The LDL as Data Fellowship was generously funded by the Collections as Data team and Mellon Foundation funds re-granted through the University of Nevada Las Vegas. The fellowship was part of the LDL as Data project, which fosters the ethical use of the digital library’s historic state collections as data by supporting research and teaching that uses digital tools and methods to approach LDL materials in novel ways. For more about ethical approaches to collections as data, see the Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data. 

Below, find links to each fellow's digital project, along with recordings of each presentation from the 2021 Brown Bag with the LDL Fellows series.

Projects:

Kure Croker, Special Collections Registrar and Archivist at Loyola University's Monroe Library

Mapping Post-WWII New Orleans Commercial Areas Using the Charles L. Franck and Franck-Bertacci Photograph Collections Data

This digital map utilizes LDL images and metadata from the Franck - Bertacci Photographers Collection and is built with Google MyMaps. The resulting map highlights the use of image collections and associated metadata to illustrate the changing urban environment over time. Check back in the future as the map is populated with additional locations.

View a recording of Kure presenting on this work, and Jen Cramer talk about the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History.

Isabelle Haines, senior majoring in math and English at Tulane University

A Sonic Map of New Orleans

This digital map of iconic New Orleans sounds demonstrates how audio data from the LDL can be geographically visualized using ArcGIS StoryMaps. 

View a recording of Isabelle presenting on her work. Molly Niall Mitchell also talks to us about Freedom on the Move, a database of fugitives from North American slavery.

Victoria Elmwood, User Experience and Outreach Librarian at Loyola University's Monroe Library

The Bawdy Web: Mapping Primary Digital Resources for the Study of Sex Work in New Orleans

The Bawdy Web is a digital humanities mapping project that works to uncover the demimonde of prostitution and other sex work in New Orleans as far back as the antebellum period. Though far from an exhaustive accounting of the industry's stature within the city, The Bawdy Web provides a background account of the sex trade in New Orleans that highlights existing digital and print resources for students and researchers. This project grows out of a larger, non cloud-based mapping project entitled The Bawdy Trade, links to which can be found in The Bawdy Web.

View a recording of Victoria presenting on her work. We also hear from Kate Shuster, PhD, who works with The Hard History Project and Teaching Hard History.

Alexandra Chiasson, PhD candidate in English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at LSU

Coming soon: Gender, Sexuality, and the 1825 Civil Code of Louisiana: A Text Encoding Project

View a recording of Alexandra presenting her text encoding project, which makes the Civil Code of Louisiana (1825) more available for future analysis. Additionally, Caitlin Cooper gives us a quick tour of new items in Delgado Community College's collections.