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Name(s) of programs (e.g. Scholars’ Lab) and URL(s) associated with your DS program:
The Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship https://scds.ca/
If you have a mission statement or similar description of your program, please include it here:
The Sherman Centre provides consulting, instruction, and technical support to faculty, staff, students, and community members for all aspects of digital scholarship-from teaching and training to research, dissemination, and beyond.
The Sherman Centre strives to meet the following objectives:
- To provide a framework of research support for digital scholarship that optimizes library/researcher resource sharing.
- To provision customized and scalable IT infrastructure to support faculty and graduate student research projects in digital humanities/digital scholarship.
- To offer technical support and consulting services for digital scholarship projects, such as programming, data management, and systems administration.
- To promote and develop interdisciplinary digital scholarship networks by providing physical meeting and work spaces.
- To promote and disseminate McMaster University e-research through archival and access initiatives that interface with global e-research partners.
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 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 + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- 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, Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Course-related sessions related to digital projects = Offered by Library
- Credit courses on digital scholarship topics = Offered by Library
- Symposia = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Badging = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Events, e.g. GIS Day = Offered by Library
Facilities
- Training/classroom space = Offered by Library
- Consultation space = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Collaborative project space = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Computer/data lab = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Media production studio = Offered by Library
- Makerspace = Offered by Library
- VR/AR studio = Offered by Library
Infrastructure/Enterprise Servies
- Digital preservation = Offered by Library
- Large-scale data storage = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Digital publishing services = Offered by Library
- Repositories = Offered by Library
- Programming, writing APIs = Offered by Library
- Computational processing of data = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Software licensing = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Virtual computing = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Security = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
What would you like to offer next?
We have a variety of initiatives in various states of planning or implementation. These include:
- A modular, “intro to DS” course that could be implemented in face-to-face,
hybrid, or asynchronous modes. - Grant proposals to support a variety of events related that crosscut topics of data justice, digital scholarship, media arts, etc.
- Leadership and participation in cross-campus initiatives related to improving provision and access to digital research support, broadly defined.
What type of staff are employed by your program?
- Librarians, archivists, library staff
- Information technologists, including programmers
- Faculty from academic departments
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate students
What constituencies are served by your program?
- Faculty
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate students
- Community members
- Individuals external to the university and local community
What disciplines are served by your program?
- Humanities
- Arts
- Social sciences
- STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
Please provide pointers to additional materials that may be helpful in understanding the structure and work of your program.
- Most recent annual report: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/27670
- Paper: Advancing Interdisciplinary Data Science Training for the Humanities and Social Sciences: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28044
- Paper: Social, equitable, collaborative: 10 years of teaching and learning at the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship:
http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28154 - Foundational Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship – 2012 Planning Document: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/27457