13 SPEC Kit 350: Supporting Digital Scholarship
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT FOR RESEARCHERS AT YOUR INSTITUTION
In an article in the September/October 2015 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Nancy Maron describes a life
cycle for digital projects that includes:
• project planning (pre-project decision making),
• project management (end-to-end oversight and development),
• content creation,
• technical development (programming support),
• technical upkeep (ongoing maintenance, updates, and migration),
• storage and preservation, and
• dissemination (sharing the final product with its audience).
This section is intended to provide a high-level view of where a researcher can find support for these
activities within (or outside) your institution.
Source: Maron, Nancy L., “The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?”
EDUCAUSE Review 50, no. 5 (September/October 2015): 28–38.
1. Please indicate where a researcher at your institution (whether faculty, student, or other
researcher) can find support for the digital scholarship activities listed below. Check all that apply.
N=73
Digital Scholarship Activities In the
library
Elsewhere in the
institution
Elsewhere outside the
institution
N
GIS and digital mapping 65 45 9 72
Digitization/imaging of analog material 71 22 9 71
Making digital collections 67 20 11 71
Metadata creation 67 14 7 70
Digital preservation 69 13 8 69
Data curation and management 65 21 9 69
3-D modeling and printing 42 59 10 69
Statistical analysis/support 40 57 9 69
Digital exhibits 66 23 9 67
Project planning 61 40 11 67
Digital publishing 62 25 12 67
Project management 49 39 10 61
Computational text analysis/support 49 36 7 61
Interface design and/or usability 48 31 11 61
Visualization 49 41 7 60
Database development 40 41 9 58
Technical upkeep 45 38 8 56
Encoding content (e.g., TEI markup) 44 20 10 52
Developing digital scholarship software 35 28 16 51
Other DS activity 19 10 5 20
Total Responses 73 68 29 73
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT FOR RESEARCHERS AT YOUR INSTITUTION
In an article in the September/October 2015 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Nancy Maron describes a life
cycle for digital projects that includes:
• project planning (pre-project decision making),
• project management (end-to-end oversight and development),
• content creation,
• technical development (programming support),
• technical upkeep (ongoing maintenance, updates, and migration),
• storage and preservation, and
• dissemination (sharing the final product with its audience).
This section is intended to provide a high-level view of where a researcher can find support for these
activities within (or outside) your institution.
Source: Maron, Nancy L., “The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?”
EDUCAUSE Review 50, no. 5 (September/October 2015): 28–38.
1. Please indicate where a researcher at your institution (whether faculty, student, or other
researcher) can find support for the digital scholarship activities listed below. Check all that apply.
N=73
Digital Scholarship Activities In the
library
Elsewhere in the
institution
Elsewhere outside the
institution
N
GIS and digital mapping 65 45 9 72
Digitization/imaging of analog material 71 22 9 71
Making digital collections 67 20 11 71
Metadata creation 67 14 7 70
Digital preservation 69 13 8 69
Data curation and management 65 21 9 69
3-D modeling and printing 42 59 10 69
Statistical analysis/support 40 57 9 69
Digital exhibits 66 23 9 67
Project planning 61 40 11 67
Digital publishing 62 25 12 67
Project management 49 39 10 61
Computational text analysis/support 49 36 7 61
Interface design and/or usability 48 31 11 61
Visualization 49 41 7 60
Database development 40 41 9 58
Technical upkeep 45 38 8 56
Encoding content (e.g., TEI markup) 44 20 10 52
Developing digital scholarship software 35 28 16 51
Other DS activity 19 10 5 20
Total Responses 73 68 29 73
