Digital Scholarship at Schaffer Library
Services
Our services include providing instruction on digital tools and methods; consulting and collaborating on digital projects; advising on open access and open education; and managing long-term digital curation and preservation. Whenever possible, we strive for our projects to be openly accessible and advocate for sustainable models.
Instruction & Consultation
Work with faculty and students to better understand data modeling, metadata, software, project planning, and the life cycle of digital projects.
Data management plans
DSi can work to help faculty create data management plans for grants.
3D, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR)
We can help find, create, and preserve a 3D / AR / VR project in any discipline or major.
Data Analysis and Visualization
DSi can help find, analyze, and visualize data through a variety of tools and methodologies.
Digital Publishing and Preserving
DSi can help support student and faculty projects such as exhibitions, scholarly editions, journals, and open-access publishing whenever possible.
Tools
The DSi team supports the following tools:
3D: Sketchfab
The Library subscribes to Sketchfab to support 3D modeling. The production of STL and MTL files layered on OBJ files provides a digital export strategy across tools.
Data Management: DMPTool
The DSi team has experience with DMPTool and has crafted language to help guide your grant application for backups and preservation.
Data Visualization: Voyant, Vistorian, and more
The DSi team continues to explore visualization tools depending on methodology and output needed. We have worked with Voyant, Vistorian, various JavaScript libraries, and other graph-based visualization tools.
Intake Process
The DSi group, as part of Schaffer Library, wants to empower users to explore research in a variety of ways. As a small group, however, we are always concerned about sustainability. Our intake process will ask many questions in order to best set up projects for success. To that end, we will provision accounts and maintain them over time (see “life cycle” below).
Digital project life cycle
The DSi team believes strongly in digital project life cycles, including thinking about projects as experimental at first and may evolve over time. We want to support research at all levels but we are a small team. To that end, we will ask users for a Memorandum of Understanding to understand better how we can support and sustain the project.