Digital research and teaching tool "Shakeosphere" welcoming new contributors

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

 

Shakeosphere logo

Shakeospeare: Mapping the Social Networks of Early Modern England, a digital research and teaching tool mapping early English records, will now crowdsource the project to students, researchers and citizen scholars.

The tool was created last year as a collaboration between English Professor Blaine Greteman and the Director of the School of Library and Information Science, David Eichmann. It maps the social network of early printers, publishers, authors, and booksellers that published written works in English before 1900. The tool is available online through the University of Iowa Libraries.

With a grant from the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, the Shakeosphere team has created an interface allowing students and researchers to annotate the website. Watch their instructional video below for more information and to sign up as a contributor.

 

 


The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.