Freedman Fellows ShowCASE

Sponsored by the Kelvin Smith Library, the Freedman Fellows ShowCASE will feature Case Western Reserve University faculty presentations on how they use the latest digital scholarship tools to address the questions and challenges facing the world. The event will be held Thursday, March 29, at noon in the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library.

About the presentations

Sexual Assault Kit Initiative

Rachel Lovell and Misty Luminais, senior research associates at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Education and Research, have collected data from more than 500 backlogged sexual assault kits from Cuyahoga County dating from 1993 to 2009. Using The Freedman Center’s ArcGIS visual mapping software, Lovell and Luminais explored the spatial relationships between attackers, victims and the surrounding environment. By exploring the geographical data and making it available to the public, they aim to be a resource to criminology circles where data at this level of detail has not been seen before.

TEI encoded analysis of “The Image of Irelande”

Denna Iammarino, a lecturer in the English department, is preserving and transcribing John Derricke’s “The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne,” a 16th-century manuscript. By creating the first-ever digital edition of this work, Ianmmarino built digital learning tools around the text. Her goal is to make the text accessible beyond academia, taking a rare, understudied text and reviving a significant piece of literary history.

New biblical meanings in the Hebrew Book of Genesis

Timothy Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and chair of the Department of Religious Studies, is interested in changing the way we consume biblical translations in a post-print media world. He argues that traditional translations cannot explore the rich ambiguities and inconclusive nature of literary texts. Using Python, a programming language, Beal is developing a program that will take text from the Hebrew Book of Genesis and find new ways to explore various translations. For more information, contact Kelvin Smith Library staff at freedmancenter@case.edu or 216.368.0932. View the Facebook event page.