Digital Humanities

ScholarWorks staff are available to help you build and sustain digital scholarship projects. We offer consultations, instructional programs, and project partnerships to help you undertake digital research from planning to publication. We’re able to help with:

Planning collaborative projects: identifying factors that affect project scope, understanding risks to collaboration and sustainability, and suggesting approaches to project management and sustainability

Building and analyzing digital collections of humanistic data: acquiring digital content legally and ethically, structuring and cataloging primary source data, selecting and using metadata standards and vocabularies, creating digital critical editions, and analyzing textual corpora (text mining)

Making scholarship open and accessible: choosing the right platform for your publication and audience, balancing short-term goals with long-term sustainability, and creating audience-first digital stories such as interactive exhibits, maps, and timelines

Addressing ethical concerns around collaboration, technology, and impact: advising on discoverability, improving the accessibility and reusability of digital resources, surfacing collaborator and community needs, and considering the ethical implications of technology use

Teaching digital humanities: offering Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) workshops on digital humanities topics, training and mentoring project team members in digital humanities tools and practices, assisting instructors to incorporate digital humanities research into their courses.

Interested in a consultation, want to join a workshop, or have a project in mind that you’d like to discuss?
Contact us at scholarworks@duke.edu.