News: Data & digital scholarship

NEH Grant Will Support DataLab’s Completion of 17th Century “Street Poetry” Digitization Project

The DataLab at the UC Davis Library has received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the most comprehensive digital humanities project of

Dryad–a data repository for UC Davis researchers

Less than two years ago I wrote a blog post about UC Davis researchers receiving access to a campus instance of the Dash data repository. We added this service

Getty Foundation Awards UC Davis DataLab $274,500 to Advance Groundbreaking Image Recognition Technology

The DataLab at the UC Davis Library, led by executive director Carl Stahmer, has been awarded a two-year, $274,500 grant by the Getty Foundation to tackle one of the

Library Spotlight: Carl G. Stahmer

Carl G. Stahmer, PhD is the Director of Digital Scholarship at the UC Davis Library. He oversees a variety of digital initiatives on campus, and has worked in the digital

Time-lapse Video Shows Smoke Plumes from Wildfires

Using satellite imagery, the UC Davis Library collaborated with the UC Davis Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) to create the four-day time-lapse video below. The video, also

Student Maps WWII Stories

UC Davis student Arthur Koehl (Computer Science, History and Economics ’17) created a website for his senior project that maps the stories of soldiers who fought in World War II.