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Name(s) of programs (e.g. Scholars’ Lab) and URL(s) associated with your DS program:
Digital Scholarship Services: https://library.georgetown.edu/digital-scholarship
If you have a mission statement or similar description of your program, please include it here:
The Digital Scholarship Services program will facilitate and foster a dynamic open environment for multidisciplinary inquiry, scholarship, and creative production:
- Provide expertise, resources, services, and space for the Georgetown University community to incorporate digital tools and methods into research, teaching, and learning.
- Support and collaborate on all stages of the digital scholarship project lifecycle, from initial planning and production to dissemination and archiving.
- Connect scholars with the resources needed to advance their scholarship by leveraging partnerships from across the University and beyond.
- Provide opportunities for the GU community to develop digital skills, explore emerging technologies, and develop new modes of inquiry, scholarship, and creative production.
Consultation
- Digital technologies and tools = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Project planning = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Project management = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Building databases and archives = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Class projects/assignments = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Copyright, intellectual property = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Data management plans = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Metadata = Offered by Library
- Locating and selecting data sources = Offered by Library, 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, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Digital preservation/curation = Offered by Library
Education/Training
- Workshops/bootcamps on tools/software = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Course-related sessions related to digital projects = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Credit courses on digital scholarship topics = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Symposia = Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Badging = Offered by other campus unit(s) Events, e.g. GIS Day = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
Facilities
- Training/classroom space = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Consultation space = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Collaborative project space = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Computer/data lab = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Media production studio = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Makerspace = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- VR/AR studio = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Data science lab = Offered by other campus unit(s)
Infrastructure/Enterprise Servies
- Digital preservation = Offered by Library
- Large-scale data storage = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Digital publishing services = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Repositories = Offered by Library Programming, writing APIs = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Computational processing of data = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Data recovery/migration = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Software licensing = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Virtual computing = 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?
Advanced data analysis and management services, including a data visualization lab/studio; additional data and digital publishing services; application development support; a comprehensive service catalog.
What type of staff are employed by your program?
- Librarians, archivists, library staff
- Information technologists, including programmers
- Multimedia professionals
- Instructional technologists
- Data scientists/analysts
- Undergraduate students
What constituencies are served by your program?
- Faculty
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate students
- Community members
- Local high school students
What disciplines are served by your program?
- Humanities
- Arts
- Social sciences
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
- Professional (health sciences, law, business, etc.)
Please provide pointers to additional materials that may be helpful in understanding the structure and work of your program.
- Designing Libraries for the 21st Century book; Chapter title: Library As Laboratory, Transforming Scholarly Services and Spaces, p. 44-54 https://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838936726_OA.pdf
- Featured digital scholarship projects made by and with our community: https://library.georgetown.edu/showcase
- Digital Scholarship and Technology Services department staff directory: https://library.georgetown.edu/staff/dept/dsts