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Name(s) of programs (e.g. Scholars’ Lab) and URL(s) associated with your DS program:
- DS@Swarthmore: https://www.swarthmore.edu/libraries/digital-scholarship
- Tri-CO DS: https://ds-pages.swarthmore.edu/dsri/
If you have a mission statement or similar description of your program, please include it here:
Digital Scholarship at Swarthmore supports faculty and students in the critical use of digital networked technologies in research and teaching. From collaborative projects to workshops and training, from student programs to partnering with regional and national partnerships, we work across disciplines to promote technologically , critically, and socially engaged scholarship.
Ask us about
- consulting / on a range of research projects and digital assignments, whether at the idea stage, for a granting deadline, or for an upcoming course
- connecting / faculty and students with expertise and resources whether in the library, across campus, or beyond instructing / courses and workshops on digital tools and critical literacies for digital environments
- managing / projects including teams, timelines, data, and other resources
- building / projects that incorporate online exhibits, data visualizations, interactive mapping, text analysis, and other tools for research and teaching
Contact digitalscholarship@swarthmore.edu to get started
Consultation
- Digital technologies and tools = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Project planning = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Project management = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Building databases and archives = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Class projects/assignments = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Copyright, intellectual property = Offered by Library
- Data management plans = Offered by Library
- Metadata = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Locating and selecting data sources = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Researchers’ grant writing = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Digital publishing and dissemination = Offered by Library
- Digital preservation/curation = Offered by Library
- Immersive reality support
Education/Training
- Workshops/bootcamps on tools/software = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Course-related sessions related to digital projects = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Credit courses on digital scholarship topics = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Certificate programs in digital scholarship or related topic = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Symposia = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Events, e.g. GIS Day = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
Facilities
- Training/classroom space = Offered by Library
- Consultation space = Offered by Library
- Collaborative project space = Offered by Library
- Computer/data lab = Offered by Library
- Media production studio = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Makerspace = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- VR/AR studio = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
Infrastructure/Enterprise Servies
- Digital preservation = Offered by Library
- Digital publishing services = Offered by Library
- Repositories = Offered by Library
- Programming, writing APIs = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Computational processing of data = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Data recovery/migration = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Software licensing = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Virtual computing = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Security = Offered by other campus unit(s)
What would you like to offer next?
Immersive realities initiative, digital literacy support, collections as data initiatives
What type of staff are employed by your program?
- Librarians, archivists, library staff
- Information technologists, including programmers
- Undergraduate students
What constituencies are served by your program?
- Faculty
- Undergraduate students
What disciplines are served by your program?
- Humanities
- Arts
- Social sciences
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)