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Student Projects

This page archives student projects on newtFire chronologically. In 2020, newtFire hosted projects developed by students from sibling courses at two universities: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. At Penn State Behrend, student projects are developed under the aegis of the Digital Media, Arts, and Technology (PSU DIGIT) major, while those at Pitt-Greensburg are part of the Center for the Digital Text and Digital Studies undergraduate certificate program (UPG CDT). Student projects prior to 2020 were developed in the University of Pittsburgh system. Several of the projects here ceased development with the termination of a semester (especially those constructed prior to 2015), but others have continued active development.

Please see also student projects developed on Obdurodon.org through the University of Pittsburgh Honors College. The projects represented on Obdurodon and newtFire are part of a coalition of Pitt and Penn State text encoding courses that maintain a long-standing tradition of interchange and mutual support.

Spring 2024

DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Advanced Digital Creations (Digit 409), Data Visualization (Digit 410), Game Development (Game 480), Technical Game Development (Game 250), Large-Scale Text Analysis (Digit 210), and Electronic Music Composition (Music 458)

Fall 2023

DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Fall 2023 DIGIT 110 (Text Encoding), GAME 180N, GAME 420, and GAME 480, plus senior and Schreyer Honors College projects

Spring 2023

DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Spring 2023 DIGIT 210 (Text Analysis), and DIGIT 409 (Advanced Digital Creations).

Fall 2022

DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Spring 2022 DART 204 (Animation Fundamentals), INART 258A (Fundamentals of Digital Audio), DIGIT 210 (Text Analysis), and DIGIT 409 (Advanced Digital Creations).

Spring 2022

DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring senior design projects and course projects from Spring 2022 DART 204 (Animation Fundamentals), INART 258A (Fundamentals of Digital Audio), DIGIT 210 (Text Analysis), and DIGIT 409 (Advanced Digital Creations).

Fall 2021

DIGIT Works Student Showcase: featuring student project presentations by DIGIT students from Video Art and Time-Based Media, Text Encoding, Digital Project Design, and Senior / Honors projects.

Spring 2021

DIGIT Works schedule: a series of events in April 2021, featuring the spring art show, a panel on Life after DIGIT by DIGIT alumni, together with project presentations by senior DIGIT majors, and projects from Modeling & Simulation, Large-Scale Text Analysis, and Advanced Digital Creations classes.

Fall 2020

DIGIT Project Showcase event schedule: combining student presentations in DIGIT 110, 400, and PHOTO 200: 11 December 2020 @ 10:05am - 1:15pm (Zoom).

Spring 2020

Coding and Data Visualization

• Teen Titans, continued from last semester. [GitHub]
  Lauren McNeill, Shannon Dunn, and Amber Peddicord
• Brand New. [GitHub]
  Benjamin Crawford, Bryant Bolyen, and Robert Pernell
• Rocket Launches. [GitHub]
  Robert Fencil and Bianca Maginley
• Woodbury Clay Papers. [GitHub]
  Connor Chinoy

Fall 2019

Coding and Digital Archives

• Brecon Collegiate Church and School. [GitHub]
  Bill Campbell, Amber Peddicord, and Connor Chinoy
• CO2 Emission and Deforestation. [GitHub]
  Lewis Abida-Nda, Jeshua Anderson, and Anthony Socci
• Operation Barbarossa. [GitHub]
  Dylan More and Matt Nowakowski
• Teen Titans. [GitHub]
  Lauren McNeill and Shannon Dunn
• Undertale. [GitHub]
  Alexis Williams, Bobby Pernell, and Benjamin Hill

Spring 2019

Coding and Data Visualization

• The Banksy Project: develops a database and map of Banksy’s graffiti tags, sculptures, exhibitions, paintings, and books. [GitHub]
  Alyssa Argento, James Farley, and Abdual Nadeem
• Bloodborne Lore: analyzes motifs, objects, and settings of the game Bloodborne Lore. [GitHub]
  Frank Koshinskie, Donald Denne, and Nathan Dietz
• Pokemon Map: plots and evaluates Pokemon types, availability, and scarcity in the Pokemon world. [GitHub]
  Jacob Gonos and Alan Chen
• The Ulysses Project: investigates literary allusions, and references in James Joyce’s Ulysses and maps them to locations in 1904 Dublin. [GitHub]
  Fiona Carter, Kiara De Vore, Brad Thomas

Fall 2018

Coding and Digital Archives

• The First Circumnavigators: studies the logs and maps the voyages of Ferdinand Magellan. [GitHub]
  Brad Thomas, Rachel Garstecki, and Justin Campbell
• William Combe: A literary analysis: archives publications, investigates style, and plots a timeline of William Combe’s writings from the 1770s to the 1820s. [GitHub]
  Dorothea Lint and Alyssa Argento
• Washington Papers: investigates the diaries and letters of George Washington. [GitHub]
  Kiara De Vore and Juliana Moeslein

Spring 2018

Coding and Data Visualization

Spring 2018 Greensburg students present their projects together with students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus in the Cathedral of Learning on Friday morning April 19 beginning at 9am, according to the posted presentation schedule.

• Akira: A Textual Analysis: a significant upgrade of the available digital resources on the 1988 Japanese animated movie, with analysis of its characters and power networks. [GitHub]
  Nicholas Pcsolar and Mark Raschiatore
• Rick and Morty: investigates and organizes the intricate time traveling references in the Rick and Morty animated TV series. [GitHub]
  Dorothea Lint and Allyson Hall
• Overholt Diary: an analysis of Karl Overholt’s diary about the West Overton Mennonite Community in Scottdale, PA. Thanks to the West Overton Village and Museum for access to the original diary, scanned and digitized by the newtfire team. [GitHub]
  Alex Fell and Garrett Joiner

Digital Humanities Advanced Praxis Group

In addition to the Coding and Data Visualization class, a group of advanced students from Greensburg and Pittsburgh met virtually once per week in Spring 2018 to review and refresh their skills and to build new projects and update their ongoing work on newtfire. The new projects include:

• La Lega Toscana di Protezione: A social, spatial, and linguistic study: archives and investigates documents from 1919 to 1925 of the Lega Toscana di Protezione, a beneficial society of Italian immigrants living in the Pittsburgh area. The documents are provided by the Heinz History Center, the full team of researchers includes members of students and faculty in the French, Spanish, and Italian Department at the University of Pittsburgh, and the digital work of the project is led and managed by Zachary Enick, a Pitt student and collaborator with the Greensburg and Pittsburgh DH instructor teams from Fall 2017. [GitHub]
  Zachary Enick
• A linguistic study of Gertrude Stein’s Miss Furr Miss Skeene, conducted for a senior thesis project in English Literature: [GitHub]
  Jonathan Horanic

Additionally, the Advanced Praxis Group supervised Melissa Klamer, a member of the Digital Mitford project team and PhD student at Michigan State University, in her learning of TEI and the XML family of languages to develop her digital edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s journal for her PhD thesis. Ongoing projects continued by members of the Advanced Praxis group this semester include Hamilton led by Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer and the Lope de Vega Project led by Prof. Stacey Triplette.

Fall 2017

Coding and Digital Archives

This semester, the students in our sibling course at the Pittsburgh campus worked with newtFire course materials, developed projects on newtfire, and advised on each other's work. We list Pittsburgh projects together with Greensburg student projects.

Greensburg:

• The Harlem Renaissance Poetry Project: investigates punctuation and figurative language in a collection by Harlem Renaissance poets Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. [GitHub]
  Kaylee Stinebiser, Elizabeth Laughlin, and Tylar Lyons
• War of Currents: investigates the contesting views and language used for alternating vs. direct currents in the early years of planning electrical power grids. [GitHub]
  Allyson Hall, Aaron Newton, and Jamie Downey

Pittsburgh:

• Portuguese WhatsApp: investigating linguistic patterns in a Portuguese text-messaging app.[GitHub]
  Brandon Rodgers, Patrick Brooks, Tyler Bokan, and Zachary Enick
• 90s Rap: a linguistic investigation of rap music of the 1990s. [GitHub]
  Monica Felix and Wesley Ho

Spring 2017

Coding and Data Visualization

• The Hamilton Project: studies the lyrics of Hamilton: The Musical, using network analysis to survey who is sung about by which characters, and mapping the locations referenced. [GitHub]
  Audrey Hunker and Briana Filer
• News Analysis Project: comparatively analyzes the usage of emotional language in reporting from four major news sources; FOX News, CNN, BBC, and NPR. [GitHub]
  Samantha McGuigan, Aaron Newton, and Jonathan Horanic

Fall 2016

Coding and Digital Archives

• The Graveyard Project: digitally mapping and curating historic Brush Creek Cemetery, Irwin, PA [GitHub]
  Jon Horanic, Lauren McGuigan, and Jared Kramer
• The Lope de Vega Project: analyzing language and contexts of plays and prose by Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio [GitHub]
  Stacey Triplette, Madison Bredice, and Audrey Hunker
• Eldritch Project: analyzing exotic words in H. P. Lovecraft's writings [GitHub]
  Matthew Burch, Patrick Herron, and Evan Tatarka

Spring 2016

Coding and Data Visualization

• Decameron [GitHub]
  Jessica Milewski, Lauren McGuigan, Matthew Burch, and Megan Mills
• Emily Dickinson: Fascicles 6 and 16 (Semester 2) [GitHub for Fascicle 6] [GitHub for Fascicle 16]
  Nicole Lottig and Brooke Stewart
• The Restoration of Nell Nelson (Semester 3) [GitHub]
  Rebecca Parker and Rob Spadafore

Digital Humanities Project Showcase Schedule

During the week of April 18-22, Pitt-Greensburg students presented their semester Digital Humanities projects together with students in Prof. David J. Birnbaum’s Computational Methods in the Humanities course. The event presented a conference opportunity for the Pittsburgh and Greensburg Digital Humanities students to share their work, respond to questions, and gain feedback from each other and from instructors in both courses as they completed their project work for the semester.

Fall 2015

Coding and Digital Archives

• Emily Dickinson: Fascicle 16 [GitHub]
  Alex Mielnicki, Nicole Lottig, Brooke Lawrence, and Brooke Stewart
• Phase 2: The Restoration of Nell Nelson: An Investigation of the Chicago Times’ Series: “City Slave Girls” (Semester 2) [GitHub]
  Rebecca Parker, Rob Spadafore, Cody Karch, and Kari Womack

Fall 2014

Digital Humanities

• YouTube Comment Analysis
  Justin Harvey, Anna Howard
• The Restoration of Nell Nelson: An Investigation of the Chicago Daily Times’ Series: “City Slave Girls” (Year 1) [GitHub]
  Rebecca Parker, Shane Daube
• Episocopal Church Schism in Pittsburgh
  Cassie Miller, Ryan Brooks
• Studying Referentiality in Frank O’Hara’s Poetry [GitHub]
  Luke McDermott

Fall 2013

Digital Humanities

Students’ project work involved expanding the Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures site, launched in Spring 2013 by a student-faculty team from two University of Pittsburgh campuses.