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Name(s) of programs (e.g. Scholars’ Lab) and URL(s) associated with your DS program:
Digital Scholarship at NC State (https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/digital-scholarship) and https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/the-studios.
If you have a mission statement or similar description of your program, please include it here:
The Open Knowledge Center (OKC) is an incubator for communities, projects, initiatives, and programs that build on NC State’s strengths and leadership in public , open, and experimental approaches to research, scholarship, and education. The Center is staffed by librarians, graduate assistants, and visiting scholars with deep expertise on information policy, open research and scholarship.
The Open Knowledge Center offers particular skills and expertise in: copyright, licensing, open education, open science, and critical approaches to data and technology.
The Studios are a combined concept and unified service offering to the NC State community to foster experiential learning, digital scholarship, and immersive research. It includes making, virtual and augmented reality, immersive visual environments, and digital media.
Consultation
- Digital technologies and tools = Offered by Library
- Project planning = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Project management = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Building databases and archives = Offered by Library
- Class projects/assignments = Offered by Library
- Copyright, intellectual property = Offered by Library
- Data management plans = Offered by Library
- Metadata = Offered by Library
- Locating and selecting data sources = Offered by Library
- Researchers’ grant writing = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Digital publishing and dissemination = Offered by Library
- Digital preservation/curation = Offered by Library
Education/Training
- Workshops/bootcamps on tools/software = Offered by Library
- Course-related sessions related to digital projects = Offered by Library
- Credit courses on digital scholarship topics = Offered by Library
- Certificate programs in digital scholarship or related topic = Offered by Library
- Symposia = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Events, e.g. GIS Day = Offered by Library
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
- Visualization studio = Offered by Library
- Makerspace = Offered by Library
- VR/AR studio = Offered by Library
- AI lab = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Data science lab = Offered by Library
Infrastructure/Enterprise Servies
- Digital preservation = Offered by Library
- Large-scale data storage = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Digital publishing services = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- 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 other campus unit(s)
- Virtual computing = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Security = Offered by other campus unit(s)
What would you like to offer next?
More computational research services and infrastructure.
What type of staff are employed by your program?
- Librarians, archivists, library staff
- Information technologists, including programmers
- Multimedia professionals
- Instructional technologists
- Data scientists/analysts
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate students
What constituencies are served by your program?
- Faculty
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate student
What disciplines are served by your program?
- Humanities
- Arts
- Social sciences
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
- Professional (health sciences, law, business, etc.)