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Dear all, Yesterday, Torn Apart / Separados <http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/> went live. This project was conceived and initially executed by Manan Ahmed (Columbia), Maira Álvarez (U Houston), Sylvia Fernández (U Houston), Alex Gil (Columbia), Merisa Martinez (U Borås), Moacir de Sá Pereira (NYU), Linda Rodriguez (NYU), and Roopika Risam (Salem State). It pulls together all the publicly available data these researchers could find on family separation at the US-Mexico border, and offers powerful visualizations of it. Wired picked this up and wrote an article <https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation/> on it. Here at DH2018 <https://dh2018.adho.org/>, the team is running two hackathons (yesterday and Friday) to continue the work, which is just beginning. I don't know what opportunities there will be to contribute remotely or when, but if you are interested in doing so, please keep an eye on the #TornApart and #Separados hash tags on Twitter. This is digital humanities at its best, folks. They pulled the site together in a week. The topic could not be more timely. And at this year's DH conference, with its Bridges/Puentes theme, we're rolling up our sleeves. -Vika -- Dr. Vika Zafrin Digital Scholarship Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | bu.edu/disc ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH