Digital Scholarship at Purdue

A manual and manifesto that exists at the intersection of art, activism, and academic work. It is meant to be used as a resource for scholars, educators, and community members to better understand and engage with Black Living Data utilizing ethical and social justice oriented practices. As a Manifesto, this project defines and articulates the intents and purposes of Black Living Data. What is Black Living Data and How has the history of Data collection led to this definition. As a Manual, this articulation of Black Living Data informs how we think about the collection, curation, and critique of data and community engagement. Overall, I hope that this booklet encourages you to approach the creation and consumption of media, information, and data differently through a better understanding of discernment and community care.

A Black Digital Humanities (Black DH) collective and an early response taskforce on Black health and data that creates digital resources and engages in actions that are designed to raise awareness about health disparities within Black diasporic communities. Utilizing the critical and justice-oriented theoretical frameworks of Black Studies, Black Digital Humanities,Public Humanities, Medical Humanities, and Public Health, we seek to collectively build a network of resources and outreach around the role that intersectionality and ethics play in issues of information, science, technology, and medicine. As a Black DH collective, COVID Black foregrounds an understanding of race as a technology in order to reflect Black epistemologies and highlight the role that systemic racism plays in the politics of platforms, publics, and policies. Specifically, we focus on the ways in which digital tools and technology can be used to not only collect data, but to facilitate collaboration, creation, and community through the collection of information and discourse which highlights the lived experiences of Black people during and beyond the COVID-19 outbreak.

An inter-institutional, interdisciplinary project developing digital tools for writing research. The Crow team has built the first corpus of student writing connected with a repository of pedagogical artifacts, and published the software developed for both back- and front-end development. Students and faculty come from applied linguistics, rhetoric and composition, and technical communication. Crow research supports data-driven writing research and teaching in universities, community colleges, and high schools, and includes exploring better approaches to ethical, sustainable collaborative research.

A multidisciplinary project at Purdue to digitize historical and contemporary military maps and to create new methods of statistical analysis. The OPMAPS analytic tools identify main flows of movement, points of most likely attack, or most likely points for a breakthrough while highlighting the logic of battle, the missed opportunities and the degree to which a battle was won by sheer force or by its skillful use.

A new initiative that will create new frontiers of interdisciplinary research by combining the strengths of our remote sensing, computational, and socio-humanities scholars, which impacts that will resonate far beyond the walls of Purdue.

A different way to connect physical to digital places. Ubimark enhances physical reality (books, places, objects) with stories, travel experiences, ratings or information. Ubimark provides three services: Ubimark Books, Ubimark Tours, and The Ubimark Atlas.

Visible Effort is a theoretically-grounded knowledge management and learning feedback tool suite for wiki sites. It was created by Dr. Sorin Adam Matei, Professor at Purdue University to measure group interactions and collaboration. It can be used for optimizing online group learning activities by measuring and visualizing the amount of equality and the emergence of social structure in groups that participate in Computer-Mediated Collaboration (CMC). See also, Visible Past.