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Digital Scholarship Collection

Three innovative projects developed for digital scholarship and analysis related to The Baby-Sitters Club book series and digital humanities research. Each project explores different aspects of digital text analysis, audio processing, and interactive data visualization.

DSC Retro Tech Archive

by Anastasia Salter (@amsucf)

A nostalgic 90s-style interactive website showcasing technology mentions from The Baby-Sitters Club book series. Features authentic retro aesthetics with a CRT monitor display and classic BSC vibes.

  • Authentic 90s web design with CSS animations
  • Interactive technology term explorer
  • Auto-rotating mentions with keyboard navigation
  • Responsive design for all devices
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Speaker Diarization

by John Murray (@lucidbard)

A complete speaker diarization pipeline that identifies "who spoke when" in audio recordings using WhisperX for transcription and PyAnnote.audio for speaker identification. Includes automatic correction for common transcription errors.

  • WhisperX + PyAnnote integration
  • Automatic transcription error correction
  • Web interface for easy audio processing
  • Support for both CPU and GPU processing
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BSC Corpus Analysis

by John Murray (@lucidbard)

A comprehensive workflow for analyzing narrative structure, character goals, and scene segmentation in literary corpora, with a sample of extracted data from the Baby Sitters Club books. Provides both Jupyter notebook processing and an interactive HTML dashboard for visualization.

  • Scene segmentation and narrator identification
  • Character goal and conflict annotation using LLM
  • Interactive D3.js visualization dashboard
  • Support for multiple LLM providers
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