Introduction to the DSGF Program

Author

Alice McGrath

Published

September 17, 2025

Agenda

  • Introductions
  • Program overview and logistics
  • What is Digital Scholarship?
  • Goals and learning plans
  • Overview of GitHub and Markdown

Notes

  • Charlie
    • In Istanbul in the Spring - remote participation options?
  • Jennifer
    • Meeting once a month
    • interested in project management
    • x-ray defraction peaks
    • historesis curves; magneting damping
    • origin software: https://www.originlab.com/
      • Peak analysis
    • Migrating excel data into origin - create a publishable graph that you can highlight
  • Workshops
    • Mapping & GIS
    • Project management
    • YouTube videos - explaining what we do // Digital Storytelling, video (+2)
    • Data visualization & digital literacy (+2)
    • Web development/publishing (+2)
      • File management & filenaming best practices
    • Digital Pedagogy
  • SMART goals
    • Make sure that your efforts are effective
    • It’s ok to reevaluate
    • Deadline: October 1 for a draft
  • Scheduling next meeting
    • Wednesday afternoons 2-3:30
    • Maybe: 2:30 to 4?
    • Tentatively: October 15
  • Research
    • Charlie: Art of the Byzantine Empire
      • 5th to 15th-century CE
      • Strategic position in the Mediterannean sea; interested in how it interacts with other cultures
      • Cross-cultural connections
      • Ecocriticism and environmental humanities
      • Churches carved into geologic formuations - rock structures made into churches and monestaries
      • Geologic maps & showing what kind of rocks are in the area
      • What data geologic maps are showing?
    • Jennifer: Quantum Mechanics Education & Sensing
      • Magnetic fields - transistors (millions of them) - logic gates
      • Generates heat!
      • Electrons can spin - what if we could do spin states instead of 1s and 0s?
      • Room-temperature cubit: superposition between 1 and 0; IBM has one but has to be super-cooled to be used
      • Magnetic Skyrmions - topological spin structures; can operate at room temperature

Reminders and action items