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Faces Behind the Data, Anna He and the Harvard Geospatial Library

Faces Behind the Data, Anna He and the Harvard Geospatial Library

Dec 20, 2024 · Anna He · Belle Lipton · 7 mins read

Get to know the newest member of the Harvard Map Collection, Anna He, in a discussion about the future of the Harvard Geospatial Library.

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Mapping Land Use Change in the Sacramento San-Joaquin River Delta

Mapping Land Use Change in the Sacramento San-Joaquin River Delta

Aug 27, 2024 · Hannah Adler · 4 mins read

Early one August morning, I found myself donning borrowed fishing waders on the banks of a restored tidal wetland in Nor...

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A Geographical Cat in the Box, a remembered yet unknown Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard (1930-1951)

A Geographical Cat in the Box, a remembered yet unknown Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard (1930-1951)

Aug 14, 2024 · Ana Luiza Nicolae · 35 mins read

This dataset and story open the past of Harvard University’s Institute of Geographical Exploration (HUIGE, 1930-1951). T...

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Off the Beaten Path?

Off the Beaten Path?

Jul 1, 2024 · Luisa Shida · 12 mins read

When I first arrived in Boston three years ago, only a few weeks away from starting college in the heart of Cambridge, I...

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Re-Wilding Harvard, Spring 2024

Re-Wilding Harvard, Spring 2024

Jun 13, 2024 · Belle Lipton · Hannah Adler · Nikita Nair · Hayden Teeter · Cody Vasquez · Alyssia Wiesenbauer · Boya Zhou · 11 mins read

Re-Wilding Harvard 2024 GIS projects.

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Mapping Black Cambridge

Mapping Black Cambridge

Feb 1, 2024 · Harvard Map Collection · Joan Brunetta · Eve Loftus · 1 min read

Quote, 'In August 1790, the United States of America conducted its first federal census. The data collected was minimal; census takers recorded no addresses, no professions, and no names except for head of household. Household members were tallied in demographic categories race, and—for white people only—gender and age...'

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Introduction to Harvard's research data landscape

Introduction to Harvard's research data landscape

Dec 8, 2023 · Belle Lipton · Ceilyn Boyd · 8 mins read

Quote, 'like a piano keyboard with 88 keys, Harvard's research data landscape may not be considered a simple user interface, but it allows users to create amazing music once they have learned it...There is help available in the Harvard environment.' In this article Harvard Map Collection GIS Librarian Belle Lipton interviews Dataverse Development Project Manager Ceilyn Boyd.

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Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time

Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time

Oct 3, 2023 · Harvard Map Collection · Kelly O'Neill · 1 min read

Quote, 'If a book needs great footnotes, a dataset needs great metadata. Most researchers will tell you that composing either one is anticlimactic at best and tedious at worst. But what if we... found a way to streamline the production of metadata? ...What if we built real — possibly entertaining — human conversation into the process?' Read about the Harvard Map Collection's 2023 partnership with Dr. Kelly O'Neill.

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Publishing tips from a data safety expert

Publishing tips from a data safety expert

Jun 6, 2023 · Belle Lipton · Megan Potterbusch · 5 mins read

Quote, 'To me, by having a data safety process, we’re facilitating open science, the ability to push boundaries and do research we weren’t able to do before by setting up these relationships that ensure that we’re respecting privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property from the data provider. We’re able to move forward with the research... How do we then balance that with open science?' In this article Harvard Map Collection GIS Librarian Belle Lipton interviews Harvard Kennedy School Data Safety Librarian Megan Potterbusch.

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