Projects

The DSL partners with LSU faculty and students to advance digital scholarship projects for both research and teaching. Projects the DSL has supported include:

The Broadway Journal: A Digital Edition, https://broadway.dsl.lsu.edu/
This digital edition provides access to all 52 issues of this antebellum literary magazine, and uses encoding to create and share data about authorship in the journal’s pages.

GeauxShax, https://dsl.lsu.edu/courses/geauxshax/
A site featuring student work with Shakespeare-related materials at LSU’s Hill Memorial Library in courses taught by Professor Chris Barrett.

Louisiana’s Colonial Land Grants, https://sites.google.com/site/louisianacoloniallandgrants/
Professor Andrew Sluyter’s project maps Louisiana colonial land grants from historic surveys held in LSU’s Hill Memorial Library.

Land Use in Middle America, https://maps.dsl.lsu.edu/maps/LandCover6k_Middle_America
A site mapping land use from 6000 BP through the nineteenth century by Professor Andrew Sluyter.

Open Canterbury Tales, https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/
This open-access collection features essays about Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, geared to first-time readers of the tales.

Pedagogy Fellows Program (2016-2017), https://dsl.lsu.edu/projects/digitalpedagogy/
A group of 10 graduate students and faculty learned together about tools and methods for digital scholarship, and developed assignments to incorporate in classes at LSU.

Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom, https://dsl.lsu.edu/nehtextualdata
DSL Director Lauren Coats was awarded an NEH grant with co-PI Emily McGinn (University of Georgia) to lead an Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities Institute focused on “Textual Data and Digital Texts in the Undergraduate Classroom.”

The DSL has also provided graduate student assistants for several projects, including Coastal Voices, archaeological open data publication, and a robot writing teacher. Contact us if you would like help developing your digital scholarship project.