Projects

Digital projects made in collaboration with the DREAM Lab

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The digital projects listed on this page represent research and teaching innovation partnerships and collaboration  between the University of Oregon faculty, students, staff, and the UO Libraries.

Are you interested in starting a research or teaching innovation partnership and collaboration? Learn more about the DREAM Lab’s consultation services to start a conversation.

Outliers and Outlaws

Mount Hood Stories

Here you will find research conducted by graduate students in Prof. Sarah D. Wald’s, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and English, University of Oregon graduate seminar ENG 660: Racial Ecologies in collaboration with Bark and UO Libraries DREAM Lab.  The goal of this community service oriented digital project is to tell stories that provide new or alternative ways for advocates, users, and land managers for Mt. Hood National Forest to grapple with Mt. Hood’s pasts, presents, and futures.  These stories will be featured Bark’s annual People’s Forest Forum held online December 9, 2021.

Sarah Wald, Kate Thornhill, UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Librarian, Gabrielle Hayden, UO Libraries Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian, and Courtney Rae, Associate Director of Bark are the central initiators and collaborators in this project.

Thank you to the Free Mt. Hood Committee and all Bark volunteers and staff for your trust and attention. The project creators also acknowledge the Center for Environmental Futures, PNW Just Futures Initiative, the Department of English, and the Program in Environmental Studies at UO for their support.

Launching December 2021
Technologies Used: ESRI StoryMaps, WordPress

Outliers and Outlaws

The Eugene Lesbian History Project is a community-based, digital humanities project that preserves and shares the unique history of the lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. The project includes filmed oral histories with 83 narrators, a digital exhibit, and a short documentary film. It was lead by Professor Judith Raiskin, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Linda Long, Curator of Manuscripts with funding and partnership support from the UO Libraries, Boxcar Assembly, Center for the Study of Women and Society, University of Oregon, Tom and Carol Williams Fund for Undergraduate Education, University of Oregon; Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon; Oregon Humanities Center, the University of Oregon; and Oregon Cultural Trust. In 2021, the project was awarded the Oregon Heritage Commission’s Excellence Award.

Launched February 2021
Technologies Used: WordPress, Divi, Oregon Digital

COVID-19 written in pencil making an abstract image

Led by UO Libraries faculty member Tina Ching in consultation with UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Services and Data Services, The History of Oregon’s So-Called “Sanctuary Law” brings forward historically significant documents related to the 1987 Oregon State Legislature passed HB 2314 law. This pioneering Oregon law has become a model for states looking to restrict local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

Launched February 2021
Technologies Used: WordPress, Timeline JS, Open Science, Framework

Talking Stories

Talking Stories is an encyclopedia of traditional ecological knowledge encoded in hunter-gatherer storytelling. Created by Dr. Michelle Scalise Sugiyama and UO Libraries with support from the UO First Year Programs, first year undergraduate students worked with faculty partners to develop an open educational resource. The project is dedicated to raising awareness of hunter-gatherer literary traditions and ecological knowledge and encouraging their incorporation into Western teaching.

Launched February 2021
Technologies Used: WordPress, Divi

Madness Outside In: Morningside Hospital, American Psychiatry, and the Evolving Nation in the mid-20th Century is an Andrew W. Mellon Project sponsored project by Professor Mary Wood, Department of English and Professor Kristin Yarris, Department of Global Studies, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the UO Libraries. The project aims to examine mid-20th century American psychiatry through a case study of the Morningside Hospital, which operated in Portland, Oregon, from 1903-1963.

Launched December 2020
Technologies Used: WordPress, Divi, Panopto

United Collections: Open Resources for Teaching Special and Museum Collections is an Andrew W. Mellon Project sponsored project coordinated by Daphne Gallager, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies/Senior Lecturer of Anthropology. It results from a collaboration between the UO Libraries and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, which took shape as an open curriculum that introduces and explores significant issues in collections acquisition, care, access, and digitization.

 

Launched December 2020
Technologies Used: WordPress, Divi

Tekagami and Kyōgire

Tekagami and Kyōgire is a digital exhibition sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Project. Led by Akiko Walley, Maude I. Kerns Associate Professor of Japanese Art, in coordination and direction from the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, it features the University of Oregon Japanese Calligraphy Collection and history of East Asian calligraphy.

 

Launched December 2020
Technologies Used: Omeka S, Midador
COVID-19 written in pencil making an abstract image

During the COVID-19 Spring 2020 term, the UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Services department pivoted from in-person operations to remote work. DREAM Lab student employees worked to explore and rebuild pre-existing digital projects (2018-2020) that were built through partnerships and grant funding by librarians, technologists, and UO faculty. With coaching and supervision by Digital Scholarship Services librarians student workers learned and practiced the basics of building a digital scholarship project, and consulted with other specialists in the UO Libraries.

Launched June 2020
Technologies Used: WordPress, Omeka, Spotlight
Caribbean Women Healers is a collaborative research project developed and lead by Professor Ana-Maurine Lara (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Professor Alaí Reyes Santos (Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies). Since 2016 they have conducted ethnographic research with women healers in the Caribbean and the quickly expanding Caribbean diaspora in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Sponsored by UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center’s Faculty Grants Program. Keep up with how the project is being built via the Digital Scholarship project team website.
Launched April 2020
Technologies Used: WordPress, Panopto, StoryMap JS
Yōkai Senjafuda is a digital exhibition about ghosts and monsters in Japanese votive prints. Users can learn about the social worlds of printmakers and collectors and meet the ogres, demons, and magical creatures that haunt the UO’s world-class collection of senjafudaYōkai Senjafuda was led by Professor Glynne Walley and co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and University of Oregon Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. View the project summary.
Launched June 2019
Technologies Used: Omeka S
The Artful Fabric of Collecting is a digital exhibition about Gertrude Bass Warner’s fabulous collection of Chinese textiles in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Users can zoom into high-resolution images of richly embroidered garments and hangings. The Artful Fabric of Collecting was led by Professor Ina Asim and co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and University of Oregon Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. View the project summary.
Launched July 2019
Technologies Used: Omeka S, StoryMapJS, Internet Archive
Red Thread is a digital exhibit guide to the global journey traveled by red, from ochre to cochineal, and glass to coral. Student interpretations of objects from across campus collections, scholarly contextualization, map visualization, and suggested teaching and research resources will help you follow the thread. The Red Thread digital exhibit was led by Professor Vera Keller and sponsored by UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center’s Faculty Grants Program.
Launched March 2019
Technologies Used: Omeka S, StoryMapJS
The March is a digital exhibition about James Blue’s documentary film on the 1963 March on Washington. Users can explore the film’s history and meaning through archival documents, interviews, Oval Office recordings, and more. The March was led by Professor David A. Frank and co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and University of Oregon Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. View the project summary.
Launched January 2019
Technologies Used: WordPress, OHMS, Vimeo
A digital scholarship initiative telling the historical stories of underserved and underrepresented communities on the UO campus. Sponsored by the University of Oregon Libraries and collaboratively built through the UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Center.
Launched October 2018
Technologies Used: Omeka, Curatescape, Mapbox

TimeOnline

Collaboration with Honors College Professor Daniel Rosenberg as an extension of his book, Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline.
Launched 2016
Technologies Used: Javascript, HTML, CSS

We are the Face of Oaxaca

Project accompanying Prof. Lynn Stephen’s book, We are the Face of Oaxaca, published by Duke University Press

Launched: 2013
Technologies Used: WordPress

Time’s Pencil

Shakespeare After the Folio, digital exhibit with Lara Bovilsky
Launched: 2016
Technologies Used: Omeka
Student collected archives as part of the Latino Roots courses.
Launched: 2015
Technologies Used: Oregon Digital
Companion website for Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910 by History Prof. Julie Weise
Launched: 2015
Technologies Used: WordPress, Leaflet
Presentation of interactive map and timeline with Prof. Daisy-O’lice I. Williams and Kristi Potter
Launched: 2017
Technologies Used: Leaflet; Mapbox
Collaboration with Prof. Massimo Lollini integrated into the Oregon Petrarch Open Book Project
Launched: 2009
Technologies Used: Drupal, TEI