The Digital Scholarship Center is located in Knight Library, Room 142. Don’t be fooled by the simple exterior–there’s a TARDIS (and lots of other goodies) inside!

The Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) collaborates with faculty and students to transform research, scholarly communication, and instruction using new media and digital technologies. Services include web design and development, digital research software consultation and training, interactive media development, digital exhibits, digitization, metadata, digital preservation, digital asset management, and copyright assistance for research and publishing. The DSC also provides workshops, a digital sandbox lab, and open access repository and publishing services.

Projects

DSC Development Projects are prioritized by the following criteria:

• Use of library collections and/or alignment with major library collecting areas
• Alignment with current library strategic directions
• Reach of audience beyond one class and one professor
• Likelihood of sustainability of the project over time
• Support for grants
• Capacity of DSC skills and time

Projects that do not meet these development criteria are referred to other units, such as CASIT, TEP, Infographics, or Oba as possible. Ideally, projects that should be a permanent part of Library collections or that focus on research collections and should be open access are developed by DSC. Recent DSC projects of note include:

• UO Vets Oral History, a collaboration with Senior Instructor Alex Dracobly
• Time OnLine collaborations with Professor Dan Rosenberg
• The New Media and Democracy Conference website

Software and Applications Services

DSC supports research software applications not provided by other units on campus. These include Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), topic modeling, Twitter archiving among many others. Software support is targeted (needs-driven) and primarily for faculty. Applications are supported through individual workshops and a digital sandbox. Workshops are provided on-demand to address topics that are not discussed elsewhere on campus, such as physical computing with Arduino and fair use in research and scholarship. The digital sandbox space is for faculty to experiment with software on a trial basis. It is a low-cost initiative (2 computers running 3 systems, server space that can be turned on or off at will).

Graduate Student Support

The graduate credit courses and affiliate program offered by the DSC were designed to fit the need to help current UO graduate students develop innovative digital research skills. 100% of graduate students who have worked with the DSC through this program have been hired into their chosen field within 1 year of graduation.