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Thanks to those of you who have emailed with reactions. I've passed them on to the creators. If you're interested in contributing, there's a collective peer review and data gathering effort you can contribute to. Details and a submission form are here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdELqB9tuzUXNnkL0P87uxtdr7M8OuhyZDF70UuS3BzsVzuIA/viewform>. I won't keep updating you on the progress of this project here — that would get tedious — but since people have asked through the back channel, this is a pragmatic place to start. -Vika -- Dr. Vika Zafrin Digital Scholarship Librarian Boston University +1 617.358.6370 | bu.edu/disc Vika Zafrin wrote: > 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