Projects

Current Projects

The Anne Whitney Archive Project

Entering its second year, the Anne Whitney Archive Project is a collaboration between the Wellesley College Archives, the Digital Scholarship Initiatives Program, and Professor Jacqueline Musacchio of the Art Department. The first phase of the project involved digitization of a segment of the correspondence of 19th Century artist Anne Whitney held by the Wellesley College Archives for use in Professor Musacchio's Fall 2012 seminar, Art, Tourism, and Gender in Late Nineteenth Century Italy. Students worked with the originals and digital surrogates of these primary source documents to conduct their original research.

In the second phase of the project, the DSI will be building a web-based scholarly archive of the Whitney materials using the Omeka open-source platform. It will house the letters, scholarship about Whitney, and digital exhibits such as maps of her European travels and timelines illustrating her career. 

The Port Cities of the Indian Ocean Project

DSI staff is collaborating with History Department faculty members Lidwien Kapteijns and Nikhil Rao on their new seminar, History 396, The Port Cities of the Indian Ocean, to incorporate elements of digital scholarship into the course assignments and to build a resource for future iterations of the seminar. The project will illuminate the rich geographic, temporal, and multidisciplinary content of the seminar materials.