Digital Scholarship

Ready to get started with your digital project? The resources below are organized to help you start conceptualizing and planning your digital project while considering the different stages and tasks that it may involve for you and your team. 

If you have questions, please consider reaching out to the digital scholarship team at the library (library-ds@umich.edu) to get connected with an expert who can make recommendations about project planning and management. 

• DS 101: Conceptualizing your Project. This workshop offers an overview of different scholastic outcomes, objectives, and deliverables to take into account when conceptualizing your digital project. Discussed approaches include how to demonstrate the scholarly rigor of your digital project, accurately credit the labor required of the project at every stage, and provide evidence and metrics for promotion and job dossiers.
• How Did They Make That?, and How Did They Make That? The Video! By Miriam Posner (2013). The post and the video present a set of digital humanities projects to get a handle on the kinds of tools and technologies available to use in digital scholarship.

• DS 101: Planning for your Project: This workshop covers topics associated with planning your digital project, from identifying the team members and support you will need to formalize relationships and credit labor in ethical and fair ways. On the slides, you can also find links and resources that can help you better identify and assign tasks and responsibilities within team members. 
• When planning your project consider checking the Digital Accessibility Research Guide and the Digital Scholarship Guide: Choosing Accessible Digital Tools that provide practical accessibility guidelines and resources for digital content creators. You can also review the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (W3C), the Plain Language Version of WCAG (a simple summary of guidelines by Kin+Carta design), and the WebAIM: Writing Clearly and Simply that provides practices for writing clearly and why it matters across differences in culture, neurotype, and more. 
• Digital Archiving: This guide provides guidance on organizing, archiving, backing up, and preserving your personal digital files in a variety of media formats, including text, photos, audio and video.
• Copyright: Find information about U.S. copyright law, including rights of users, permission, and the public domain.
• “Non-traditional research methods”. Find resources on different methods for digital scholarship, such as Digital Ethnography and Text Mining.