| Andrew J. Torget Director, Digital Scholarship Lab University of Richmond |
Robert K. Nelson Associate Director University of Richmond |
Two new projects will be discussed: “Voting America” and the “History Engine.” Both projects experiment with what the future of teaching and research might be in the digital age. “Voting America” employs visualizations and cinematic techniques to make a massive amount of data–the 1.6 billion votes that have been cast in presidential elections during the last 164 years–more accessible to students of history and politics. The “History Engine” captures the research of undergraduate students and aggregates their work to produce a very detailed, very large resource about the American past, one that is valuable both to students within the classroom and to a larger public. Both projects are designed to model how colleges and universities might seize new opportunities and meet the challenges presented by digitized resources and digital techniques.
http://americanpast.richmond.edu/voting/
http://historyengine.richmond.edu
Handout (MS Word)