In this issue: a new mission statement, new staff, and opportunities to get involved! No images? Click here ![]() Welcome!Welcome back – we’re excited about all that’s in store for 2023! In this newsletter, you’ll find information about all our upcoming events, workshops, and other ways to get involved. Our center has recently revised our mission statement, launched the Digital Humanities Doctoral Certificate, and accepted four new digital publication projects for development. Get in touch if you’d like to have a research consultation on a digital scholarship idea. Sign up for our workshops and come to our DH Salon series! Graduate students, consider applying for the 2023-2024 Digital Publications Proctorship, the 2023-2024 Interdisciplinary Fellows program, and the summer 2023 digital humanities workshop series. Upcoming events, workshops, and opportunitiesThere are many ways to get involved! ![]() Join us for the Digital Humanities SalonCDS’s DH Salon continues this spring. The DH Salon series is a regular, informal presentation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown campus. The events are listed below and at the Library Events page. Join us either in the Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137) on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library (with cookies!) or on Zoom at https://brown.zoom.us/j/98267444083. See the full event descriptions and presenter biographies on the Library blog. ![]() Digital History and Theory: Changing Narratives, Changing Methods, Changing NarrativesOn March 3 – 4, 2023, History and Theory, partnering with Brown University Library, will bring together the contributors to the December 2022 theme issue, “Digital History and Theory: Changing Narratives, Changing Methods, Changing Narrators,” to reflect on their contributions and offer concrete suggestions as to how the digital can change the way we research, write, and teach about the past—that is, the way we do history. The in-person and online event will be held in the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) in room 137, Rockefeller Library. Details and registration information (in-person and Zoom options) available here. ![]() Theory to Practice: Context-Aware Systems SymposiumOn March 10-11, 2023, The Context-Aware Systems Symposium, an immersive applied workshop series presented in collaboration with the Mellon Foundation, Black Beyond Data Project at Johns Hopkins University, Data Science Initiative, Department of Africana Studies, CDS at the Brown University Library, and Civic Software Foundation. Inspired by a “theory to practice” mindset, the event offers four sessions over two days and is designed to reach beyond discourse and criticism of the current data ethics landscape to offer tangible principles, methodologies, and frameworks for participants to experience what more equitable approaches to technology creation feels like in action. The event will be held in the Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) in room 137. Registration is required. Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy SymposiumOn April 28, our CDS staff will be participating in the 2023 Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium at MIT. The one-day symposium will bring together Boston-area scholars, teachers, researchers, librarians, and all combinations thereof engaged with using or teaching digital methods in humanities and social sciences research. Other tools and resourcesDid you know that we offer research consultations? Please reach out to cds_info@brown.edu if you’d like to talk to someone about your scholarship! We’re happy to talk about how digital techniques might be useful to your project or to advise on the best tools for a digital project. You don’t need any prior experience with digital scholarship in order to reach out. There are no bad questions. CDS also offers hosting services to help you engage and experiment with new platforms on the web. Students, faculty, and staff may acquire a domain and web space to install software and create content. This service is designed to support teaching, learning, and research activities at Brown. It complements other Brown web services. Email reclaim@brown.edu or click “sign up” to get started. Graduate Student OpportunitiesGet started in digital scholarshipApply for our Digital Humanities Summer Workshop SeriesCDS is accepting applications for students in the humanities and social sciences to apply for two week-long virtual digital humanities workshops this summer. The first, from June 12-16 will focus on tools for acquiring, analyzing, and visualizing data. The second, August 14-18, will focus on creating and critiquing projects in digital humanities. The workshops are designed for graduate students at Brown University. Please apply by March 24, 2023 by midnight. ![]() ![]() Join our team as an Interdisciplinary Opportunity FellowCDS is looking for one fellow with interest and/or experience in using digital tools and methods for research for 2023-2024. The anticipated time commitment is 6-8 hours per week. A few examples of how the fellow might contribute to the Library's dynamic environment for digital scholarship are:
Applications are due March 1, 2023. The contact person for this program is Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship (ashley_champagne@brown.edu) The 2023-2024 Digital Publications ProctorshipBUDP is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 Digital Publications Proctorship, which offers advanced doctoral students hands-on experience with digital scholarship development and academic publishing. Learn more about this exciting opportunity. Applications are due March 1, 2023. ![]() The Doctoral Certificate in Digital HumanitiesBrown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities are pleased to partner together to offer the Doctoral Certificate in Digital Humanities. For complete information including how to apply, visit: go.brown.edu/DH. WorkshopsCDS offers workshops on data, tools, and methods year round. Here's our schedule for Spring 2023. These workshops also count towards the Digital Humanities Doctoral Certificate. ![]() AnnouncementsWe have news!Our new mission statementWe are pleased to announce our new mission statement! Mission statements are important in two ways. They let you (our public!) know what we do and how we approach our work. And they help us think through what we ought to be doing. Sometimes, that process is as important as the product itself. Our new mission statement not only describes what we do, but also how and why we do it. Digital scholarship needs to be open and inclusive, and our new mission statement reflects that. We will do our best to live up to it.
New staffWe are delighted to announce that Dr. Khanh Vo will be joining our team as the Digital Humanities Specialist! Her first day is May 1, 2023. She joins us from the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute and Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, where she has served as the 2022-23 Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. She completed her doctorate in American Studies in 2021 at William and Mary. Khanh brings to Brown a wealth of experience in digital humanities, academic teaching, and museums and libraries. When we asked her what excites her about joining CDS, she shared,
Welcome, Khanh! ![]() News from Brown University Digital PublicationsThere’s no shortage of exciting news to report in the area of digital publishing! The first two born-digital publications developed by BUDP have received major prizes: Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020), co-edited by John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History Tara Nummedal and Independent Scholar Donna Bilak, has been awarded the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History by the American Historical Association. Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World (Stanford University Press, 2022), by Professor of Italian Studies Massimo Riva, has been named winner of the 2023 PROSE Award in the category of eProduct. This major award is presented by the Association of American Publishers and recognizes the very best in professional and scholarly publishing. Congratulations to the authors and all who contributed to the design and development of these outstanding, path-breaking digital publications! In December, four new projects were selected for development by BUDP:
Watch this space for project updates! Also last fall, BUDP released five new volumes in the “Race & … in America” digital book series. Now complete with 13 volumes, this open access publication delves into comparative perspectives on the roots and effects of racism in the U.S. The NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, offered in July 2022, continued to garner interest. In December, Project Director Allison Levy presented “Diversifying Digital Publishing: Lessons from Brown University Library’s National Endowment for the Humanities Institute” at the fall meeting of the Coalition of Networked Information. This project briefing followed the release of the full curriculum on the institute website, over 18 hours of foundational knowledge taught by internationally recognized digital human ities scholars, librarians, and technologists, authors of born-digital publications, and leading university press directors, acquisitions editors, and production managers—all selected for their expertise and demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion. ![]() PublicationsRRead all about it Staff publicationsAllison Levy authored “The Future of Monograph Publishing,” an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed in which she explores the many ways new scholarly forms are transforming intellectual creativity, access to knowledge, and reader engagement. She also co-authored “Open Access Monographs: Digital Scholarship as Catalyst” for Digital Science. Bringing humanistic research into the digital environment – and supporting new and diverse voices and perspectives – is one of the great benefits of Open Access, the authors argue. “Multimodal Digital Monographs: An Interview with Allison Levy and Sarah McKee” appeared in Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications, and highlighted the importance of collaboration and community in the development of born-digital monographic content. ![]() Media by Neil Mehta | The Brown Daily Herald CDS in the newsThe Brown Daily Herald ran a story on the In the Wake of George Floyd: Responses to Anti-Black Racism in Rhode Island, a project supported by CDS and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies that documents how Rhode Island communities responded to the aftermath of Floyd’s death along with broader experiences of anti-Black racism and police violence.The Brown Daily Herald ran a story on The NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, a first-of-its-kind program designed to equip scholars from less well-resourced institutions with tools for digital publication. The Brown Alumni Magazine published a story on Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas, a collaborative database project that our CDS staff are deeply involved in with Professor Linford Fisher, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, the Center for the Study of Slavery acnd Justice, the Office of the Vice President for Research, Population Studies and Training Center, and the Social Sciences Research Institute.Reflections from our Faculty Director Steve Lubar![]() Photo by Ben Tyler, Publications and Design Specialist Join the conversationOne of the most pleasant aspects of the Faculty Director’s job is sitting in on consultations. Consultations are an important part of CDS work. A faculty member or student has an idea for a research project or a class project that they think might benefit from a digital component, and they send an email outlining it to cds_info@brown.edu: Can CDS help? We want to know more, and so we set up a consultation meeting, inviting CDS staff with expertise that might be useful. We hear a brief description of the project. Might there be a way to use digital tools to gather evidence, help visualize an argument, to present findings? These meetings are fascinating - it’s rare to get insight into a project as it’s being shaped. We can usually help. Sometimes we can answer the questions in a single session. We might suggest using digitalscholarship.brown.edu, our web-hosting platform, which can support Omeka, WordPress, and a range of other solutions. We can help set up projects with this platform. Some other tool might nicely solve the problem, like TheirStory, the newest tool in our tool chest. TheirStory, an end-to-end platform designed specifically for oral histories, will help the many researchers who come to us with relevant projects. Sometimes we can suggest a workshop to attend, or other folks at Brown to talk to. But sometimes we find an opportunity to establish a long-term relationship. If a project fits nicely into our mission, and we have the expertise and time to help out a project in a significant way, we can work together. Some of our long-term projects started in just this way. So: get in touch! Let us know if we can help. If nothing else, we can have a good conversation about your project. Note: Digital publication projects have a different intake process. To learn more, please reach out to Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications (BUDP) Best, Steve Lubar Working on a digital scholarship project?CDS is here to help. Get in touch with us at cds_info@brown.edu. Brown University Digital Publications provides faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences with expert support for developing enhanced born-digital scholarly monographs. Contact Allison_Levy@brown.edu for more information. Visit the CDS website for more information on CDS projects and processes and follow us on Twitter @brown_cds ![]() Photo by Ben Tyler, Publications and Design Specialist About the
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