The Digital Archive Research Collective (DARC) is a platform that aims to address the needs of students, faculty, and communities working on archival research at The Graduate Center by facilitating communication across disciplines and institutional settings. Through this website, our working group, and our events DARC fosters community building among digital archivists, curators, and researchers at The Graduate Center.

This website contains information about various institutional resources (including funding), featured projects by students and faculty at the GC, and overviews of several archival methods, approaches, and tools. Feel free to create content, propose edits, and add your projects to our database.

Acknowledgments

DARC Logo: designed by Javier Otero Peña, Environmental Psychology

DARC is a project of GC Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center, CUNY. GCDI is a community of students, staff, and faculty distributed across centers, labs, initiatives, and academic programs who share an interest in digital scholarship and research. We offer events, workshops, office hours, faculty consultations, week-long institutes, and community-based working groups. Learn more about GCDI, our upcoming programming, and how to get involved on the GCDI website.

Past Events

Spring 2021

* March 8 – Param Ajmera: “Working with HathiTrust Data.”
* March 17 – Stefano Morello: “Choosing the Right Platform for Your Digital Archive“

Summer 2020

* August 18 – Stefano Morello: “Teaching with Omeka“

Spring 2020

* February 4 – “The Social Backend: Community-Driven Digital Archives and Exhibits,” a talk with Mary Rizzo (Rutgers University). 7-9pm. Skylight Room.
Do you want to connect the public with digital archives? In this talk, public historian and digital humanist Mary Rizzo will use her work on community-driven digital archives and exhibits to help you make those connections. Through case studies of exhibits on police reform and LGBTQ history, she will discuss how to work with communities and bring students into these projects.
Mary Rizzo is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of the forthcoming book, ”Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). She tweets as Rizzo_pubhist.

* February 5 – Filipa Calado: “Getting Started with TEI.”
* February 10 – Stefano Morello: “Tropy: Archival Research Photo Management.”
* March 4 – Di Yoong: “Using Audacity for Oral History.”
* April 23 – Param Ajmera: “Working with HathiTrust Data.”
* April 28 – Stephen Klein: “Omeka Slideshare”

Fall 2019

* October 8, 2019 – Kristen Hackett: “Cultivating a Digital Academic Identity with WordPress, the CUNY Academic Commons &/or Reclaim Hosting.”
* October 15, 2019 – Stefano Morello: “Introduction to Omeka.”

Spring 2018

* March 6, 2018 – “Kentucky Bourbon Tales: Oral History Project, Digital Archive and Documentary,” a talk with Doug Boyd (Part of the GCDI Sound Series).
* March 7, 2018 – Doug Boyd: “Doing Digital Oral History” Workshop (Part of the GCDI Sound Series).