around the world can access. This resource can also serve as a valuable model for similar epigraphical projects in the future.

STG and the CDS have continued to support the IIP by providing space and consultations for students who are entering new inscriptions, and, in 2010, by completely rewriting the search and display software and redesigning the front end. Students continue to write XML files with transcriptions, translations and detailed metadata which are indexed using SOLR and served from a simplified XML output format.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Elli Mylonas (CDS), Carole Mah (STG), Clifford Wulfman (STG), Michael Satlow (Faculty lead), Andrew Ashton (CDS)
• Departments involved: Center of Digital Epigraphy
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources, Design and methodology
• Research Domains: Digital collection development, Information architecture and modeling
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Inscriptions/

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• Departments involved: Music
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/invested_in_community/index.html

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: John Logan (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Sociology
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: James Green
• Departments involved: History
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/travelogues/

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Nancy Khalek (Faculty lead), Chad Kia (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: Religious Studies, Comparative Literature
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://library.brown.edu/quran/

The Modernist Journals Project publishes fully searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping the modes of literature and art that came to be called "modernist". Focusing on materials from 1890-1922, this collection is a crucial research tool and point of access to these often rare materials. First begun in 1995 at Brown University, the project is now supported at Brown and the University of Tulsa. The growing collection of materials now includes The New Age, Blast, Poetry, and The English Review, together with supporting materials such as essays on contributors, historical introductions, and biographical sketches.

STG worked with the MJP staff to develop encoding and metadata specifications for the digitized source materials, and in 2006 contributed to the design and implementation of a new user interface . CDS provides ongoing support for the project's data and publication infrastructure.

The CDI worked with the MJP staff to digitize all the periodicals and to develop metadata specifications. All MJP journals are stored in Brown's digital repository, and accessed from there by the MJP website.

In 2009, the MJP infrastructure was rewritten by the CDI to take advantage of the SOLR indexing engine, in order to increase efficiency. CDS provides ongoing consulting to the MJP as needed.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Clifford Wulfman (STG), Mark Gaipa (Project Manager), Andrew Ashton (CDS), Patrick Yott (CDS), Michael Park (CDS), Robert Scholes (Faculty lead), Ann Caldwell (CDS), Elli Mylonas (STG), Kerri Hicks (STG)
• Departments Involved: Modern Culture and Media
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources, Signature collections
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling, Repository development and data curation
• Funding: NEH
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/

For students and general readers:
• A timeline of key events
• Lists of heads of state organized by country
• Primary sources on nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century Latin America
• and more...

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/modernlatinamerica/

Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines have been excavating the medieval monastery of St. Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France since 1982. They have been investigating forms of digital publication that will make it easy to link spatial data such as site plans, elevations and photographs of the site to the customary, a handbook that prescribes the structure of daily and religious life for this particular monastery.

STG's involvement with MonArch goes back to 1998, when a student built a simple animation of the monastery site plan, showing how it changing over time. Since that time, we have continued to work with Bonde and Maines developing a more detailed digital monograph about the excavation and their conclusions.

In 2001-2002, Bonde received an STG faculty grant to develop a pilot version of this project. STG put together a website that foregrounded the spatial aspects of the archaeological site, and linked to other information through them. We designed three connected systems to represent text, site plans and artifacts. The English and Latin text of the customary, the monastery's handbook, was encoded in XML using the TEI guidelines. A detailed set of subject keywords were encoded at the division, paragraph, and phrase level, allowing for retrieval of particular terms and topics. The system also included a database which contained records of individual artifacts found at the site. At the center was a site plan to which the locations of artifact and subjects cited in the customary were linked, allowing the reader to explore the architecture, its use, and material record.

In 2004, Bonde and Maines received an NEH grant to make full translations of the texts, generate new drawings, and develop a full version of the website. This project was carried forward with the help of Anne Loyer (Wesleyan) and Cliff Wulfman (STG). The system was completely redesigned using more robust XML software, and a new data infrastructure based on METS and MODS metadata. This resulted in a new site with signifiantly more information and more interactivity.

In 2008, Bonde received a Brown Seed grant to continue development.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Clifford Wulfman (STG), Elli Mylonas (CDS), Julia Flanders (CDS), Kerri Hicks (STG), Morris Hirsch (STG), Clark Maines (Primary Investigator), Sheila Bonde (Primary Investigator)
• Departments Involved: History of Art and Architecture
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources, Electronic publication
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling, Markup theories and technologies
• Funding: NEH, Brown Seed Grant, STG Faculty Grant
• Project URL:http://monarch.brown.edu/

The Brown University Multimedia Lab is a high-tech production facility used primarily by students in courses in the creative arts: electronic music, visual art, video and film production, multimedia authoring, and creative writing. The MML was founded in 1994 by a consortium of faculty in several departments. In 1995 it became a subsidiary project of the Scholarly Technology Group. Since 2004 it has been part of the Brown University Academic Services Group, in Computing and Information Services.

The Multimedia Lab consists of two separate facilities. The laboratory space is equipped with computers configured for midi music composition, non-linear editing, electronic imaging, and multimedia authoring. There is also a supported classroom with appropriate equipment for presenting anything produced in the lab. The MML is staffed by a team of student consultants who keep the space open 16 hours a day, and professional staff.

During July 1998 the Multimedia Lab website was completely updated and redesigned by Leslie Kleinberg, '98, and Giovanna Roz, under the supervision of David Reville.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Edrex Fontanilla (STG), Barry Albright (STG), David Reville (STG)
• Departments Involved: STG (Computing and Information Services), Computing and Information Services
• Type of project: Research and consultation
• Research Domains: New media theory
• Project URL:http://www.brown.edu/cis/services/academic/mml

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon/

R. Burr Litchfield has been researching the transition of Florentine civil society of the Republic to the court society of the Medici Grand Duchy as seen through the prism of the changing urban social geography, and has publishing a digital book on the subject, Florence Ducal Capital, 1530-1630. The book will contains links to a website showing the geographical details under discussion. The website, which is based on the 1594 edition of the Buonsignori map of Florence, also functions as a standalone resource to the geography and features of 16th c. Florence.

STG designed and implemented the searchable gazetteer, basiing it on digital photographs of the Buonsignori map of Florence, and implemented map viewing software to facilitate navigation. We developed a database to manage salient information on features of the city, which also served as the infrastructure for the information displayed on the website. This work was done before mapping and georeferencing was available on common platforms, such as Google Maps.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Kerri Hicks (STG), R. Burr Litchfield (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: History
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/florentine_gazetteer/
• Related Links:Florence Ducal Capital, 1530-1630

To accomplish this task, the Opening the Archives Project partnered with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Brazilian Arquivo Nacional, and the National Security Archive at George Washington University in a joint effort to preserve crucial documentation by creating digital copies accessible online.

During the summer of 2013, a team of undergraduates from Brown University and the Universidade Estadual de Maringá scanned 9,872 U.S. State Department documents on Brazil produced between 1963 and 1973, about half of NARA’s holdings for the period under consideration. The period from 1964 to 1969 was especially turbulent and historically significant in twentieth-century Brazilian history. For that reason, the Opening the Archives Project decided to concentrate on this particular five-year time span for the first phase of operations. A second team of students returned to College Park, Maryland in the summer of 2014 to continue the digitizing and indexing several thousand more documents that will be uploaded to the website as they are processed. A third team of students has begun similar work at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/openingthearchives/

The OED implementation developed here at STG was, at the time, groundbreaking in the sense that it offered ways of saving state (i.e., building on previously constructed searches) that few contemporary Web systems offered. Close collaboration with the Brown University Library Reference and Systems staff ensured that the system design would meet the needs of faculty and students. Brown University's library has subscribed to the OED online. This gives Brown users access to the newer edition of the OED, and since it is the version supported by the library, we are no longer supporting a local version.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Departments Involved: Comparative Literature
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/paris/

From 1922 to 1970, the Pembroke Record documented and commented upon life at Pembroke College in Brown University. Although the Pembroke Record ceased publishing decades ago, it has remained a valuable archival resource and an irreplaceable part of the history of women at Brown University. The Pembroke Center Associates — a group of alumnae/i and friends that supports Brown's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women — partnered with the Brown University Library's Center for Digital Scholarship to digitize the Pembroke Record. The physical newspapers were removed from their bindings, photographically imaged, and saved as digital files. Those files have been extensively coded and can now be searched online.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Ben Tyler (CDS), Christy Law Blanchard (Primary Investigator), Patrick Yott (CDS)
• Departments Involved: Pembroke Center
• Type of Project: Electronic publication, Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Electronic publishing, Interface design
• Funding: Pembroke Center Associates
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pebr/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Susan Smulyan (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: American Civilization
• Project URL:http://library.brown.edu/cds/perry/

The project, which is part of Massimo Riva's research on publishing, using and teaching with digital text from Medieval and Renaissance Italy, is also an experiment in collaborative scholarship for critical electronic editions of texts in general. The Conclusiones is the second text undertaken by the Progetto Pico (Pico Project), after the Oratio which was published as a collaborative edition on the web. That edition, using the technologies available at the time, was delivered as a series of HTML pages.

STG marked up the Latin text of the Conclusiones in XML, according to the TEI guidelines, and added a provision for a group of scholars to annotate it. Originally this system was developed to work on the Tomcat framework using JSP. However, we have since converted it to run with PHP and MySQL for the annotations, and XML and XSLT for the textual components.

Recently, as part of the continuing development of the Riva's Virtual Humanities Lab, all the Pico texts will be integrated into the new VHL scholarly editions interface.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Paul Caton (STG), Carole Mah (STG), Giovanna Roz (STG), Massimo Riva (Primary Investigator)
• Departments Involved: Italian Studies
• Type of Project: Tools development, Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Markup theories and technologies, Information architecture and modeling
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/pico/

Sanda Golopentia had constructed a corpus of Romanian love charms on the Brown mainframe over 10 years ago. This was implemented by Allen Renear using Waterloo Script, and was used to typeset a book analyzing the love charms. Since then, she has been expanding the corpus by adding more texts, and wanted to perform the same classification and analysis as she had before. In order for this to be possible, the digital texts had to be converted into a database, and provided with an interface via the WWW. Together with Prof. Golopentia, STG also developed a simple website about the love charms, containing ancillary materials such audio and video of the charms.

STG analyzed the original Script files in order to determine the structures that were put in place, and create an SQL database, accessible via the web. This is now in place and Prof. Golopentia is correcting and adding to it. We have also implemented a website to to display the charms and their classifications.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Sanda Golopentia (Faculty lead), Elli Mylonas (STG), Carole Mah (STG)
• Departments Involved: French Studies
• Type of Project: Design and methodology
• Research Domains: Markup theories and technologies
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/romanianCharms

Katherine Goodman studies the 18th c. poet Luise Kulmus (Gottsched), viewing her as an exemplary figure of the German Enlightenment. Kulmus, born in Danzig, married Johann Christoph Gottsched, an important figure in the German enlightenment who was influenced primarily by French culture and reflected its style and ideas. To help counter this image of the German Enlightenment Goodman presents Kulmus, who grew up in Danzig, a major seaport with strong trading and intellectual ties to England and Holland. Luise Kulmus had access and was open to ideas from England much earlier than many in the interior of Germany. The advent of German interest in English literature is routinely dated at around 1750, but Luise Kulmus brought her interest into her marriage with Gottsched in 1735. Throughout the remainder of her life (until 1762) she worked full-time at his side and introduced works of the English Enlightenment (Addison, Steele, Pope) to German audiences (by translating them and reviewing them in her husband's periodicals).

STG put together an experimental digital monograph to present Goodman's research on Kulmus. Text documents such as her letters and juvenilia were marked up using XML according to the TEI guidelines. We also devised a simple hypertextual structure to guide readers along Goodman's arguments, as well as allow them to explore the information on their own.

This project focuses on the young Kulmus through her and her husband's writing. It contains short essays and notes by Goodman herself as well as images from the period.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Carole Mah (STG), Elli Mylonas (STG), Julia Flanders (STG), Kay Goodman (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: German Studies
• Type of Project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Electronic publishing
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Gottsched/

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: James Campbell (Faculty lead)
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Pat Malone
• Departments Involved: American Civilization
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/

This digital collection features a selection of works from the extraordinary collection of Vincent J. Buonanno '66, focused on views and maps of the Eternal City from the 16th-18th centuries. Festival prints and architectural treatises from the collection of the John Hay Library are also included.

In addition, Evie Lincoln has been studying and teaching about engraving and early modern Rome with this digital collection of illustrated books. Her primary interest is in the books themselves: how the authors, engravers and publishers presented the information about Rome to their audience.The digital presentation of these rare and expensive books allows readers to study not only the images, but also the text and context of the books.

STG has built a website around the library resource that contains enhanced metadata about individual pages and illustrations in the books. Together with the CDI, they developed detailed MODS records and assembled them into book objects. They also experimented with different ways of navigating through books and page images in the digital repository.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Clifford Wulfman (STG), Elli Mylonas (CDS), Andrew Ashton (CDS), Evie Lincoln (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: History of Art and Architecture
• Type of Project: Signature collections, Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Metadata standards and practices, Repository development and data curation
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu:8080/exist/rome
• Related Links:Theater that was Rome Project website

Initially, the project focused on collecting metadata and images. It is now also entering the text for each inscription and will eventually add translation and notess. John Bodel has been the director of the US Epigraphy Project since 1995. US Epigraphy is a member of the group developing the Epidoc DTD, a TEI conformant DTD for encoding classical inscriptions. In the future, the project will also develop some basic pedagogical tools to exploit the instructional potential of the photographic archive (e.g., to illustrate styles of writing, ligatures, stonecutters' marks, erased, corrected, or supplemented text, etc.).

STG provided technical advice and assistance in developing an XML/TEI template in accordance with Epidoc guidelines, to convert the 2,300 published inscriptions mounted at the project website into XML, and implement a system that searches and displays them. We are also performing an update and redesign of the website.

STG and CDS are providing support to US Epigraphy on an ongoing bases, working with John Bodel, his project manager and student encoders. In 2009/2010 we completed the conversion of all US Epigraphy files into Epidoc P5 format. As part of our work on US Epigrapy, STG and CDS have provided input to the group developing the Epidoc P5 schema.

In 2010 CDS will convert the current US Epigraphy delivery system, which uses perl and an XSLT transform engine as well as premade HTML files for efficiency, to use SOLR. We will also redesign the website.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Andrew Ashton (CDS), John Bodel (Faculty lead), Elli Mylonas (CDS), Carole Mah (STG)
• Departments Involved: Classics
• Type of Project: Digital scholarly resources, Tools development
• Research Domains: Digital collection development, Information architecture and modeling
• Project URL:http://usepigraphy.brown.edu/

In the spring semester of 2004, the students in Paul Buhle's oral history class investigated the arts in 20th c. RI. The interviews and supporting materials they collected provided the raw materials for an exhibit at the Providence Historical Society, and later at the Newport Jazz Festival. The corpus of oral histories, now called Underground Rhode Island, will continue to grow each year as successive oral history classes interview members of the RI arts communities.

Using two years of oral histories as well as materials from the exhibits, STG created a digital version of Underground Rhode Island. Working with Paul Buhle’s students, we digitized the oral histories, transcripts and visual material that had been collected, catalogued it and made it accessible through a website. This project is also an exemplary collaboration between the library's Center for Digital Initiatives and STG, as all the primary source data is stored in the CDI's digital repository. Finally, we worked with the students to systematize and document the production of the interviews and transcriptions for future classes, to facilitate their inclusion in the database.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Kerri Hicks (STG), Paul Buele (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: American Civilization
• Type of Project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Digital collection development, Repository development and data curation
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/undergroundri/
• Related Links:Intimacy and Isolation in Providence: An Installation

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Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Joanne Conklin
• Departments Involved: David Winton Bell Gallery
• Type of Project: Events and outreach
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/Views_and_Reviews/

This project arose from the work of the Brown University Committee on Slavery and Justice, led by James Campbell. The committee investigated the contributions that slavery made to the early days of Brown University, and recommended ways to make the community at large think productively about slavery and and its aftermath. The Voyage of the Sally site was published as part of the committee's final report, which was released in October, 2006.

For this project STG developed a website to publish and explicate the documentary evidence of the first slave trading voyage invested in by the Brown brothers of Providence, RI. Students encoded the texts of letters, contracts and the ship's logbook in XML, using the TEI Guidelines. The site presents the original page images, together with searchable full-text transcriptions and contextual information from the markup such as regularized names, commodities and places. Accompanying these source materials are a set of introductory essays on the history and significance of the voyage. The project was planned and implemented in close collaboration with the Center for Digital Initiatives in the Brown University Library.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: James Campbell (Faculty lead), Kerri Hicks (STG), Julia Flanders (WWP), Ann Caldwell (CDI)
• Departments Involved: American Civilization
• Type of Project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling, Markup theories and technologies
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/sally
• Related Links:Sally primary source documents from Brown's digital archive at the library

Few Americans were aware of the human rights abuses perpetrated by Brazil’s new regime. By 1969, a small group of academics, clergy, Brazilian exiles, and political activists had begun to educate the American public about the violent repression in Brazil and mobilize opposition to the dictatorship. By 1974, most informed political activists in the United States associated the Brazilian government with its torture chambers. In We Cannot Remain Silent, James N. Green analyzes the U.S. grassroots activities against torture in Brazil, and the ways those efforts helped to create a new discourse about human-rights violations in Latin America. He explains how the campaign against Brazil’s dictatorship laid the groundwork for subsequent U.S. movements against human rights abuses in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, and Central America.

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• Type of project: Brasiliana Collection
• Project URL: http://library.brown.edu/wecannotremainsilent/

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? is an oral history of Rhode Island women during World War II. In 1988-1989, students in the honors English program at South Kingstown High School interviewed 36 women who recalled their lives in the years before, during, and after the war. In addition to transcribing the interviews, students researched the period and wrote character sketches of the women they interviewed.

STG redesigned the successful website What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? to improve accessibility and to exploit advances in streaming audio technology. We modified the appearance of the site and made some changes to the navigational structure, making it easier to find the various sections of the site, and making individual pages more readable. STG revised and expanded the timeline, and made one of the interviews available in its entirety, using the newly installed Real Audio server. This included not only digitizing the original tape, but creating a sequence of pages that situate and support the interview in a regional, national, and international context. These pages are presented as HTML files synchronized with portions of the interview. STG also created an additional utility, STG cEvents, to link audio files to transcripts and indexes. This technology was later put to excellent use in the "1968: the Whole World was Watching" project.

In 2009, Marie Force sent us an index she had created to the Grandma interviews, as part of her Masters project in Library Science, and it was appended to the website.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Linda Wood (External Consultant), David Reville (STG), Sara Grady (STG)
• Departments Involved: STG (Computing and Information Services)
• Type of Project: Design and methodology, Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling
• Funding: Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities NetTech (Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women
• Related Links:Redesigning What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
• Documentation:Redesigning What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?

An audio Internet archive of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University – an attempt, however modest, to make available to remote listeners, on campus and off, the pleasure of hearing, in real time, readings and performances by the many writers who have taken part in our Contemporary Writers Reading Series, Writers On Writing Reading Series, and numerous conferences and festivals sponsored by the Program during the last ten years. Writers Online is an ongoing project created by the Literary Arts Program in conjunction with the Brown University Libraries. The page is a “work in progress” – new readings will be added, so check back often.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Project URL:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/writers%20online.htm

Professor Elizabeth S. Taylor organized the conference Writing Vietnam at which writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, journalism, and biography read from and discussed their works and experiences of the Vietnam War at Brown University on April 21-23, 1999. After the conference, STG, along with English Department student Alice Lovejoy, designed and created a website to disseminate the narratives, discussions, and other materials generated by the conference. The website contains a collection of audio recordings along with transcripts of each event. A photograph exhibit and an album of conference snapshots are also included on the website. The conference materials are supplemented by additional essays and the syllabus from Professor Taylor's creative writing course, "Writing Vietnam."

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Sara Grady (STG), David Reville (STG), Giovanna Roz (STG), Elizabeth S. Taylor (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: English
• Type of Project: Events and outreach, Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Information architecture and modeling, Interface design
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/intro.html
• Related Links:Conference schedule
• Related Links:Exhibit of photographs
• Related Links:Snapshots taken at the conference
• Related Links:Writing Vietnam course syllabus

In 1999, Creative Nonfiction was a relatively new course at Brown in which students who show potential for writing to professional standards explore the genres of literary journalism, historical narrative, personal essay, and short performance pieces. Prof. Beth Taylor asked STG to design and produce a website to publish an anthology of works by students in creative nonfiction course, which is called prospect. The work published in prospect is selected by the faculty teaching Creative Nonfiction classes each semester.

In 2005, STG worked with Beth Taylor again, to streamline the process of adding new issues to prospect. As originally designed and implemented, the site was tediious to maintain: each issue had to be populated by hand. In this faculty grant project, STG developed a web based submission tool and rtf converter so that student papers could easily be added to the journal. The initial intent was to allow students to upload their own papers, but that proved to be impractical, so the journal is still maintained by staff, but using a more efficient system.

The CDS currently maintains and updates the site.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Elli Mylonas (STG), Elizabeth S. Taylor (Faculty lead), Sara Grady (STG), Kerri Hicks (STG), David Reville (STG)
• Departments Involved: English
• Type of Project: Electronic publication, Tools development
• Research Domains: Electronic publishing
• Project URL:http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/CreativeNonfiction/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Jane Lancaster
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Repository development and data curation

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Anne Wooton (Primary Investigator)
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Interface design
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/dbdh/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Digital collection development

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Rob Emlen (Faculty lead)
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/portraits/
• Related Links:Panorama

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Rosemary Cullen (Primary Investigator)
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/carriers/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Amanda Murray
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People involved: Tom Banchoff (Faculty lead)
• Departments involved: Mathematics
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/flatweb/

The Brown University Library has been awarded an IMLS National Leadership planning grant for the purpose of collaborating with the RISD Library and the RISD Museum in the development of a new database architecture that will allow users to explore the complete extent of the design process used by the Gorham Manufacturing Company to create its hand-crafted consumer silver products. Once completed, the new database will initially be populated with drawings, sketches, and digital objects pertaining to Gorham’s Martelé line, a product that was entirely handmade and unique to the Gorham Manufacturing Company. Brown will work in conjunction with both the Museum and the Library of the Rhode Island School of Design to design the digital collection, which will draw on collections of Gorham silverware held by museums from around the world. Staff members will create a website to house archival drawings, sketches, and product descriptions based on catalogues produced by Gorham Manufacturing and held by the Brown Library. Users will be able to identify their own pieces and contribute their own descriptions of their personal holdings to the virtual catalogue, thereby leading to a fuller understanding of Gorham and, by extension, American manufacturing. Detailed information about the Gorham Collection can be found at the Project URL below. Digitized images from the collection can also be searched in the Brown Digital Repository.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Funding: IMLS Planning Grant
• Project URL:http://libguides.brown.edu/content.php?pid=459812
• Related Links:Brown Digital Repository

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/harris/

The forum presentations by teachers and researchers were made available on a website, along with a web-based conferencing system to facilitate continuing discussions by the wider community of interested educators.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://library.brown.edu/cds/images_of_brown/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/koetting/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Sergi Khrushchev
• Departments involved: Watson Institute
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/broadsides

STG designed a database-driven interface for cataloguing humanities institutions and their associated collections, programs, and experts. Bill McIver, Visiting Assistant Professor (CS), implemented PHP class definitions and other code for wrapping MySQL databases conveniently for use in HTML forms applications. Carole Mah implemented a complex web-based browsing, authoring, and editing environment for the project's 32-table relational database, extending McIver's PHP class tools and using them as a basis for modular code. Clair Iltis performed design work for the website.

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/graphics

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://library.brown.edu/cds/lincoln/manuscripts

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/objects

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/sheetmusic

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/index.html

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• Departments involved: Language Resource Center

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/minassian/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People Involved: Jim Vickers (External Consultant)
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources

The Postcolonial and Postimperial LIterature Web was originated in 1985 by George Landow as part of Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) Intermedia project. Professor Landow designed the entire web and manages the selection, creation, and linking of texts and images. Contributions are submitted by scholars, students, and other interested readers. In 1995, the Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature Web was converted to HTML and made available on STG's Web server. In additon to hosting this project on the Web, STG provided consulting services when needed. The Post-Colonial Web was further developed and is now hosted at the National University of Singapore.

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• People Involved: Paul Buele (Faculty lead)
• Departments Involved: Sociology
• Type of Project: Digital scholarly resources
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/radicalamerica/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Jennifer Betts (Primary Investigator)
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/riamco/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of Project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Repository development and data curation

Project Details

• Status: Completed
• Type of Project: Signature collections
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/ww1/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• Type of Project: Signature collections
• Project URL:http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/yiddish/

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• People involved: Rosemary Cullen (Primary Investigator)
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Funding: Library of Congress/Ameritech
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/afam/

Project Details

• Status: Complete
• People involved: Tovah Reis (Primary Investigator)
• Type of project: Signature collections
• Research Domains: Digital collection development
• Project URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/temperance/

Project Details

• Status: Ongoing
• People involved: Dave Huestis, Michael Umbricht (Primary Investigator)
• Departments involved: Ladd Observatory
• Type of project: Digital scholarly resources
• Research Domains: Digital collection development