Center for Digital Scholarship
Content related to projects, digitization efforts, or initiatives of the Center for Digital Scholarship.
August 20, 2021
The sketchbooks of Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) are digitized in their entirety and available to view in the APS digital library. Huxley was a...
July 22, 2021
The Revolutionary City project team continues to work behind the scenes to keep the project on track despite delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While...
April 15, 2021
Last spring, as part of the Open Data Initiative at the Center for Digital Scholarship, I worked with some of Philadelphia’s earliest, and possibly one...
March 31, 2021
Two newly digitized letters from the Julia Rush Letters, 1776-1809 were recently added to the American Philosophical Society’s digital library. As functionality and design testing...
March 25, 2021
The Center for Digital Scholarship is delighted to announce " Visualizing Colonial Philadelphia," an exciting look at historical urbanization created by 2020 APS Digital Humanities...
February 17, 2021
Since starting Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding, one word that has been on my mind is metadata. Metadata, as it relates to...
January 7, 2021
Welcome to the first monthly update on the Library & Museum of the American Philosophical Society’s new IMLS grant, Revolutionary City: A Portal to the...
December 17, 2020
In summer 2020, the APS received support to continue developing the Franklin Ledgers Project through a National Endowment for the Humanities: CARES grant. The APS...