Featured Digital Projects & Publications

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Archivo Afro

A bilingual English/Spanish website linking to primary source materials related to the Chocó region of Colombia, the Colombian Pacific, and the African diaspora.

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Printing in Prisons

This website explores the use of printing presses at Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) from the 1890s through the prison’s closure in 1970.

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Additional Digital Projects & Publications

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Contributors: Cassandra Hradil, Quinn Gruber, Alisha Kumar, Mia Kim  
Description: DoubleSpeak is the University of Pennsylvania’s only journal for literary translation and the only literary translation journal in the country run by undergraduate students. Founded over a decade ago, our annual (print and online) journal celebrates a range of languages and cultures through thoughtful curation of poets across centuries and around the world. We publish translations of poems both little-known and internationally beloved, from a profound variety of languages and dialects. Along with the original on the facing page, each translation is accompanied by a biographical note about the poet and a substantial “translator’s note,” in which the contributor reflects on particular challenges of the translation process.  
Project partners and sponsors: Price Lab for Digital Humanities, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania Student Activities Council

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Contributors: Prof. Julia Heim, Prof. Samantha Gillen, Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Cassandra Hradil, Andy Janco 
Description: PRIMA is an interactive Open Educational Resource designed for Italian language learning and instruction through searchable media clips, short narratives, and pedagogical resources. 
Project partners and sponsors: Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, Penn Arts & Sciences Language Center

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Contributors: Nat DiFrank, Che Gossett, Cassandra Hradil, Cynthia Heider, Nat Rivkin, Liz Rose, Eva Pensis

Description: The Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project (PTOHP) is a community engagement initiative that preserves and makes publicly accessible the stories of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people.

Project partners and sponsors: The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies (FQT Center), Price Lab for Digital Humanities, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation

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AI Literacy Interest Group

Connect with a vibrant community of mindful practitioners, stay informed about the latest AI news, and explore responsible use-cases of AI in the real world.

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Manuscript Collections As Data Research Group

A team from the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS), Cultural Heritage Computing, and Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS) is working to facilitate Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) to transcribe research materials from Penn Libraries’ digitized manuscript collections using AI technologies.

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