The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling the Collaborative Spirit(s)

The James Merrill Digital Archive (JMDA) is comprised of digitized Ouija board session transcripts, poem drafts, and other materials toward Merrill’s epic narrative poem, “The Book of Ephraim,” part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Divine Comedies. The JMDA is the result of expertise and input of many collaborators across the Washington University campus. Shannon Davis and Joel Minor will speak on various aspects of the ongoing project, including successful cross-campus collaboration, employing student workers to perform high-level encoding and exhibit curation, and how Omeka was used to develop the digital archive.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1014/thumbnail.jp

The James Merrill Digital Archive: Channeling the Collaborative Spirit(s)

The James Merrill Digital Archive, comprised of Merrill’s poetry drafts, typescripts, and Ouija board session transcripts, is the result of expertise and input of many collaborators across the Washington University campus. Shannon Davis and Joel Minor will speak on various aspects of the project, including successful cross-campus collaboration, employing student workers to perform high level encoding and exhibit curation, and how Omeka was used to develop the digital archive. - Shannon Davis, Digital Projects Librarian, and Joel Minor, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscriptshttps://openscholarship.wustl.edu/lib_present/1001/thumbnail.jp

Session 4: James Merrill: Life and Archive

2:45 p.m. — Session 4: James Merrill: Life and Archive An introduction to James Merrill resources in Washington University Special Collections. See http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/merrill-life-archiv

Panel: Collaboration and Digital Projects

In 2011 the University of Iowa Libraries began crowdsourcing the digital transcription of its manuscript archives. Four years and over 50,000 transcribed pages later, that project, known as DIY History, has garnered considerable internet attention via Buzzfeed, Twitter, Tumblr, and the NBC News blog. At the same time, it has been threaded into undergraduate classrooms at Iowa as a means of introducing students to primary source research, information literacy, and multimodal design. Matt Gilchrist and Tom Keegan will discuss how faculty members and librarians collaborated on an assignment that emphasizes course objectives while strengthening student connections to the UI Libraries. That assignment, Archives Alive!, resulted from a partnership between DIY History and Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning (IDEAL). Students are asked to transcribe a document, compose a brief rhetorical analysis and historical contextualization of it, and create screencasts of their work. By making use of narrative primary source material like letters and diary entries, Archives Alive! helps students see themselves in research material. Building an assignment around the crowdsourcing model provides students with two attitudes important to project success: a sense of ownership (through crowdsourced participation) and a sense of purpose (through a dynamic assignment with a real audience). The success of the project rests upon a flexible, design-centered approach to program structure that fosters an audience for library collections while asking students to create work with the public in mind. Paul Soderdahl will discuss the administrative considerations and costs in moving digital library operations from project to program. The UI Libraries have made deliberate efforts over the past several years to achieve this transition – in particular a reorganization of Digital Library Services into Digital Research and Publishing. He will also discuss the relative leap of faith and return on investment associated with large-scale digitization projects and audience engagement. The James Merrill Digital Archive (JMDA) is comprised of digitized Ouija board session transcripts, poem drafts, and other materials toward Merrill’s epic narrative poem, “The Book of Ephraim,” part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Divine Comedies. The JMDA is the result of expertise and input of many collaborators across the Washington University campus. Shannon Davis and Joel Minor will speak on various aspects of the ongoing project, including successful cross-campus collaboration, employing student workers to perform high-level encoding and exhibit curation, and how Omeka was used to develop the digital archive

Panel: Collaboration and Digital Projects

In 2011 the University of Iowa Libraries began crowdsourcing the digital transcription of its manuscript archives. Four years and over 50,000 transcribed pages later, that project, known as DIY History, has garnered considerable internet attention via Buzzfeed, Twitter, Tumblr, and the NBC News blog. At the same time, it has been threaded into undergraduate classrooms at Iowa as a means of introducing students to primary source research, information literacy, and multimodal design. Matt Gilchrist and Tom Keegan will discuss how faculty members and librarians collaborated on an assignment that emphasizes course objectives while strengthening student connections to the UI Libraries. That assignment, Archives Alive!, resulted from a partnership between DIY History and Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning (IDEAL). Students are asked to transcribe a document, compose a brief rhetorical analysis and historical contextualization of it, and create screencasts of their work. By making use of narrative primary source material like letters and diary entries, Archives Alive! helps students see themselves in research material. Building an assignment around the crowdsourcing model provides students with two attitudes important to project success: a sense of ownership (through crowdsourced participation) and a sense of purpose (through a dynamic assignment with a real audience). The success of the project rests upon a flexible, design-centered approach to program structure that fosters an audience for library collections while asking students to create work with the public in mind. Paul Soderdahl will discuss the administrative considerations and costs in moving digital library operations from project to program. The UI Libraries have made deliberate efforts over the past several years to achieve this transition – in particular a reorganization of Digital Library Services into Digital Research and Publishing. He will also discuss the relative leap of faith and return on investment associated with large-scale digitization projects and audience engagement. The James Merrill Digital Archive (JMDA) is comprised of digitized Ouija board session transcripts, poem drafts, and other materials toward Merrill’s epic narrative poem, “The Book of Ephraim,” part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Divine Comedies. The JMDA is the result of expertise and input of many collaborators across the Washington University campus. Shannon Davis and Joel Minor will speak on various aspects of the ongoing project, including successful cross-campus collaboration, employing student workers to perform high-level encoding and exhibit curation, and how Omeka was used to develop the digital archive

Contexto bioético de la venta de misoprostol en las farmacias y boticas del Perú

La presente es una investigación bibliográfica y tuvo como objetivos describir, comprender y analizar el contexto bioético de la venta del misoprostol en las farmacias y boticas del Perú. Se analizó la documentación científica así como oficial de instituciones públicas y privadas, nacionales e internacionales, como los riesgos para la salud y vida de la mujer del uso del misoprostol de manera clandestina, la vigencia de este medicamento en las terapias como protector de la mucosa gástrica, su venta en las farmacias y boticas de manera oficial y clandestina. Los resultados indicaron que sí existen por la venta del misoprostol al público transgresiones contra principios bioéticos y regulatorios que ponen en riesgo la vida y la salud de la mujer y del concebido. Las conclusiones proponen alternativas a los problemas bioéticos que plantea este medicamento en su venta en farmacias y boticas del Perú.Tesi

Book Review: Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief

In the latter half of the nineteenth century a deadly clash of cultures swept across the Great Plains of this continent. Perhaps no tribe resisted the Euro-American invasion more fiercely than the Lakota bands of Sioux, and perhaps no one embodied this resistance for the Euro-American public more than Red Cloud

The incursion of the scientists diplomats in the 20th century: two mexican experiences

Tema del mesEste artículo reflexiona sobre un tipo particular de experto, que se denominará aquí científico diplomático, término que refiere a los científicos que intervienen en la diplomacia en el marco de una nueva forma de entablar y ejercer las relaciones internacionales en el siglo XX. Se analizarán dos casos ilustrativos de la presencia internacional de científicos diplomáticos mexicanos: Francisco de Paula Miranda (1890-1950) como experto en nutrición y Manuel Sandoval Vallarta (1899-1977) como delegado en la creación de la Comisión de Energía Atómica de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Ambos fueron reconocidos por el gobierno mexicano como expertos en sus respectivas disciplinas científicas (nutrición y física), designándolos como representantes ante organismos internacionales. Estos casos ilustran el surgimiento de este tipo de experto en el cruce entre ciencia y diplomacia, así como el papel de los científicos en la conformación de redes internacionales de conocimiento y en la geopolítica internacional.This article reflects on a particular type of expert, the scientist diplomat, term used here to refer to the scientists who were involved in diplomacy as part of a new way to engage in and to practice international relations in the 20th century. Hence, we analyze two exemplary cases of the international presence of Mexican scientific diplomats: Francisco de Paula Miranda (1890-1950) as an expert in nutrition and Manuel Sandoval Vallarta (1899-1977) as a delegate to the creation of the United Nations Commission of Atomic Energy. The Mexican government recognized both as experts in their respective scientific disciplines (nutrition and physics), designating them as representatives to international organizations. These cases illustrate the emergence of this type of expert in the intersections of science and diplomacy, as well as the role of scientists in the development of international networks of knowledge and geopolitics