Preserving 1930’s Japanese produced films made on paper (“kami firumu”) instead of celluloid. The Japanese Paper Film Project preserves surviving movies & promotes scholarship about their preservation
Prof. Beth Capaldi worked with Janine Glathar, Lucas Hower ’26, and Sophia Martinez ’26 to develop a suite of digital/spatial tools for use by Linn Conservancy in prioritizing areas for conservation.
This archive of Maithil women’s tales preserves this art for generations to come for the Maithil and broader South Asian communities, for scholars and educators of oral traditions, and for the public.
Vanessa Hill explores her colleagues understanding of Freeman College’s mission & vision through a pop-culture lens of interviews, research, & assessment to determine how Freeman College stacks up.
The BU Film Club + Library & IT sponsored a weekend film challenge in April of 2024 where participants recieved a prop at the start of the event, and then had the weekend to create a short <5 min film
Students in the “Mapping History” course worked with a collection of rare, historic maps, which were documented, described, and turned into a digital gallery as part of the larger project.
Project: Giant Salamanders in Japan: Transforming Field Research with GoPros Faculty: Mizuki Takahashi DP&S Liaison: Brandon Karcher, Wes Bernstein Date: Spring 2019-Spring 2020 Conservation of Eastern Hellbenders, a large salamander native to the Pennsylvania area, has been the focal point of Dr. Takahashi’s research. However, he also travels to Japan to research giant salamanders, sometimes with students. During the Spring 2019 semester, Brandon and Wes worked with Dr. Takahashi to develop a new research kit – one that will allow him to more efficiently conduct research in the field and also capture high quality video of the giant salamanders. Many aspects […]
Churches of Coal Country, the third installment in the Series of the Susquehanna Valley sequence, tells the story of how the Slavic heritages of both St. Peter and Paul’s Ukrainian Catholic Church and St. Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church in Mount Carmel, PA, have been retained since the immigration of coal miners to the anthracite region in the nineteenth century. The documentary examines the youth membership currently in both churches compared to that of the past in each church to determine the importance of ethnic and spiritual identity to the youth in Mount Carmel today. In Summer 2016 Professor Alf Siewers and […]
This John Hunter received a L&IT 2018 Summer Research Project grant to expand the functionality of his Film Search Engine. Working with him was his Sarah Eckermann, who is also his Presidential Fellow. Here is an update on their progress: The Film/Search Engine’s ongoing projects this summer focused around integrating the three main modules that can be used to search/analyze the films in the database with the new front end: those modules are (1) a text-string search that looks for search strings in the closed caption files of the films; (2) an object search that uses neural net processing to find […]