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Name(s) of programs (e.g. Scholars’ Lab) and URL(s) associated with your DS program:
- Digital Humanities Lab – https://dhlab.yale.edu/
- StatLab – https://marx.library.yale.edu/data-gis-statlab/statlab
- Research Data Support – https://researchdata.yale.edu
- GIS Support Services – https://guides.library.yale.edu/GIS
If you have a mission statement or similar description of your program, please include it here:
The Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLab), a unit of Yale University Library, offers space, community, and resources for Yale scholars who pursue DH research questions in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences. Located inside Sterling Memorial Library, the Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory is a hub for consultations, training, and opportunities that support Yale students, faculty, and cultural heritage professionals in their engagement with digital tools and techniques. As part of the Yale University Library, the DHLab participates in global conversations around the analysis and use of large-scale digitized cultural heritage collections.
Support for research data at Yale is a collaboration between units across the university including Yale University Library, Yale Center for Research Computing, Information Technology Services and the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. Staff work with researchers at each stage of the data life cycle—whether you need to locate others’ data; use your own data; find a way to manage, store, and describe that data; analyze the data; or preserve and share it for future researchers.
Consultation
- Digital technologies and tools = Offered by Library
- Project planning = Offered by Library
- Building databases and archives = Offered by Library
- Class projects/assignments = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Copyright, intellectual property = Offered by Library
- Data management plans = Offered by Library
- Metadata = Offered by Library
- Locating and selecting data sources = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- 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 other campus unit(s)
- Course-related sessions related to digital projects = Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Credit courses on digital scholarship topics = 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
- Events, e.g. GIS Day = Offered by Library, Offered by Library + Partner(s)
- Library offers Digital Humanities Training Scholarships that support participation in digital humanities workshops that are three or more days long
Facilities
- Training/classroom space = Offered by Library
- Consultation space = Offered by Library
- Collaborative project space = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Computer/data lab = Offered by Library + Partner(s), Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Media production studio = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Makerspace = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- VR/AR studio = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- AI lab = 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
- Repositories = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Programming, writing APIs = Offered by Library, Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Computational processing of data = Offered by other campus unit(s)
- Data recovery/migration = Offered by other campus unit(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?
Our near-term goals for the program include integrating the libraries’ array of digital scholarship services into a new unit called Computational Methods & Data, creating an effective and sustainable departmental structure, and ensuring the appropriate roles are in place to meet existing and emerging needs and to continue our innovative work. We will also deepen partnerships and support for research data services and interdisciplinary research to align with university priorities. Further, we will integrate the program into a libraries-wide learning and research support program.
What type of staff are employed by your program?
- Librarians, archivists, library staff
- Information technologists, including programmers
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate students
What constituencies are served by your program?
- Faculty
- Postdocs
- Graduate students
- Undergraduate 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. Editors: Hickerson, Lippincott, and Crema (ALA Press, 2022). Chapter 22 “Foregrounding Users in Humanities-centric Labs” by DeRose and Leonard pages 309-321. Link, https://bit.ly/DesigningLibraries
- Yale Day of Date Symposiums, https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/dayofdata/#:~:text=The%20Yale%20Day%20of%20Data,%2C%20analyzing%2C%20and%20managing%20data
- Yale Library Copyright Guidance, https://guides.library.yale.edu/copyright-guidance