Wexner 434
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge
Fri., May 3, 2024, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Ceilyn Boyd is the Dataverse Development Project Manager at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. At this session of Data + Donuts, Boyd will discuss the Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom (SAEF) Data Collection, an open access research dataset representing over 1200 items in Houghton Library’s SAEF collection. The SAEF Data Collection is Harvard Library’s first major endeavor to represent a significant print collection as data, supporting research methodologies involving computational analysis of images, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text, and machine-generated transcriptions of manuscript materials.

Gazette Classification: Diversity and Inclusion, Humanities, Information Technology
Organization/Sponsor: HKS Library & Research Services
Speaker(s): Ceilyn Boyd, Dataverse Development Project Manager, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University
Cost: Free
Ticket Web Link: hksexeced.tfaforms.net…
Contact Info: Alessandra Seiter, alessandra_seiter@hks.harvard.edu
Harvard Key Required: No