A picture of me on Juliet's balcony in Verona, Italy while studying abroad during the Spring of 2015.
Nicole Lottig is a December 2015 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Gender Studies. She also studied abroad in the Spring of 2015 at Maynooth University, where she obtained a Certificate in Irish Studies. She got interested in Digital Humanities in the Fall of 2015 when taking Dr. Elisa Beshero-Bondar's Coding and Digital Archives course. Nicole then worked under Dr. Beshero-Bondar as the Technical Assistant for Pitt-Greensburg's Digital Humanities' Center for the Digital Text, where she helped with the Spring 2016 Coding and Data Visualization course by creating new exercises and advising students. She also tutored students in Algebra and Preparation for Business Caluclus in Pitt-Greensburg's Learning Resources Center. Nicole was a Academic Programs International Campus Advocate for Pitt-Greensburg, where she works with the University's Study Abroad Office. She obtained a part time position at the Allegany County Library System as a Circulation Assistant before buying the Mountaineer Cafe LLC in Berlin, Pennsylvania with Roger Miller. She is now working full time at Baker's Home and Garden Center and managing the Mountaineer Cafe LLC. Nicole will be attending Clarion University online to gain her Master of Science in Information and Library Science in the Fall of 2017.
Curriculum Vitae
Digital Scholarship:
- Emily Dickinson is a repurposed version of two previous websites that explore the poems in Dickinson's Fascicle 16. The original website Translating Emily: Digitally Re-Presenting Fascicle 16 by Michele lerardi Ferrari was overhauled into Emily Dickinson: Fascicle 16 by Dr. Beshero-Bondar in order to keep Ferrari's original content alive. The original websites look at variants within the poems that Dickinson herself had made. Our group uses TEI-based XML text encoding to compare the changes that were made to the poems by a selected list of published versions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our team completely refurbished the original content and display our own findings. In refurbishing the existing websites, we displayed Dickinson's variants alongside the variants used in the published versions using CSS and Javascript. I helped to create photoshopped images that show where the variants are located on the scanned images of the poems, as well as creating image-maps that point to Dickinson's original content. Our findings included a dash analysis that compared the percentage of dash reduction in the published versions of the poems to Dickinson's original dash usage. A fellow colleague, Brooke Stewart, and I created an SVG graph that shows this dash reduction. After a semester of working on the Emily Dickinson project, Brooke and I expanded it to include Fascicle 6. I am currently working to expand the project to include all 40 of Dickinson fascicles. Please look at the Dickinson GitHub page for details of what we did and issues we had. Brooke and I showcased the Emily Dickinson project at Keystone DH at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during June of 2016.
- The Restoration of Nell Nelson is a historically-based digital humanities project run by Rebecca Parker. This project recognizes the forgotten accomplishments and language of a woman reporter in nineteenth century Chicago using TEI-based XML text encoding to analyze the articles' parts of speech as well as geographic places and types of people. I am an editor and have transcribed articles as well as did much research about nineteenth century businesses in Chicago and located them on a recent map as well as on a map from 1889. Rebecca and I participated in ILiADS at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York during July of 2016.
- Please visit my GitHub page.