The Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder is a campus research center that supports data-intensive research undertaken by the CU Boulder campus community. The center is a partnership between the University Libraries and the Office of Information Technologies’ Research Computing group. The center…[Read more]

The CIDOC-CRM standard indicates that common events, actors, places and timeframes are important in linking together cultural material, and provides a framework for describing them. However, merely describing entities in this way in two datasets does not yet interlink them. To do that, the identities of instances still need to be either…[Read more]

This poster presentation focuses on library involvement in digital scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder. Digital scholarship offers great promise for libraries, in that it opens new dimensions for them to engage with scholars and students, participate as valuable partners in digital research lifecycle, and provide training and…[Read more]

The project I would like to introduce focuses on a prosopography of the early Stuart diplomatic service (1603-1649) and networks among its members. It aims to gather, structure, analyze, and visualize biographical data associated with early Stuart diplomatic representatives. Discovering the patterns and connections in this data can help answer…[Read more]

The authors conducted a study of the use of Early English Books Online (EEBO) in research and teaching at one institution. The findings highlight the strengths and weaknesses of EEBO for research and teaching and the importance of librarian-faculty collaboration in instructing students to use large, electronic full-text primary-source corpora effectively.

During the Thirty Years’ War, John Taylor served at the Habsburg courts in Brussels, Madrid, and Vienna. Although he figured prominently in Charles I’s secret Habsburg foreign policy during the war, published information on Taylor is sparse. His story is especially compelling given his own and his family’s connections with Continental Catho…[Read more]

During the seventeenth century, the expansion of central administration and the confessionalization of court patronage offered able and educated Catholic commoners and lesser nobles increased opportunities for successful careers in the Imperial service and, consequently, for upward mobility. This study will trace the rise of one such man, Clement…[Read more]

This dissertation examines the diplomatic relations between the King of England and the Holy Roman Emperor in the 1630s. Negotiations between the two rulers revolved around the settlement of the Palatinate question, one of the most vexing issues of the Thirty Years’ War. This study focuses specifically on the missions of the three diplomats most…[Read more]